Physical Gold Delivery/CME Group

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No-one in Venezuela carries around gold to pay for things, nor did people in Zimbabwe when even crazier inflation was happening. High inflation is a very different and far more common occurrence than not honoring futures contracts on gold. The question is if you need to hold it in your hot little hands or if you can simply have claim to it. You're correct that it's not super far fetched that you'd want your assets backed in gold. That's not the same thing as actually carrying the stuff around with you everywhere and shaving off little chunks to buy a hot dog on the street corner. My assertion is that at the point in time you have to do that, there's no guy on the street corner selling hot dogs, and if there is he won't want a piece of soft metal in exchange unless it's affixed to the front end of a projectile with gunpowder behind it.

I agree 100%, never been a goldbug, don't mind trading it, but a gold bug wouldn't sell his gold under any circumstances, even if he was starving. But in a cash only market you may get a better deal with gold if the currency is shaky.

 

[Sig]

I agree 100%, never been a goldbug, don't mind trading it, but a gold bug wouldn't sell his gold under any circumstances, even if he was starving. But in a cash only market you may get a better deal with gold if the currency is shaky.

That's another great point, you do get the impression that they guy's really attached to gold would rather starve than part with any of it!

 

[truetype]

Do you know of anyone that has taken physical gold delivery using Comex Gold Futures

I have, by mistake. It's a costly nuisance.

 

[dealmaker]

Gold—Beat S&P 500 Eight Times Since 2001

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