InternationalRockSuperstar

did you see RB's prediction a while back said that gold might go down to $300 by the end of 2008? :lol:

http://www.housepricecrash.co.uk/forum/ind...0&start=780

yes, I remember that. when gold hit $1000 they printed a huge picture of a bar of gold, not on the front of the business section, but on the front page of the main section for all to see.

kiss my ar5e. no, really.

I somehow doubt human nature has changed much in 26 years

use private rather than commercial airports. no problem.

I've had some credit card fraud trouble, and I've had numpties take too much out of my account by direct debt, but I've never had any cash/PMs stolen from any place I've lived in. Real crooks wear suits. http://www.fgmr.com/confiscation.htm

a bird in hand is worth two in a vault.

I'm not so sure.

surely you need to weight such a poll according to people's wealth i.e. their ability to actually buy any gold.

can't you pin it?

yep. the 1930s was economically sh1t, but the gov't remained very much intact (in fact the state grew even larger of course). this time round is a different kettle of fish.

the timing was perfect. those in the know could see the UK state failure was a dead cert, and so pocketed the half the nations gold at rock bottom price. he is the sort of w4anker that probably ended up with some of it.

the thing with central bankers is: however much gold they claim to have, you can be sure that they have a whole lot less.

yeah, got one just before christmas. apple do make good laptops, but most of the stuff they make now is just very well marketed horse cr4p. if all the people that only buy apple stuff because it's 'cool' stopped buying apple stuff tomorrow then apple would be well and truely fooked.

apple's 2009 laptop sales are goint to be sooooooo bad compared to last year.

but aren't you going to have to convert it to physical at some point anyway?

Didn't someone once buy an entire block in Berlin for 24 oz gold in the good old Weimar days? In that case, there's no way I'm shelling out a whole 50 oz on just one house

The ratio between the spot prices is indeed very high, but the ratio between the price I can actually obtain gold bullion and the price I can actually obtain silver bullion is much lower. Anyone else also finding this? And which ratio do you think is more important when comparing with historic trends?

UK houses will be next to worthless once half the population has emigrated/starved. As it is, there are more than a million vacant homes in the UK.