Recent content by JB3

'The cure for low prices is low prices.'

Indeed! Wonder if there's any ol' Spanish silver on board?

The pants on the girl on the right are cut way too low to protect her ovaries! Whether they'd protect your sperm depends on how lucky you are...

I live in the UK; we have to pay tax on silver so I don't buy it anymore, only gold. However, if I lived somewhere where I didn't, I'd be all in to silver rather than gold.

Y'all have taken an interesting thread and made it boring. Well done.

That would be a pawnbroker, I guess.

I agree, but he didn't take credit for it in his paper - merely analysed its performance over recent decades and demonstrated, over that time period at least, it reduced volatility with only a modest reduction in gains. He should have referenced the original author though, I agree.

For me: a mixed (cockroach!) portfolio and try and keep my brain - and emotions! - out of it. 25% stocks 25% government and investment grade bonds 25% gold (with a sprinkling of silver) 25% cash Rebalancing periodically means I'm selling out of rising assets and buying others when they are...

Indeed. Want something that doesn't tarnish? Buy gold. ;)

Well... there is a difference of course between PMs with 'inherent' value (whether you believe in 'inherent' value or not, whatever value they have comes from them being what they are), and cash. Cash is a promissory note for something else and has the counterparty risk of governmental backing -...

Some people know they can't predict the future of the markets with any accuracy. Others kid themselves.

I don't buy physical silver. Not anymore. But I'm in the UK. I have a few handfuls but, with 20% VAT and similarly sized premiums, it just doesn't make sense to me here. Physical gold will give me just about the same security, but will smaller premiums and no VAT. Meanwhile, I can 'play' the...

I don't have any.

This is just about the most surreal thread I've read here. Why would any seller offer this, or any buyer take it?

I used to keep a spreadsheet, then I realised it's irrelevant how much I paid for my PMs. I'd only sell when I need to and, if I need to I'll get the price that's going then. My buyer won't give a toss what I paid 'x' years ago.