Bratnia

No longer considered as excess deaths, but planned deaths, indicative figures pre-calculated by the action of exporting Covid discharged patients from the NHS into care homes ... 100K+, rounded down to precisely 100K (subtracted from the excess deaths figure). As I recall people were even standing on their door steps cheering the NHS. A later questioning of how the care home workers were being ignored and were struggling with no PPE etc. (some even moved full time into the care home themselves) did however result in pin badges being offered as a reward for their suffering.

I have a similar ailment to Jonathan Ross, except where he struggles with R's I struggle with B's

Being turned into flats around my way. More a case of infrastructure collapse, water, sewage, GP's/health, congestion, schools ..etc.

Out-laws are much more fun.

More a case of was that way. Only some were paid £2500/month to stay at home, many others weren't. Apps for where checks were being performed and house parties with streamed music so just a location where lots of people were TALKING TO EACH OTHER VERY LOUDLY (unless they removed one of their ear buds).

When the primary options are a calamitous Con party, or a Lab party where the majority of its supporters are on benefits looking to define where the public purse should be loaded from and where spent, the comedy channel a.k.a. Parliament channel becomes more of a uncomfortable comedy show.

The latest from closet Remainer Sunak (whose pretty much already gifted the EU Northern Ireland) is that the UK will sign up to WHO being able to decide how/when the UK should lock down or not. I believe Farage is going to start one of those petitions whereby if 100K signatures are lodged the matter has to be debated in Parliament.

72% agree with you, however there's still another 48% who don't

Promises of 40 new hospitals, delivered 40 old hospitals given a lick of paint and declared as good as new. Promise to reduce the number of migrant boats reaching UK shores, sends out ships to meet them halfway, safely delivered by the French to that point (and paying the French to do so). Good for gold when the Pound sinks through repeated government lies.

It's the April inflation figure that many pensions/wage etc. increases will be based upon government figure.

Is the forums top left gold price indicator a lagged figure as you're often seem to be a few pence higher? Can you see the woman in this image? . . . She has her nose sniffing the goats butt

Are the ghosts friendly then?

And advise that when a group of gunmen walk around shooting fish in a barrel (people) is for those fish to 'hide'. I'm all for the US way of the right to bear arms/defend oneself/family. 4 gunmen walking into a Texan gathering and pulling guns inclined to have 100+ guns pulled and pointed back. When the UK police force (had to be at least 6 feet tall) transition to a police service (rainbow) and that service is poor, don't even after attend a burglary let alone arrive in time in force to capture the burglars, that betrays the population. BoE leave interest rates as-is, inflation has now declined to pretty much the 2% target rate, so increasingly more positive real yields, and gold is ... up (1870). Go figure!

Looks like you dropped 1

Are 2020's Britannia's OK?

Peter Seller thinks the price may decline, Punter Emptor thinks the price will rise. Personally I expect that Labour will win the next General Election and when you have a government formed by the majority poor deciding where taxpayers money should be spent there's a tendency for the Pound to decline in value, which in turn is a positive side push for the price of gold. That said the Tories have done an awful job. Can't recall having read their manifesto but suspect it may have been along the lines of Vote Tory for ... Musical chair gameplay cabinet/PM Highest taxes since WW2 Extreme wasteful/lost spending of the public purse (we're talking 100's billions) Few GP appointments Repeated delays/cancellations of critical NHS treatment Increased migration Poor roads and infrastructure Fewer availability of council houses (allocation to migrants instead) Islamic biased/favouring Police Word play target delivery (40 new hospitals = 40 old hospitals given a lick of paint and declared to be as good as new) Crime does pay - shops expected to donate up to £100 freely to anyone who so claims their entitlement. ... in which case Labour might actually do better and see the Pound rise (gold price decline). Trick is - not to care. Buy in 67/33 stock/gold proportions, averaging in and out over many years, and just sit back and enjoy the ride. If your brother wants to speculate then there are horse track, casino and other such options that are more instant.

Show me the bitcoins, I don't believe they exist. And where a single software bug, as always periodically occur, could see some kid in a garage with a laptop nick it all for a laugh. Decentralised ledgers assume majority based rules. Get the majority to flip to mining something else (made more rewarding) and the smaller number left could be out-voted by a state sponsored super-computer system/network. Duplicated centralised (bank) ledgers are secured with physical security.

Wouldn't matter if even there was no gold, in 1971 the US left the gold standard, the dollar isn't any longer backed by gold. But as many Fed chairs have said when the dollar falls too far out of alignment with gold bad things tend to happen, so Fed decisions are still made with one eye on gold.

"I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member." - Groucho Marx

To help kickstart the new Euro. In fairness the money to buy Euros had to come from somewhere and he likely opined that as gold had gone nowhere for a couple of decades, declined in both nominal and real terms, expected that to perhaps continue. Rules being rules perhaps dictated the daft manner in which that gold was sold. Central Banks aren't free to just dump gold into the markets - there are rules that have to be adhered to. Once the 2000's gold rise occurred only then did the apparent good choice flip to having been a poor choice. Easy with hindsight to highlight what alternative could have been used instead to far greater benefit/effect, pretty much impossible at the time to have such foresight.

The President appoints the Treasury secretary as their principal advisor. Who in turn report such matters as amount of gold ...etc. It would be a political win for a new/inbound President to highlight the lies of the former President, especially if a flip between Democrats/Republican. To opine that consecutive Treasury secretaries perpetuate a big lie is misguided IMO.

As ever things aren't just simple. The Fed increase/decrease special drawing rights (SDR's) which is a form of weighted basket of multiple currencies, which is somewhat like buying/selling gold. 2020 to 2021 and the Fed more than tripled the value of their SDR holdings. Iceland 2009 for instance and in terms of Krona (domestic currency) the price of gold soared during the financial crisis. As did the Euro. In terms of Euro's the price of gold remained relatively flat. Gold or Euro's would have served a Icelander as equally as well as a hedge against the collapse of their domestic currency.

Or ever landed on the moon