Does anyone know about the gldm custodian ICBC? GLD’s HSBC seems to be in a precarious position. I also think that ICBC is a State owned Chinese bank, which makes me nervous.

It’s interesting the markets may not actually be markets anymore. The fed is suppressing (buying) the entire treasury market, they are buying the corporate bond market, maybe the muni bond market, I hear they are buying stocks through special purpose vehicles and angling to make it legal to directly...

Here is a post from Tyler regarding recent drawdowns if the GB and HBPP.

https://portfoliocharts.com/2020/03/23/ ... ful-month/

My Modified GB went down around 9%.

I think there is a decent probability rates go negative. In real terms they are already negative. Return free risk anyone? And with the fed essentially admitting that there really aren’t any rules (at least for now). They gleefully say “we can just create unlimited ledger entries”. I don’t think the...

Would probably have to have a cash flow of hundreds of thousands of dollars to make it worth it all while hoping the price did not drop! It's about a 1 percent difference, about 20 dollars off the current spot.

Thank for the info. I think it's a little lame that such a large dealer does not display the accurate gold spot price. Also, my local coin dealer uses Apmex for spot prices as well.

I’m finding that Apmex routinely list spot prices significantly higher than gold money.com and kitco. Does anyone know where to get the actual comex spot price?

Yikes! $1755 on Apmex

I will definitely listen to this because the host pushed his line of reasoning with Josh Crumb (founder of GoldMoney) in the last episode and Josh basically said there is shortage at this price. I am very curious to hear this persons point of view.

It's funny in the early 2000's I bought I-bonds randomly - that have now more than doubled. I wish someone shook me then and said "just keep buying those every year and whatever else you do does not really matter".

I just answered my own question:

How do EE bonds work if you do not hold them to maturity. If I sell after 10 years is my effective interest rate still approximately 3.5% per year minus the penalties or is there some kind of a curve that incentivizes holding for 20 years?