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THE Silver & Gold Thread (merged)

Discussions about the economic and financial ramifications of PEAK OIL

Re: THE Silver & Gold Thread (merged)

Postby Armageddon » Mon 15 Dec 2025, 17:38:59

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AdamB', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Armageddon', 'S')o what happens with the 40T of US debt that needs sold and there aren’t any buyers? I think 20T is coming due in 2026. What are the consequences of the FED buying it all? Please tell me ole wise one.

I don't know. Certainly not the thing you've been claiming will happen for decades now. That is the one true certainty in any conversation with you and financial/economic issues....whatever you say spanning decades now........hasn't ever happened. The odds are high that when you claim it....it won't ever happen.

That doesn't mean something WON'T happen of course...it just means you don't know anything about how these financial and economic things work. Your lack of understanding and imagination in the economic/financial sphere is the reason you got all the old proclamations wrong, and that basic lack of understanding defines your prognostications to this day.

Any of us would be better off asking Matt Savinar to do some astrology to tell us what the future looks like in the markets than you.



There you go again, making stuff up. Governments dumping UST and buying gold is a new phenomenon. The Petrodollar is dying. We are in uncharted waters.
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Re: THE Silver & Gold Thread (merged)

Postby AdamB » Mon 15 Dec 2025, 20:45:15

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Armageddon', '
')There you go again, making stuff up.


Copycat. You were the one who claimed this was all new, remember? As opposed the reality...it has been happening for 15 years.

Why weren't you whining about it 15 years ago? It wouldn't have been new then either because of when it happened back around Breton-Woods, but it would have been closer to the origin of the idea at least.

Having reviewed your posting history awhile ago, I've got to ask, why in 20 years of posting here haven't you seemed to have learned.....ANYTHING? Was your brain just fossilized something around or before 2005 and it can't for love or money LEARN stuff?
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Re: THE Silver & Gold Thread (merged)

Postby theluckycountry » Mon 15 Dec 2025, 21:29:57

PeakOil is here, choose your country carefully, you don't want to spend retirement in a police state surrounded by violent criminals.

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Re: THE Silver & Gold Thread (merged)

Postby AdamB » Mon 15 Dec 2025, 21:44:04

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', 'P')eakOil is here...


WAS here...the most recent one happened in 2018. Where have you been? Didn't you notice the last time you dropped by the NeoNazi club that you didn't have fuel for your Busa?

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', '
') choose your country carefully, you don't want to spend retirement in a police state surrounded by violent criminals.


..or a state where the neonazis have guns and the unarmed citizens....busy on their knees servicing the King.....who take a break at the beach and get all shot up. Where might your neo-nazi buddies have been these last few days?
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Re: THE Silver & Gold Thread (merged)

Postby theluckycountry » Mon 15 Dec 2025, 22:44:47

You should have bought Gold

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You should have bought Silver

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The assets of champions, no counter party risk, in demand across the globe, more and more as we move towards the collapse of the $US standard and the collapse of the American empire. This collapse will make 1933 look like a picnic.
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Re: THE Silver & Gold Thread (merged)

Postby AdamB » Tue 16 Dec 2025, 10:01:54

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', 'Y')ou should have bought Gold


Good thing some of us did!

Bummer that market tracking funds have done better over the years. But hey, look at it this way! Not everyone understands diversification, so they can't be held accountable for being generally ignorant on investment strategies. Buying gold is just....easy.
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Re: THE Silver & Gold Thread (merged)

Postby theluckycountry » Tue 16 Dec 2025, 11:42:07

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Armageddon', 'T')he U.S. Now Has:

1. Record $18.6 trillion in household debt

2. Record $13.1 trillion in mortgages

3. Record $1.7 trillion in auto loans

4. Record $1.7 trillion in student loans

5. Record $1.2 trillion in credit card debt

Total household debt is now up +60% over the last 10 years and total credit card debt is up +50% since 2020.

Meanwhile, delinquency rates on subprime auto borrowers are at a record 6.1%.

Americans are drowning in debt.


Thankfully I don't owe a cent. Gold and silver purchasing gives you that awareness, the rest borrow onward to their doom. They believed Alan Greenspan when he said debt doesn't matter.
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Re: THE Silver & Gold Thread (merged)

Postby AdamB » Tue 16 Dec 2025, 15:10:26

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', '
')Thankfully I don't owe a cent.


When you have no marketable skills other than raging jealousy of America it is best not to borrow against any future earnings.
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Re: THE Silver & Gold Thread (merged)

Postby theluckycountry » Wed 17 Dec 2025, 05:33:38

Well that was nice, Silver breached $100/oz here today, settling back $99.5
I added several dozen kg to my stock back in 2021 when it was around $27/oz. That seemed... Expensive back then, but that was just a subjective opinion. They came packed in Black plastic boxes of 21 kg in 3 layers of 7 bars. I carried each away from the shop in a dirty old backpack, trying to look nonchalant as I made my way back across the main road to where my car was parked. 21kg is like a bag of cement! No need to tell the world about this sort of investment, here on an anonymous forum, sure. But the government and family don't need to know.

I recently bought two new sets of motorcycle tires, good brands, over $700 fitted per pair. I didn't squawk about the price because I understand inflation and the cost of shipping across the ocean. This is to be expected in a world of diminishing resources. Silver and Gold's seemingly rabid price increases are a part of this too. One day I may have to sell some silver to fund my lifestyle? If so I won't be crying because that was it's purpose all along. There may appear to be many ways to save for the future but in reality there are only two. Private wealth you physically own and control, and which has no counter-party risks associated with it, and everything else, which is tied in some way to the government, to the banks, and to wall street.
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Re: THE Silver & Gold Thread (merged)

Postby AdamB » Wed 17 Dec 2025, 10:42:43

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', 'W')ell that was nice, Silver breached $100/oz here today, settling back $99.5
I added several dozen kg to my stock back in 2021 when it was around $27/oz. That seemed... Expensive back then, but that was just a subjective opinion.


Not a subjective opinion. A parrots opinion. How's the boy doing?

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Re: THE Silver & Gold Thread (merged)

Postby Armageddon » Wed 17 Dec 2025, 14:31:11

Silver futures just hit $67. What a beautiful sight
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Re: THE Silver & Gold Thread (merged)

Postby AdamB » Wed 17 Dec 2025, 18:41:21

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Armageddon', 'S')ilver futures just hit $67. What a beautiful sight


Why? As you have said, you have no interest in doing anything other than watching the numbers go up and down. So why don't you just buy a share of XOM stock, and wet yourself when it goes up and down? Just the value of a thing...going up and down. Armie gets excited....Armie gets irritated...Armie has no intention of ever converting it back to $$ and is just a monkey watching a bouncing ball.

Whatever floats your boat, but geez....life is too short to be a cat playing with a piece of string.
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Re: THE Silver & Gold Thread (merged)

Postby theluckycountry » Wed 17 Dec 2025, 18:51:56

Monetary metals, trusted the world over for 5000 years. Only the truly brain dead investor could have missed this one. I think they spend too much time watching the likes of this show

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Might as well look for financial tips on episodes of Gilligans Island.
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Re: THE Silver & Gold Thread (merged)

Postby Armageddon » Wed 17 Dec 2025, 20:28:14

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AdamB', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Armageddon', 'S')ilver futures just hit $67. What a beautiful sight


Why? As you have said, you have no interest in doing anything other than watching the numbers go up and down. So why don't you just buy a share of XOM stock, and wet yourself when it goes up and down? Just the value of a thing...going up and down. Armie gets excited....Armie gets irritated...Armie has no intention of ever converting it back to $$ and is just a monkey watching a bouncing ball.

Whatever floats your boat, but geez....life is too short to be a cat playing with a piece of string.



It’s like having home insurance. You don’t need it…. Until you do

Also, I was raised pretty poor, so regardless of how much my wife has, I will like watching my personal net worth grow. It’s a hobby of mine.
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Re: THE Silver & Gold Thread (merged)

Postby Armageddon » Wed 17 Dec 2025, 20:32:53

Her Dad gave her a monster box of gold recently. Crazy.
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Re: THE Silver & Gold Thread (merged)

Postby AdamB » Wed 17 Dec 2025, 22:14:19

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', 'M')onetary metals, trusted the world over for 5000 years.


Well, ok. And then countries with smart people came along and figured out a more flexible system. Of course, intellectual Neanderthals in the modern world still have a fascination with them, to Armie and I they are some kind of conversation piece, because neither of us have any intention of using them for anything.

I suppose the Neanderthal intellect descendants of British prison colonies haven't figured any of this out. <shrug> Not even the Brits can fix stupid....
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Re: THE Silver & Gold Thread (merged)

Postby AdamB » Wed 17 Dec 2025, 22:26:34

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Armageddon', '
')It’s like having home insurance. You don’t need it…. Until you do


Until you've got more of the other kind of money and watching PMs bounce around in value is just a hobby.

Think about this, the three of us that have PMs of various size/shapevalues....none of us USE it for...anything. Two of us whine incessantly about how great a unused asset gains in value...and it doesn't mean squat because it just....sits. One of us is amused by the child-like fascination of the other two when something they don't use moves around in value. <shrug>

Peak oilers. Don't know dick about oil....change the subject to something they don't even use. Isn't there a peakgold.com website somewhere full of neoNazi evolution deniers where they would feel more comfortable?
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Re: THE Silver & Gold Thread (merged)

Postby Armageddon » Wed 17 Dec 2025, 23:50:01

Probably, but it’s more fun watching you squirm.
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Re: THE Silver & Gold Thread (merged)

Postby Armageddon » Wed 17 Dec 2025, 23:53:34

When the GSR ratio gets to about 30:1, I’d probably looking into swapping my silver for gold.
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Re: THE Silver & Gold Thread (merged)

Postby theluckycountry » Thu 18 Dec 2025, 00:59:41

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '.')..central banks are buying gold at record levels, with October 2025 marking the highest month of central bank gold purchases on record. This isn't portfolio balancing. It's a signal. As confidence in fiat currencies erodes—along with the value of dollars, bonds, and retirement accounts—governments and institutions are moving toward real, tangible stores of value
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