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Both are mostly fungible items which can be traded on the free market. What’s the practical difference? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes |
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For starters one is a physical good... View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes |
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It's a thing which has value on the open market. The rest is semantics. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Precious metals may go up and down but always have value. That's the point. practical differences are so vast I am not going to list them all. |
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And those scraps of linen stamped with long dead presidents aren’t physical goods? Seriously, what point are you trying to make? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Are you being serious? I'm honestly asking. Are you trying to be philosophical or do you not know the difference? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes |
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you proved my point practical differences are so vast I am not going to list them all. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Precious metals may go up and down but always have value. That's the point. practical differences are so vast I am not going to list them all. |
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Currency does not equate to money. There is a difference. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Currency does not equate to money. There is a difference. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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I know people with 50k plus in a checking account that are relatively young. Why they do this I don't know. Put some of it to work and throw some at precious metals for the hell of it if you want something physical. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes |
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I swear to god...this place is always a day late and a dollar short. https://finviz.com/fut_chart.ashx?t=DX&cot=098662&p=w1&rev=636524741621688888 https://finviz.com/fut_chart.ashx?t=GC&cot=088691&p=w1&rev=636524742094893835 View Quote |
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what if you use a 1oz golden eagle to buy dinner at The Cheesecake factory accepting the fact that you used the face value of the currency instead of the intrinsic value of the gold. mindblown.gif View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Precious metals may go up and down but always have value. That's the point. practical differences are so vast I am not going to list them all. miners control the gold supply Theoretially a finite # of gold, not that case with a currency. currency adjust due to the law of one price if there isn't a central bank peg. Gold adjust relative to what currency you are holding. |
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Can you use a barrel of oil to buy dinner? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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How come nobody told me to buy gold in 2016? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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I swear to god...this place is always a day late and a dollar short. https://finviz.com/fut_chart.ashx?t=DX&cot=098662&p=w1&rev=636524741621688888 https://finviz.com/fut_chart.ashx?t=GC&cot=088691&p=w1&rev=636524742094893835 |
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Hey...Hey...I gotta investument for ya...Garunteed. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/289264/clintonmedallion_mocksmal-430953.JPG View Quote If this comes out as a urinal cake I will be in for a dozen |
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can you use your gold chain to buy dinner? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Obviously not. What point exactly are you trying to make? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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ITT more than one person confused currency with commodity. Yay! mindblown.gif Does a FIAT currency have an intrinsic value? |
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that Gold and a Currency are not the same thing. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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You quoted yourself to say you agree. ![]() View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes |
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Precious metals may go up and down but always have value. That's the point. practical differences are so vast I am not going to list them all. Or maybe it's the fact that commodities tend to have a practical application that extends beyond exchanging for goods/services? |
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Other than the fact that actual commodities have to be mined out of the ground at great expense, while modern "currencies" are magic'd into existence at will by governments/banks? Or maybe it's the fact that commodities tend to have a practical application that extends beyond exchanging for goods/services? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Precious metals may go up and down but always have value. That's the point. practical differences are so vast I am not going to list them all. Or maybe it's the fact that commodities tend to have a practical application that extends beyond exchanging for goods/services? |
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Do they accept Canadian? ![]() Here's another fun one. What if your employer paid you in gold with the same criteria? https://media.giphy.com/media/d3mlE7uhX8KFgEmY/giphy.gif View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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ITT more than one person confused currency with commodity. Yay! mindblown.gif ![]() Here's another fun one. What if your employer paid you in gold with the same criteria? https://media.giphy.com/media/d3mlE7uhX8KFgEmY/giphy.gif ![]() |
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don't look at me i can't give advice here. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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I swear to god...this place is always a day late and a dollar short. https://finviz.com/fut_chart.ashx?t=DX&cot=098662&p=w1&rev=636524741621688888 https://finviz.com/fut_chart.ashx?t=GC&cot=088691&p=w1&rev=636524742094893835 |
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I'm just getting into silver, more for collecting than weight.
Since the price has been so low, I've bought 40 oz. of various coins in the past month. I haven't bought any rounds or bars since I am mostly buying them for collecting. |
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Wool is mined out of the ground? Fascinating. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Precious metals may go up and down but always have value. That's the point. practical differences are so vast I am not going to list them all. Or maybe it's the fact that commodities tend to have a practical application that extends beyond exchanging for goods/services? |
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I did mention in another thread that hedge fund managers were buying it. For that matter, they still are. Some of them know a thing or two. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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I swear to god...this place is always a day late and a dollar short. https://finviz.com/fut_chart.ashx?t=DX&cot=098662&p=w1&rev=636524741621688888 https://finviz.com/fut_chart.ashx?t=GC&cot=088691&p=w1&rev=636524742094893835 |
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Wool is mined out of the ground? Fascinating. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Precious metals may go up and down but always have value. That's the point. practical differences are so vast I am not going to list them all. Or maybe it's the fact that commodities tend to have a practical application that extends beyond exchanging for goods/services? |
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I think we're trying to say the same thing. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes |
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The value of a stock is in the people it employs, the intellectual property it possesses, and the talent of its management. That can be measured in whatever paper coupon you want, but the value remains. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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It doesn't matter what the temporary value of the dollar is. It will keep losing 3% a year until it collapses entirely. Buy metals and stocks. |
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Yes, but you and I both know it's the first time he would have heard the term.
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Well no shit, Sherlock. No one said they were. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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So if a company can't pay it's employees, can't pay it's debt holders, etc why on earth would the guy (Equity Holder) last in line get shit? Are they going to mail you a fucking patent to wipe your ass with when you can't get toilet paper because it cost a trillion dollars. Maybe you can get a pile of parts from Dell or some shit. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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It doesn't matter what the temporary value of the dollar is. It will keep losing 3% a year until it collapses entirely. Buy metals and stocks. |
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But isn't the whole point of your argument that commodities and currencies are the same basic thing? Are you having a stroke? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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ITT more than one person confused currency with commodity. Yay! mindblown.gif Are you having a stroke? I only care about what a """thing""" can get me on the open market. Both commodities and currencies behave the same way in that scenario. |
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You are here. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/64239/Screen_Shot_2018-01-25_at_10-431031.JPG View Quote ![]() |
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Take an economics class sometime. Come back when you have a modicum of education. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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It doesn't matter what the temporary value of the dollar is. It will keep losing 3% a year until it collapses entirely. Buy metals and stocks. ![]() Ivory tower much? |
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It doesn't matter what the temporary value of the dollar is. It will keep losing 3% a year until it collapses entirely. Buy metals and stocks. ![]() Ivory tower much? |
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Take an economics class sometime. Come back when you have a modicum of education. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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It doesn't matter what the temporary value of the dollar is. It will keep losing 3% a year until it collapses entirely. Buy metals and stocks. |
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