Harry didn’t live in our world as it exists today. He may have done things very differently. You really want to go by. What makes sense and drawing large amounts of cash to live on will unbalance the assets of the pp even if still at the fringes of the bands . If you rebalance them to get back your...

I have a great respect for Anthony Dedans & BelangP's approaches in having just equities and gold, but what if they are wrong? As a UK investor, 50/50 US$ and gold is a global primary reserve fiat currency and non-fiat commodity playoff. Where to store those US$ ... in stocks is reasonable. To ...

In addition to asset diversification, the PP includes individual assets volatility diversification. Blending high and low volatility assets is part of the PP's engine design. Swapping to slick from regular tires may very well win one sunny day race, but prove to be critical in another rainy day race...

Since 2013 Yellen has be in part pegging US$ to gold, in a loose manner rather than direct pegging, and not along, to instead a basket that includes gold, resulting in gold remaining range-bound PV Fear of a alternative and others opting to reduce/drop the dollar in favor of a alternative, in a larg...

I feel like I should clarify my positions. Putin bad. By our standards, Russia is kind of barbaric at their core. Indeed, Russian's seem willing for coach-roaches to inherit the earth It's costing us billions and billions of dollars, which we don't have. No one cares, and it's my least objection al...

Point to point and much of yearly gains are just down to the valuations/prices at those times. If/when a calendar year start and end date values align with a respective peak and trough then that years outcome will obviously tend to be poor. As might a years trough and peak alignment transition tend ...

She's fearful of a nuclear war, in a world ever closer to such from increasing fronts (N Korea, Iran ...etc.). Meh! We're all going to die ... some day. I live in a major city (London) so a near instant death albeit sooner than later - is a better way to go then many other ways. If mankind goes ext...

Long game (perhaps by 2027) https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_22_1511 The European Commission has today [March 2022] proposed an outline of a plan to make Europe independent from Russian fossil fuels well before 2030 We must become independent from Russian oil, coal and gas. W...

The PP is potentially good for 'tax harvesting' I don't know about US Roth/IRA ... whatever but consider a case of where ... Capital gains on domestic gold coins are tax exempt, no different to if copper prices rose you don't pay capital gains tax on copper coins (not that really applies anymore as ...

She's fearful of a nuclear war, in a world ever closer to such from increasing fronts (N Korea, Iran ...etc.). Meh! We're all going to die ... some day. I live in a major city (London) so a near instant death albeit sooner than later - is a better way to go then many other ways. If mankind goes exti...

Testers such as Sigma Metalytics Precious Metal Verifier PMV PRO are pricey, around $2K, but for regular buyers provide a quick and easy test https://i.postimg.cc/wxZ651w9/sm.png Less expensive ($1K) alternatives are around, but may not penetrate right through and could miss a tungsten core. Seajay...

I see they suggest not buying 22K gold coins and sticks with 24K for the reason I mentioned above. Is your timbre check what will help me detect a fake if it passes this plastic test? Yes, the ring test needs to be done in combination with the size and weight test. It may be possible to construct a...

Some possibilities yet to come 1. The possible ejection of Russia from the UN. A terrorist organization with a UN veto is laughable. Is The Federation of Russia a Member of the United Nations? Ukraine says they are not. The dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991 left unresolved the issue o...

That's the point here. Just because they couldn't have a little foresight to see that flirting with NATO was going to bring huge problems their way, doesn't mean that we should be shipping weapons over there to try to bail them out at the last minute. ... I'm not as cynical as some, but I certainly...

Western Ukraine is very anti-Russian. Eastern Ukraine leans more toward Russia. ... as socially engineered by Russia. Send in migrants, force schools to only teach in Russian and Russian doctrine. Inciting a war that started eight years ago in response to such a social engineered invasion. Not the ...

But would you agree, stuper that they have made up their own minds to fight? They are not automatons who are continuing to fight because we're giving them weaponry. (Yes, I do recall previous notes from Silent Majority about the U.S. meddling with Ukraine's gov't. I acknowledge those). Rather, they...

Great stories, for sure. But, for every one of those winners, there are probably at least 10 losers who bought stocks in companies that went bust. LIke, say, Enron. Or Eastman Kodak. Or Woolworths. What would have happened to a person who bought the equivalent of an index fund instead of stock XYZ?...

I say as an American practicing Christian, God willing Russia will win and teach the warmongering American leadership class to stop meddling in other countries' business, most of which they do not because of a selfless desire to spread freedom and democracy to the rest of the world but just to fatt...

Interesting. I was not familiar with this but found some more context in a 2011 paper that was also in support. http://arno.uvt.nl/show.cgi?fid=129399 In circa 400 A.D. Jewish Rabbi Issac Bar Aha recommended always to invest a third into land, a third into merchandise and to keep a third at hand. T...

That Bullion DNA looks pretty cool -- https://www.mint.ca/en/bullion/bullion-dna -- but what about all the old coins? Fascinating, thanks for sharing. Validating my decision to go with the silver maple leafs for this order. Neat. Well, that and the fact that Silver Eagles are around 75% over spot r...

As I'm reading that line that says "The war can end only in Vladimir Putin's defeat," I'm thinking: or it could end in a huge nuclear conflagration with untold millions of people dead. Pretty much a global catastrophe. UK/West have very finite resources to sustain conventional warfare, we...

Defending "Russian's" within Ukraine were "Russian's" installed by Russia. Migration, force educators to only speak Russian and instate Russian states of minds, then rebel and seize.

Well, I mean, surely you can see the hypocrisy in Boris Johnson's approach, can't you? If the war can end only in Vladimir Putin's defeat (I mean, who writes this stuff? But okay, whatever), then why aren't the UK, US, etc. sending their men and women over there to help shoulder the burden of fight...

why aren't the UK, US, etc. sending their men and women over there to help shoulder the burden of fighting and dying? Increasingly more countries are moving away from using the US Dollar as a primary reserve/trading currency. There's less of a concern/issue for Europe/UK about such a move as only t...

That 'DNA' is a great idea. If I understand correctly each coin in effect having the equivalent of a serial number that can identify it, but in a manner where its nigh on impossible to replicate (at least cost efficiently). No two coins perfectly the same, no matter how hard you might try, where the...