Illusion of Prosperity: Where Are the Aluminum Speculators?

Sunday, July 15, 2012

Troy said...: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=8ML

yellow is gold, black is oil, blue is gold / sqrt(oil)

Dunno if this is any good, just a wild idea I had.

Saddens me that I could have been buying an ounce of gold every month for the past 25 years.

Then again a single share of AAPL every month 1987-2004 would have done better . . . 300oz worth at Friday's close.

AAPL is going to be larger than XOM and MSFT put together (if current trends continue this year and next).

In the MRQ Apple made $18B after COGS and $3B in operating overhead from that. Insane.; July 15, 2012 at 10:01 PM
dearieme said...: We're well stocked with cooking foil, thank you.; July 16, 2012 at 6:37 AM
Stagflationary Mark said...: Troy,

Saddens me that I could have been buying an ounce of gold every month for the past 25 years.

If only I had put the money on 23 instead of 22! ;); July 16, 2012 at 12:59 PM
Stagflationary Mark said...: dearieme,

I think we may form the elite core of aluminum speculators. ;); July 16, 2012 at 1:00 PM

Illusion of Prosperity