Martlet

Are those concerned about energy and food also planning holidays? Chatter i'm seeing is a lot of concern with a lot of discretionary spending. It will be a hard winter for many without a major policy change on energy, think some respond to sentiment and talk it down.

Central Bank Digital Currency. In the fevered mind of some they will replace currency and the government will control what you can spend on. In practice they'll only appeal to statist nations, like China, because with control over spending comes responsbility to provide for the population. China is culurally fine with that, Western liberal democracies would rather tell you what to do from arms length, let you get on with the day to day. The real advantage of them, and crypto generally in future, will be in the finance industries, where they tracking of ownership of assets reduces risks.

I can think of other sets of risk. If a company that holds your gold under full allocation goes bust and the asset cannot be accessed, or ownership not proven. Or if the government seize the assets allocated to you, or simply seize all of that asset type in secure vaults.

I think there's a lot of mixing up of two different power stations in the news, and a sprinkling of western/Ukrainian spin. Its sufficient to spook the market however will bounce back Monday when there isnt plumes of radioactive ducts across eastern Europe. Generally, this war has little effect on most businesses, except the increase in oil price. This looks artifical too, as no one has sanctioned Oil/Gas exports yet. I saw something the US are looking to do this but they import so little to make no difference. In such times gold becomes the haven for flight from risk, the lack of significant flight suggests the risks are not that great on deeper analysis.

Awkward view when earlier in thread we have a poster who seems to think it can be cut out for little impact. People really do get taken in by "free" p&p, and often pay more when you look at >1 item because of it.

I dont think they have an actual pipeline though. So all by ship, if they have them.

Cheapest will be Chards probably. CGT answered above. You shouldnt pay import on gold to UK but seems customs and delivery companies often get this wrong and even corrected fees may have to be paid. After shipping unlikly to be cheaper. No such power exists today. You dont, cant send physical over the ether. But online sellers will always accept fiat (albeit poor exchange) and this is where crypto comes in. All coins and notes will be changed over through banks, as happend many times before.

In the modern world people tend to buy things, spend everything earnt rather than save. Product of decades of good times and state welfare.

I once faced a similar dilema, finding a mis-pricing and wondering if i should take advantage or inform the business. When I rechecked, realised i'd misunderstood the specification and it was not mis-priced at all. I wonder if thats happened here.

Will that involve returning to 20 shillings to the £? Hopefully using silver coinage, will help the silver price.

Certainly agree about Brown. However recent history does tell us things are different, for other reasons. Better to come to terms with change rather than insist it must be how we think it should be.

What currency will the independant Scotland use? Euro? Gold? Sturgeon CBDC?

It was different the last few times. You may have noticed no proper property market correction for 30 years despite two recessions and a stock market crash.

Sovereign more collected i'd imagine. The 1989 Sov PF70 has been £1900-2000 for a few months so it's not a unusual occurance.

A technical analyst i follow is calling for lower gold and silver to fall in short term (long term very bullish).