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Silver vs. Gold: 2004 to Today [view article]
The current physical shortage of silver is real. I wouldn't buy any of those futures contracts in silver. They have way too much paper to manipulate and rig the prices of silver and gold. They want to drive the prices down, to create the perception that these "commodities"... are not worth as much as stocks, and to drive more and more people to be owning stocks.Real money is in physical gold and silver. Not some pieces of paper promises that Wallstreet pumps out to make themselves rich.
Soon the truth will comeout, the emperor has no clothes. People will wake up to this. Mar 30 03:05 PM
Get Out of Commodities - Barron's [view article]
yeah, get out of physical gold and silverand buy financials and their toxic waste paper.
what great advice
Mar 30 02:10 PM
The Fed is Deflating: 10 Reasons Why [view article]
Sorry, but I just don't buy this.Prices of gas, bills for tuition, everyday grocery
items keep going up, and you say the fed is
deflating. What does that mean? Just an abstraction? Mar 28 10:05 PM
3 Ways to Own Silver Before It Reaches $30 [view article]
i see mass exodus Mar 27 04:08 AMLooks Like There's a Silver Shortage [view article]
I live in LA, and recently was able to buy 2000 oz.in 10 oz bars from CNI about month ago. There was absolutely no problems, I wired the money and got my metals almost the next day.
I was surprised to find that they are not selling silver at this time except the 90% bags. The same is true of some other big dealers around the area.
Something is very fishy here. Time to buy silver with both hands. Don't sell. Mar 25 10:25 AM
Where are Precious Metals Headed in 2008? [view article]
people talk about gold going up. The truth is that the dollar is going down.The dollar is going down due to massive inflation.
There is a huge amount of counterfeit dollar bills out there. Pretty soon people will not be taking dollars anymore. Mar 19 12:20 AM
A Warning for U.S. Dollar Bears and Commodity Bulls [view article]
higher commodity prices are due to inflation of the supply of dollars.Should your wealth be measured in FRN? That can be printed infinitely? Can you trust this gov't, ,that's corrupt to the core, to manage the nation's money responsibly?
Sure, there have been episodes of spikes in specific commodities, like palladium, or natural gas for example. But today all commodities are shooting up. This is due to the devaluation of the dollar. latest dollar index is 71.68. and it's going lower. Unless you think we've hit a bottom in the dollar index, you'd be wrong to bet on lower gold, silver, or oil prices, measured in us dollars.
The US dollar is simply not a reliable measure rod for wealth. You can't measure your wealth in US dollars due to rapid inflation. The only honest measure is gold, or silver.
Measure in terms of gold. The stock market has been in a bear market since 1999. If you were smart you would've held stocks from 1982 until 1999 and converted all the money to gold. You'd be rich. The gold bull market is not over. The equity bear market that is still far from over, imo.
Mar 19 12:08 AM
Who's Benefiting from Soaring Gold Prices, and Why? [view article]
Gold companies are a tough sell. It's not like gold.You could see it and recognize it for what it is.
Too many factors go in the stock price of these
mining companies. Too many of these stocks are
scams and the public are rightly very cautious about buying this. Unless you're an insider you're just gambling your money hoping the stock will go with the rise of gold. Better go to Las vegas. You'll have a better time there.
Mar 16 04:53 AM
6 Questions for Long Term Google Investors [view article]
goog. What a stock.It's amazing how much the insiders have made
on this stock. And the public is still buying this.
How is goog better than yhoo? Is the company
really making money? The website is dumb and a piece of crap and this company has a market cap of 137 B?? What a joke. Never in a hundred thousand years would I even touch this stock.
Keep hyping it Wallstreet. This one's going down. Mar 15 05:50 PM
Silver: The Last Great Thing - For Now [view article]
Less than 1% per year cost to store 3.5 billion worth of silver?You have any evidence to back this up? Or are you just guessing?
Mar 03 11:15 PM
Silver: The Last Great Thing - For Now [view article]
it always amazes me how yearly productionratios of silver to gold keeps declining, currently
about 7, and historically it's been around 14-15.
Yet silver is still 50 times cheaper than gold. There's definitely something wrong with this
picture.
I'd definitely trade in my fiat dollars for silver
@ this point.
However I do not believe ETFs are the way to
go. It's best to take physically delivery. That way
you control the silver. To buy ETFs means giving
your money over to an entity which may or may not hold the silver. It's basically an unallocated pool account. IF these SLV truly have the silver they would have quite substantial storage fees. Yet SLV or GLD charge a fraction of 1% in fund fees, and the spread is very low. This obviously doesn't make sense. That's why I believe these ETFs should be completely avoided, and the smart money knows this. Mar 03 10:24 PM
Inflation's Power: The Dollar in 25 Years [view article]
you people should be patriotic.Stop buying gold and silver.
Put your money in US treasury bonds.
Support our troops and our war
effort in Afghan and Iraq.
Buy US corporate stocks, Halliburton,
Citi, MBNA, they need all the help
they can get from true american patriots. Mar 02 10:09 PM
Too Much Money Chasing Too Few Commodities [view article]
Kinda scary time we live in today. Looks like the commodity cycle is back again, just like the 70's.Amazing to see all the grain prices just shoot up
so fast recently, soybeans, wheat, rice, all gone parabolic. My DBA I bought just 3 months ago gained 30-40% already.
Crude oil has gone up now to all time high of
$100. It seems all the other commodities are
just catching up with it. E.g. now it takes around
10oz of gold to buy 100 barrels of crude, or 5 oz of silver to buy 1 barrel of crude. This still somewhat undervalues gold and silver based on historical averages (~8 oz for gold and 3-4oz for silver).
Where oil is headed I think is the important question. If the central bankers have lost control, and oil heads up higher, you better have a huge position in gold and silver to protect yourself. Today the $US is backed by oil, which is in demand by all the other countries to buy oil. If somehow this system erodes, maybe the US FRN will be worth much less.
A second demand for the US dollar comes from the US stock market. But now we're in a bear market. The DOW valued in gold terms has been declining from an incredible 40 oz in '99 to less than 15 oz today. The money simply is not going into stocks anymore. The stock market (US) is deflating and going into commodities. But this declining stock market produces even less demand for the US dollar. Which produces a vicious cycle.
Overall the argument is just too compelling to put your money in gold and silver. Despite all the Gov't propaganda, with the manipulated/massaged CPI, all the market hype you see on CNBC, and business news channels, the reality is just too painfully obvious. All these financial asset's that have done well in the 90's, stocks, bonds, and even housing are basically wealth sinks, and only hard commodities that you can hold in your hand will protect your wealth from confiscation.
It'll be interesting to see what'll happen over the next decade, maybe the US dollar will become like the next Mexican peso. The middle class will be slowly wiped out and the wealth of the country will be in very few hands. Feb 28 04:46 AM
Gold's Just Getting Started - Barron's Interview [view article]
I agree with jt ETFs are not the way to goif you wanna own gold. Sure, it's convenient,
there is little spread, you don't have to worry
about storage, but at what cost???
You're basically handing money over to an
entity, giving control over to them, in return
for a paper claim to the gold which may or may
not be there. This was a great idea for the gold cartel to absorb the recent growing investment demand for gold without having to give in to physical delivery.
For those of us with investment assets in the hundred thousand dollar range, you need to own
physical gold to protect yourself. You never know
if tomorrow everything's gonna go to crap and Bush signs an executive order banning gold ownership - "for the good of the country". This has happened before in 1933, and lasted some 40 yrs. So it could happen again. Basically you'd have to take your gold and move out to some other country like switzerland for safe keeping. Feb 03 02:45 PM
Gold's Just Getting Started - Barron's Interview [view article]
It is clear in this current environment, gold -physical gold only can offer protection for the
little guy.
Here is a passage from "The Battle for Investment Survival" from Gerald M. Loeb - pp. 22
In the history of the world we find the record of savings really saved through buying gold, hoarding precious stones, and other forms of "hard wealth" privately secreted. In the future history of America most of us will, in my opinion, learn this lesson too late...
Curiously, it is those of slight wealth who need this sort of protection rather those of great means, who can really suffer large depreciation without feeling the loss. And it is usually the latter who are best fitted to cope with the problem... " Feb 03 02:21 PM