Cloud – you’ll get no argument from me on the cost of regulatory compliance in doing business in the US. What was suggested in a post above is...
The Dow is down, so is SP and NASDAQ, All ags except cotton, Oil, Copper, Gold, Silver & Platinum.
Income tax is based on net profit - Depending on industry but rule of thumb net profit is usually around 6 to 14 percent of gross revenue....
Certainly refinning cost are too high to make refinning nickels unprofitable - but what if you owned a mill that produced copper-nickel alloy?...
Why would you refine coin silver into pure silver bars? If you are holding physical silver as an investment - coin silver is just as liquid...
The amount rounded up could probably be classified as breakage. At the very least the owner would owe additional sales on the breakage amount but...
Although the ratio may be nonsense and illusion it does have force on the market because people still use it in their decision making process.
Don't discount the value of lead. It is a vital element to the alternative energy industry. Also good for making bullets and fishing sinkers in a...
Wouldn't such a position be hedged in some manner?
Those who are rich always have the option of using the standard deduction instead of itemizing, not taking any tax credits they are entitled to...
Rich is a relative term ussually referring to any person that has more money than yourself.
Word is - as I am sure everyone has heard by now - JPM has cornered the LME warehouse stocks of copper. Speculation is these warehouse stocks were...
There is a difference between the cash market and futures market. Even if cents were legal to melt - you'd be lucky to get 2/3's the futures price...
Someone mentioned to me this morning, anecdotal - I haven't verified it, that one day last week the volume of corn traded was over 11 billion...
China announced today they are planning on implementing price controls to curb inflation. The news hit both stocks and commodities hard.
Rush - how long ago are you talking about? I am not sure a single curreny pairing provides enough information for an accurate conclusion on US...
Nothing much is getting melted - people are buying PMs as an investment and generally holding it in the same form as they purchased it.
The melt value of a set of circulated Franklin Half Dollars is now about $350.00 so how much is a BU set of Franklins selling for now?
I am not convinced that panic or frenzy is required to produce a bubble. Most of the traded commodities are small markets very vulnerable to...
January 2009 Gold - $905.10 Silver - $11.56 Copper - $1.51 Wheat - $6.62 Oil - $54.58 Beans - $9.63 Corn - $4.75 Rice $16.13 Cotton...
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