Discussion of the Gold portion of the Permanent Portfolio
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Smith1776
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by Smith1776 » Fri Aug 07, 2020 5:07 pm
How much do you want to bet that if we send this to Peter Schiff he'll talk about it on his next podcast about why people should buy gold?

“On balance, the financial system subtracts value from society.”
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Libertarian666
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by Libertarian666 » Fri Aug 07, 2020 5:27 pm
Mark Leavy wrote: ↑Fri Aug 07, 2020 2:32 pm
Has anyone else noticed that gold did
not go up by $100/oz today?
What's up with that?
Tech, Smith? What have you been doing all day?
Slackers.
Mark
Sorry boss, we'll try to do better tomorrow!
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Libertarian666
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by Libertarian666 » Fri Aug 07, 2020 5:29 pm
I suspect the effects would be a bit more important if that happened this year.
Which I guess we should expect, given the rest of the insanity.
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by Mark Leavy » Fri Aug 07, 2020 9:09 pm
Libertarian666 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 07, 2020 5:27 pm
Sorry boss, we'll try to do better tomorrow!
That's what I wanted to hear.
You're in charge of the floor, Tech.
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by vnatale » Fri Aug 07, 2020 10:28 pm
"I only regret that I have but one lap to give to my cats."
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by dualstow » Sun Aug 09, 2020 4:40 pm
He doesn’t get a lot of love here and maybe he’s just trying to drum up business, but I like the headline.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/gold- ... 2020-08-06
Gold rising to $4,000 an ounce ‘would not be an unreasonable move,’ fund manager says
{ Cuggino of PRPFX }
“As a white person of colour, I am extremely concerned about the rise of black whiteness.” — Titania McGrath
pariah — 1610s member of a low caste in S. India; Tamil (Dravidian) “drummer”, as members of the lowest caste played drums at festivals. “social outcast,” 1819.
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by buddtholomew » Tue Aug 11, 2020 8:13 am
Yikes!
Guess I’ll be adding back to Gold today.
Bought back at IAU 18.61
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by mathjak107 » Tue Aug 11, 2020 8:59 am
i added some back too . i had halved my investment in the pp ....
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by Ugly_Bird » Tue Aug 11, 2020 10:26 am
buddtholomew wrote: ↑Tue Aug 11, 2020 8:13 am
Yikes!
Guess I’ll be adding back to Gold today.
Bought back at IAU 18.61
Still timing the market? :-)
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by Tyler » Tue Aug 11, 2020 10:28 am
How kind of the markets to rebalance my portfolio by selling off gold so I don't have to.

Mechanical engineer, history buff, treasure manager... totally not Ben Gates