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  • creepycougcreepycoug Member Posts: 23,807

    Hard metals have been the bartering king since before the Roman Empire.

    @pitchfork said: But they only have fake value

    If it weren't metals it'd be food or women or whatever.

    We should go back to bartering for women

    Post of the day....



    I mean, in some ways, he's right. There is nothing inherently valuable about gold. I'm more sympathetic to the comment that silver is important in tech applications, so that's real. But other than jewelry and staring at shiny things, the utility of gold will be made manifest to all of us when enough people realize it's not a helpful possession. Maybe like bitcoin. We are in all instances relying on the collective psychology. Also true for useful things, but the collective psychology of the importance of food and shelter and means of transportation is, I would guess, always going to be more stable than that of precious metals.

    My unsophisticated theory is that there will be a flight to metals (I guess there already is), but if things get bad enough, I could see it sliding.
  • creepycougcreepycoug Member Posts: 23,807
    Goduckies said:

    Better off with seeds

  • doogiedoogie Member Posts: 15,072
    Got any extra blankets you want to trade?
  • RaceBannonRaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 110,068 Founders Club
  • TheRoarOfTheCrowdTheRoarOfTheCrowd Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 1,730 Founders Club

    Can you connect the dots for me on the highlighted part? Just amplify a little. I'm not at your level on this stuff.
    I’ll get back to you about this but the simple answer is that I have looked at the trajectory and shape of the motion waves for all of the downturns for the 50 years and I have concluded that following 2008 we are now witnessing the unseen hand of intervention at key points of series market downturns

    I mean besides direct fed policy announcements and actions

    Along with the so called easing and bond buying we have seen direct buying by the Japanese central bank / treasury; suspect that is also true in China and I believe has happened in our market as well

    simply put; the motion signature is new and unique and suggests an outside of normal trading presence
  • BleachedAnusDawgBleachedAnusDawg Member Posts: 12,438

    Seeds

    Don't forget the cornmeal and smoked salmon.
  • RaceBannonRaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 110,068 Founders Club
  • Pitchfork51Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 27,341
    I threw the women joke in there for ddj

    I appreciate that downvote in a sea of basement dwelling upvotes
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