What date does Ag hit $100?

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A Big Mac, small fries and drink was 89 cents in 1970.
 
nickndfl said:
A Big Mac, small fries and drink was 89 cents in 1970.
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Remember the tevee spot they'd run? They'd show the BM (nyark-nyark) and fries and the large Coke...and the announcer would say "...and something you haven't SEEN for awhile. Change for your dollar." Que up the jingle.

But there were a lot of things different, back then, aside from the debased dollar. The government wasn't trying to ban meat or cattle ranching. French fries were fried in beef tallow, instead of seed oils - that we were told were "healthier," a baldfaced lie.

Coke was made with cane sugar, not corn sweetener. You can't say sugar water is healthy, but relatively-speaking, it was better for you.

PRIMARILY, though...back then, businesses often were run (depending on the owners and corporate structure) with the customer in mind, not Social Engineering, political power or quarterly profits. In 1970 Ray Kroc was in charge, and his vision was a CLEAN, INEXPENSIVE drive-in, in the SUBURBS or roadside. Safe. Clean. Dare I say it?...WHITE.

A lot of businesses were different. When GM turned contemptuous of its customers, VW offered a 1934-designed European car that was engineered to last forever. THAT business philosophy lasted until VW was taken over (from the inside) by NSU, the failed company they had bought out of bankruptcy, in 1973.

Which is Financial Engineering, and now it's common. And a common source of problems. Government takeover has led to GM's current line of unaffordable crappy products. (Woke mind-virus, infecting Billy Ford, is why Ford has similar problems now). Hatred and contempt for customers, celebration and unquestioning-acceptance of Malthusianism (Club-Of-Rome Depopulation Agenda) has corrupted and restricted our food.

It all comes down to the Elites - and the sumps they learn all this untrue, toxic swill in, the "universities."
 
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LOL....memories........ i was a single dad with two very young kids in the late 80s n early 90s .........i remember McD having a "sale" on thier hamburgers i think it was .25 each ....so i would go buy 10 -12 made plain with no condiments and take them home and freeze them so i could microwave up quick burgers for the kids if needed in a hurry ....that was the days before you could buy microwaveable burgers premade
 
I remember it as 39 cents. I also remember a write-up in the Cleveland birdcage-liner...a reporterette called Fallen Arches Corporate, and asked what was the story. The spokes-idiot said it was a program that franchisees could adopt in various markets, and the parent company would provide some assistance.

I guess, hamburger meat that got thawed and re-frozen. I noticed it about 1984...I was driving a cab, a suburban cab company, and the 7-Eleven I used for coffee was next to a Fallen Arches. So I did notice it; and bought one; and found out it wasn't nearly as good as I remembered it being, twenty years earlier.

When they were 15 cents. I was seven years old when the Hamburger Clown came to town...because it was a novelty, my mother took us there, the first time. Because we had a family project going on that sometimes rushed Fridays, we went a few moar times. My father, German to the core, condemned the chocolate shakes as "too artificial." But we all liked the fries...BACK THEN. Not the same as they are today, cooked in Canola oil and not salted.

But, as they say, you had to be there. Then the prices rose - 30 cents, then 45 cents, then we stopped going. So I snorted when I read that a 39-cent burger was a bargain. I was still young and inflation wasn't a concrete concept in my mind - just that it meant prices were rising, this mysterious demonic force.

Today, anyone can cook better burgers. If he can get good ground beef, that is...
 
Friday night in 1976, 4 buddys with $20 bucks between them, could get a case of tall boys, 4 packs of Marlboros, a little hippy lettuce and 4-5 gallons of gas.
We would fill up the V.W bug, crank up the Pioneer super tuner blasting though Jenson tri-axles in the back, co axles in the door and go looking for trouble. I was 15 yo.
 
That would be about $200-$250, now.

And you wouldn't have a VW old enough for kids to afford. They repair-cost total out, now, at about four years old - where the failed proprietary electronics cost moar to repair than the fragile, status-focused "People's Car" models are worth at that age.

I dunno...what old car do kids today, drive? The few who get off their screens long enough to actually get a license, get a job, save a few bucks to own a car...?
 
How many times a month do you hear gunshots in your neighborhood? Here, in my hood, it's two or three every couple of weeks. Hardly ever any bodies, though. Last one was about six years ago.
I always leave my wallet at home when I take my dog for a walk. I carry a flip phone, old driver's license and a knife. Never had any problems in ten years of walking the dogs.
The homeless live around here in the woods. They're a pain in the ass because they steal mail. I've had a few walk down my 150 foot driveway but I get an alert, check the video and chase the vagrant off. If I meet em on a dog walk I ignore them and continue on. Unless they're screamin-assed crazy. Then I stick my hand in my knife pocket as I navigate pass.
My street is dead ended five houses down and only about a block long. My driveway sets me down hill at 15° about 200 feet from the street. Makes it a bitch if it snows but, as you know, it mostly rains here. The other neighbors on the street are above my property. The back of the house is surrounded by wild blackberry bushes 50-60 feet deep — cheap fence. One neighbor on one side, greenspace on the other. Everybody else is beyond the blackberries and downslope.
I like it here, I'm cool, good place to live my life out (16 moar years)
If things blow up before then and the population of Seattle turns into cannibals — oh well, it was good while it lasted.


(Unh sorry for the thread drift - BF)
 
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...same age.....also remember working in winter washing dishes for 1$ a hr....and farm work in summer 3$ a hr....gas price rising to where the 1$ a hr job quit making sense to drive to....it all was good till gas prices jumped....my vehicle bought at 15yrs old cost $500 chev pu
 
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In the spirit of continuing Thread-Drift...

Bottom Feeder said:
How many times a month do you hear gunshots in your neighborhood? Here, in my hood, it's two or three every couple of weeks. Hardly ever any bodies, though. Last one was about six years ago.
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Hmmm. Actually, the last time I heard gunshots was, New Year's Eve. Poor White Trailer-Trash a block away, shooting guns at the sky (or maybe streetlights) because they already set off all their Black Cats. Can't get moar at midnight, New Year's.

Homeless? We had one burn down a restaurant, a few blocks from where I am. The restaurant had closed about six months ago, but there's no question it was a homeless bum (female) and not arson. Video security cams caught her doing it. She's in the Just-Us program now - since I have read nothing, I expect she got about six lifetimes' of Inactive Probation.

That restaurant was about a block away from Ruby's Cafe - used as a setting in Yellowstone. Yeah; we're 80k in a tiny valley area, and about half of the population is recent-arrival Californicators. So we got problems.

Welcome to Obombamerica.

(Threadjack over)
 
Hmmm

It’s looking like gold could hit $5000 before silver hits the magic 100

Did any of us predict this ?
 
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I don't believe the numbers? I got back in the market last night in the aftermarket and then went long more this morning. These are generational gains, life changing and wife changing gains. It's been bigger than the advent of the internet for my portfolio when I was averaging +25% for 5 years in a row and thought I was killing it.

I told my son to pay attention as he may never see a market like this again. He is actually living my life now, but about 35 years younger. My gains have been so explosive I am prepping to possibly step down in my business at the end of the year and have him takeover.

No way no how could this have been predicted with any conviction. It's a new book.
 
Looking at after hours right now we could simultaneously hit Au & Ag milestones on the same day this month seperated by a few hours. That would make a great hat! $5k/$100 2026
 
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No way no how could this have been predicted with any conviction. It's a new book.
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I kind of predicted it back in May 2024, but I didn't have strong conviction until March 2025 when the FT reported the LBMA as being T+60 on gold deliveries and the COMEX had drained the LBMA's silver ocean. In September 2025, I got "Morpheus knowing Neo is the one" level conviction. You folks thought I was loony when I started that buy gold/silver with credit thread, but I knew it was time to go all in.
 
Market is going parabolic. I think the only way to use credit would be margin, but that is very risky. You would be better off with leveraged ETFs.
 
Gonna be some big capital gains bills ……..
Just in time to pay for that big old lump of ice
 
Spot hs doubled since your cc thread start. Nice call.
 
and we’re into the final straight , with the golden filly looking like it’s loosing its pace but hi ho silver is also showing signs of slowing …… the crowd is on its feet, the roar of those combined voices is deafening and its still anybody’s race …….
 


Sounds like my childhood. Only we would have a couple cases of Rolling Rock ponies (brewery was 8 miles away), a bag of Panama Red, and a gallon of Pennsylvania's finest moonshine at $18 a gallon. The Pioneer Super Tuner and the Jensens were a given, but let's not forget the under dash 8-track player playing the Doobie Brothers.
 


Quite often in deer season. No homeless that I am aware of. Mostly large properties around me. My 45 acres is one of the smaller ones. I can see my neighbor's house in the winter when the leaves are down, but it is still pretty far away. Nearest gas station is 20 minutes. Nearest grocery store is 20 minutes. To walk down my 900-foot driveway, one would first have to climb a locked gate. Not advisable. I have two guard dogs who roam my place day and night that tip the scales at a combined 370 pounds.
 
"You folks"?

I encouraged it. And gave you a way to tap into even more credit.

Around the same time I traded gold for Ag and Re. Also took out a 1/2 million dollar loan for more metals.

But I also incorporate AI Slop™ in my trend estimates.

 
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