OakHeart

To some extent yes, I think so. Though what can't be factored in is the step after that, then the one after that, etc. So I think there will be a general 'febrility premium', but also the possibility that the price could still swing quite wildly in either direction depending on how the consequences of one event lead to another, then another...

Yep, fully agree and this is a good thing. Maybe I'm over-interpreting a slight cultural leaning here that perhaps doesn't represent the full community.

It's a euphemistic reference. Nevertheless I totally agree with you, I think, as in it doesn't matter - we're here to talk about something that transcends that kind of thing.

In that case, good! Maybe I felt that this forum somewhat feels like a painfully blokely banter space, from time to time.

I'm very much a new inductee into this odd world of people who love shiny stuff in the setting of a forum. Well anyway as the all time highs ting time and time again, it did occur to me: Why is this forum a sausage fest? Unless I'm mistaken, there are no females here at all! If there are ladies here, I don't see them breaking cover. This isn't a criticism by the way, just an observation. Surely I'm not the first person to have noticed this?

Eee... I remember the days when you could buy a kilo of gold for two shillings, and you'd still have change for the bus fare home... 🤣 More seriously, or perhaps not, who is brave enough to predict if / when the £2k ceiling will be broken?

I'd buy waffles. Failing that, silver. There's more leverage in a price rise.

To be optimistic, in a place where economic optimism is in such short supply for sure, the ZiG might be a good thing. Let's hope so. They have bulky platinum, gold and diamond reserves. In fact, wave a stick at any notable mineral and Zimbabwe will probably have it. If they can get out of a quasi-barter culture and back on to a stable price footing then maybe, finally, things might be on the up. It's a nascent but necessary step.

Having lurked for quite some time on these forums, and having been around the block once or twice if I say so myself, I do have to say that this is starting to feel rather like a bubble. Metals are not supposed to behave like crypto, they have a much more of a heritage 🤣 I strongly suspect - and as has been pointed out by others here - that this is partly the pricing-in of a chance of future geopolitical volatility, but also the bandwaggonism of speculators jumping on the roller coaster.