I used to find silver pretty regularly, perhaps 1 per every 3 roles. But the silver seemed to dry up and I stopped about 4 years ago.
That is a prevailing view which is the problem. Most people think they are investing when they are really speculating. Nothing wrong with that,...
I'm not sure that relative harm is a valid defense. There is going to have to be a debate over the costs and benefits of nuclear energy to decide...
I would modify your definitions a bit. Speculation relies on changes in market prices [long or short term] to produce investment profits....
Control.
Fatima, your posts have been spot on. The reason for and mechanics of the gold confiscation in the 30s and the potential for a silver...
Nice article. Thanks for posting it.
I agree, it's a huge existential problem for savers and investors. Savings and investments have to be somewhere and denominated in some currency,...
It is important to soak in all possibilities. But I think it is also equally important to look at the bio and investment record of the author...
People read and believe these things without ever considering the source. The author, Jeff Nielson, is a Canadian lawyer who claims to have also...
:thumb: Very well said.
Gold and silver rarely stay below the total cost of production [including exploration, production, infrastructure and cost of capital]. My...
I personally like ASEs from some of the lower mintage years because I believe that someday the US Mint will discontinue the series, and every ASE...
I don't see this affecting US investments as a whole, but may hurt specific companies such as the big international property/casualty insurers.
I don't pay attention to that sort of stuff. Gold and silver are highly volitile, and in the case of silver, there is a lot of evidence that the...
I'm a big believer in compounding, so if something doesn't move for 10 or 15 years, it really puts a dent in the compounded annual return. But...
If the price of anything crashes by 95%, it usually means that something is seriously wrong and it will probably take a generation or two before...
In the 70s, there was higher unemployment than now, higher inflation, double digit mortgage rates, gas lines, crashing stock and bond markets, and...
It's still a bull market.
If you have the original packaging, it is in the description. In the far-fetched event that things get so bad that people will be using gold...
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