Money & Economics

Just spitballing here..

Lots of stories about Gold being pulled out of the Bank Of England, shortages/delays in physical delivery.
Also the revived story of how much Gold does the US REALLY have in Ft Knox?


It makes one wonder..

So lets just take a flying leap that Trump is going to pull away from the Federal Reserve, which like the Bank of England is a private for profit entity.

So lets say the Treasury decides to go back to a Gold Standard.

What do you price Gold at? (supposedly current reserves are valued at $43 or so p/oz even though physical is hanging around $2900 p/oz

Lets say there is about 5000 tons of Gold in Ft Knox.

Lets say they re-price Gold at $2500 p/oz to strip printing authority from the Fed.

How much $ is 5000 Tons of Gold at $2500 p/oz?
 
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So 5000 Tons
A ton= 2000lbs
16 oz to a lb


I think its 400,000,000,000
I think thats $400 Billion?????
 
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For sure.

I think there's some fake info out there on Gold as well, and it looks like the big players are hoarding it
 
projected egg prices .. time to buy a few birds

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Maybe.
Then again if the economy tanks as I think it will, will demand tank at that price and force it back to $1.92?
 


If the Gov't App will be free, assuming it will be, I am in, TurboTax Home & Business cost me $65-75 each year on sale.
 
Egg price is too crazy… inflation will never down.
Inflation will drop eventually, but the prices will not, as we have seen over the decades. Once the next greedy Gov't administration takes office and spends money like "Drunken Sailors" Karoline Leavitt quote :), Inflation will be back...
 

You'll Never Guess Why 'Spending' Plunged In January?​


Why the sudden plunge in spending?

Simple - goodbye USAID - and the billions of outflows to foreign nations...

 
The other shoe is starting to drop

 
"U.S. pending home sales have fallen to a new all-time low"

Some of these pronouncements are hard for me to swallow. This index behind this claim was created in 2001, so I doubt that it can signal an "all-time low" of pending home sales.
 
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"U.S. pending home sales have fallen to a new all-time low"

Some of these pronouncements are hard for me to swallow. This index behind this claim was created in 2001, so I doubt that it can signal an "all-time low" of pending home sales.

I think I saw back to 1995. So 30 years is a long tiime
 
Six years difference is a nit compared to all-time, but just for the record:

"An index of 100 is equal to the average level of contract activity during 2001, the first year to be analyzed."

Methodology: Pending Home Sales
 
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