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    Re: Believe your own eyes...

    On trading the Gold:Silver ratio...

    A man had an umbrella. He was able to exchange it for two snow shovels. After a while, he traded the two snow shovels for three umbrellas, happy to have tripled his original position. Seeing further opportunity, he exchanged the three umbrellas for four snow shovels. As time passed, he was eventually able to trade the four snow shovels for five umbrellas. More time passed, and he exchanged the five umbrellas for six snow shovels. Then it rained heavily.

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    I used to trade the ratio. But the B&M has dried up. I can still pay myself on payday but there's not enough inventory to play. I haven't done mail order for several years.

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    I am not trying to get rich on gold or silver, it is out in a stash ....to be forgotten, I have all the fiat money I need ... let them take it all to hell , then I will still have a commodity, to trade? to barter with? but it will hold my purchasing power? gold ans silver have never been worth nothing?
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    Re: Believe your own eyes...

    Quote Originally Posted by Sparky View Post
    More time passed, and he exchanged the five umbrellas for six snow shovels. Then it rained heavily.
    Sparky, he should have exchanged only four of those five umbrellas, keeping one for himself. At least he would be dry and have his original position, one umbrella.
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    Bullion futures for February delivery fell 29 percent this year to $1,186.90 an ounce at 9:12 a.m. on the Comex in New York, after touching $1,181.40, the lowest since June 28. Investors lost faith in the metal as a store of value as equities rallied and an economic recovery prompted the Federal Reserve to pare its $85 billion in monthly bond purchases. Silver dropped 38 percent in 2013 to $18.88 an ounce, heading for the biggest annual slump since 1981.

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    Re: Believe your own eyes...

    Quote Originally Posted by Hitcher View Post
    Sparky, he should have exchanged only four of those five umbrellas, keeping one for himself. At least he would be dry and have his original position, one umbrella.
    I think the point was, the greedy bastard got what he deserved.

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    Re: Believe your own eyes...

    Quote Originally Posted by EE_ View Post
    I think the point was, the greedy bastard got what he deserved.

    My New Year message: I just want everyone to get what they deserve!
    That's part of the message. The full message is that gold and silver serve two different purposes, like owning an umbrella and owning a snow shovel. They are not interchangeable. If you only value them in terms of their conversion to FRNs at any given moment, you lose sight of the actual value of owning the separate commodities. Legislation or supply or demand in the future might impact one, and not the other. The reason that the ratio bounces around between 20:1 and 100:1 is because they are NOT viewed as interchangeable commodities.

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