A year ago I read the case for Trump doing some kind of monetary reset involving a monetary use for gold. Weaker dollar, tariffs, etc. I think it said that gold would have to be $10,000 for it all to make sense. So that is what I voted.

Yes he does indeed O0 At least he hasn’t started any new forever wars. Let’s revisit that in a couple of weeks. Do you not think its another Venezuela II case, build up the fleet to readiness, then a concurrent decapitation of the IRG as and when that becomes a evident possibility rather than outri...

dualstow wrote: ↑Wed Feb 18, 2026 6:29 am Yes he does indeed At least he hasn’t started any new forever wars.

Let’s revisit that in a couple of weeks.

I think you’re right DS. He wants to stop the expense. And then there is the Biden thing, and the Ukrainian role in the impeachment thing. He probably can’t wait to be rid of supporting their war. And he likes to brag about how many wars he has ended.

At least a couple of those are true.

Yes, the kicker is that we could experience short or longer term deflation, which would shake the world. Although, we (including me) all assume that they will create money to prevent that. Ultimately leading to persistent double digit inflation. Honestly I have found it more productive to not try t...

Dieter wrote: ↑Mon Feb 02, 2026 1:49 pm Damn, I was going to rebalance a bit out of Silver this week

So close!

My silver is now only up 63% in the last three months

Grr

If you hold physical, you might not have found a buyer anyway. That's what I'm hearing.

Yes, the kicker is that we could experience short or longer term deflation, which would shake the world. Although, we (including me) all assume that they will create money to prevent that. Ultimately leading to persistent double digit inflation. Honestly I have found it more productive to not try to...

dualstow wrote: ↑Fri Jan 30, 2026 2:02 pm I see mathjak covered it elsewhere, but damn. Down over 1/4 !

A quick peek at a news story suggests that people had bought silver ETF(s) on margin, and the drop triggered margin calls. Which of course drive more selling.

I didn’t realize the MN fraud had been going on for over a decade. A couple of hi lights are below. The whole article is worth reading in my opinion. “It feels never-ending,” Thompson said. “I have spent my career as a fraud prosecutor and the depth of fraud in Minnesota takes my breath away.” Publ...

So much of the articles and videos today are just clickbait.

If gold was dropping or dormant these same people would write “gold is dead”. It’s so hard to not get drawn into their game.

cost to mutch
it suck
no good
send to many disk.
Me and my friends took a bisk and lit it on fire and froze it
slamed it angaisnt the boor.


(The earliest meme I can remember.)
(Remember newsgroups?)

Bananas and rice needs to achieve meme status. If it hasn't already.

Do we have a thread for social and political cartoons? If not, here goes. I hope this shows up. If not, I will edit until it does. https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rPNW!,f_auto,q_auto:best,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe06393f5-d1c...

This guy, Bill Bonner, is a libertarian political economist, author, etc. His style is detached naysaying. :) If you want to read critiques of Trump that might be different from the run of the mill stuff, check out his site, which I think is a Substack. I find it hard to disagree with him, almost ev...

Last election, we truly had two awful choices. I still feel that Harris would have been way worse, though.

And I was okay with Trump the first time. I heard it put this way recently, “The best things said about him are true, but so are the worst things.”

dualstow wrote: ↑Fri Jan 16, 2026 8:14 am Good lord, what has the ipad OS update done to my keyboard?
(Version 26.2)

Not to mention the email.

I just bought a new iPad and it seems like several steps backwards.

dualstow wrote: ↑Fri Jan 16, 2026 8:07 am I never dreamed my silver would more than triple. I just bought it for fun, not for the pp.

I have to think it will drop a lot at some point. This highlights the difference between it and gold. It’s kind of a penny stock.

I’ve got a lot of it but I don’t need the money so I’ll HODL.

I guess it sounds like typical Trump negotiation tactics.

Reading Wiliam Bernstein's 2nd edition of The Four Pillars of Investing for the third time. Just read this! "Unlike crude oil or soybeans, you can store a reasonable amount of gold, but as we just saw, it has about zero long-term real return. The same is true of silver, which over the past few...

I wonder what people debate in Switzerland?

Probably pronouns.

Crazy

What Smith said.

Harry Browne was a pretty smart guy, and if I recall correctly, he had decided that charting is of little value. I've always been skeptical of technical analysis, but I do see the attraction. I'm inclined to side with Harry on this one. You could say that I'm basing that on the chart of my investmen...

it’s only a problem if it goes down I can survive it going to zero. I don't know what that would mean for the world, but whatever. I for one would welcome our new insect overlords. I don't view it as a rebalancing item. When it comes to gold, I'm a hodler. (For Vinnie, that means hold on for dear l...

I try to remember that as "storage", it's cheaper than most or all of the vaulting arrangements. Of course, it's still paper gold.