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<p>[QUOTE="fatima, post: 1164704, member: 22143"]Last year, the US Mint sold 42 million (or something like that) ASEs. So at avg. price of $25oz, this was a little over a billion dollars worth of silver. This amount now represents about 4 hours worth of federal spending. i.e. It wouldn't even be noticed. </p><p><br /></p><p>Funny thing about gold however, the US government holds it at a value of $42/oz. Now keep in mind this is the value expressed in lawful US dollars which don't exist now except for the notes that people hold as collector's items. You can see this $42 on the Federal Reserve asset sheet. Of course in Federal Reserve dollars the value is north of $1510 but this is confetti that the actual government doesn't recognize as any meaningful asset when it comes to its own preservation of wealth. (If you don't understand this right off, think about it some.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="fatima, post: 1164704, member: 22143"]Last year, the US Mint sold 42 million (or something like that) ASEs. So at avg. price of $25oz, this was a little over a billion dollars worth of silver. This amount now represents about 4 hours worth of federal spending. i.e. It wouldn't even be noticed. Funny thing about gold however, the US government holds it at a value of $42/oz. Now keep in mind this is the value expressed in lawful US dollars which don't exist now except for the notes that people hold as collector's items. You can see this $42 on the Federal Reserve asset sheet. Of course in Federal Reserve dollars the value is north of $1510 but this is confetti that the actual government doesn't recognize as any meaningful asset when it comes to its own preservation of wealth. (If you don't understand this right off, think about it some.)[/QUOTE]
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