16-01-2009, 02:41 PM
Damien Lloyd Wrote:After watching the US housing bubble burst in 2005 I realised that the same thing was imminent in the UK so I took our small wedding fund out of our high interst savings account and bought gold bullion.
Damien, was it "physical metal" you bought or paper gold like gold bullion ETF's? I understand that it is virtually impossible to get delivery of physical metal, even coins like Krugerrands, and most buyers end up owning paper instead. Only the truly wealthy can afford physical metal and they are piling into it in droves as the expectation of defaults of the US dollar and even feasibly Sterling in the next few months are seriously being talked about. This obviously is pushing the price up and up.
Just nosey is all...
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14