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onethatcares

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24. question about gold

Reply to former9thward (Reply #19)

Thu Jan 17, 2013, 08:12 PM

Jan 2013

do you really think we'll have to go to the local wallyworld and break off a piece of a coin in order to buy some junk shit or groceries?

Or are we going to trade actual gold metal for fiat money?

I'm not making fun or trying to ask a dumb bass question, I'm just kinda confused.

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90% stock market crash highly likely this year [View all] UnrepentantLiberal Jan 2013 OP

Good thing we will be Politicalboi Jan 2013 #1

You mean the same Robert Wiedemer ... 1StrongBlackMan Jan 2013 #2

Lots of RW suckers for those con men to feast on. UnrepentantLiberal Jan 2013 #6

Hell just about everyone on DU predicted the collapse upaloopa Jan 2013 #3

In 2004 ... 1StrongBlackMan Jan 2013 #9

Well, tama Jan 2013 #14

So that I can stock up on milk, MrYikes Jan 2013 #4

GOLD! BUY GOLD!!! GOOOOOLD!!!!! Taverner Jan 2013 #5

Anyone is who has been buying it over the last 12 years is well ahead. former9thward Jan 2013 #15

Not If You've Been Snookered Over The Past 4 Years... KharmaTrain Jan 2013 #17

Gold has gone up every year for the last 12. former9thward Jan 2013 #19

Gold is quite inflated quaker bill Jan 2013 #20

I agree nothing goes up forever. former9thward Jan 2013 #22

I buy low, alloy to Karat, quaker bill Jan 2013 #29

As someone who has followed the gold market since 1968, Art_from_Ark Jan 2013 #31

The question I think quaker bill Jan 2013 #34

It might... sendero Jan 2013 #36

I agree Art_from_Ark Jan 2013 #40

question about gold onethatcares Jan 2013 #24

To answer that I am assuming we are in a relatively normal economy. former9thward Jan 2013 #25

If it ever comes to that type of situation, Art_from_Ark Jan 2013 #32

Not likely.. sendero Jan 2013 #37

No quaker bill Jan 2013 #39

People who had lost their jobs appreciated having some place to sell their gold jewelry. n/t Sekhmets Daughter Jan 2013 #28

You're gonna feel pretty silly when this actually happens... Make7 Jan 2013 #7

Wait!.... it's a safe bet the market WILL crash. It always does. When is the only question. nt Bigmack Jan 2013 #8

Pat Robertson predicted a collapse would happen in 1993, and his charts are from God... JHB Jan 2013 #10

One of the best indicators to run out and BUY stock. wtmusic Jan 2013 #11

Kunstler and this guy must be competing for Doomer King status dmallind Jan 2013 #12

Trade deficit, PO and energy prices tama Jan 2013 #13

Which means it will double in the next 4 years. JoePhilly Jan 2013 #16

Wiedemer orginally said "starting before 2013"; I guess that didn't work out muriel_volestrangler Jan 2013 #18

The market will not crash quaker bill Jan 2013 #21

Funny how these are always convenient base 10 numbers Recursion Jan 2013 #23

No, my bible told me America is forever NoOneMan Jan 2013 #26

This is part of an investment pitch... Sekhmets Daughter Jan 2013 #27

Buy Twinkies!!!! greytdemocrat Jan 2013 #30

been hearing this sine Obama took office....yawn spanone Jan 2013 #33

In the whole history of "the market", it first went above 1000 in 1972 SoCalDem Jan 2013 #35

I doubt there will be a crash like that.. sendero Jan 2013 #38