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Subject: Precious metals. Will history repeat itself?
Tiresias    10/9/2005 11:48:52 PM
We use it everyday. Without it, we can't go to work, we can't eat,we can't have any daily essentials. What am I talking about? Money.More specificly the american dollar(USD). We use it so much that we fail to realize what it really is,fabric and paper. So what am I exactly getting at? Paper money is worthless.

Paper money itself is worth nothing. It works by having the governemnt back it up with precious metal, meaning for every american dollar made, there is gold and silver bullion to match it's potential worth. The united states government makes more paper money than it is able to back up by precious metals. Because of this, the american dollar is steadily losing its value. To make things worse, Our country is simply not producing enough raw materials. Instead, we pay other countries to mine materials to export to us. Because of these two factors, heavy inflation has been creeping upon us and one day it will hit us like a bomb.

Look at the past few months. Several horrible natural disastors including one on american soil have occurred. Throughout history, precious metal , especially silver, has proven itself that in times of crisis, it's value greatly raises. Go to link and check out the charts and see for yourself. Within the last few months. silver prices have increased over 80%, one of the largest growths in the past few years. This growth reflects the 1970's when silver prices sky rocketed, and they did because of three main important factors, inflation,war,and overspending. These three factors are occuring now, thats why silver prices have grown over 100% since 9/11 and 40% just in the past couple months. Currently the silver price qoute is roughly 7.69$ and it is steadily riseing. Once that price exceeds over 8.30$ it will sky rocket just like it did in the 70's. I believe that our economy will greatly change in the next few years, and these changes will drasticly effect where the united states stand as an economical power in this world. Believe it or not, but we are already loseing our position as top dog. I urge everyone of you to start investing in silver and gold now, because soon, paper money that you use everyday will be just paper.Because of everything I have just stated and more, I believe I the United States is heading towards another great deppression. In the next few years will we still be the top power of the world? We can't if our economy collapses. I don't exactly know whats going to happen but history has proven this theory and it often repeats itself. Unfortunately, this time we did nothing to prevent it.

Please reply and discuss your ideas.
 
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Thomas3    RE:Precious metals. Will history repeat itself?   10/10/2005 10:05:25 PM
I wont try to correct You; but the local economic colledge might have a few books they can recommend You. Just one thing: Gold is just as worthless as paper. The idea of absolute value is anathema to economics.
 
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Basilisk Station    RE:Value is a collective halucination   10/27/2005 5:13:43 PM
I get the feeling this is a not so cleverly disguised marketing attempt to get people to buy gold and silver. The writing style resembles that of spam I get on a regular basis if nothing else. As the previous poster stated, Gold and silver have little or no intrinsic value in and of themselves either. They are useful in some chemical processes (most notably photography for silver) and gold has some uses in connectors (overrated though as the thicknesses used are almost nonexistant). Other than that they look pretty and can be shiny, but are notably inedible and unhelpful when trying to fight off sharks or lions. Basing the value of the dollar on the strength of the US economy is actually a far better move in a modern economic enviroment than trying to be fixed to some sort of precious metal standard (PMS). The limitations a PMS imposeses limit your ability to deal with inflation and fight depressions, since you can't adjust the money supply except by purchasing or selling the PM and the supplies of PMs are highly limited and apparently mostly in jewelry in India and China. Non PMS based Paper money is in essence then simply an abstraction of a barter system. Rather than worrying about trying to make change for a pig or getting extra nails back after trading for some wood, you simply declare that these pieces of paper are the exchange medium and let things work themselves out from there. We're not going back to a PMS standard and if things REALLY go bad and I'm not just talking about a depression, I'm talking post-nuclear war, you are much better off investing in guns, ammunition, food and land.
 
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