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Because the estimated amount of gold we have, sold at market value would only pay back 0.3% of the debt.
A short history in it and why it matters:
The US dollar’s origin (and many-**many** countries worldwide have similar stories)… anyways the origin of the US dollar as we know it (a random piece of paper) was actually a loan. The history goes farther back than the early 1900s but I’ll reduce it to when we can see tangible results/eras people are more familiar with.
Back around WWI our govt borrowed a shit ton of money to fund the war. We borrowed a LOT. Far more value in gold than was easy to pay back.
After the war, instead of paying back our debt responsibly, The govts solution was to copy what other govts in Europe have done in the past… it printed “notes” (dollars with a different name). These notes (predecessor to the US dollar) were small pieces of paper that said they were redeemable at US govt banks for actual gold, a specific quantity.
The govt kept printing more loans (dollars) than they could pay back, instead of balancing the budget. It came to a head around 1929-1933 (great depression). They only had enough gold to pay back about 20% of all the debt they’d accumulated.
So around 1933 they did a bunch of shady shit, to include confiscating gold from its own citizens (executive order 6102), and making a claim out of thin air forcing people to act as if the gold was worth less than it was (gold reserve act of 1934).
That theft helped for a short period. Then WWII happened and the cycle started again. Then the govt only could pay back about 9% of all their debt if they completely drained their savings account.
Then the Cold War, then the Vietnam war. By 1970 the govt only had enough gold to pay back about 3% of its debt.
By the then, they had so much more debt than income and such a long history of borrowing gold they didn’t have…. And they happened to be the most powerful govt in the world, so they basically just said “fuck you” to everyone they had borrowed gold from. They said “we’re not paying anyone back the gold we borrowed” and removed the “redeemable for X gold” from the US dollar, and publicly announced that debt they owed to other countries… that they were violating those contracts and the countries would either accept non-gold-redeemable dollars, or just not get back at all.
The us govt basically robbed the whole damn world by promising to pay back a shit ton of debt with gold, then didn’t. To include robbing its own citizens both directly and indirectly.
By now, the amount of gold the US govt has can only pay back about 0.3% of all its debt.
TLDR: the US govt can’t pay back all the debt with our gold reserves because all the gold we have is only a tiny tiny fraction of the debt we have. It would only pay back something like 0.3%
Inflation is a tax.

> but collecting a diversified set of opinion reflects the market sentiment.
It is impossible to collect a representative sample of the market.
And there ARE A LOT OF INVESTIVE TO LIE AND MANIPULATE.
Dont invest on reddit advantage.
Invest if you understand the project, believe it and use it.
thats it

Hi guys!!! So, as I said in the tittle i new in this and I need some tips. I'm seeing that bitcoin dropped A LOT and I had like 6€ on it. Nothing big. But now that I see that it dropped to like 67k I'm considering to buy like 80€ because I'm feelling that it's going to go back to 100k. I'm only buying 80€ because I'm 18 yrs old, I'm still studying, this is my last year on school, so I don't have that much money. But if I had like 1k€ or 10k€ I would probably put it on bitcoin instead of the 80€. Should I put the 80€ in bitcoin?

You are correct that the US can't be a super power forever.
You are incorrect on the first paragraph. No one boycotted the US 20 years ago. I'm not sure what you are talking about. If you are referring to the fact that in 2000 most countries bought primarily from the US and now most countries buy primarily from China (https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/how-china-overtook-u-s-in-global-trade-dominance-2000-2024/) this was not due to some sort of global boycott. This was simply due to various market factors - China's industrialization, China's plan to be a manufacturing super power, China offering cheap labor that US companies were happy to utilize vs expensive domestic labor, NAFTA, and on and on. Almost all countries were involved with the GWOT, and frankly those that withdrew (like France) drew backlash for not supporting it (although the economic impact of the backlash was minimal, if anything. It was all PR bs). Its not like <insert random latin American country>one day decided "man what the US is doing is terrible, lets go buy from China", no. What occurred was that China offered them cheaper products made quicker, and those countries were happy to buy more from them than the US over time.
No one is boycotting Trump. Again, I don't know what you are talking about. The US manufactures very little in the grand scheme of things. We export a LOT of petroleum products, medical equipment, a LOT of food products (soy, corn, beef), defense and aerospace products. We certainly do not export consumer electronics, toys, light bulbs...ya know...the stuff that drives the middle class economy - this is China's business and will be for the foreseeable future. That aside, exports have been trending up for some time now.

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WILL BE WELCOMED BACK A HERO
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Simplify your life, just buy VWRP and chill. It's almost the entire global stock market (the biggest countries and companies anyway). You don't need anything else.
You will lose a LOT of money over the course of your life trying to fiddle with multiple different holdings chasing recent performance trying to second-guess the market. Whereas if you hold one fund containing everything there's nothing to think about, you just automatically buy until you retire.

If Donnie keeps driving it into the ditch, we may get there a LOT faster than you think. Just for all the wrong reasons.

Hey! You are 100% correct. There is a LOT of misinformation and a LOT of retail traders believe it. A lot of people lose money.
Look up ICT and SMC for example - examples of information which are popular, and lose people money.

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I know the title sounds like something a beginner would say, but I'll explain better:
I started day trading in 2020. I learned A LOT from the Wyckoff methodology, but I had a terrible laptop that literally froze the moment I entered a trade, so I couldn't continue in the financial market.
At the time, I ended up opening online stores and today I have an average income of 100k per month. Since it's something that demands a lot of time, I abandoned day trading and ended up forgetting 90% of what I learned about day trading at the time, but I wanted to diversify my income sources again, and obviously I'll have to redo all the courses.
The point is: at the time, my goal with day trading was to earn a maximum of 3k per month, and I know/knew that this amount is 100% possible. But today, since I know how to earn over 100k per month just by having e-commerce, I wouldn't waste my time going back to studying day trading to earn 3k per month. And what I see most are people earning 4k per month, and for them that's enough, but for me it's not.
I know that making that amount is exclusively related to the number of contracts we trade and good risk management. My intention with this post is not to ask how to make that amount.
But the question is: does anyone here make that amount per month? Do you really think it's possible?

At the end of Q4, '24 they had $67m. They are now at $116m.
Yes. That includes Motif acquisition but even when we look closer from the previous quarter it's moved up in several key areas.
WIP Dried: $53m up from $31m
Flower and Trim: $7.5m up from $3.5m

We can downplay it if you'd like but that's a LOT of cash to tie up in inventory. Especially when it's an agricultural product which degrades over time and not some widget you can throw on the shelf.

In addition, non-restricted cash is down to $7m so you have to ask yourself.... why are they still building inventory when it seems like it would be more advantageous to sell out of inventory to generate more cash?

To my eye that speaks to operational inefficiencies. A long tail supply chain which inherently requires more inventory "in progress" in order to accommodate increased top line sales

If 20% of the open interest contracts execute for physical delivery, the current registered stock of silver would be exhausted. If 100% of the open interest contracts execute for physical delivery, all eligible silver physically inside of the vaults would not be enough to cover the deliveries.
Early indication in both Jan and Feb is that A LOT of contract holders are calling for physical delivery. 20-50% delivery doesn't seem to be outlandish at this point.
The COMEX is trying to push all the wall street speculation towards the 100 oz paper-only contract. We'll see if it works.

No opposite. I was reluctant to buy over 100k but still did. Now I'm down A LOT with no chips to play but man I would buy like crazy now if I could lol.

[WTS] MASSIVE SILVER SALE! A LOT UNDER SPOT! BUY THE DIP!

I have a friend with around 5k$ on MOBOX but I can't find a way to bring the money out, he would be ok with converting to BTC and get them to an external wallet, but it also was years ago and doesn't even remember how he did it.
[it was this thing here](https://preview.redd.it/z4etfnzquoig1.png?width=635&format=png&auto=webp&s=b6c2e2722b2f79a2b76bb433678d555a487b3c07)
If you're curious yes, he lost A LOT of money with this, he doesn't believe in the project anymore and wants what's left out of there and forget about it.
He thinks he used Binance to put the funds in the first time, all he wants to do is getting the things out, if we're able to put them on an exchange so also Binance is okay it would be better, since he wants to either convert to BTC or directly sell for FIAT but I don't think you can directly sell those things.
Last time I checked, he was still mining something, with those little NFTs creatures "working" but when I tried to move them in some way or understand that, the App crashed, it was stuck or it would give an error message after trying to proceed (there was a popup with 0 gas fees).
Is there a website to manage these or can we solve this through the App?
Really any help is appreciated since we can't figure this out, I am not an expert in crypto at all and only own BTC, so I only know the core mechanisms, never touched NFTs...

Along with QQQ and VT to some extent also. Not much rationale to have all of those, but since they are all broadly diversified funds you can make a LOT worse mistakes!

SpaceX is genuinely an incredible company. They have done so much for American spaceflight in the last decade and a half. If you don't like Elon that's fine, but you're discounting a LOT of brilliant people not named Elon who have achieved extraordinary things by likening them to a memecoin.

My family were probably my biggest factor to move here other than the fact the whole of Europe is overrun. Knew I’d make A LOT more money over here and be able to support them but each to their own.

To an extent I think you are correct, and it forced me to change my portfolio already.
I think we're seeing a LOT of gambling by hedge funds, just as much fearmongering by the Doomers And Gloomers Society of America, and rational thought among the talking heads seems to be gone forever.
Case and point was a week ago when Trump said he will nominate Warsh to the Fed and earnings hit. The fearmongers came out in drove, hedge funds began their gambling cycle with the shorts, and everyone kind of lost their minds - until Friday.
After listening to none other than Jensen Huang discuss the AI build out (and the amount of time it will take to complete) was a welcome stretch of sanity the market desperately needed. I think it was the 1st time I heard anyone discuss an actual timeline to complete the build out.
This said, I've already diversified my portfolio into international & precious metals/minerals with no intention of going domestic stocks only.
Keep doing your homework and flush the fearmongers. I found out a long time ago the toughest thing to deal with regarding investing is human behavior. I was warned of it several years ago, got bit by it once, learned my lesson, and continued on.
Lastly, if you got realistic investing goals you're probably doing pretty good. Don't turn into a casino junky hedge fund. They are not having a GREAT run this century, contrary to what the talking heads keep saying.

I bought a bunch of stuff off collectors internet in 2002-2003. They had tons of various “deals”. The last one I bought was a High-Grade special for $49 a coin—Indian cent, peace, Morgan, Walker, and mercury dime. They were supposed to be MS 65 or higher. I knew nothing about coins back then. Just loved collecting (baseball cards) and took the leap into coins. I’m pretty sure they went out of business, but they definitely took advantage of A LOT of people. Not bad stuff just way overpriced. Worst part is I’m still a very trusting person (and gullible) 😊
The QVC prices blow me away.