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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jason.A, post: 3135503, member: 87620&quot;]You don&#039;t think stocks are driven by that same logic? &quot;determined by the number of people who believe it?&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>Stock value is based on people&#039;s perceptions of if a company will do well or not. The company doesn&#039;t benefit when we buy stock, besides at their ipo. The rest of the sales of stock after that only benefit or hurt other stock buyers. Except, of course, that if a stock is strong more might be willing to invest in other ways with the company. </p><p><br /></p><p>PMs seem to also be based very much of the perception of if the economy is good or bad. If it&#039;s good, people ignore precious metals and take greater risk. If they think the economy is weak, they will be more conservative in their investments, especially the most extreme route of buying gold. </p><p><br /></p><p>Is there something about people&#039;s perceptions that you wanted to add? I don&#039;t think it needs to be political at all. </p><p><br /></p><p>We all know what type of talk radio playing in most coin shops and the most likely type of bumper sticker a bullion buyer is likely to have on his (and yes, I said his, because most are men) car.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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