Posted on 05/01/2011 6:07:53 PM PDT by blam
I got into garlic "futures" last fall -
Poked a whole bunch of cloves in the ground - and now they're sprouting up right good. Nothing like fresh, out of the ground garlic. You never want that 6 months old stuff from the store again.
A friend way up north plowed up a half acre last fall to plant garlic. It's really a good money crop - a more stable market too. ;o)
Amazing how so many here see each dip as a burst bubble and each rise as the final race to $100.
But you can bet the bank on this: It will take an act of God to save the dollar. When the dollar hits the downhill slopes at high speed, where is the money going to go? Another paper currency?
Paper money is teetering nearly everywhere. There are no guaranteed safe havens for assets, but you have to make some choices if you truly believe the dollar is dying (as I do). What are you going to do?
If silver drops to $20 (it won’t), I will be on the phone to Kitco in minutes. We will be lucky if our dollars are worth 75% of their current value in 18 months.
I would much rather, and I mean much rather take advice from someone who is usually right like Rogers than someone who is usually wrong like ‘You're a great American’ Hannity.
All Hannity’s flag waving won't and simple phrases wont feed me or pay for my gas and electric. I am convinced someone feeds him his republican talking points.
Think about all the great oil field in the world. They were discovered more than 40 years ago. The UK has been exporting oil for 26 years, within the decade the UK will be importing oil. The US is in serious trouble; the UK is in worse trouble. The UK has nothing to sell. Once the North Sea Oil dries up the UK will be in much, much worse shape. “
“The international energy agency has come out with a report showing that the world’s oil reserves are declining at a rate of 6.7 % per year even after discoveries. You can do the arithmetic, in 15 years there will not be any oil at any price unless something dramatic changes. … the facts are all the world oil reserves are in serious decline. This is true of all commodities you are going to see huge supply problems, the worlds inventories of food are the lowest they have been in 50 years. We have a shortage of fertilizer, we have a shortage of tractors, and we have a shortage of farmers… .
Jim Rogers/Asian Financial Forum (World Commodities fundamenals enhanced) 1/21/09
If that happens I intend to double my stash.
sell-off?
The Monex tick shows silver at nearly 48.00/oz.
this is an non issue.
Look at gold. it is continuing upward.
I believe silver will go beyond 50.00/oz. this week.
Protect yourselves from the decay of the American dollar , My Friends.
Dunno.
There’s one group of people in the world, who can with a stroke of the pen, change exchange rates and the value of assets around the globe.
They’re just outside Tiananmen square.
Frankly I’m going to admit I’m not on their side. There have been times I’ve hoped American and China could work together, but increasingly it seems that is not the case.
As long as I perceive them to be seeking results unfavorable to my own nation America, then I’ll offer my own thoughts on how to beat them at the same game:
I’ll venture to say they’re about to preemptively raise the value of the Renminbi.
Now maybe it’s just me. But if I had the ability to make my own money more valuable just by saying so.
I’d unload everything I owned which was denominated in other currencies. First.
During the window of time between that sale, and that revaluation...
Lies opportunity.
bttt
Thanks for talking down the dollar. It *is* appreciated. I am still buying when it’s low.
Everything has a value. If an asset’s valuation is currently below what it is worth, then it’s an investment opportunity.
This thread is all sorts of pure awesome. Getting back into silver close to an all-time high *after* profittaking? Good way to lose your shirt.
Sounds real good to me.
I have a Native American friend back here that wrote/recorded a song some 15 years back: “Apocolapse” - great take on words.
He's retired now, but he and his wife have performed around the world.
the words to this song were prophetic:
part of the verse:
“So store lots of food
and move far from town
Move close to some wood
put seeds in the ground
And gather your friends
and live close and quiet...
they run a community center now, in a tiny country town, and ‘are prepared” ;o)
Not quite 48.00, it’s 44.89 at 2046 hrs. CDT, down 3.07.
and what is the birth rate in these western countries?
There’s a massive deflationary push. Anyone who has actual money is going to benefit.
Congrats on doing the Ironman. My dad was a huge triathalon/distance runner until a glioblastoma took him away from us in December. He would not have liked that run, with snow swirling around, but would’ve been smiling anyway. He was that kind of guy, always a half full glass and enjoying the endorphins from running.
It makes this crappy spring all the more hard. I get my endorphins from working my rear end off in the garden.
Love ‘Velocity Twins’! Hubby and I have a 14 y/o son, he’s not into the running thing though, no matter how much his grandpa tried.
To stay on topic, my mom who lives with us now has a bunch of Kennedy half dollars. Think they’ll sprout if I plant ‘em? :)
Jim rogers says he is waiting for this selloff to buy some more.
I’m not paying attention until it gets down into the 30s.
IMHO we’ll see $20 by the 4th of July.
I don't believe enormous...or even modest sums of money are invested in silver.
The Chicoms don't play in such small markets. If they want silver they will buy as much as they need. If they don't, they won't.
Silver is basically an industrial metal and only has MONETARY value if gold ends up being the dominant money.
Don't get me wrong, that could happen. But it's not imminent. This bubble has to bust first.
And this commodity/stock bubble is the biggest that's ever been within the context of the REAL economy being at least 30% below it's frothy peak.
This move in silver will be followed by gold, oil, wheat, soybeans etc.
The end of Fed largess is probably at hand.
Totally agree. It was predicted by their margin moves up from 1% to 5% on Friday. I believe this was 3 minutes before closing. This was a slaughter. Funny how physical bullion has moved very little amongst the dealers. What a criminal enterprise we have going here.
Right on. It was a quarter when quarters were silver.
A whole acre?! Garlic sounds so good right now. Some olive oil roasted garlic spread on crusty baguette. Worth its’ weight in silver. 8>)
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