Is numismatics going the way of philately?

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Are you sure about that, most females that I meet (not all) now days are idiots. They can't carry a conversation, they treat most men like dogs and are only interested in what you can give them. S.. isn't worth all that to me. No, I'm not gay, just a realist and observe people.

 

Baseball Cards have made a small comeback, but for all the wrong reasons.

 

Seriously? You think you write clearly? Wow. Your writing makes my brain hurt. Too much to force my way through. What I take away from it is that you speak in bark-like slogans and believe all virtue exists in "businessmen". Yeah, I used to believe that too, then I learned to wear "big boy pants". Also, Mr. Punctuation and Mr. Capitalization are our friends. Don't treat them so shabbily to ignore them.

 

Are you absolutely certain you're only 34? No leap year gimmick? You're an unusually astute person. I go to "the average Joe is a moron" and you raise my bid to "most females are idiots"? Wow. EXCELLENT call, sir.

 

Sounds like all the good ones are taken?
I can't really comment on your post other than to suggest you've been unlucky to meet the "leftovers."

About these coins though...I've seen a couple comments focused on MS70 graded coins. Why do these matter so much? What I'm seeing is that a modern mint product will likely be high quality. This hobby will be ruined for people whose only collecting interest is modern mint products graded at MS/PR70 coins when this bubble bursts. I would also point out that the behavior of the crowds at coin releases from the mint also indicate that there is a bubble. The fad will end and they'll be gone but there will still be coins that need homes!

 

Oh too add, the people who are in this hobby to collect MS70 modern mint products to make money in the long term will likely be just as disappointed when the bubble bursts.

One of the books by Q. David Bowers identifies several historical numismatic bubbles throughout U.S. coin collecting.

 

The mint is making the perfect coin all of them should be MS70 The bubble has been here for a long time collectors just don't want to see it plus a lot of this type of modern mint products are sold on TV and the internet

 

Seriously yes businessmen are needed hard to believe the facts that has to make you brain hurt
You see it's easy no word games or riddles .Glad to know you have you big boy pants don't wet them

 

But we still love them

 

Everything you said — spot on.

 

Yeah? Well I spent the vast majority of my career in the (very) small business sector, and somehow we managed to, unlike you, avoid deluding ourselves over our supposed virtues. We even managed to make it to the 21st century without describing ourselves EVEN ONCE as "job creators", because we instinctively knew we were all about resisting payroll increases. Our customers created every job we ever offered, advertised or filled, not us. That was before we needed allegedly conservative politicians to give us focus group spin words to describe ourselves. These are the very same entry-manures who bought into von Mises Austrian Fool bogus economic paradigms and Roger Ailes-supporting bullion marketing scams.

 

I have been in business for over 30 years. I have employed thousands of people throughout my career and continue to do so. I create wealth for myself and for the people who work with me, that's what I'm in business for. Not to lose money but to make money and i'm very proud of it. I feel a person should get paid what they're worth. Never in my mind is to consider a wage down. A better wage is a happier worker, a happier worker is productive. If it weren't for business owners like myself who employ people in the private sector, how would the government operate? The last time I checked they get revenue from businesses, from workers who work for businesses.

Demonizing American business is not the way to go. If you're unhappy working for the government, there's nothing I can do about that. We can get into a debate about how the government should work or not work. But this is not the place for it.

The government has put that label of job creators on themselves and the businesses. The only way they can create jobs and pay for it is through taxes. But the businesses do create jobs. To say we don't that's not realistic.

 

I have worked in government for 11 years total (2 stints) and private business for exactly 32 more years. I don't need to debate about how screwed up government is. It's in my face every day. The problem is what else I know - that the VERY LAST people in the whole world who have anything useful to add to improve government are businesspeople. Governments aren't supposed to act like businesses; that's not a high enough intellectual or ethical bar. Governments are structurally almost as virtuous as they can be made. The flaw is from the yahoos who run businesses, get elected, and think they have anything intelligent to offer.

 

Yeah, but the big lie is reducing taxes on businesses will create more jobs. Regardless of what your taxes are, are you going to hire more employees than you need or are you going to employ less than you need, thus hurting your business? What does create more jobs is lowering the taxes on the “middleclass” or raising their wages, so that they have more to spend, thus requiring more employees to serve them. If the middleclass doesn’t have money to spend, your business is doomed.

 

... unless your business is conning the ultra well off. Then your business model is golden. Like taking candy from a baby. Kind of like the ENTIRE market for Apple Watch Gold Edition at $10K to $17K a pop.

 

[sorry, wifi interruption dupe post]

 

Yep, and as long as you allow business/the wealthy to run the government, they'll operate in their bubble and the rest us be damned.

Okay, that's all the politics from me......... back to coins.

 

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Kurt read his post warily, realizing that somehow, somewhere, a moderator's finger was itching to press a kill switch.

 

Lowering taxes on all businesses is not the answer. I would say lowering them on businesses with 100 workers or less, if the business will reinvest the money in the company. The middle class needs help right now, what's left of it. And at the rate we're going there won't be any. It will come down to just rich and poor. I think wages will stay low for some time to come. I could be wrong on this, but I don't see things getting better by tomorrow. We just about lost all of our manufacturing jobs and we're losing our hold on markets in the world. Employers will only hire what they need. If things get bad they will downsize.