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is it possible to find out how many Bullion and proof coins each mint churns out in any given year?

All the main central banks are more dovish than the markets expected them to be. Rates lower, perceived inflation higher Gold up. Exacerbated as mentioned by the BOE’s surprise non hike today causing sterling to fall.

Silver bars at spot on here will sell. Even 100 oz’ers. Very quickly

charting is a 'record' of the supply and demand, and then the emotion of trading.. it doesn't predict anything.

Indeed. I reckon the science behind the emotions of trading are far more interesting than charts. Although you can’t beat big fat supply and demand . You would get chaps trading Brent in the old open outcry pits of CME or whatever it was called thinking they had a handle on it . the smart small traders where the ones who took the BP guy to lunch

I’ve always found a chartist can make any chart tell you whatever you want , mess around with the X axis to include or exclude what you do or don’t want . change the scales to add drama or reduce it. I worked with this mob for 30 years at a bank. They never had any skin in the game and the stock excuse when it all went tits was along the lines of ‘resistance has been broken the uptrend is over and we expect a downward channel to form from (get another graph out with a longer dated X axis). Blah blah blah. Or the opposite when the price went up.

I don’t get crypto, but I didn’t get Amazon, apple etc .. fortunately my fund manager did. The so called green fund in any pension portfolio these days is basically Amazon, alphabet,apple and Tesla. Much to my annoyance Bitcoin doesn’t cut it on the green fund. Mutter moan.

Nowhere near as glam as yours. . Retired a while back but only just reached 55 so,in the uk I can access my pension. Lucky enough at the moment I don’t need it but obviously want to extract as much tax efficient cash out of it when I can. What to do with it? Well I guess if you are into PM then gold. But I just love silver. sure physical PM is usually a terrible investment but I just like owning the stuff.. really developing an interest in the space of 2 months !

some people will stack for weight.. but many punters who just enjoy owning the stuff will want Baird and a PAMP and an Englehard etc etc. just because they can

I don't think they care. meat is evil to nut nuts and co.. as long as we still have Brussel sprouts and turnips they will be happy.

There is no reason why we can’t import all our ‘sheep’ requirements from New Zealand. And just pay upland landowners to graze sheep, should we want to keep that kind of countryside . It would probably work out cheaper . Re food security NZ would be a trusted trading partner, it’s not like we are dealing with the French here ! as mentioned earlier the uk did drop both NZ and AUS right in it when we joined the eec NZ went full free market and now are a food exporting power house. Making the most of their competitive advantage . just like the UK which is effectively made of coal, has centuries of cheap frackable gas and loads of oil just offshore, the power stations are built on top of the supply and being a small island the transmission costs are minimal , we are also world leaders in nuclear technology so if there is a power crisis we can have cheap plentiful supplies to ensure consumers have plenty of spare cash and our heavy industries can undercut the rest of the developed world .. oh hang on

bitcoin is for the youth.. the olduns will happily sit in their lazy boys ranting at the BBC whilst fondling a pile of Britannias or eagles. its a generational thing

or a 15 k diesel ford for at least the next 5 years that will do 30k miles a year at 50 mpg. . these electric things are only remotely viable due to tax.. thats tax on petrol, diesel and road tax.. Yes it is the future. or hydrogen is, or something else. its all very VHS Betamax at the moment no one has costed the environmental damage of batteries for cars.. although the manufacturing process for the overall car is far simpler my concern is thats its the least well off that get priced out of nation wide mobility in the rush to save 0.001 per cent of the carbon output of the humans on this planet.

The tipping point will be when they ‘MAKE’ petrol too expensive for the plebs.. take all the tax off and see where the real power per pound is for the ability to drive around the country. It’s not electricity

Cheap energy and technology is the bedrock of all economic growth. From inventing a wheelbarrow to hiring some huge bloke to,push it, to,horses, water wheels, coal , oil, gas. The price of energy and food has always gone down in relation to average income. In recent times the 70’s oil shock showed what happens when power is expensive. Fortunat;y technology now means power is an ever decreasing part of the economy. But for industry it isn’t . the uk has outsourced its dirty industry to developing world which is quite happily making a fortune from it .. the uk has had a Covid bed wetting moment and is in thrall to the green machine. if you had voted for a Corbo/green coalition you would never in a million years beloved we would end up where we are now ..the Money printing is immense I can’t envisage a better time to be buying assets . Property has already blown up and is hugely leveraged PM not so much I’m liking silver here