I would think that in a case like that you have a moral and perhaps legal responsibility to take this to the proper authorities with whatever...
But do they? Does the speculator set the price? Or does the middleman who has too much inventory sell a futures contract to cover that portion...
I agree.
Although people tend to believe the shorts are naked when this might not be the case. Take JPM for example. They are held up as a naked short...
A consistent and prolonged disinvestment of bullion coins by investors would depress the price as you suggest. I was responding to a comment that...
Yes, the byproduct mining would continue. But the primary silver mines would have lower production. But since most companies calculate costs net...
No, they deserve to be taught to take it down to the local coin shop and collect the bullion value.
Any price is possible in the futures market for short periods of time, but a price below the marginal cost of production won't last long unless...
Like I said, I would never defend management greed. But the fact is that Nortel would have failed with or without the attempt to cover up their...
I wish bank employees [and everyone in general] would tell customers who deposit silver for face value instead of picking it out. Of course, if...
If you understood anything about business, you would realize that there were multiple causes. Nortel failed because (1) they did not have the...
Thanks for posting. It shows how tough the business is and how capital intensive.
Huawei is the low cost player in the sector. I did not call them "best" and it is an error on your part to say so. I also did not mention S....
I used to keep a higher percentage of my assets in equities. Now I just use a combination of value investing and Robert Lichello's AIM formula....
That was the mantra in the late 1990s. And people did very well buying the dips. It was the best strategy right up to the day when it stopped...
There are some very good mutual funds such as FPA Capital that tend to hold cash. This is very appropriate for anybody who wants to hire a...
Let me give you an example of what I mean. Verizon choose two companies to be its LTE base station provider - Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent. It...
My original comment was in response to a statement that Nortel went bankrupt due to management greed. I'm not a fan of management greed, but I...
I use a slightly different definition. I never buy a poor performing stock cheap. I try to buy quality at a discount. For example, my purchases...
I agree with you that if the amount of work you are willing to put into an investment after the initial decision to buy is zero, then the stock...
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