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Post by missouriboy on Sept 27, 2021 20:28:42 GMT
And then where do you put it? Thats the problem. It's incredibly expensive to get your money out of 401K's and IRA's after taxes and penalties. Don't know if you're interested. Don't know if I'll do it, but I checked around to see how you can move IRA funds into physical (not paper or stocks) gold and silver with no penalty, or taxes. Just need a trustee and a depository. And right in your part of the woods, Texas Precious Metals (Shiner TX). Got an excellent reputation. Have a state of the art onsite vault with reasonable rates. And have two trustees to take care of the paperwork (not in Texas). Haven't checked their fees yet. But it's all on their website: Texmetals.com. I have done business with them in the past. Check for their depository and it's under IRAs. You can buy through them and just have it put in the vault with the trustee paperwork. Later: Just got off my duff and called one of the custodians ... Goldstar Trust Co. It IS in Texas (Canyon). Their fees seem reasonable: $50 setup, $1 per $1000 maintenance ($75 min.) annual, $1 per $1000 storage ($100 min.) annual. Am checking on rollover fees or other incidentals like insurance. |
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Post by glennkoks on Sept 27, 2021 21:34:02 GMT
Thats the problem. It's incredibly expensive to get your money out of 401K's and IRA's after taxes and penalties. Don't know if you're interested. Don't know if I'll do it, but I checked around to see how you can move IRA funds into physical (not paper or stocks) gold and silver with no penalty, or taxes. Just need a trustee and a depository. And right in your part of the woods, Texas Precious Metals (Shiner TX). Got an excellent reputation. Have a state of the art onsite vault with reasonable rates. And have two trustees to take care of the paperwork (not in Texas). Haven't checked their fees yet. But it's all on their website: Texmetals.com. I have done business with them in the past. Check for their depository and it's under IRAs. You can buy through them and just have it put in the vault with the trustee paperwork. Later: Just got off my duff and called one of the custodians ... Goldstar Trust Co. It IS in Texas (Canyon). Their fees seem reasonable: $50 setup, $1 per $1000 maintenance ($75 min.) annual, $1 per $1000 storage ($100 min.) annual. Am checking on rollover fees or other incidentals like insurance. That sounds reasonable. I will check it out. Shiner Texas is a small very conservative small town just west of Houston an hour or so. Established by Germans and Czechs and known for their beer! |
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Post by code on Sept 28, 2021 13:13:08 GMT
Don't know if you're interested. Don't know if I'll do it, but I checked around to see how you can move IRA funds into physical (not paper or stocks) gold and silver with no penalty, or taxes. Just need a trustee and a depository. And right in your part of the woods, Texas Precious Metals (Shiner TX). Got an excellent reputation. Have a state of the art onsite vault with reasonable rates. And have two trustees to take care of the paperwork (not in Texas). Haven't checked their fees yet. But it's all on their website: Texmetals.com. I have done business with them in the past. Check for their depository and it's under IRAs. You can buy through them and just have it put in the vault with the trustee paperwork. Later: Just got off my duff and called one of the custodians ... Goldstar Trust Co. It IS in Texas (Canyon). Their fees seem reasonable: $50 setup, $1 per $1000 maintenance ($75 min.) annual, $1 per $1000 storage ($100 min.) annual. Am checking on rollover fees or other incidentals like insurance. That sounds reasonable. I will check it out. Shiner Texas is a small very conservative small town just west of Houston an hour or so. Established by Germans and Czechs and known for their beer! Would appreciate moving these thoughts on money, IRA's etc over to the money thread, not many people looking for discussions on money will look under Ag Production |
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Post by missouriboy on Sept 28, 2021 15:04:38 GMT
That sounds reasonable. I will check it out. Shiner Texas is a small very conservative small town just west of Houston an hour or so. Established by Germans and Czechs and known for their beer! Would appreciate moving these thoughts on money, IRA's etc over to the money thread, not many people looking for discussions on money will look under Ag Production Agreed. Just the wheat and potato Barons.  Add an "e" and we can include the British. Question: What is the most efficient way of doing that? |
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Post by glennkoks on Sept 28, 2021 16:37:38 GMT
That sounds reasonable. I will check it out. Shiner Texas is a small very conservative small town just west of Houston an hour or so. Established by Germans and Czechs and known for their beer! Would appreciate moving these thoughts on money, IRA's etc over to the money thread, not many people looking for discussions on money will look under Ag Production Sorry got sidetracked. Point being Agricultural purchases from China are subject to the broader economy there which is feeling stress from the housing market. China is now the worlds biggest importer of agricultural products and any large drops in the value of their currency is going to make everything more expensive for them. With inflation and a weaker Yuan it's going to cost the average Chinese citizen more to eat. Should there be any disruptive weather issues during this year in the NH harvest season we could see food prices spike. One of the videos I linked too showed a Chinese worker who lost everything in the Evergrande crises explain how he did not know how he was going to have money to eat. They already have the highest inflation rate in 13 years. www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-may-factory-gate-prices-rise-fastest-pace-over-12-years-2021-06-09/www.fas.usda.gov/data/china-evolving-demand-world-s-largest-agricultural-import-market |
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Post by ratty on Sept 30, 2021 11:47:56 GMT
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Post by Sigurdur on Sept 30, 2021 12:15:08 GMT
Cold 🥶
No coffee
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Post by glennkoks on Sept 30, 2021 12:40:45 GMT
This is disturbing. I have learned that despite a fondness for good Octoberfest beers I can live without alcohol. I'm not sure I can make it without a good cup of coffee! |
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Post by glennkoks on Sept 30, 2021 12:50:39 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Sept 30, 2021 14:07:06 GMT
This is disturbing. I have learned that despite a fondness for good Octoberfest beers I can live without alcohol. I'm not sure I can make it without a good cup of coffee! Very disturbing indeed. Coffee has been considered a "neccesity" for a long time. The Union armies were supplied with coffee in the 1860s. The Confederate armies traded Southern tobacco for it across the lines (soldier to soldier) because of the blockade. Green coffee beans store for a much long time period than roasted. Some claim almost indefinitely under the right conditions. Two-three years (or so) would be good for the Zombie apocalypse. It is apparently pretty straight forward to roast your own. Likely an acquired talent. Could be interesting. Checking with Marta's Colombian family. But green Colombian beans (and others) are available on the internet. Green beans are said to have superior antioxident properties and are consumed green by some. Green beans have a different taste though. |
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Post by missouriboy on Sept 30, 2021 14:20:15 GMT
Good news. Particularly if production is bad in World Ag areas. Great for US farmers if this Administration doesn't figure a way to give it away for nothing. Th2 following is an excellant source for World ag areas. Great publication visually. Can't comment on accuracy. Am assuming (hoping) the USDA maintains high standards. World production figures by crop type and geographic area (page 23) shows essentially no dramatic changes in production for the larger regions (Sept estimates) from 2019-20 and 2020-21. Not even in China ... would like to know their sources on that one. www.fas.usda.gov/data/world-agricultural-production |
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Post by walnut on Sept 30, 2021 14:47:12 GMT
This is disturbing. I have learned that despite a fondness for good Octoberfest beers I can live without alcohol. I'm not sure I can make it without a good cup of coffee! Very disturbing indeed. Coffee has been considered a "neccesity" for a long time. The Union armies were supplied with coffee in the 1860s. The Confederate armies traded Southern tobacco for it across the lines (soldier to soldier) because of the blockade. Green coffee beans store for a much long time period than roasted. Some claim almost indefinitely under the right conditions. Two-three years (or so) would be good for the Zombie apocalypse. It is apparently pretty straight forward to roast your own. Likely an acquired talent. Could be interesting. Checking with Marta's Colombian family. But green Colombian beans (and others) are available on the internet. Green beans are said to have superior antioxident properties and are consumed green by some. Green beans have a different taste though. I remember reading a list of Union soldier rations. They ate pretty well (at least in the beginning), and the list included "one quart of good coffee" per day per man.
I've wondered what exactly constituted "good coffee" at that time.
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Post by missouriboy on Sept 30, 2021 15:36:00 GMT
Very disturbing indeed. Coffee has been considered a "neccesity" for a long time. The Union armies were supplied with coffee in the 1860s. The Confederate armies traded Southern tobacco for it across the lines (soldier to soldier) because of the blockade. Green coffee beans store for a much long time period than roasted. Some claim almost indefinitely under the right conditions. Two-three years (or so) would be good for the Zombie apocalypse. It is apparently pretty straight forward to roast your own. Likely an acquired talent. Could be interesting. Checking with Marta's Colombian family. But green Colombian beans (and others) are available on the internet. Green beans are said to have superior antioxident properties and are consumed green by some. Green beans have a different taste though. I remember reading a list of Union soldier rations. They ate pretty well (at least in the beginning), and the list included "one quart of good coffee" per day per man.
I've wondered what exactly constituted "good coffee" at that time.
Anything that would give you a buzz in the morning? I see a dissertation on this one.  Were the beans imported green and roasted before distribution? Did Divisions roast their own? Did they brew it green? Union troops generally were well supplied throughout the War. The Confederate troops are the ones that struggled. They foraged for much of what they got. By the end they were called an army of walking scarecrows ... but still spunky. There are written accounts of their exploits. Jackson's "foot cavalry" could easily march 20 miles in a day, feeding themselves off of anything growing in fields along the way, and go into a fight with a short rest. In 1862 ... "In one day they marched from Harper's Ferry to Strasburgh, nearly fifty miles". Our ancestors were much better at handling basic physical adversity. Farm boys with a knowledge of feeding themselves off the land. How would our present population fare in similar circumstances? Soldiers without MREs? |
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Post by walnut on Sept 30, 2021 15:45:24 GMT
I remember reading a list of Union soldier rations. They ate pretty well (at least in the beginning), and the list included "one quart of good coffee" per day per man.
I've wondered what exactly constituted "good coffee" at that time.
Anything that would give you a buzz in the morning? I see a dissertation on this one. Were the beans imported green and roasted before distribution? Did Divisions roast their own? Did they brew it green? Union troops generally were well supplied throughout the War. The Confederate troops are the ones that struggled. They foraged for much of what they got. By the end they were called an army of walking scarecrows ... but still spunky. There are written accounts of their exploits. Jackson's "foot cavalry" could easily march 20 miles in a day, feeding themselves off of anything growing in fields along the way, and go into a fight with a short rest. In 1862 ... "In one day they marched from Harper's Ferry to Strasburgh, nearly fifty miles". Our ancestors were much better at handling basic physical adversity. Farm boys with a knowledge of feeding themselves off the land. How would our present population fare in similar circumstances? Soldiers without MREs? 20 miles with a heavy 19th century rifle, boots and gear, on no sleep and few calories, is actually pretty incredible.
We did it in the infantry several times in the '80s but we were generally well nourished.
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Post by missouriboy on Oct 1, 2021 8:18:01 GMT
SIG When different sources don't match I get suspecious. We read all these disaster reports on wheat and corn producton in various areas, Yet USDA shows very little change. Wheat production is up for the year for the World, China, Brazil, Argentina. Wheat production is down slightly in the US and the former Soviet Republics. Same for corn except US is up and there is NO China production period. There do not appear to be any production disasters across larger areas according to USDA. Are the reports of production disasters wrong? Or is USDA cooking the books? Something smells fishy. www.fas.usda.gov/data/world-agricultural-production |
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Add an "e" and we can include the British.
Were the beans imported green and roasted before distribution? Did Divisions roast their own? Did they brew it green?