try the Perth Mint

Try BullionCapital.com

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Goldmoney. You have all of those options and more, plus they have done what many people thought would be impossible: made gold a practical, convertible currency again through use of an almost universally accepted (i.e., MasterCard) debit card. Take that, Tricky Dick!

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That clearly remains to be seen

Give it time -- gold has had 6000 years and bitcoin has hmm? Created 2009. Why not hold both -- I do and I am glad that I do because I first bought bitcoin when it was $230.

Even when the power goes out?

David - math does not stop working when the power goes out momentarily. If you're predicting a global power outage for an extended duration i'm not buying gold i'll be trading that for guns.

In dentistry, gold still have the best longevity results, but we don't use it a lot because of aesthetic demand.

For the US, yes, we have various coins, for hardness and for purity. Canada however focuses on 4 nines fine. With eagles at .9167 pure that's more than "minute" and one has to wonder if it isn't just a way to dilute the cost while commanding a premium price. There's a video somewhere on the history of the coin and the gold reserve act I'll have to find which talked about that. Still, it is reputed to be the most popular gold coin currently minted.

Episode 2 https://www.realvision.com/rv/television/videos/fd408d9b38dd482dab574fd5e7c237e9

Watch Niall Ferguson's ascent of money on youtube. Is a 4hour video but answers your question and a lot more. Its worth the watch.

The short answer is that foreigners (in particular the French) decided they preferred gold to the USD and were rapidly draining the U.S. Treasury of its gold reserves. It was probably only after they got away with demonetizing gold (actually, demonetizing the dollar) that they realized what a great thing they had created: the ability to spend money that they didn't have like drunken sailors on leave. Hence "temporary" conveniently became "permanent."

I agree and would take your observation one step further. The 80's saw the rise of the "yuppie", built on a culture of easy money. From there we have had three decades of exponentially rising debt levels and income inequality. Which begs the question, to what extent would society change if we were ever to revert back to a gold standard? Quite significantly, is my belief.

Everything everywhere at all times is cosmic Stevo. Particles are waves. Form is emptiness. Gasho.

It's my (VERY primitive/ basic) understanding that ordinary stars produce all the elements from Helium up to and including Fe (iron, atomic #32) by various nuclear fusion reactions during their "main sequence" lives (mostly the lighter elements earlier in their lives, progressing up to iron very late in their lives). I understand that supernovae are thought to be the source of all elements heavier (higher atomic #) than Fe - & is my impression that supernovae contribute little if any of the lighter elements. Neutron stars may well be involved in creation of Au, either in addition or in substitution to supernova processes, but i doubt that supernovae have much to do w/ any of the lighter elements.

Did you mean that Rick is a SAVANT? He's the LEAST savage-acting/ appearing person I know of.

Great idea William, would love to see that too. A lot of the bond stuff also goes over my head and I don’t see the obvious relation of it. Even got confused by how a bull market is one where rates go down? Would really appreciate a grounds up explanation. Didn’t get gold at all but can clearly see the importance of this as a hedge and insurance now with the exposure to so many great experts. This video just adds even more colour to that view. Many thanks.

@Eric F.: You may want to start a little further down at the base of your knowledge to answer those questions. I would recommend Investopedia. Related to your bond question for example: https://www.investopedia.com/walkthrough/corporate-finance/3/bonds/valuation.aspx

Thanks Gordon, much appreciated. Less so the 3 down votes.

I agree that I don’t think RV emphasises the quality and standing of some of their guests. They don’t just pull these guys off the street, most of these people are at the top of their fields.

ROFL!

Peter U. you mock now. One day you might end up trading your kingdom for an oz.

Lock it up in the glove box of your car.

www.goldmoney.com

Excellent point. As RV builds its audience, it will by definition have to target a lower common denominator. But I would not compare this piece, with any of that other stuff. For two reasons. 1. First, is the visual journey that Grant takes us on, to see that vault (which BTW has a bit of a mythical status in the gold community), and the refinery itself. These visits help investors to flesh out one of the biggest questions in the hard money community right now: how safe is Swiss gold storage (from seizure by the state) during a time when its government and monetary policy is in a shambles? My feeling from watching this video: quite safe. I don't think the Swiss government would sacrifice this key industry, for the short-term benefits a gold seizure would bring. A picture is worth a thousand words, but a video is worth a million. 2. The video is understated, by very real brand value that Grant himself offers as host. At the risk of sounding like an infomercial, hard money watchers have been following Grant's presentations and analysis for years. Sit through one of those, and you will never look at the economy the same way again. So when Grant visits these places and talks to these guys, he is asking the exact same questions that we would be asking. ***** You might not have learned as much from this presentation, as the other up-to-the minute stuff in the other presentations. But don't forget, physical gold buyers don't trade, they buy and hold and pretty much never sell. So they don't always need up to the minute stuff about that portion of their portfolio. Many get real value by reviewing their old ideas about the hard money portions of their portolios, with a trusted hand, who has the budgets and time to do this full-time.

The amount of time and money spent on this video alone is reason to keep it within Real Vision. Get the Vision?

Good idea...but not quite yet. I still need to pick up a number of more gold explorers and miners while they are still cheap. :-)

Aye. Likely central bankers who logged on and voted thumbs down - only explanation I can think of. lol

well... we saw that the ultra rich keep their gold in an expensive vault under the Alps, there is a high fixed cost to go that, I know as I live in Europe, so where should people who own from 1 to 5 kg of gold keep their bars if they should keep it in a safety deposit box in bank? drill a hole in your wall at home close to the copper tubes? spend 2000 Euros to spend a week in Switzerland and find a vault? keep them in singapore? it was interest to view the vault but no solutions were offered for common investors

second the motion

Thank you for this. Your views reflect exactly what I have long suspected about those who care for the common good and believe in the inherent beauty of mankind. Tomorrow I will dig up all my gold and bury it six feet deeper.

Well the exercise will be good for you.

Boy are you in left field

True. Sort of. Most of the hard money crowd here, know most of this stuff. But GW took us into that damn storage facility and refinery and enabled us to feel it. Tell me you didn't look at those 1 KG bars being poured and think one thing: to heck with my RRSP/IRA...I'm trading it in for real stuff...

I truly wish that "in-the-minority views" (like the on thumbs down on this comment) would provide some detail as to why he/she didn't like David S. comment? We usually learn from dissenting views.

I agree with Peter U. comments, it would be helpful. If the gold standard would return, however, the price of gold would be pegged very high to compensate for the huge amount of money in circulation and the limited amount of gold. Anyone with gold holdings would make a lot of money. The gold peg, as set by a government would normally be wrong -who trust the government to know more than the market raise your hand. This will allow traders to bet against the peg in many different currencies with tax payers on the other side of the trade. DLS

This is a good point. For the average investor saving for less than 20 years, something with a 6000-year time frame may not actually be important to that investor.

Very good point, besides the world has never been globalized as it is today, which could be good or bad for gold but probably increases the volatility you mention. I would own much less gold if Asia and India in particular didn't have such a long tradition.

This is a great point. However, I think the reason why you own gold now is because the likelihood that fiat currencies spin out of control in the short-term appears more likely. Also, simply measuring the debt of the entire world and it's growth relative to gold should indicate that a re-balancing of gold is way over due. That re-balancing act will likely be the greatest of all the "yields" or returns of investors in the coming years. Naturally, gold will find it's way back to its cost to acquire it, but as of now it is much more like a balloon being held under water making the people owning it part of the early/smart money pre-bubble.

keep RV a secret

Absolutely!

Hear, hear. I saw his presentation at jekyll Island; his presentation style was rambling and anecdotal, but what he said in between was interesting. He is a disruptive management technique in himself.

Having friends is a good thing! Right Grant?

Me too Joe, RV totally opened my eyes to this.