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Yeah, its pretty common to find shit like this in US legislation - if they can't pass it on its own, it gets buried in some other massive piece of legislation, which no-one read in detail enough to find it.

I flew back from Austria with 100 1oz phillies, and had no probs in Vienna, London, or Singapore...

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/50-cent-1966-silver-coin-Deceased-est-/190530623391?pt=AU_Coins2&hash=item2c5c82979f Is it a double bar version or something?

cant buy 1kg coins at the moment either: "No stock is currently available for: 2011 Australian Koala 1kg Silver Bullion Coin"

Not quite... if you went long $100k silver, then you would be exposed to a maximum loss of 100k... If youre shorting, then your downside is unlimited, and your upside is 100k (if silver drops to 0). A better way to actually talk bout risk is the change in your porfolio as a result of a $1 move...

Just wondering what would it hypothetically cost me to swap a 15kg bar into smaller bars (say 15 * 1kg bars)? And is there any way of doing it without paying a huge spread both ways? Keeping in mind the difficulty of shipping a 15kg bar...

Looks like they took delivery through comex... just need a few more people to do that

apparently there is about $40m worth of decommissioned 10000 pair copper cable left in the ground around Sydney from the days when backhaul was changed to fibre.. and that stuff weighs about a ton for every couple of metres... All you need to do to find them is just call Dial before you Dig...

Rather large Euro coin re-assembly racket going on in Germany and China... They must have had the Bundesbank infiltrated very deeply. http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-news/airline-staff-in-euro-fraud-20110331-1cnbg.html

If anyone is even in Austria, buy Philharmonics in large volumes! The VAT in Austria is 20%, and that is included in the purchase price - but when you leave, you get a full refund of the VAT, which brings the cost of the coin down to almost spot :) I picked up a pile at 28 EUR, and after the...

Contrary to mainstream beliefs, I don't think disasters are good for economies in any way. All a disaster causes is forced spending on repairing existing infrastructure, etc... rather than spending on new and productive things (like new infrastructure). While, yes, it does bring forward a lot of...

Bloomberg: Spot - GOLDS:COM Front month future GCA:COM

When it comes to highly liquid and easy to model assets like silver, yes they do. Keep in mind that silver is not a credit default swap or asset backed security. No matter what the derivative structure is (i suspect they probably have a barrier knock-in at $45 or something like that, where...

Hmmm... somehow I don't think think the traders at JPM would be stupid enough to sell such ridiculous derivatives - At least not with the consent of their Risk department (I used to structure derivatives at another IB). Most derivatives sold are hedged anyway, so unless JPM has a rouge trader...

Another way would be to compare the relative purchasing power then and now: Our good friend wikipedia reckons: "Estimates of the value of the denarius range from 1.6 to 2.85 times its metal content, thought to equal the purchasing power of 10 modern British Pound Sterling (US$15) at the...

Anyone else noticed the market closing early today? All stocks were placed into "Enquire" status at 3pm or so... Only info i can find about this is the SFE status page saying: "All markets in ASX Trade have been placed into enquire pending further investigation."...

That is a good point with regards to computer parts... I did some reading around, and scrap computer motherboards have as much as 400g/T of gold... compare that with average gold ore grades of 3g/T. In cpu's there is approx 1/4 oz of gold/kg - just needs to be refined of course. In RAM its about...

I think the lab stuff is 63/37 Sn/Pb... but the beauty of solder is that you can refine it pretty easily at low temps... just melt the solder in a crucible and add lead - once the concentration of lead is high enough, the lead blob should sink to the bottom of the crucible, and you can pour off...

hmmm... so should i be raiding my electrical engineering lab for their solder?