Regarding 1, I agree. The increasee in value of an asset is a profit. You can call it paper profit to designate the fact that you still own the...
Team 1 is ahead. There is no clock in investing. If there was, team 1 would be able to choose to end the game while ahead and declare that being...
I doubt that there would be much opposition to any coin bill unless/until some lobbyist or other industrial group begins to complain about...
Wow. Just wow. :rolling:
It might be a bad idea to buy your wife or girlfriend a nanoparticle of gold as a gift.
You HAD the loss long before you TOOK the loss. You can't take what you didn't already have. The fact that the loss [or profit] may change from...
I agree. A profit is a profit. All the sales transaction does is freeze the profit [or loss] at a point in time, but it doesn't create the profit...
Let me put it simply. Let's say a person who paid $500 for a gold coin wishes to sell it. He walks into the coin shop at 10am and the dealer...
Well said. You really have to make your own decisions. Most of the people doing the talking can't help you. And most of the people who can help...
Nobody knows where the markets will go. It's more important to have your own investment philosophy regarding what to buy, what to pay, when to...
I just don't want you misleading people like that. But everyone is free to do what they want with their money, and if pretending that stocks...
Let’s try to explain it to you by example of a company that does this as a major part of their business, Goldman Sachs. If you go to the attached...
We are speaking about Buffett, not the company he chairs. You need to check more carefully. The stocks you refer to are owned by Berkshire...
You are correct. A friend of a coworker of mine wanted to sell a pharmaceutical distribution business a number of years ago. He had built it...
All I can tell you is that most successful people measure their wealth in a different manner than you do. It's a very narrow viewpoint that the...
You see this advice all the time, and it's counterpart -- that you haven't actually lost money until you actually sell it. It presumes that...
Regarding the first statement, dollars and euros and francs and yen and yuan are not maintained in a specific ratio of 1 to1, but the currency...
Dave, you are correct that it is complex, and interesting. Nations stopped using gold to settle international balance of payments in [I think]...
If you wanted to increase the purchasing power of paper money, I suppose you could draw another zero on it, but the problem remains to choose...
It's a hard case for you to make, that technology is the product of the inflation in the currency caused by the use of fiat money. I think the...
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