aardvark

true - but they would be mad to do so.

the thing is, cyprus only has 13.9 tonnes of gold - not a great deal considering the massive falls. Some good stuff on kingworldnews - apparently 155 tonnes of paper gold was sold in one hour in london, and central banks bought up 55 tonnes of physical - as far as i understand. something massive is happening, something i don't understand.

god knows! something big must be happening behind the scenes but its incredible that gold/silver can fall so low and nobody knows why!

wow, just wow.

scary to see my investment drop so fast and so much but staying the course as above. Its a rigged market based on paper - i don't hold paper.

i agree, they physical supply just isn't there. The maguire comments are very interesting.

such a huge drop in gold for no particular reason is highly suspicious. i wonder what is going on in the background.

i sold some silver on ebay recently - lucky really. but not that lucky since i still have loads!

just wait until the fiscal cliff, then we'll see what happens.

lol - nonsense as chris says.

also earlier than me - i starting thinking about it when gold was at $500, only started buying when it got to $600-$650.

lol - what a load of bull.

and sovs are 'worth' one pound, so not a good idea. of course all the gov has to do to get tax off them is to declare them no longer legal tender but they haven't shown any sign of doing that in the last 100 years so its relatively unlikely imo

coins which are legal tender (sovereigns and britannias) are exempt from CGT - everything else isn't.

gold leaf is so thin it can be transparent (gold is actually green when you look through it - interesting fact there). covering a building in gold leaf requires very little. (just look at the number of books etc with gold leaf on them - it all adds up to only a small amount).

baseless supposition - there is no evidence of all this gold, just talk on the internet, and talk is cheap. as for paying for all the stuff we got from china - we offered a lot - our own texiles, technology, drugs, weapons. historical trade is not all about gold and silver.

i agree - conspiracy theory nonsense from a nutcase.

i agree, its ridiculous. how did we get to the point where people actually believe these nutters on the internet? i've got a crazy thought - how about some evidence/proof. the crazier the theory the less evidence some people seem to require to believe it, its moronic.

exactly - they are fantasists.

comments like these are transparently moronic and clearly untrue - any star so close to us would be very visible to the naked eye.

a rather odd mixture of fact and a lot of fiction.

sorry drB but the set of data is so small there is no way you cold come to any conclusion no matter what it showed. you need hundreds if not thousands of years of data to make the sort of conclusions you are stating, data we don't have. you can zoom into any set of random data and find the sort of trends you are seeing but it doesn't mean anything.

+1

you should watch this drbubb

they are legal currency so i assume they must be exempt??