Totally forgot to report a 2021 purchase I made with bitcoin given to me by Marc on this site once upon a time. Oops. I don't do my own taxes, but I happened to see it on the extra copy of my completed tax return. "Virtual currency." Oops. I'll need to fix that. I wish that I had your pro...

dualstow wrote: ↑Thu Mar 10, 2022 9:29 am Gold back below 2000 per oz. Driving myself nuts over whether I should buy.

Is gold just about the worst performing commodity of them all over the past 12 months? It could be.

With skyrocketing fuel prices and an economy in deep stress, this is starting to remind me of 2008, with differences, of course. This should be where the PP earns it's keep. What do you think?

Biden's weakness and his abysmal performance in Afghanistan brought this on.

Haha! We watched that Sony Trinitron for many, many good years.

It was forever ago and I was a kid. Don't remember.

Big yawn until they start giving out Sony Trinitons again. I must be older than you are. Until inflation set in during the late 1960s, I recall that toasters and coffee pots were the "free" bank giveaway of choice. My folks got a Sony Trinitron TV from Crossland Savings Bank. It was very ...

dualstow wrote: ↑Thu Feb 24, 2022 8:25 am I took a lot of vp profits in individal stocks right after New Year’s, but I have sold zero index fund shares.
Bought some dividend payers - of course AT&T slashed their dividend by 50% after I bought in.

Is this part of your PP or is it VP money?

Big yawn until they start giving out Sony Trinitons again.

Yeah, my IAU is in a retirement account. That's why I hadn't noticed it before. And my PHYS is PHYS so this doesn't apply.

I own GLDM and just received my tax forms for 2021. Under "Proceeds from Broker and Barter Exchange Transactions" GLDM is giving off some kind of "Undetermined Term Transactions for Noncovered Tax Lots." They are listed as "Principal payments." I'm guessing that I have ...

mining stocks are so unpredictable. You could have a great mine that's functioning well and then the gov't slaps on some environmental taxes. Or you could have a junk mine that's lying about potential reserves. It's all a big mess and in no way an alternative to owning gold. The miners are one of t...

Question. When someone requests to have themselves removed .... I know that removes any posts that they originate. However, I'm assuming that any replies that they made to someone else's original posts would still remain? Clive was actively deleting his own posts even before he thought of leaving (...

murphy_p_t wrote: ↑Fri Feb 11, 2022 6:38 pm Or better yet, sell 50% of s&p and go into precious metal miners with the proceeds

Unless it's a retirement account, the tax repercussions of a move like this are huge. I don't invest this way.

dualstow wrote: ↑Fri Feb 11, 2022 2:25 pmahem

exactly

I Shrugged wrote: ↑Mon Jan 10, 2022 6:38 pm Actually the DOJ got the private key to the wallet, during a raid on some server.

Can they help me recover my long lost private key too? I'll give them half.

I knew there was a reason that I never listen to NPR.

False flags are what leftists do. No Antifa at 1/6? Ever hear of John Sullivan? Why hasn't Ray Epps been arrested? Why is Pelosi concealing so many of the videos? Why did she and the D.C. Mayor refuse 10K National Guardsmen? Why aren't Republicans allowed to select their own members for the 1/6 Comm...

With gold etfs and gold itself being taxed at the collectibles rate, is investing in the miners aka GDX or GDXJ a more investment friendly investment? They're taxed at the regular stock rates, which are considerably lower.

Forum entropy naturally increases over time. Conspiracy trolls can easily overwhelm the conversations here. Some self restraint and human decency would go a long way in keeping this a reasonable forum. When folks prove repeatedly that they're unwilling to honestly discuss a topic, I fully support X...

murphy_p_t wrote: ↑Sat Feb 05, 2022 12:40 pm

dualstow wrote: ↑Sat Feb 05, 2022 9:20 am Really, Don? It seems like people have to go out of their way to get banned on this forum.

I got to spend a week in The penalty box.

It was on this particular thread sometime ago that I was saying things the administrator did not approve.

Or perhaps responded with silence to Xan?

I

dualstow wrote: ↑Sat Feb 05, 2022 4:22 pm Ok, but that’s not banned. That’s just a timeout or as some call it these days, a “Whoopi Cushion.”

D

It's saddens me that the authorities spread panic and pseudoscience... Which has been so effective at instilling fear. Spreading panic and pseudoscience? What do you think you're doing when you make outlandish claims about vaccines? Just as a fer'instance, that they are designed to commit genocide ...

The GB is not the PP.

I Shrugged wrote: ↑Wed Feb 02, 2022 9:40 pm

Don wrote: ↑Wed Feb 02, 2022 5:19 pm It's just a matter of time before Putin steals everyone's bitcoin….

That would be self defeating, though.

How so?