Investing in Gold & Silver from U.S. Mint?

Yes, whatever the change over is at the time is how you make money. But, if you put 1500.00 in the bank today or buy one ounce, then gold goes to xxxxxx. At that time you still only have the 1500.00 in the bank and the GOLDS new value is paid in cash. To be honest the Central banks want to do away with Paper. They want it electronic so they can track it all, squeeze the people and control them via finance. That is probably what will happen with time. GOLD and Silver is best to say, are the only real value holders in a fiat. Land and tangible assets are the others.

 

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If GOLD is the "standard of value", this simply means that the dollar is holding its value better than those other currencies. I thought that was supposed to be a good thing?

 

No, it's because the "manipulation" you speak of is irrelevant. Central Bank buying and selling dwarfs andy so-called "manipulation" by JPM.

If JPM was so powerful, they wouldn't have had their stock price go down 75% in 2008-09.

You posted alot of interesting factoids in your piece, but unless gold is poised to go on a multi-year tear, it's simply not worthy of investment capital (as opposed to speculative capital).

FWIW, I do buy gold and gold coins periodically but it is NOT based on gold going to $3,500 by 2025.

 

You have apparently never taken a course in monetary economics.

If you never studied cardiology, you wouldn't opine on angioplasty, so why are you trying to come off as an expert in monetary policy ?

It took 30 years for a Socialist Greek government to implode the economy.

The reason there was a media coverup of the Greek currency failure is because....there WAS NO Greek currency. They use the Euro.

This is disjointed rattling of unrelated incidences. You may as well have thrown out missed balls and strikes in baseball and refs blowing plays in the NFL.

(1) The Repo rate soared to 10% because of technical conditions related to tax payments and end-of-quarter pressures. It had NOTHING to do with stressed balance sheets.

(2) China, Russia, and Iran do not have fully-functioning and fully-convertible capital markets so they can never become the Reserve Currency and hence their agita and love for gold.

BIS is owned by the CB's not the other way around.

This is a personal responsibility issue, not a national debt or economy issue.

Why don't they tell us how their portfolios have done the last 3, 5, and 10 years ? You know, like Fidelity does.

The dollar is strong, meaning that gold is EXPENSIVE in other currencies so I am not sure your premise is correct.

Even if it is, so what ? Gold is priced in dollars, not Swiss Francs.

 

Wow You guys are so far ahead of me I never catch up. I read the last two pages (twice) and I am out of my league here.. interesting read... but no comprende carry on..

 

All of your OPINIONS are nothing more than the corrupt view that the Central Bankers what the dotard to think and believe. There is mass corruption going on and it isnt "PERSONAL Responsibility" issues ! That is part of the neoconservative angle to keep everything the way it goes.

If true, than the 95% of the country going backwards, or losing to the top 1% all have ISSUES. Let it be known too that the 50+ right wing neoconservative think tanks pay many to troll sites like this one and write everything that you did. It supports their mass greed. The first shot is too ALWAYS under mind the other persons education. CHECK mark on that one. Then offer an alternate view of utopia is surrounding you and if you are failing, or mention that the banks are corrupt, it is a YOU problem. check, check, you checked all the boxes. Thus, if you did not take an advanced degree course in economics in the 80s, you have not a clue what you are talking about. Most of the SHILLER type economist that are not on the payroll, like a Larry Summers are telling the truth. We are headed for a collapse. The Market is priced higher than 1929 and 2001. It is not Priced that high because all of America is doing great. Only the rich are doing great.

Greece fell apart for several reason, but mostly because they borrowed from the EURO what they could not afford to pay back. The euro's knew this, so did the greek and they still did it. THE CENTRAL Banks are a PONZI scheme, nothing more.

People could be starving in the streets and unemployment can be at 2% if everyone makes 10$/hr and a loaf of bread cost 20. As with 2008, and 2002 all the economist on the payroll, the FED, and those benefiting pay millions to debunk the truth. Then when it hits they disappear. There is no doubt it is coming. Many of us have made money both in the market and metals, that is how you prepare. For those that think what has supported this country from the mid 30s until the mid 80s is still the same is sadly mistaken.

Believe what you want, but for all the rest of the people it is not FAIR for people to come a site and pretend their situation SHOULD BE everyone else's. If YOU have done well, that is great, but you cant hold all other Americans to your standard and also PRETEND the FED is an HONEST entity. They have been rigging the system since the MID 80s at the latest to help only the rich. The income inequality is staring everyone in the face and NO, it isnt a personal problem, it is a country problem.

The people with the money like you and I will have to bail it all out. That is why the FED, and Politicians made the changes that a BAIL IN happens next time, not a bail out.

 

you mean like the 2010 -55% , 2012 - 30% and so on like Fidelity ? Or do you only want to do today because it fits the agenda of neocon ? Everyone is not a fool.

 

All I am saying is that their "predictions" have to be profitable for people like us. Let's see their track record.

I see very few billionaires on the Forbes 400 who made their money by buying PMs.

 

That is exactly what they want. I am not a writer or a speaker and took very few economic classes. Not part of engineering. The Numbers are, honesty is, and the street teaches you common sense.

The RIGHT and the RICH want you to keep doing what you do. Borrowing at 10% while they get it at 1% and lend it too you. When you fail and need a car, no worries, they have subprime auto loans now for those that are unfortunate. Remember they shut down the payday loan scams ? Well, the right wing love them, they make money for the scammer type. Now 8 Billion in loans are out there with rate of over 120%.

Of course to GOLDFINGER1969 this is a PERSONAL issue, dumb people making dumb mistake ! That is exactly what it is. But, our country should not allow it, just like our country should not allow drug commercials, we are the only country that does that. It is legalized corruption thru the lobbyist mafia. How many hundred of thousands of Lobbyists (Payoff, Bribe, and leverage politicians) are in Washington ? Registered Lobbyist comapnys is 11K + 281 have worked in this admin. (todays Whitehouse). And there are hundreds of thousands employed thru the network.

This is legalized corruption and now that total deregulation has happened, they do what they want. I think we should hold each American responsible for their actions too. A job, work hard, save... oh wait, you cant save, the interest rate on savings is 1% and soon to be -.50 that way, your savings account is widdled away by a billionaire.

Many people just stick their heads in the sand, it is easier and I cant blame them. but be prepared. What really sucks is those that lie, twist, propaganda, and manipulate for the establishment. But even worse than that is the GUY who has done well and beat the system, thus expects everyone else to have done it too. If they didn't, they are a failure to this type of guy. Or even worse, he made his money years ago when the regulations worked for all people and he has no educated himself to todays laws and deregulation thus is lost to the setup of stealing happening everyday thru the banking system.

No one can save when your 401K fees avg. 5% of your gains and a savings account earns 1% because REAL inflation is cruising along at between 5-7% YoY. You would never know it because the FED (a private bank) who controls the output of CPI has changed the criteria. All rigged, all the time. Everyone needs to wake up

 

Of course they havent, the PM system has Been Rigged since the mid 80s. JP Morgan is in court for it right now. They continuously short Future contracts to lower, keep the price down. That is the game that forces investors into the market.

 

Necons have little to say on monetary policy, they are largely foreign policy afficionados.

Do you know what a P/E ratio is ? Check out the P/E ratio for the S&P 500 and compare it to 1929 or 2000 (not 2001, you either mistyped or don't remember when the market peaked).

Again, you are showing that you don't understand basic facts and monetary economics.

Greece didn't "borrow from the Euro"....Greece is PART of the Euro EU community. And the Euro cut their borrowing costs for YEARS...they simply didn't get their house in order before 2010.

Not being the same doesn't equate to about to fall apart.

We had a near-systemic collapse in 2008 and the market still "only" fell 57% peak-to-trough.

Are you willing to have YOUR money taken away on a global basis ? You are clearly a beneficiary of extreme wealth compared to other people in Bangladesh, Sub-Sahara Africa, etc.

Income inequality is relative. If you have $100,000 in assets and Warren Buffet has $20 billion, he is worth 200,000x as much as you.

If you have $1 MM and he has $1 trillion, he is worth 1 MMx as much as you.

Which is better for you ?

There was no "bailout" of the system in 2008, except for some small banks and the UAW.

 

How about this, Bill Gates the richest man in the world knows he has too much money and should be taxed accordingly. Yet, when I bought a computer in the early 2000s I bought word, exel, etc. and was told I owned it and would receive the updates.

NOW I have to pay every year or so for that at 120 a year for the rest of my life ? It is absurd and it is the little things like this that get added yearly to the Median Income of 33k a year. HALF of the people in this country make that or less. As everything increase 5% per year, YoY wages went know where. It is like Americans are totally blind to it and today, like in 1990 (30 years ago) 70K a year is GOOD MONEY. Good money vs the inflation we have REALLY seen would be that x 1.5X

 

Do you know who they short it for ?

People like me who act on behalf of their clients !!

What is wrong with shorting futures ? You are free to go long, they can't go short ?

I think what you are saying is that SELL orders should be outlawed.

 

This is NOT true and I have no idea where you get your information from ? Breitbart ? They acknowledge on 800M of it but actually over 17T when into the banks. All the real information is out there.

 

There should be a law against it because they could NEVER ever cover the amount of GOLD they short in those contracts if the contracts need fulfilled.

But now I know what you do, if it is ef hutton, Raymond James, Edward Jones, or a bank. I get why you have that angle.... BUY BUY BUY more falling in EPS stocks because up up up.... that is what makes money for the broker. See, I have no agenda, thus no angle.

 

Maybe you should take some more economic courses ?

Where did you get this from ? Who is borrowing at 10%, besides a CCC-rated junk/high-yield company like WeWork ?

Most consumer loans are at 6%. Mortgages are 4.5% or less.

Right-wing politicians own Payday loan outfits ? I didn't know that.

Too bad except for the publicly traded outfit these pawn shops and payday lenders are individually owned.

Who said anything about dumb people making mistakes ? Except....well.....

Drug advertising is strictly regulated. For decades it was prohibited. Apparently you think that all companies except pharmaceutical companies should be allowed to advertise.

That is your opinion and you are entitled to it. But the fact that it is allowed has nothing to do with corruption or lobbying just like a ban on said advertising (like cigarettes, 1971) does not mean the 1st Amendment has been repealed.

It's "corruption" to you because you keep taking disjointed, irrelevant, unrelated data points and trying to draw them together in some Grand Unified Conspiracy Theory.

We live in a free-market capitalist economy. Accept it.

More nonsense....401(K) fees do not "average" 5% and if they were "5% of the gains" that would mean on average about 40-50 basis points (100 basis points = 1%) which is very reasonable to manage money.

I manage money for F&F and charge 1%, total inclusive. When I worked for companies we charged anywhere from 12 bp. to 150 bp. (1.5%).

 

Sorry, that information is NOT out there. You simply have been TOLD it is "out there" and relied on others to do your DD instead of doing it yourself.

The TARP program released approximately $750 BB into the system. The vast amount was taken by large money center ("Wall Street") banks, who repaid the money within 6 months to 2 years. The U.S. Treasury made money on these liquidity lifelines via interest and equity warrants. This is what a central bank -- The Fed -- is supposed to do during times of ""panic" so we don't have panics like 1873, 1907, etc.

No banks were "bailed out." All equity holders suffered dilution, from JP Morgan Chase (<5%) to Citibank (>85%). I dare you to tell a Citibank shareholder from 2007 that they were "bailed out" by TARP with the stock price down over 80% from the 2007 levels because of all the dilution.

Some small banks (Maxine Waters !! ) were bailed out. And the United Auto Workers (UAW) and AFL-CIO were bailed out because their pension and OPEB funds should have been compensated at 15-20 cents on the dollar along with other unsecured creditors but because they control large blocs of voters in Michigan and other states, they were given 80-90 cents on the dollar. So yes, a certain special interest was "bailed out"...and the political establisment and media elite approved every step of the way.

There was no $17 TT injected into banks. That's double and triple counting. Like me borrowing $1,000 from a bank for 1 year...paying interest daily....and then saying I borrowed $365,000. No, I borrowed $1,000 for 1 year not $1,000 every day for 365 days.

The greatest problem we have in this country is people who do NOT do proper DD on matters of finance, economics, politics, etc....they will spend weeks researching a HDTV but make 401(k) decisions based on a 30-second news report.

 

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