I also had a really slow order from Goldmart.  I switched to Apmex and they seem fine.

Finally got shipping notice!  Time to go boating....

Thanks you two.  Yes, it is Goldmart.

I ordered gold from the online shop I normally order it from.  Normally they would notify me of shipment after 7 business days, but now it's been... quite a bit longer than that. I just called to find out when I can expect shipment and was told that they are awaiting their shipment, which should be ...

I just want to say that I understand your question and I had the same question.  I was overweight on stocks recently and not sure whether I should sell off some of my stock holdings, or just buy more of the lagging assets to catch up.  I ended up doing the latter.

How does government maintain a monopoly on currency? There are plenty of alternatives. Barter, Bitcoins, IOU's, Linden Dollars, Foreign Currency, Gold, Silver...heck, many small towns in the United States print their own: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5126185/Struggling...

Dammit.  I was planning on buying Treasuries and Gold but I've been too busy.  Why can't they still be down?! 

They don't really tax to get the money, they tax to stimulate demand for the currency. This made me stop in my tracks.  What a thought-provoking sentence!  Somebody could write a whole book about this one concept. Xtal, Is that sarcasm?  If not, the first time I heard that, my mind was blown.  Of c...

moda0306 wrote: They don't really tax to get the money, they tax to stimulate demand for the currency.

This made me stop in my tracks.  What a thought-provoking sentence!  Somebody could write a whole book about this one concept.

I have gotten a couple of gold coins off of goldmart.com My husband noticed that they are very slightly different in color.  I noticed it, too, after he pointed it out.  They're very similar, but one is more golden in color while the other is just very slightly duller or pinkish.  The newer one (200...

Libertarian666, would you mind toning the snark down a bit? We're all friends here. Sorry, but where do you think I was being snarky? Saying I didn't understand the point you were making about the solidus, or asking for numbers on the US short term debt since 1928? I was perfectly serious in both t...

I'd just like to add my thanks.  This forum is a voice of sanity in an area where panic can be costly.  Thanks again.

For the record I don't particularly care what gold does, it's always been my least favorite I'm of the opposite bent -- it seems to me that our entire financial system is based on trust, and if that trust evaporates, the whole system could go up in smoke along with it.  I love gold for that reason,...

That raises a question I've had for a while.  How do you pay tax -- or tax loss harvest -- on physical gold?  Do you have to keep receipts of what you bought, when you bought it, and how much you paid for it?  One gold coin looks like another, so I can't imagine there's a need to keep track of whic...

Thanks, all.  I do feel better, and I'll wait at least a few days before making any changes.  I'm not planning to sell anything off; just planning to change how I allocate things going forward. I know I would be feeling VERY concerned right now if my family's portfolio didn't have at least the 25% a...

OK guys, this Cyprus thing has gotten me into an all-out panic. I had very little faith in the financial system before, and now I have not one iota.  I love the principles behind the Permanent Portfolio, and I think it's the best way to allocate one's savings in normal times (whatever that means). B...

I just found this online: lovely way to track physical gold (and silver) coin purchases:

https://drive.google.com/previewtemplat ... ode=public#

Thanks MachineGhost!

Anyone? Bueller?  I tried searching online but found several different numbers.

Hi all, I've been obsessing over Firecalc http://firecalc.com/ -- You can plug in all kinds of numbers, and it tells you the odds of your retirement stash going to 0. Anyway, there's a tab where you can plug in your own investment strategy.  One of the options is: A portfolio with random performance...

If the government has the ability to print as much money as it wants, why does it need to tax private citizens to raise money? But the government can't print money.  The only thing it can do is borrow money from the Federal Reserve Bank.  So any time the government needs more money, it necessarily ...

I found the pictures rather lovely to look at.  At any rate, the report seems plausible and densely-argued, and doesn't seem to be overtly selling anything.  If you disagree with it, that's fine, but I found its arguments to be fairly sound. (Incidentally, dismissing one of your interlocutors by lum...

http://www.tullettprebon.com/Documents/strategyinsights/TPSI_009_Perfect_Storm_009.pdf This paper makes a pretty good argument that inflation has already been happening,  and that real interest rates have been negative for quite some time; possibly since the mid 90s.  Additionally, growth is over-re...

I check the performance throughout the day and over the last week have not seen a single positive day (perhaps there has been one but the general trend is lower).   Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't most research shown an inverse correlation between how often you look at your investments and how ...