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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clawcoins, post: 2805927, member: 77814&quot;]Too much to write right now.</p><p>But to me there is not a direct inverse relationship. Though there is an short term inverse correlation when the economy is &quot;stable&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp; Let&#039;s just look at the last 10 years for an instance of Gold vs DOW</p><p>[ATTACH=full]655449[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]655450[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>In the 2008 timeframe everything went into stagnation.</p><p>No one was buying anything to put generically.</p><p>PMs down, stocks down, car sales down, jobs way down, etc etc.</p><p>Cash was king as it was the common denominator that people wanted .. if they had a job.</p><p><br /></p><p>As the economy started coming back, money started flowing again, people started investing again it perked up not only the stock market but also the PM market.</p><p><br /></p><p>In this case they were directly correlated.</p><p>Of course we had gold hoarding by China and India too, becoming more globalized.</p><p><br /></p><p>Shocks such as one country who gets most of their silver from Mexico stating there&#039;s going to be a 20% import tax ... a sudden jump in Silver.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;safe haven&quot; is a normal nonmenclature for PMs.&nbsp; It&#039;s a place to put one&#039;s money without losing (or gaining) much.&nbsp; Many investment mgrs for some reason do not want people in cash (because they make no money on it) so they always have to move investments somewhere.&nbsp; I always convert stuff in waiting into cash .. I never lose a dollar that way in price variations and fees.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I&#039;ll delve more into specific examples such as:</p><p>GE dividend paying stock in a drip vs pure stock appreciation such as FB or SQ.</p><p>Bond Funds such as a Fidelity FNMIX which gives monthly dividends which is a low price per share vs a high price per share example vs Nasdaq index, or S&amp;P index.</p><p>Corporate Bonds such as from Coca-Cola paying 7.5% or more.</p><p>and I looked into PM ETFs before but decided against it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course these would be specific examples and there are winners, losers and stagnate stocks, funds, etc out there.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, what would happen if the supply chain were to partially shut down ==&gt; <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-24/acacia-gets-190-billion-tax-bill-it-would-take-centuries-to-pay" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-24/acacia-gets-190-billion-tax-bill-it-would-take-centuries-to-pay" rel="nofollow">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-24/acacia-gets-190-billion-tax-bill-it-would-take-centuries-to-pay</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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