If taxes were raised and spending lowered enough to balance the budget and pay down the debt over a period of years, the effect would be...
Thanks for the warning.
There are many more people professing to believe in Austrian economics than have actually studied it. The Ausitrians do not define inflation as...
pmbug, While I have respect for J. Williams work at shadowstats, I'm not completely convinced that a 1980 [pre internet] measure of inflation...
Good point. I think the price of any commodity can temporarily fall below the cost of production, but the only way it will stay there for long is...
What you continue to miss is that inflation isn't just a measure of the growth in the supply of money. It is [properly] defined as an increase in...
Just to clarify, I wasn't forecasting $20 silver for now. I just have no plans to buy it above $20 because commodities tend to revert to their...
My long standing maximum buy price for silver bullion is $20 because that is my estimate of an amount that would be at or slightly below the cost...
You're going about it the right way. I would just add that coins are probably closer to investing in real estate than to stocks. Every one is a...
It might be a good idea to consider the possibility that coins aren't always and everywhere the best, or even a good, investment. To imagine that...
I'm sorry I didn't phrase it better, but the point stands that it is a very low probability event.
Of course, that brings up the question of how many people save money in this manner? And how many of the ones who do so aren't mentally...
I know it's a lot of fun to believe that you know more than market analysts, economists, the Fed, etc... and to imagine that they wake up every...
There will always be fraud this side of the pearly gates, but what you are proposing is ongoing decade's long systemic fraud and price fixing by...
Yes, you understand what I am getting at. But think about it. If you were a wealthy private investor, trustee for an old family fortune, or a...
I find it much more credible to assume that the large investors are acting rationally and in their own best interest. It is not credible to me to...
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You don't know that the silver doesn't exist and neither does anybody else who is not involved in the transaction. We know that the silver isn't...
What you are missing is that the short isn't naked if they have the silver no matter where it is. And they don't have to deliver anything if they...
This gets repeated so often on the internet that it is generally believed. I'm not so sure about it. It is equally possible that large...
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