You've already softened the stance above a little in subsequent posts... but I think 'picking your battles' is counter-productive in many...
There are plenty of local news stories on the subject today, but I'd thought I'd just link directly to the source, because I'm sure you guys can...
Don't go taking all the credit, this is Alan's interpretation: "Drastically narrowed" makes the message he's trying to put across pretty clear.
So at the moment the message I'm taking from this thread is that gold has room to fall much further before cost of production starts restricting...
Exactly. Depends on whether the percentile was calculated by weighting according to production, or weighting according to 'number of miners' - the...
This is not my understanding of the '90th percentile cost' - I think it most likely means that 90% of gold miners' costs of production are less...
I think time-frames are very relevant, but certainly agree that if your plan takes a decade, you shouldn't be claiming success until it's over and...
If you never sell, you're guaranteed to lose. I know, I'm so cup half empty...
I support being realistic, and consistent, but I think there is a valid case for the 'loss denial' going on: I think many of us purchased PMs...
That was both interesting, and like listening to someone scrape their nails down a blackboard... once I recover I may check to see how much you've...
I should have said above, I haven't done any analysis on this and don't have a conclusion, so I'm not saying that the conclusion of the article is...
If the guy was attempting to be impartial he could for example have picked the 10 most important food commodities, as well as the top 5 industrial...
Not the most convincing article data-wise... cherry-pick 10 charts out of what must be 1000 possibilities and truncate their axes for maximum...
Look, if you think you're smarter than the large majority of the world's climate scientists based on whatever research into Al Gore you might have...
No doubt unwanted, but I feel obliged to add my two cents. I don't think it's that hard to follow the money, and see our healthy Australian...
Option 1 preferred.
Is it just me or is it quiet around here... I'm guessing a few of us are having similar thoughts.
Yes, uniquely identifying bars is a more modest purpose... At first glance the more inexperienced among us might be forgiven for thinking that...
Apparently you can test with an XRF machine though the plastic, but yes, forget specific gravity tests. Perhaps not quite madness... a successful...
I was just as surprised when I first found out - and it still seems ridiculous. It's made me rate bullion coins a little higher with respect to...
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