Quote from indahook:
Ok, true.
And both are unsustainable without some consolidation.
Would you buy AAPL here for anything but fast money?
Would you suggest to someone looking to enter into the physical gold arena to buy coins here?
I certainly would not. I own some gold, but I aint adding here. No way.
Quote from failed_trad3r:
Gold is a suckers investment. It is only good as a cash equivalent. Basicly, you dont know which currency is gonna be the next reserve currency, so gold would be a good interim currency because you can exchange it for every fiat currency in the world... However gold will never become THE currency. Those gold bugs dont understand that.
Is ANYONE reporting on this?Quote from peilthetraveler:
If someone had absolutely no gold or silver, I would tell them to buy here, absolutely. With all the money printing going on, the only way to keep your savings safe is buying gold & silver.
If buying gold & silver was a bad bet, why would so many central banks be adding gold to their reserves right now? Isnt cash king for them? If you have a money printer, WHY do you need gold? There is only one answer. That the money printing machines are not going to be there forever.
The 'real price' of gold? What's that? The cost it takes to get it out of the ground and into bar form plus a retail markup comparable to, say, that which prevails in the hair conditioner industry?Quote from jueco2005:
Like many economists I estimate the real price of gold to be betwen 900 and 1000. The rest could be a little buble.
Quote from traderNik:
The 'real price' of gold? What's that? The cost it takes to get it out of the ground and into bar form plus a retail markup comparable to, say, that which prevails in the hair conditioner industry?
With paper currency no longer tied to a gold standard, there is no 'real price' of gold.