RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:Golden Drifteasycoder -
Thanks. Just stating the obvious, to wit, the glass is far more than half-full and it certaily is not as empty as some would portray it.
Thanks also for your post and bringing to attention some very pertinent issues. Yes, people have been successfully propagandized to believe they are going to make gazillions on junk like marijuana which is really nothing more than a heavily government-controlled and taxed agricultural commodity which by definition only made drug dealers money when it was illegal and sold in the black market, to believe the "cryptos" are automomous when in fact they only exist because the government allows them to exist and the whole thing will go "bye bye" should the "kill switch" for the net be thrown and to believe Elon Musk (or should that be "Mush") when nothing he touches actually makes money but which sells on the backs of pickpocketed taxpayers, the most egregrious example being his idiotic, homicidal electric car, Tesla never having turned a profit in its existence but Musk having successfully made a billion and a half or so in government subsidies PER ANNUM, grants, "research" to prove "EVs" are viable when they clearly are not and so on in this vein.
Yes, it is all a scam and now the idiot wants to colonize Mars. It was not enough to wreck earth, now let's start on other planets. Sheer lunacy.
So, yes, the hucksters and carnival barkers hawk every manner of madness and the successfully propagandized pay multiple hundreds of dollars for "pretend stocks" such as TSLA which today closed at US$321.90, up US$13.46 on EPS of MINUS US$11.84!
Yet, REAL MONEY, silver and gold, which as pointed out have been preservers of wealth and purchasing power for the entire recorded time man has been on earth, go begging because the crooked FED pulls the right strings and dumps fake PAPER gold at its whim and fancy.
But that is all going to change as currencies continue to implode and more and more gold bullion migrates to the coffers of China and Russia. Russia in particular has NO DEBT it could not pay literally with cash and is not foolish enough, unlike other nations, to stockpile U.S. debt in the form of treasury notes, bonds and bills. The FED plays financial sleight-of-hand to keep the pigs coming back to the trough. It will last until it no longer does.
The gold price turnaround appears to have commenced. I am old enough to have been speculating on these junior golds since the 1976 - 1980 junior miner run and what I see happening now more closely resembles that period than the 2015 - 2016 period. If I am right, the better junior golds priced at their present insanely low levels will make those holding them considerably more well off than they are today. The rush into these stocks and out of the DOW "dumpster material" could be spectacular.
It does not take intellectual brilliance or degrees from Stern or the London School of Economics to see what it going on now. It just takes wide-open eyes and the ability to reason and be able to tell the difference between real gold and fool's gold.
For the latter, see Elon Mush, er, I mean, Musk!