Golden ChipMunk said:Potato said:I'm sitting on the sidelines, the charts scare me.
I laughed at sub-$20, but now it seems inevitable.
Turn the chart around it look better everyday.![]()
RetardedMonkey said:I got no idea what I am doing anymore![]()
RT said:Who cares if they drop the silver down to $5 oz? Nothing has changed except they are out right desperate enough to openly manipulate the paper market into oblivion in the *hope* of making sure no money is hidden away in it when they decide to unwind shares, derivitives, default on debt and bonds become worthless.
Midnight Man said:RT said:Who cares if they drop the silver down to $5 oz? Nothing has changed except they are out right desperate enough to openly manipulate the paper market into oblivion in the *hope* of making sure no money is hidden away in it when they decide to unwind shares, derivitives, default on debt and bonds become worthless.
"Saying thanks" to this post (and others that echo this sentiment) isn't enough.
Think about the fundamentals folks - paper currencies are being debased every hour... it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out where they're going to end up. Whether we have stagflation, inflation, hyperinflation, deflation, someflation in the meantime till NOT change the end result meaningfully.
The only place you are going to be able to preserve value is in assets that will continue to hold true value when the dust settles. Most of us probably can't stack oil, or aluminium, or iron ore, or copper - they're too voluminous to store (and in some cases too dangerous to store) - so we turn to things we CAN stack - Silver and Gold primarily.
By the time you should be considering "cashing" these in, you won't be looking for a fiat price on them - you'll be swapping them for other assets you may want to own (real estate, hopefully not food or basic survival items, but the option is there).
Paper price means only to me "I can buy X ounces this week". I don't worry what my stack is "worth" - I have no intention of swapping my good stuff for printed pieces of paper!
Hum, that 'collapse' shouldnt be like a day/week/year event, especially considering that their elevated they crap to world level, taking out alternatives. Just some process of every year more worse, couple decades long.pro$pector said:Genuine question to all those who believe the world economy is heading for major long-term perils...
What kind of time frame do you believe we are looking at before Western society as we know it collapses?
Whilst I agree fiat currencies will probably implode eventually (almost every currency always has throughout history) - I don't think its going to be in our lifetime.
I'm not sure why a transition would be useful. If you accumulate fiat on a bank account, do you need a transition or so to spend (a part of) it?Emanance said:I worry with out a transition plan many stackers will be forced to trade their metal for merely the privileged means to survive.
I liked it too, only that some stars dont explode, because they lack the mass to fuse heavier elements, and thus fail to generate the pressure required to overcome the gravitational force of the stars remaining mass. Instead of an explosion you then get a gravitational crunch to a white dwarf. No bangs involved. Maybe a world economy that detoriates to the crapper could be compared with a star that is losing mass, to end in a crunch, alike those weird Atlas Shrugged scenarios of empty buildings and roads and machines dismantled for their parts until there is nothing left that can be dismantled, and the cities lights going out haha.Midnight Man said:@Emanance - I think your analogy of economies being like stars is pretty accurate - the larger the bubble the bigger the bang when it bursts.
Pirocco said:I'm not sure why a transition would be useful. If you accumulate fiat on a bank account, do you need a transition or so to spend (a part of) it?Emanance said:I worry with out a transition plan many stackers will be forced to trade their metal for merely the privileged means to survive.
For metal, its about the same, only that you have an extra inbetween step being those after you with the same plan as you.
And regarding that buying of privileged means to survive, hell, thats where money on a bank account also serves for. That's also 'being forced to trade their fiat for merely the privileged means to survive'. So why a transition? A metal stack instead of a fiat 'stack' is merely changing your dependencies, in the former case you are dependent on others on the metal market, in the latter case you are dependent on the central planners and their parasites. Both can be holy and evil, but in the case of a metal you at least control it yourself, unlike a bank account where you can only watch powerless.
I guess my view is quite pessimistic in that I think basic survival could be a real challenge for many people in the first world considering only 2% of people in counties like Australia have the skills to grow food for the rest of the population. With the legal frame work designed by banks for banks it's not inconceivable that many of Australia's underwater farmers would not be able to keep hold of their food producing properties in the event of a deflationary collapse in food prices. This transition from a collapsing global economy to something new could take decades, then again it could take just months, depends on how long it takes for the parasites to let go. A transition plan is really anything that keeps you & your family safe during this time. It could be to simply stack metal so you can trade it for essentials. It could be to 'prep' by stacking essentials in your spare room. It could be to collect passports for other countries so you can get out of dodge. I just think it's something everyone should consider.The only place you are going to be able to preserve value is in assets that will continue to hold true value when the dust settles. Most of us probably can't stack oil, or aluminium, or iron ore, or copper - they're too voluminous to store (and in some cases too dangerous to store) - so we turn to things we CAN stack - Silver and Gold primarily.
By the time you should be considering "cashing" these in, you won't be looking for a fiat price on them - you'll be swapping them for other assets you may want to own (real estate, hopefully not food or basic survival items, but the option is there).
pro$pector said:Genuine question to all those who believe the world economy is heading for major long-term perils...
What kind of time frame do you believe we are looking at before Western society as we know it collapses?
Whilst I agree fiat currencies will probably implode eventually (almost every currency always has throughout history) - I don't think its going to be in our lifetime.
Emanance said:I guess my view is quite pessimistic in that I think basic survival could be a real challenge for many people in the first world considering only 2% of people in counties like Australia have the skills to grow food for the rest of the population. With the legal frame work designed by banks for banks it's not inconceivable that many of Australia's underwater farmers would not be able to keep hold of their food producing properties in the event of a deflationary collapse in food prices. This transition from a collapsing global economy to something new could take decades, then again it could take just months, depends on how long it takes for the parasites to let go. A transition plan is really anything that keeps you & your family safe during this time. It could be to simply stack metal so you can trade it for essentials. It could be to 'prep' by stacking essentials in your spare room. It could be to collect passports for other countries so you can get out of dodge. I just think it's something everyone should consider.