Sam Taube
speaker
407 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 2d ago
Sam Taube’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And that might mean like paying for a safety deposit box.
And that's that's an ongoing cost that could eat into your returns.
And you also have to take care of it.
Like silver in particular has to be protected from the air or else it like oxidizes and darkens and then you have to polish it.
And it's a whole thing.
And you also have to find a trustworthy buyer and physically take it to them if you want to sell it.
We have an article about how to buy gold that discusses some of these pitfalls of keeping physical precious metals.
And the lead editor of the NerdWallet investing team, Ariel O'Shea, has said,
An entertaining story that she recounts in that article about some of the difficulties and complications that she found when she was trying to sell some gold jewelry that had been in her family.
So point being, there's a case for physical precious metals as doomsday insurance, but as a portfolio investment, you're probably better off buying shares of a gold ETF or something.
It'll be a lot less of a hassle.
Well, I think the better question is what the U.S.
dollar means for the silver and gold rally.
Yeah, some portion of the increase in price in precious metals is just that the dollar isn't what it used to be.
And gold and silver are fulfilling their historical role of holding their value when the currency is in the toilet.
The U.S.
dollar index, which measures the value of the dollar against a basket of other currencies, is down about 11% over the past year, which is a pretty huge slide for the world's reserve currency.
Usually it just bounces around by maybe a percent or two, but 11% is really big.
If you look at the price of gold in another currency like the euro or the Swiss franc, it is still up, but it's up by a lot less than the dollar price of gold.
There are a number of things.
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