I also believe its much harder to counterfeit 24K gold products. Supposedly an eagle has been counterfeited where it would still pass the size/mass test, but no one has done so with a maple leaf. Train your ear. Use known good coins. If it meets size, weight and timbre (rings true), it is as good a...

In case anyone asks, I'm not taking bets. I Know Nothing!

But I do enjoy the circus.

... So that's at a rate of $2,830 Canadian dollars per ounce. I do see your point. Less gold per dollar.. but it is what it is for the divisibility and diversification against counterfeits I guess. For dualstow: About $2059.31 per ounce in the coin of the realm. (God bless America) Or about ~15% pr...

I'm not familiar with what the market for these is like down in the states, but here's the rate from a reputable seller I've used up in Canada. https://www.vbce.ca/gold-silver/24-canadian-gold-maplegram25-sheet-of-25-coins-sold-out-no-pre-orders Thanks Smithers. I like that they publish both a buy ...

I was thinking though: it's actually possible to buy maplegrams in 25 piece sheets like this one. When bought as a pack the spreads are much smaller than the individual ones. And if they're ever needed for true barter you can break them off. Best of both worlds? Those are tempting. Do you have a li...

vnatale wrote: ↑Wed Dec 14, 2022 12:32 am Well done! Even though I am completely inept at what you just did .... does not mean I cannot appreciate a master doing a well done job!

No talent on my part, other than the request. The work was done by GPT-3.

I had the first two and then the first booster last year. Then the second booster this year. Also got my first flu shot ever last year and then my second one ever a few weeks ago. I want to get that third booster but it has not risen to a priority / concern level to take the time or the inconvenien...

A 100-gram coin is worth around $7,000, making the need to hide your pin number from whoever's waiting in line behind you even more urgent

If you're drawing a 100 gram coin, then hiding your pin number from the guy behind you is not the problem...

Write a synopsis of the {Vinny's cut and paste} using language that a five year old child would understand. Obama is trying to make sure that a group of powerful people don't have too much power. They are called the 'permanent political class', and they include people like senators, people who give ...

Yes. Read that excellent book. Presents a totally different picture than what one would gather from watching the daily news, listening to politicians, the handwringers, and others pushing an opposite story. How does the book "factfulness" contribute to the modern political dialogue? The b...

Another drop

Another drop.

There is nothing prohibiting US government officials from "leaning" on people or entities. Happens daily, as it does in the corporate world. Whether or not a law is broken is based on how the lean is done. {other valid points excised in favor of brevity} True enough. The line moves around...

Oh come on. Do I have to do everything?

Seriously. Really?

Vinny should have posted this by now.

Xan wrote: ↑Tue Dec 06, 2022 4:44 pm I thought James Baker III was "that" James Baker.

Fair enough That's the James Baker that I think of also. But I'm old.

Meanwhile, on the twitter files...

It looks like James Baker. Yes, that James Baker was holding up the release of additional documents. It turns out that Sir James left the FBI in 2020 and became the Deputy General Counsel for twitter. Oops.

He got his walking papers today.

The fascinating thing about uncorrelated assets is that if they don't move in lockstep from time to time - then they are by definition correlated . True randomness has to appear to show patterns or it is not random. Just a fun musing. Nothing that applies directly to the nature of the Permanent Port...

I doubt that anything actionable will ever happen. Because ... {grifter or feckless}

It is, however instructive (and humorous) to monitor the reactions of both pundits and partisans.

Mongo only pawn in game of life.
It's only painful if you think about it.

vnatale wrote: ↑Fri Dec 02, 2022 9:57 am It is one thing to hope something will happen. It is another thing to rationally evaluate the possibilities of something happening, {blah blah blah}.

I couldn't have said it better myself.
QED

vnatale wrote: ↑Thu Dec 01, 2022 9:53 pm

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Get in while you still can! The walls are closing in! Offer void after actual indictment occurs.

Limit one ounce per punter. Are you a punter or are you a poster?

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/01/politics/mar-a-lago-special-master/index.html “ The three-judge panel of the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals reversed US District Judge Aileen Cannon's order appointing a so-called special master to sort through thousands of documents found at Trump's home to determi...

That article showed up on Hacker news a day or two ago. I thought it was extremely well written. Thanks for posting it here. For what it's worth, I didn't conclude from the article that bitcoin was the opposite of a "casino chip". But, hey. At least it is outside the fractional reserve sys...

Still open for any takers! I know that Dieter and Vinnie are sometimes falsely accused of being blathering windbags. That's not right. Just one ounce of gold on the line could put that unjust accusation to rest. They're SMART. Not DUMB like some people say. They deserve some respect . One ounce. Tha...

Heck. It's Thanksgiving and I'm in a generous mood. I'm taking any and all bets that Trump will not be even indicted for a single thing associated with the Mar A Lago documents. Up to 1oz of gold per person. Even money. DM me if you want the other side. The walls are closing in! He has nuclear secre...

Bullshit aside. Is there any chance that if there was something incriminating there that it wouldn't have been leaked yet? Hell, they immediately leaked photos of the empty classified folders that were included in the boxes that the GSA packed up and sent to Trump's warehouse. Don't you think that i...