Why There Are Gold Bugs & Silver Stackers

And yet in every single country on the planet people are using currency to buy and sell commodities. Before during and after financial resets they continue to use money to buy and sell commodities. People decide whether or not to except the value/price points.The ways that value is assigned to apples, dollars, rupees, gold bars, and candy bars, is exactly the same. If buyers and sellers agree on a price/value a trade can be made. I will never agree that a Tesla electric vehicle is worth $250K, so I will never buy one for that price and if enough other people decide that price is too high they will not buy either, and the price will drop until people are willing to buy it.That is how the economy works. A sign of record corporate profits. That's one of those odd things that seems counter-intuitive. When commodities are scarce or cost more to produce (for example because of higher wages for workers) their price increases. This also means that the economy is growing, which economists measure and claim is a positive goal. So, without price and wage increases there is no economic growth and we do know that economic stagnation is not the goal. What you call inflation is actually economic growth. The economy is not a zero sum game. The reason your wages do not keep pace with inflation is because huge amounts of currency are sequestered or removed from flowing through the economy by the ultra wealthy. They remove more value from the economy than they contribute, which means everyone else has to make up the difference.

That's what we have mostly done as well, but I made a wild gamble once.The company I worked for years ago had an employee stock purchase plan where you bought shares and for every 4 shares you bought they gave you one share. Right after 9-11 the stock market tanked and our stock price dropped all the way down to $2.10 a share. I took all of our other retirement savings and bought stock...BOY OH BOY was my wife pissed!! Over the years we watched the price climb back up, eventually to $180 per share, I think. Then it slowly dropped back to around $60 and we felt like we had lost a bunch of money (that we never actually had, LOL). Anyway, in 2007-08 sometime the price got up to $80 and we sold all the shares except what was in my 401K, and my wife started speaking to me again. The next day the price jumped to $85 and we groaned...two days later the price started dropping and didn't stop until it got down to around $17 and we were in the middle of the worst recession in my lifetime.Calculating the cost basis of these stocks for capitol gains tax was a royal pain! The price was different every month when we purchased shares, plus another company bought our whole corporation and then sold off 2 divisions, but continued the same plan with their stock, so we had to calculate the number of new shares we were issued for our old ones.

We just put our IRAs in certificate accounts that pay over 5.5%. Funny, high interest rates don't matter to me anymore since we don't borrow money anymore.

What does that have to do with Japan's economy or the U.S. dollar or silver or gold? You may not have noticed, but economies are always in a state of flux, sometimes rapid and sometime slow. Are we ever out of the woods? Do we want to get out of the woods? Why?What do the woods symbolize to you?

It would have been enough to just say "confusion". Your examples of your confusion don't really clarify anything. "A dilution of the pursuit of happiness and peace of mind." Really? This means something to you?

How do you know it is not happening? Just what exactly are you doing about it?Thoughts and prayers should save the day, shouldn't they? But what I think is more likely, the Republicans in Congress will cause the U.S. to default on it's debt, making barrowing in the future more expensive.