Originally Posted by johnw
Originally Posted by RockyRaab
Maybe, just maybe, people have finally figured out that all that hoopla about gold being the one true last-ditch commodity was no more than ad copy from people who sell gold.

And they've also found that gold is pretty worthless for wiping your butt - or even buying Spam.


I don't recall anyone of any standing ever calling gold
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the one true last-ditch commodity
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Commodites are valuable by nature. Corn can be as valuable as gold, but I don't want even $1000 worth in my pocket.

Many decades ago ( when I was a kid ) I was on a Bus for a trip of some sort . I got to talking to the kid in the next seat . We talked and talked and he told me he was from Germany and that he and his parents escaped from Germany during WW2 . I asked where he lived and he said on a 500 Acre Farm in Upstate NY . If you're from Montana or Wyoming 500 Acres aint much , but NY is different even in those days . I asked him how his parents could afford to buy such a Farm as refugees . He told me they converted all their holdings into ( I think ) Platinum which was then formed in parts for their car ...... I think he said nuts and bolts . Not sure where he said they crossed the border . Sometimes Commodities do work in dangerous times

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