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Re:The Longest Record Broken: Gold/Silver Ratio Hits Highest... by pontifier on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @09:16AM (#22616262)
This explains a lot about what I'm seeing right now.

It's probably the most terrifying thing I've read since this whole thing started.

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Re:The Longest Record Broken: Gold/Silver Ratio Hits Highest... by aguyfromnb on Thursday March 19, 2020 @09:48AM (#22627445)
>It's probably the most terrifying thing I've read since this whole thing started

Now you can see why being able to print money is a feature of a modern economy, not a bug (a la Bitcoin).

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Re:The Longest Record Broken: Gold/Silver Ratio Hits Highest... by sfj on Friday March 20, 2020 @10:25AM (#22637723)
I wonder how stable printing money is, though. It seems the Fed never seems to be able to return to where it was, regarding its balance sheet.
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