Supply and demand ultimately drive the price of gold. Demand is increasing -- thought not at the speed that it would without Bitcoin and Crypto...
Excellent post. The nice thing about buying gold coins is you can look at them and learn their history...show them to friends and family...and...
What's crazy about buying something at about $2,160 that will probably see $3,000 before it sees $1,500 ? :D If I had more cash here, I'd be...
What's the story with Gold Clause FRN's ? Haven't done much work on them. Why issued....difference vs. GC's ?
Interesting article -- and from 1965 !! :D:wideyed: Here's the rub. DeGaulle and others can moan about "exorbitant privilege" but at the end of...
Pics ? Coins slip through all the time so it's POSSIBLE.
Back then it was the norm. Today it's the exception, IMO. Look at the countries/empires that were in existence in 1914 and then 10 years later...
We created the Federal Reserve System exactly at the time the Gold Standard was ending and WW I commencing. Fortuitous timing !! :D
One of the reasons that the Gold Standard worked from 1870-1913 and didn't work after WW I was because the autocratic rulers who could impose...
I'd trust a banker over a politician !! :D
You can't "take" pension assets -- unless you are the Teamsters, UAW, or AFL-CIO. :wideyed::mad: Then you can rip them off and have the...
You wouldn't like it. :D True, in the aggregate the price level was steady for many decades. But the loss in GDP output and all the "panics"...
But that is the problem !! As with the gold standard in the past and bank runs in the present...it is precisely during troubled times when you...
I'm pretty sure I didn't pay anywhere near that premium, I'm sure of that. I'm travelling now, will check upon return.
In this case, you have had wide retail participation through ETFs, gold coins, bars, etc....for YEARS. It's not the institutions and so-called...
Maybe but ETFs have seen outflows the last few months as gold has risen. True. Yup !! :D
REAL intertest rates historically have inversely correlated with gold -- but not lately, as the rise in real rates since 2022 should have knocked...
No, it's a PF70 DCAM but I'm not sure what year. I believe it is a 2015. Got it at FUN 2020.
As for liquidity....for the SMALL investor with a few dozen/hundred coins...liquidity is not an issue. For very wealthy individuals, then an ETF...
I have tons of pics that show that Peak Gold and slowing supply growth are leading to rising prices. You're better off buying at $2,200 an ounce,...
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