This has already happened in Europe and starting next year in the USA the laws will prevent people from buying most incandescents here as well....
This is true, but other factors also affect pure commodities. If for instance, they create a new strain of corn that makes a stalk yield 20%...
Well, An investment in gold 10 years ago would have resulted in a substantial gain today. An investment in the S&P 500 10 years ago would be a...
How has this been working out for you?
Unless it has recently changed, the Mint only charges $4 for shipping no matter what you buy from them. This is incredibly cheap compared to...
Today you can sell this coin back to the place that you got it from for ~$1972. Given the carrying costs, you made about 50 bucks. So if this...
Understand this only happens when governments define silver as such. There is no automatic inheritance. Historically in Western civilization,...
A 1 ounce gold coin will cost you around $1900 today when you add in the fees to acquire it. Is this a bargain? That is only in the eyes of...
But it should be clear enough now that it doesn't. Even if you choose to simply discount everything else that I said about it, the numbers...
I don't disagree with you that physical PMs are less liquid than paper. It's also an advantage depending on the circumstances. I can't take an...
This is a 5% drop. To put this in perspective, the S&P 500 is down 4.5% today and the Nasdaq is down close to 7%. Yet I can still buy stock at...
Why didn't silver take off when he announced QE1 & QE2?
We don't live in this world anymore. Nostalgia and hopium don't make for good investment decisions. When the world's governments decide to...
This is only confirmation of what I said in my post. i.e. Don't expect silver to follow gold. Gold is a hedge against governments, and mostly a...
Yes, this thinking assumes there is some inherent relationship between silver & gold. There isn't.
The simple response to this, is to ask your friends why the Federal Reserve (the issuers of the the US $) list ~7,500 tons of gold as a financial...
Since the world's governments and central banks hold multiple 10s of thousands of tons of gold as monetary assets, what the CME does in regards to...
I've been saying consistently on this forum not to expect silver to follow gold. There are two basic arguments being made here for silver's...
I would avoid *NBC for any news at all. CBS, ABC, FOX & CNN are no better. They are tied directly to maintaining the status quo. The world is...
Gold is just shy of $1800. It continues to whip "conventional wisdom" concerning the USD, aka the $, aka the FRN.
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