They are just sliding bread. Anyone on this board (besides a paid-ass shill) is at least skeptical about the 9/11 official story.
But you are right, you need that physical silver, the paper is going to be completely worthless in the end.
As a 21 year Planefag, I can tell you that you are absolutely right. No freaking way a novice would have overshot 10 times or hit the ground a mile early. NO FREAKING WAY
Gold and Silver are heavily manipulated
Right now the price of these is set by two organizations, the Comex, and the LBMA. These organizations treat paper promises of Gold/Silver as just as good as a physical ounce. At this point there are more than 300 paper promised ounces of each of these metals for every ounce of deliverable metal.
They are heavily manipulated and have been for some time. Many have died waiting for this manipulation to end, but I believe it may happen within the next 2 years, possibly next year.
And there is plenty of bread to discuss this. We should be discussing it, because the more you talk about hit here, the harder it is for manipulators to do what they do.
We can't force Q/Q+ to declass, but we can use this platform to inform the public about how the banks have used funny money as a control mechanism, and they have to suppress gold/silver because if they go to their true value, everyone will stop believing in banker fiat.
Goldfags
Here is a pro tip from a fellow stacker. The best bang for your buck on silver bullion is almost always generic silver rounds.
rounds=not official coinage (but they look like a coin)
Here is another bonus about 1 oz silver rounds, you can use programs like the one in the picture to test the silver for authenticity yourself. If silver ever did break manipulation, it would be thousands of dollars within a few months. At that point you would see significant efforts to counterfeit using nickel and other metals, however at $15, someone still might try it, so I check every round I buy.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=se.brolinembedded.bulliontestfree&hl=en_US
I should have said generic 1oz silver rounds.
The ratio is also set to direct stackers away from silver and to gold. Silver feels clunkier and cheaper and gold more precious. Fact is, right now there are 7 Billion above ground ounces of each metal.
Silver gets used up, but gold never does. Almost every ounce of gold that humanity has ever mined is still with us. With silver it is the exact opposite. Because silver is reactive, it disappears over time.
If you gathered up 1000 random people, you could bet they would have 20-30 ounces of gold between them because of their jewelry. They would probably have less than 10 ounces of silver (including the amount needed to make their gadgets)
they have to keep silver cheap to keep making the gadgets. Silver is the 2nd most industrial uses of any commodity on earth (oil is number 1)
>Gold and silver are worth what they have always been worth compared to any other ASSET
FALSE
In the art of war, Sun Tsu specifies that and army of 100,000 men requires 1000 ounces of silver a day to march and maintain its food and other supplies (weapons equipment etc).
Let's just ignore everything except paying the fighters, which would be the largest. If you do that means the day's pay of the soldier was about 1/100th an oz of silver. That would make 3.65 ounces of silver a year's pay to a guy risking his life. (We pay soldiors about 25K a year on top of their room and board for an E-1)
You can look at how much silver we paid for the Louisiana purchase as well, and get a per acre price that is much more than you could get any acreage for now.
No, silver and gold are not anywhere near their historical buying power. They are consistent with points of goods which are now mass produced that used to be expensive do to manual labor in a few cases.
modern mining does play a role, you are correct, there were 500 million ounces of gold in the world's money supply in 1913, and today there are 7 billion ounces above ground (though not that many in the money supply).
However, by 1913 we were already using silver/gold certificates, so even though anyone who wanted to could acquire the physical metal, they were still inflating the money supply with fake gold/silver, long before the Fed.
Fun Fact
The first step towards creating fiat currency is a government requiring vendors to given an identical value for lower weight versions of the same coin (stackers call them slicks). When you take this step, the government has in a very subtle way, replaced the authority of the metal weight with the authority of the government.
"that dime is not worth a bushel of wheat because it is 3.25 grams of fine silver, it is worth that because we say it is."
Nobody has the bacon to back the dollars. Printing colored paper is so much easier than raising quality pork.
it only listens to a "ding" you make, you don't take pictures with it. I guess you could disable your GPS while using. Or you could just move the bullion to a different place than where you tested it (You really want to keep it at your house?) If you order your generics online (best price) they are going to know you had it anyway..