Wasn’t there meant to be a RE crash? 
Wasn’t there meant to be a RE crash?![]()
I guess Aus RE market will be like the US stock market? Juiced and socialised forever.
what industry do you work in?Well I can't speak for the rest of the economy, but new home construction!!... Boom!
I've just been going through our system trying to gauge the impact. Best I can calculate is that our sales team booked more initial appointments in one weekend than we'd normally see over two months ( during the good times ).
Never seen anything like this, and I've been in this industry for 15+ years.
Of course I suspect there will be one hell of a cliff after New years.... Lol
Exactly my thoughts.
The free-market is dead, those that haven't already worked out the implications of this stand to miss out on the opportunity. Governments have clicked that the rules are different now. And because millions of people will either be incapable of working out what's happening (this includes some on this forum) or incapable of doing much about it - social tension will remain with us for a very long time. The more money that the government dishes out to special interest groups the more envy and jealousy is created because people stop being independently responsible and just want an increasingly larger portion of the welfare pie.
This is what happens when the State is responsible for issuing currency.
what industry do you work in?
If all this were dismantled to laissez faire and blazè fair, wouldn't the future look grim?
I suppose it depends upon your perspective.
As an example I received an email this morning with a list of "black producers" of wines. To me this is grim. There are many decent hard-working non-black producers of goods out there in our communities, but we've got some in our society urging consumers to make choices based upon the colour of someone's skin in some misplaced attempt that this is supposed to right the perceived wrongs in this world. I think this mentality is a consequence of the welfare state and its central planners and its interference in our lives when it imposes the values of some users on to others.
in my opinion a free-market system would respond better to the needs of consumers and would be more amoral as it would butt out of people's lives and let us learn to be more independent coz we wouldn't have Big Brother telling us what is good/not good.
In a true free market world consumption doesn't even need to be an aim. A threat to control would be people who are content and control their own means of production.
Silver is shit and you you are 100% incorrect
here is why
As soon as you start looking at the premimum or the value of how a coin has appreciated in over and above the underlying metal value this is the COLLECTORS market and NOT the METALS market
you are a coin collector at that point not a PM investor and they are very different markets. Collectors markets can be very irrational, The price of the metal just give a backstop to the lowest value that it could go.
and your example of a box of roos is meh as well You are cherry picking examples Silver like all assets droped in value recently some more than others there are some shares you could have bought where you could have more than doubled your money over the last month(ish) far above the cherry picked gains the silver market could have had over that same period
also I will get dividends and wont have to pay for storage something you wont get with that silver in a valut
Thanks for your views Jester.
Your views are somewhat distorted, others have sound logic.
I find it fascinating that you cherry pick your stocks.
I also find it interesting, your perspective of the collectors market.
I also find it weird that you used 10K of available super to buy stocks but did not sell your 6kg of silver.
Could you explain why you didn't sell your 6kg of silver to fund your cherry picked stocks?
Great investing for now. I hope you have a get out plan for the very near future. Have you asked yourself why is the market rallying and how long this rally will be sustained, especially when global consumer demand is at rock bottom and Auz commodities are also in week demand. Stimulus giveaways are not working as intended regardless of which country your living in. You may want to dig a bit further than your feeling, there are a few pieces missing from your jigsaw puzzle. Ride this rally with extreme caution.the dividends they may dip in the short term but it will be back to normal soonish I feel
silver has less upside AND does not pay a dividend AND never will AND you need to actually store it. I ahve 6 or so KG of silver in a box somewhere collecting dust and I wish I had that cash in hand in the share market as its cost me literally thousands in lost opportunity costs.
markets are closed today but on Tuesday I feel we will be in for another good day as the Dow in the USA wen up 3% on Friday their tiem.
Im 33% up on qantas 37% on OOO banks between 13-19%
im down slightly on Woolies but its meh.
If you think the CBA for example is going to go belly up and cold turkey not pay a divident anymore than I have a bridge ou may be interested in swap that silver for cold hard steel.
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Great investing. I hope you have a get out plan for the very near future. Have you asked yourself why is the market rallying and how long this rally will be sustained, especially when global consumer demand is at rock bottom and Auz commodities are also in week demand. Stimulus giveaways are not working as intended regardless of which country your living in. You may want to dig a bit further that your feeling.
im well aware why this is happening but in saying that the sharp drop for a health crisis was also too much
as slong as the stimulus drums are beating and the FED is printing I will be dancing the dance.
and no silver is not a better investment than shares
I will not be the one left with out a chair though when the music stopsDance the dance until the music stops.