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2024-10-27 Economy

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Posted by Besoeker 2024-10-27 02:08|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 While Gold is a good form of personal wealth protection.

How does one spend it to purchase basics during a Economic / Currency collapse?

Posted by NN2N1 2024-10-27 05:28|| 2024-10-27 05:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Who's your local reliable gold assayer? Trying to use a coin or a bar is like trying to use a high value bill which are usually not accepted in basically low transactions. You sure who ever you are dealing with can make viable change and in what medium?

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-10-27 07:26|| 2024-10-27 07:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Gold ETFs like GLD is where I have some money.

Posted by Penguin_of_the_Best_Desert 2024-10-27 08:07|| 2024-10-27 08:07|| Front Page Top

#4 While it certainly could be, gold is not a currency as such, it's an economic barometer.

Take a five dollar gold piece to the bank and you will get five dollars. Take it to coin dealer and you can expect to get about $300.

$300. is actual worth. That the bank and government gives you is slightly less. Gold can't be printed on a government press.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-10-27 09:07|| 2024-10-27 09:07|| Front Page Top

#5 One can eat bread and beef.
Gold is pretty.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-10-27 11:33|| 2024-10-27 11:33|| Front Page Top

#6 Wine, bourbon, ammunition and single serving prepper meals are low end transaction alternatives. Just watch you six after the trade and practice basic SDR "dry cleaning". As a good friend and former SF Officer once said, I'm not a prepper because I know where you live!

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Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-10-27 15:20|| 2024-10-27 15:20|| Front Page Top

#7 I believe that men will look back on this era as a time when vastly more 'Gold' was sold than existed in the first place.

Posted by Cesare 2024-10-27 18:01|| 2024-10-27 18:01|| Front Page Top

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