Shortages and price variations where you are

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Vol423 said:
That's not the way that works. Your $5,000 liability is still $5,000. After a massive devaluation, you still repay the same $5,000. In your example, it's just that the $5,000 is now only worth $50 in today's dollars. The issue with hyperinflation is that now it costs $100 to buy a bag of 5 apples. No bueno.
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Let me say it one more time... they will change the rules to be in their favor.

But you do your own thing if you choose to borrow in this climate. I'm not taking a chance of them changing the rules.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
Silver, also.

Meanwhile, copper and zinc are running like their hair is on fire...
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I bought both Pt and Pd today, to get made into catalyst. Hopefully it arrives at my door in 6 months. Don’t keep up with gold or silver. Copper and zinc comprise more than 50 wt% of several key catalysts for my business but my lead time on those is now out to 18 months!
 
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RavinDave said:
I bought both Pt and Pd today, to get made into catalyst. Hopefully it arrives at my door in 6 months. Don’t keep up with gold or silver. Copper and zinc comprise more than 50 wt% of several key catalysts for my business but my lead time on those is now out to 18 months!
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Leadtimes are stoopid. Ashamed the Radicals killed mining, drilling, manufacturing in this nation. The Climate Loons don't mind it being performed in CCP as they type out their vitriol and proclamations on their iPhones and Puters
 
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Orangeburst said:
Leadtimes are stoopid. Ashamed the Radicals killed mining, drilling, manufacturing in this nation. The Climate Loons don't mind it being performed in CCP as they type out their vitriol and proclamations on their iPhones and Puters
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One of my core copper catalysts is used globally in chemistry labs and only made in Germany. Funny thing happened this year when the lead time suddenly went from less than a year to 18 months. OEMs in Germany and France and Japan who never bought from me before, could not get product from their regular distributors and I started the year with more than a 2-year supply. Got orders from new customers in Germany and France and Japan.
 
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RavinDave said:
One of my core copper catalysts is used globally in chemistry labs and only made in Germany. Funny thing happened this year when the lead time suddenly went from less than a year to 18 months. OEMs in Germany and France and Japan who never bought from me before, could not get product from their regular distributors and I started the year with more than a 2-year supply. Got orders from new customers in Germany and France and Japan.
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So wait a minute....your German suppliers cannot produce and deliver their own product? Am I understanding this correctly? German production shut down, with I presume COVID, and they are relying on other international sources...which I presume is China?
 
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Orangeburst said:
So wait a minute....your German suppliers cannot get access to their own product? Am I understanding this correctly? German production shut down, with I presume COVID, and they are relying on other international sources...which I presume is China?
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Not exactly. The German producer makes a campaign maybe 150 tons mostly for big refineries and maybe 10% goes to distributors for the small stuff. No guarantee they will do a campaign every year because that production line makes other products most of the time. Distribitutors serving the research world in Europe and Japan just ran out of inventory.
 
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RavinDave said:
Not exactly. The German producer makes a campaign maybe 150 tons mostly for big refineries and maybe 10% goes to distributors for the small stuff. No guarantee they will do a campaign every year because that production line makes other products most of the time. Distribitutors serving the research world in Europe and Japan just ran out of inventory.
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Which nation of origin are you getting material?
 
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RavinDave said:
Mainly Germany and USA. Also Italy for Pt and Pd catalyst. Used to get most of my mol-sieves made in China but not anymore
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I was just curious how the CCP may be manipulating the market with COVID disruptions.
The hate flows but I aint pure
 
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RavinDave said:
Covid is like the gum in the works, its effects are everywhere.
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I am tin foil hat guy....I would be curious to see CCP exports 2020-2021 vs previous years. I just cannot get over that swimming pool scene peak-COVID and they were partying while the world was shutting down.
 
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Orangeburst said:
I am tin foil hat guy....I would be curious to see CCP exports 2020-2021 vs previous years. I just cannot get over that swimming pool scene peak-COVID and they were partying while the world was shutting down.
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China is fighting their own headwinds right now. No love for them either.
 
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RavinDave said:
China is fighting their own headwinds right now. No love for them either.
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Chinese exports rise 3.6% in coronavirus-plagued 2020; only economy with positive trade growth - Global Times

Compare CCP exports in 2020 to the West. Yet who really knows the real numbers. US and Western consumerism was down yet their exports are up, all seemingly unaffected by the COVID, which originated in their nation. Yet we are to believe that the locked down and had minimal deaths and such.
I will not deny that a global ploy is at play
It all seems too convenient
 
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Orangeburst said:
Chinese exports rise 3.6% in coronavirus-plagued 2020; only economy with positive trade growth - Global Times

Compare CCP exports in 2020 to the West. Yet who really knows the real numbers. US and Western consumerism was down yet their exports are up, all seemingly unaffected by the COVID, which originated in their nation. Yet we are to believe that the locked down and had minimal deaths and such.
I will not deny that a global ploy is at play
It all seems too convenient
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Yeah who knows. I know they’ve lost market share in the US on molecular sieves. Hard to sell it when it’s sitting on the water off the west coast.
 
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RavinDave said:
Yeah who knows. I know they’ve lost market share in the US on molecular sieves. Hard to sell it when it’s sitting on the water off the west coast.
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But why is it sitting offshore? Unions, COVID protocols?
This is unbelievable manipulation intended or unintended.


I will sleep better knowing Pete is on it though
 
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RavinDave said:
LOL maybe I ought to try that
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Question...as kids we all heard garbled late night radio broadcasts that sounded like Spanish..

Were we getting atmospheric bounced broadcasts from Cuba or just garbled American broadcast?

Tinfoil hat engage!

Seriously I always wondered
 
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Orangeburst said:
Question...as kids we all heard garbled late night radio broadcasts that sounded like Spanish..

Were we getting atmospheric bounced broadcasts from Cuba or just garbled American broadcast?

Tinfoil hat engage!

Seriously I always wondered
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Alls I remember from those days... mid to late 60s... was John Ward on my transistor radio, and every Braves game I could get.
 
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Buckle up buttercups because the coming societal meltdown is going to be interesting to watch from a distance. So many people in this country are so freaking clueless about how real life actually works.

I may need to dig out the old “You can’t scare me, I lived through the 70’s” shirt.
 
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