Anyone know how i can buy authentic gold?

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oddyager

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Originally posted by: K3N
I have a feeling we are gonna get another great depression especially since the maniacs in charge of this country keep bailing businesses and are really hungry for a war with Iran. I'd really like to buy gold to help keep me secure from the corrupt banksters known as the federal reseve.

http://www.infowars.com/?p=4533

Gold bars will only make you a big target for highway gangs (when they form up after the world degenerates into a lawless dystopian society), stupid.
 

LegendKiller

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Originally posted by: tk109
Gold is already hella high right now. It came down some though. But still it's over double what it was. You missed the boat on that. Gotta jump in earlier. However things can be getting a lot worse so still may be a good idea to buy gold. More banks are going to fail and we have a whole new wave of bad mortgages coming in soon all the way through till 2011. (the Alt - A loans). We are not even close to this mess being over. We've only really seen 4 states get hit super hard and look what they did, wait till the other 46 states start crapping out hard core. We're screwed.

Anyway here ya go: <a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="https://online.kitco.com/bullion/completelist.html">https://online.kitco.com/bullion/completelist.html</a>

Came down "some"? ROFL. Gold is down 25% from peak and will keep going down. It's also in the commodity bubble.
 

Triumph

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Originally posted by: Jmman
Authentic gold? As opposed to the gold foil wrapped chocolate variety? Anyway, you realize that if the crap really hits the fan, your gold isn't going to get you shinola. Starving or desperate people have very little use for shiny metal.........

Exactly why I get my "gold" from here. :)
 

alkemyst

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Feb 13, 2001
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Originally posted by: Bignate603
Originally posted by: DomS
those links are for coins...where can you buy bars?

A bar would be a freaking huge amount of gold.

not to mention heavy, they show on tv dudes throwing 'bars' in a duffle bag all the time...but in reality after a few of them their is no way they'd be throwing that bag over their shoulder and running out of the bank.

 

JS80

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Gold is worthless. When armageddon comes, you think anyone will accept gold as payment? This is a service economy, gold has no inherent value.
 

alkemyst

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Originally posted by: JS80
Gold is worthless. When armageddon comes, you think anyone will accept gold as payment? This is a service economy, gold has no inherent value.

so will you be a top or bottom?
 

spidey07

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OP - I don't think you know what the great depression was to even imagine such a thing. Also, are you seriously wanting to buy something that is at a record high right now? Are you trying to buy high and sell low?
 

JS80

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Originally posted by: alkemyst
Originally posted by: JS80
Gold is worthless. When armageddon comes, you think anyone will accept gold as payment? This is a service economy, gold has no inherent value.

so will you be a top or bottom?

? I will be on whatever side my customer asks me to be on.
 

SP33Demon

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Originally posted by: fire400
dude, go to Khol's when their jewelry goes on sale... buy it in bulk, melt it and bam!

you are set...

you know what's interesting, you can google it, you know?

AM 1280 The Patriot in Minnesota always has advertisements on that stuff, "buy gold now, there's no better time!"

corrupt banksters... you gotta figure, one anti-matter missile, I mean, not to be pess. or morbid or anything, provided a strong enough vortex spread, could wipe out the power grid to millions of computers in the United States.

So banksters, corrupt, I wouldn't blame them if all your money went missing. Blame the scientists who helped develop the weapons (I mean, ... come on, the possibilities are endless), you can't blame bankers! Haven't you seen Dark Knight_!?

p.s. don't blame the sci's or the bankers, blame the gov. -but if you can't blame anyone anymore, blame the A.I. script programmers that will make robots more human-like.
Drugs are bad, mmkay?

 

alkemyst

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I am not sure why everyone is claiming gold is at a record high lately. It's not.
 

yours truly

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Originally posted by: JS80
Gold is worthless. When armageddon comes, you think anyone will accept gold as payment? This is a service economy, gold has no inherent value.


i would have said the exact opposite. gold has always been a valuable commodity. national banks and governments have vast supplies.

if you want the best gold, go for canadian maple leaf. it has the least amount of impurities
 

LegendKiller

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Originally posted by: hopeless74
Originally posted by: JS80
Gold is worthless. When armageddon comes, you think anyone will accept gold as payment? This is a service economy, gold has no inherent value.


i would have said the exact opposite. gold has always been a valuable commodity. national banks and governments have vast supplies.

if you want the best gold, go for canadian maple leaf. it has the least amount of impurities

If society breaks down, gold fails as an intermediary, we'll go to a barter society. You can't eat gold, can't drink gold, and can't house yourself with gold. Gold's value is limited by the demand for it, which is artificial, since it's only value is that it looks pretty, and has the inertia of historical "worth". If that stops, gold becomes worthless.

Fundamentally, gold is as worthless as diamonds.
 

OCGuy

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Originally posted by: JS80
Gold is worthless. When armageddon comes, you think anyone will accept gold as payment? This is a service economy, gold has no inherent value.

W...T....F...?
 

Capt Caveman

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Originally posted by: LegendKiller
Originally posted by: hopeless74
Originally posted by: JS80
Gold is worthless. When armageddon comes, you think anyone will accept gold as payment? This is a service economy, gold has no inherent value.


i would have said the exact opposite. gold has always been a valuable commodity. national banks and governments have vast supplies.

if you want the best gold, go for canadian maple leaf. it has the least amount of impurities

If society breaks down, gold fails as an intermediary, we'll go to a barter society. You can't eat gold.

But you'll eat lead when I pull the trigger, if you don't give me your gold.
 

LegendKiller

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Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
Originally posted by: LegendKiller
Originally posted by: hopeless74
Originally posted by: JS80
Gold is worthless. When armageddon comes, you think anyone will accept gold as payment? This is a service economy, gold has no inherent value.


i would have said the exact opposite. gold has always been a valuable commodity. national banks and governments have vast supplies.

if you want the best gold, go for canadian maple leaf. it has the least amount of impurities

If society breaks down, gold fails as an intermediary, we'll go to a barter society. You can't eat gold.

But you'll eat lead when I pull the trigger, if you don't give me your gold.

Which is interesting, since, if we get to that point, then lead will be worth more than gold.
 

waggy

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Originally posted by: Ocguy31
Originally posted by: JS80
Gold is worthless. When armageddon comes, you think anyone will accept gold as payment? This is a service economy, gold has no inherent value.

W...T....F...?

actually he is right. gold has no inherent value. the only value is has is that we say it has it.

if/when armegeddon comes then yeah its not going to be worth very much. it's pretty and thats about it. its worthless as a tool or weapon.

i would rather have things that may actually be worth something. such as knowledge of farming, hunting, survival training and some good weapons.
 

OCGuy

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Originally posted by: LegendKiller
Originally posted by: hopeless74
Originally posted by: JS80
Gold is worthless. When armageddon comes, you think anyone will accept gold as payment? This is a service economy, gold has no inherent value.


i would have said the exact opposite. gold has always been a valuable commodity. national banks and governments have vast supplies.

if you want the best gold, go for canadian maple leaf. it has the least amount of impurities

If society breaks down, gold fails as an intermediary, we'll go to a barter society. You can't eat gold, can't drink gold, and can't house yourself with gold. Gold's value is limited by the demand for it, which is artificial, since it's only value is that it looks pretty, and has the inertia of historical "worth". If that stops, gold becomes worthless.

Fundamentally, gold is as worthless as diamonds.


So he is going to buy big bricks of food?

Gold is alot safer than a fiat currency. Economies using a fiat currency fail. We are next.....
 

waggy

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Dec 14, 2000
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Originally posted by: LegendKiller
Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
Originally posted by: LegendKiller
Originally posted by: hopeless74
Originally posted by: JS80
Gold is worthless. When armageddon comes, you think anyone will accept gold as payment? This is a service economy, gold has no inherent value.


i would have said the exact opposite. gold has always been a valuable commodity. national banks and governments have vast supplies.

if you want the best gold, go for canadian maple leaf. it has the least amount of impurities

If society breaks down, gold fails as an intermediary, we'll go to a barter society. You can't eat gold.

But you'll eat lead when I pull the trigger, if you don't give me your gold.

Which is interesting, since, if we get to that point, then lead will be worth more than gold.

exactly.

sure things like gold, diamonds etc will have a value to some. but i would think things with a actual value would be far far more valuable.