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Smittys
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Saturday July 24, 2010 6:34 AM

Edited: Saturday July 24, 2010 at 6:37 AM by Smittys

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jmski52
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Saturday July 24, 2010 7:36 AM

Alot more than I have in fiat paper and electronic keystroke accounts!

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Justacommeman
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Saturday July 24, 2010 7:58 AM

I've never considered PM's as an investment. I list them as financial insurance along with my life, home and car insurance.
I answered the question based on net worth which I think the spirit of the question was intended.

MJ

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chumley
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Saturday July 24, 2010 8:26 AM

just starting on bullion but my intention is 5%

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Justacommeman
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Saturday July 24, 2010 9:02 AM

Interesting. The returns are early put that's exactly how I would have thought they would come in.

1< 5 and 21<30 dueling it out........................MJ

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OPA
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Saturday July 24, 2010 9:07 AM

<< Interesting. The returns are early put that's exactly how I would have thought they would come in.

1< 5 and 21<30 dueling it out........................MJ >>

Looks like we do have one doomsayer so far.

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Justacommeman
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Saturday July 24, 2010 9:13 AM

Either a doomsayer or someone trying to be their own personal Central Bank................The personal Central Bank idea intrigues me. MJ

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jmski52
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Saturday July 24, 2010 9:24 AM

Doomsdayer? Hmmmm. I've always been a coin collector and as such I've always been an observer of money, how it works and how to manage it.

I'd been a stock investor since 1973, and until 2008. I figure that I've seen enough. There will be another stock market boom, and I may be in on it but now isn't the time for me to be gung-ho into stocks. Quite the contrary. I truly think that we are on thin ice, and I don't believe in what is being done to our economy. I voted no, and I continue to vote no. Someday, I might vote yes. That's not a doomsdayer - that's simply reacting to a situation that appears to have many built-in pitfalls.

To a 20-something, some of the things that come out of my head might seem to be nuts, but I can live with that too.

I've never considered PM's as an investment. I list them as financial insurance

I also think in terms of pms as insurance, but it's not a bad thing when your insurance triples your net worth over time and your financial security is therefore better for it.

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Edited: Saturday July 24, 2010 at 9:27 AM by jmski52

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Justacommeman
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Saturday July 24, 2010 9:52 AM

<I also think in terms of pms as insurance, but it's not a bad thing when your insurance triples your net worth over time and your financial security is therefore better for it.>

That my friend is a nice by product is it not?

. I've have another insurance product that is also paying big dividends now as painful as it was paying it down the past eleven years. It was a bet basically against the stock market advancing the past decade. Whew................got one right

I for one am a big fan of someone becoming their own Central Bank.......................well done, well done indeed..................MJ

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1jester
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Saturday July 24, 2010 10:08 AM

<< Either a doomsayer or someone trying to be their own personal Central Bank................The personal Central Bank idea intrigues me. MJ >>

As someone once said, "gold is money, and nothing else". You can add silver to that mix and there you have it: a sound and biblical approach to money. Nothing outrageous about that at all, in my humble opinion.

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jmski52
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Saturday July 24, 2010 2:53 PM

As someone once said, "gold is money, and nothing else". You can add silver to that mix and there you have it: a sound and biblical approach to money. Nothing outrageous about that at all, in my humble opinion.

I add silver and platinum to the mix. Diversification, as it were. You'd be surprised at the effectiveness of the buffering effect that goes on between the 3 metals. There is a low enough correlation coefficient in the mix that something is always making up for the others, but the whole mix reacts well to the overall trend.

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Konahead
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Saturday July 24, 2010 3:17 PM

about 7% Gold and Silver

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BBN
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Saturday July 24, 2010 3:59 PM

About 10% is PMs right now, but been going 50/50 on stocks and gold on my monthly investments lately.

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OnlyGoldIsMoney
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Saturday July 24, 2010 6:24 PM

Presently 18% of my total net worth now is in gold and silver with another 7% in coins (almost all gold). Excess current income goes entirely into PMs. I'm on the verge of getting my pension money entirely out of the stock market. IMO the economy is fragile.

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Sunday July 25, 2010 1:25 AM

I'm at about 25-30% PMs. I've been moving a bit of money out of the stock market (With my lower net worth, I sometimes can't stomach the volatility) into PMs and cash, figuring that the PMs will hedge against inflation and the cash against deflation, leaving me with a reasonably safe buffered nest egg with some possibility for growth while I am at school.

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pmcollectour
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Sunday July 25, 2010 6:56 AM

I give credit to those of you who are over 30%. I am only 10%, but I know that you guys will be much better off when our
economy becomes like Greece. One word of caution though, when America goes down the tubes, and the gold price soars,
be ready to switch out of gold at some point in time into a beaten down stock market.

In other words, if you think the DJIA is going to 2,000, and you think gold is going to 5,000/oz or 10,000 oz, then
just be ready at some point in time to switch out of gold and into real cheap stocks. Thoughts ?

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OPA
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Sunday July 25, 2010 9:42 AM

"And they're coming around the stretch ...1-5% leading by a nose." at 12:30

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OPA
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Sunday July 25, 2010 9:55 AM

<< I give credit to those of you who are over 30%. I am only 10%, but I know that you guys will be much better off when our
economy becomes like Greece. One word of caution though, when America goes down the tubes, and the gold price soars,
be ready to switch out of gold at some point in time into a beaten down stock market.

In other words, if you think the DJIA is going to 2,000, and you think gold is going to 5,000/oz or 10,000 oz, then
just be ready at some point in time to switch out of gold and into real cheap stocks. Thoughts ? >>

That's like preparing for 12/21/2012....good luck to those who believe in that scenario. I for one, do not. The approx 10% of my PM "investments," I plan to liquidate slowly along with my stock portfolio, as market conditions dictate, before I'm 6' under. (as the saying goes: you can't take it with you - enjoy and have fun while you're still breathing.)

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Edited: Sunday July 25, 2010 at 9:59 AM by OPA

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roadrunner
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Sunday July 25, 2010 10:03 AM

As someone once said, "gold is money, and nothing else".

I think it was J.P. Morgan who said that.

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BBN
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Sunday July 25, 2010 4:45 PM

I bet that even the 1%ers here probably have more PMs than the vast majority of Americans. Once you buy your first 1/10 ounce coin you probably have more than 90% of all people.

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