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Mark Dice used to do lots of videos where he'd stand on a high traffic sidewalk and offer people a choice between a chocolate bar and a one ounce gold coin, and they'd always go for the chocolate bar, stating things like, "That's a Canadian coin, so I can't spend it here in the US," or "I have no need for any gold, but I like chocolate."
It wasn't because they thought it was fake, either, because he would do this in sight of a coin shop, and offer to walk over with them to verify it was real. He never had any takers.
I went to the pawn shop today, and the owner had three Royal Canadian Mint one ounce gold bars and one American one ounce Gold Eagle in the glass display case with the jewelry. I was holding the Eagle when another customer comes over and asks if that's gold. I said yes, one ounce. He asked how much, and the owner told him "Twenty-Forty-Five." The guy asked "Twenty dollars and forty-five cents?" The owner and I had a good laugh. He was serious.
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I would visit a coin shop near my house in Vegas when I was 12. The guy behind the counter handed me a 1 Oz gold bar and "said pretty neat, huh?" At the time I just remarked that it seemed heavy.
I hated Vegas. Except the coin shop was cool.
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“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” Tolkien
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I thought he offered either a Hershey bar or a 10oz silver bar?
Love the AU/AG thing. I've got a little. These days, makes me wish I'd starting collecting 40 years ago! 🤑
Got some 1/10 oz gold Canadian Maple Leafs. Bought them all for less than $150 back in '14 or '15 (?).
Crazy things are now nearly $300/ea!
I can remember the wife and me talking about not buying silver coins until the price dropped below $15! Now it's nearly $30/oz!
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I am MAGA.
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Um, no, he didn't offer an ounce of gold or a candy bar to a large number of people and get everyone to take the candy bar.
Just like reality TV isn't real.
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A pound of whale meat is much heavier than a pound of sardines.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps
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I thought he offered either a Hershey bar or a 10oz silver bar?
Love the AU/AG thing. I've got a little. These days, makes me wish I'd starting collecting 40 years ago! 🤑
Got some 1/10 oz gold Canadian Maple Leafs. Bought them all for less than $150 back in '14 or '15 (?).
Crazy things are now nearly $300/ea!
I can remember the wife and me talking about not buying silver coins until the price dropped below $15! Now it's nearly $30/oz! I bought a bunch of the 1/10 oz Eagles when they were under $100.00 each.
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I thought he offered either a Hershey bar or a 10oz silver bar? He did both.
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Well china and the central banks are buying gold.
So there’s that.
People going to learn what a fiat system means again……
Decades of voting for the lesser of two evils has gotten us just that.....
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Used to drink Molson Golden back in the day
DON’T BE TOO PROUD OF THIS TECHNOLOGICAL TERROR YOU’VE CONSTRUCTED. THE ABILITY TO DESTROY A PLANET IS INSIGNIFICANT NEXT TO THE POWER OF THE FORCE.
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Wish I could have bought in 1980 when it was high.
$850oz!
$2k now!
$250% return!!!
WAHOOOOOOOOO!
Woulda sold that chit and bought a Dow Index Fund.
1980 high for the Dow?
1000
2023 average, AVERAGE for the DOW?
34000.
Gold is just suuuuch a great investment.
BUY GOLD NOW!!!
It increased xx% in the last 3 years.
Hilarious.
Everybody buys it when it's crazy high.
Such a dependable cycle.
Do the gold hawkers offer to buy it back when it drops...the economy is good?
To sell it back to the same EOTWAWKI fools on the top of the next cycle?
Parents who say they have good kids..Usually don't!
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Um, no, he didn't offer an ounce of gold or a candy bar to a large number of people and get everyone to take the candy bar. Exactly.
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A pound of whale meat is much heavier than a pound of sardines. If shrimps is big you only git 9 to the dozen
PRESIDENT TRUMP 2024/2028 !!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Bristoe
The people wringing their hands over Trump's rhetoric don't know what time it is in America.
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I will freely admit that I am ignorant on gold.
Conduct is the best proof of character.
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I will freely admit that I am ignorant on gold. I dont think you re missing much .. Gold does not create wealth . It stores it. Though it fluctuates , and it goes up an down in price. I have bought gold through stock shares 2 yrs. ago and made 3% in a year when the market lost 19% in 2022, then sold it. Go back 1000 yrs. and gold including inflation is about the sane price. As for gold keeping value in disasterous times? Sure, but if I had a LOT of money , I would buy land ... I have 3 properties and have done much better than gold. I even bought $2,000 in Gladstone Land Company. LAND is the ticker. It's farm land with 116,000 ac. of farm land , owns barns and processing plants.
But the fruits of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness,faithfulness, Gentleness and self control. Against such things there is no law. Galations 5: 22&23
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There are better things in life.
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o
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Precisely why I am ignorant on gold.
Conduct is the best proof of character.
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Wish I could have bought in 1980 when it was high.
$850oz!
$2k now!
$250% return!!!
WAHOOOOOOOOO!
Woulda sold that chit and bought a Dow Index Fund.
1980 high for the Dow?
1000
2023 average, AVERAGE for the DOW?
34000.
Gold is just suuuuch a great investment.
BUY GOLD NOW!!!
It increased xx% in the last 3 years.
Hilarious.
Everybody buys it when it's crazy high.
Such a dependable cycle.
Do the gold hawkers offer to buy it back when it drops...the economy is good?
To sell it back to the same EOTWAWKI fools on the top of the next cycle? Or bought it in 2000 for $250.00 per oz.
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Had a friend who had a couple of single actions with cutouts for gold in the stocks.
Few knew
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Had a friend who had a couple of single actions with cutouts for gold in the stocks.
Few knew Helped to tame the recoil.
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