I consider the spot price + premium together to be the real price of physical silver. The specifics of how much of that is spot vs. how much of that is premium don't really matter to me. I just compare the real price of physical silver to its value to determine whether or not I think it's a good...
Precious metals aren't dependent on a government or the rule of law to maintain their value. Their value is intrinsic. In real life without rule of law situations markets formed and commerce continued. Anyone who could get themselves safely to a market could use their precious metal to purchase...
If times are good enough that you can go to walmart to buy food then they're going to be good enough that you could sell small fractions of the bullion you have at a time to then use the proceeds to buy things like food. If things are so bad that the US dollar's prices goes to absolute 0 then...
Usually natively minted bullion is at a greater demand to foreign minted bullion. I'd guess that Maple Leaves are the most popular bullion in Canada and Britannias in England.
It's not that they owe 800,000,000 ounces of physical, is that they're shorting the stuff. They're betting the price will go down. Usually putting massive shorts like this makes the price go down, at which point they cash in on the shorts and then use the proceeds to buy the contracts and ride...
Those are the usual trends, but we already had a massive downswing in the price of silver just recently. I think right now would be a good time to buy.
I know this is the silver thread, but I saw a good deal on a gold bar so I thought I'd post it here incase any ODT members wants a good price on a good product - https://www.jmbullion.com/1935-401547-oz-us-assay-office-at-new-york-big-apple-gold-bar/
That one company may be 3% of the Chinese market, but it's not just that one company. It's pretty much every major real-estate company in China. It's therefore also every business dependent on these businesses, like the companies supplying building materials, laborers, etc, etc. Again, it's only...
Wow. You've heard absolutely 100% wrong. This very likely might be our Lehman Brothers moment.
The issue isn't one real-estate developer in China, but rather it's a systemic problem with all of China's real-estate market. China makes up a significant portion of the world's GDP, and real-estate...
You wont know when your lender can or cannot invoke the alienation clause until you've read the specific contract you signed. Different contracts have different terms, but I've heard of people back in 2008 who never missed a payment but had the alienation clause invoked on them regardless. I...
There was a guy in Russia who was their hyper-inflation coming beforehand. He took out as much fixed rate debt as he could to buy land, real-estate, businesses, etc. After the hyper-inflation he paid it all off for virtually nothing and became one of the richest men on the planet. This has...
It's something I hear from some financial/economic youtube channels I watch. In trying to find specifics via various search engines, I'm having trouble finding anything specifically mentioning this. There are two things about this though.
1: There is something in most mortgage contracts called...