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<p>[QUOTE="Apocalypse Cow, post: 860593, member: 24651"]Hi Strum. Your post reminded me of a book called Your Money and Your Brain by Jasen Zweig. I highly recommend it. Your reaction to the potential of profit and the remorse you are having is text book. Our brains are actually hard wired to react like that so don't be too hard on yourself. </p><p><br /></p><p>As far as the play on the coin, I assume you thought the coins would be in higher demand due to the large population of current and former scouts? I wouldn't call that a disastrous choice. It may eventually be proven to be wrong but not disastrous. Remember, many large banks and several sovereign nations recently had the great idea of lending trillions to people who had no proof of income, no savings and no hope of ever paying off the usurious gimmicky loans. That is disastrous. So if you sell all your coins for melt you will get what back? Half of your principle roughly? That would actually place your financial acumen way above the average Wall Street investment bank CEO. After all you only lost half, they lost everything several times over lol.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you read Zweig and liked it take a look at the first hundred pages of Extraordinary Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. Fascinating book.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Apocalypse Cow, post: 860593, member: 24651"]Hi Strum. Your post reminded me of a book called Your Money and Your Brain by Jasen Zweig. I highly recommend it. Your reaction to the potential of profit and the remorse you are having is text book. Our brains are actually hard wired to react like that so don't be too hard on yourself. As far as the play on the coin, I assume you thought the coins would be in higher demand due to the large population of current and former scouts? I wouldn't call that a disastrous choice. It may eventually be proven to be wrong but not disastrous. Remember, many large banks and several sovereign nations recently had the great idea of lending trillions to people who had no proof of income, no savings and no hope of ever paying off the usurious gimmicky loans. That is disastrous. So if you sell all your coins for melt you will get what back? Half of your principle roughly? That would actually place your financial acumen way above the average Wall Street investment bank CEO. After all you only lost half, they lost everything several times over lol. If you read Zweig and liked it take a look at the first hundred pages of Extraordinary Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. Fascinating book.[/QUOTE]
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