Well, I've been doing this for a long time and haven't noticed a significant difference between now and the past. The same metricsk that worked...
Even the investor in gold in the late 70s had to cringe at the loss of value as gold went from $800 to a fraction of that. The losses are...
Traditional value investing is the best way to evaluate the riskiness of an investment. I think you are correct that the stock market is no...
Booze, bandaids, and a dog?
I have been told, but cannot confirm because I wasn't there, that people with PMs in Japan after World War II went hungry. There was a lot of...
I'm not an expert on the tulip bulb episode, but everything I've read about it called it a bubble and it meets my personal definition. I don't...
I do things a bit differently. ;) I tend to look for assets or asset classes that I think have favorable economics and concentrate my investments...
I would say the tulip bulb example was a bubble. It involved (1) widespread public participation, (2) the use of leverage, (3) buying that was...
There haven't been countless bubbles. Actually, bubbles are pretty rare. CNBC has taken to calling every bull market a "bubble" because they...
Welcome to CoinTalk, and for resurrecting this old thread. You are correct that the nex 5 years is more important than historical results....
Well, if you average the three years together, it works out to about $216. When you consider that gold was around $252 20+ years later, that was...
I don't use the estimates I read because they usually refer to cash costs. I prefer to do my own calculations. If you take the financial...
If silver hits a new all time high, I will probably start selling. I will not buy bullion if it goes down ALMOST regardless of price because when...
While the folks who bought gold in the early 70s did okay, those who bought in the late 70s did not. The same can be said today. Those who...
The day will come when the bullion faithful will lose a large percentage of their investment value. While it might be true that a lot of it is...
Silver is a good speculation. It was an investment when the price was below the total cost of production, but once that level is passed, it...
That's true for the buy and hold and index investors. But for value investors and traders, there were incredible opportunities to make profitable...
It can seem like a conspiracy at times because all of the players are trying to do the same thing - make money. And all of the big players have...
I don't know if it is so much to provide stability as to make sure the market clears.
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