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Look at Cyprus - that should be encouragement enough - this is why I was leery of getting a deposit box myself (both in and outside of banking circles). However, Big AD from the forums here (thank you!) put it very nicely to me at a recent Sydney Stackers meeting... a bank can suffer a run, or...

Greg, if you're after live pricing without wanting to integrate the data into an application etc, and just simply want to view it - this might be worth a browse: http://applications.kitco.com/supportcenter/

Maybe not with respect to point 2 Sammy... though I will say at the outset that I do not know a lot about ETF's as I haven't looked into them much because I hold the old mantra of "If you can't hold it you don't own it" to be true. With that aside, my understanding is that withdrawing physical...

If you're looking at the charts at the top of the SS site, please know they don't refresh as you move from page to page within the site/various threads. You can possibly turn on options to make that happen - I would imagine something along the lines of checking for a new version of the page...

Actually, to my reading, the answer provided my Martin Armstrong seems to suggest a new - completely fiat - and completely electronic currency (as opposed to money). I personally hope this won't be the case - fiat currencies that can be, and are, created out of thin air got us to where we are...

I hear you, but I'd have to respectfully disagree - assuming I am interpreting this correctly (please do correct me if I have misunderstood!). Allow me to explain by example, this will be the easiest way :) Let me also, for the sake of the example, pick easy to work with numbers (because it's...

Here's the "devil's advocate" point of view on the points you raise ;) (Brief bullet points here for brevity): - There is enough gold in the world, you just have to stop thinking about putting it in your pocket as coins for small transactions. Vault the stuff, and digitally transfer ownership...

Just what I was thinking (though I won't sell, whatever downward movement we see now will be temporary, I think). But the contrarian in me says "If JPM say buy, it's time to sell".

Not necessarily. The introduction of the GST did not see the removal of the incumbent government at the next election - and that was effectively a 10% "increase" in the GST. I realise you'd like to think that a single move like an increase in the GST would somehow cause a change of government...

I hear you, but a point of order or two if I may? :) (1) You're comparing 1 central bank's printing of $85b to world money (M3) supply of $75t and calculating a percentage... you either need to recalculate based on world supply of $USD or add all other central bank printing world wide and...

Actually, whilst there's been quite a few changes to the official rate, it isn't quite as bad as once a month... I went back 4 years: 7 Aug 2013 - rate down by 0.25% to 2.50% 8 May 2013 - rate down by 0.25% to 2.75% 5 Dec 2012 - rate down by 0.25% to 3.00% 3 Oct 2012 - rate down by 0.25% to...

Ummm... seriously? You cannot control the supply of gold because it's subject to new discoveries? This adds a minimal, predictable (it's around 2% of above ground supply) amount of gold to the pool on an annual basis. Yet on the other hand we have a private organisation maquerading as a...

I have two schools of thought on this. There's regular coin series (Lunar, Kook, Koala etc) that have a "standard" design paradigm, and I think for recognisability, they should be that way - I have no drama with that. On the other hand, I look at some of the coins being struck by mints around...

The other possible ending to Silver Pauper's post on page 2 (needing cars detailed and tractors serviced) isn't TheEnd getting a job offer - the other opportunity is that referral work for a job really well done becomes a snowball, and TheEnd actually ends up setting up and running a business...

My intent is to relate my personal experience in this matter, what would make you think otherwise? There is no more to the story other than what I have relayed in my post, 2 years ago, I called a couple of insurance companies looking for contents insurance, and literally experienced what I...

My personal experience has been that as soon as an insurance company finds you even have a modest amount of bullion, they won't offer you any insurance at all. I have spoken to a couple of insurance companies in the past couple of years, as soon as they asked "anything additional to insure"...

Likely result somewhere along the lines of 55ish to 90ish, a 35 seat majority... you don't call that a whitewash? I go back to 1996 and 1975 to find bigger majorities... looks like a reasonably white whitewash to me?

Last ditch effort by the only newspaper in the country to remain in the Labor camp to smear some mud, perhaps?