Conversation with Co-founder of As Good As Gold Australia

Hey Steemers!

This past Sunday,
I had the privilege of meeting and talking with Brian Panes, the co-founder of As Good As Gold Australia, a precious metals and bullion trading company based in Adelaide, Australia. I had become aware of this businesses existence when I began searching for a bullion exchange in Adelaide who provide the best value bullion products for the best price.

Pictured: Brian Panes, co founder of As Good As Gold Australia.

Here is what I found:
First I calculated how much it would cost if I placed an order using a US based bullion trading business and found that the costs were a tad less (all costs being accounted for) compared to purchasing in Australia but in the end, it isn't worth buying from overseas and taking on risk of shipping and handling product loss or damage, not to mention the products would have had to pass customs and therefore become documented into a system that the government could get there hands on, not what I want considering that I don't trust the government with anything to do with my finances. This is the reason I have savings in precious metals in the first place!

I contacted the Perth mint and collected their prices, these were ok, except I would of had to pay for shipping and handling to ship it from Perth to the address that I required.
I collected the Perth mint Adelaide distributors/buyers contacts and began to look into each business to find what products they sell and for what price they sell them for. After looking into each business, I came to the conclusion that the prices of silver bullion at AsGoodAsGoldAustralia beat the other business offers for their products. Their online website: http://www.asgoodasgoldaus.com.au/ , also contained very informative Youtube videos on the state of the economy, gold and silver and other related topics which I found very interesting and supportive of the businesses desire to help inform others on the current state of affairs that the world is dealing with in terms of the state of the global economy and how it negatively affects our lives.

After placing an order, I called Brian and we met up at a cafe North of the CBD of Adelaide.
We discussed matters relating to his past career in the automotive engineering career, the state of the world economy, gold and silver, taxes, business, health and diet, seminars and speakers and the ineptitude and complete irresponsibility of government.
I even saw US fiat currency for the first time and I got to hold some USD notes!

One of these $1 notes have "Silver Certificate" printed on the top of it instead of "Federal Reserve Note" which are in circulation toady. These silver certificate notes were issued during 1878 and 1964 when the US currency was backed by real money (which is gold and silver), these notes are still legal tender to this day and can be used like any federal reserve note however, they can no longer be redeemed for silver as if they were backed by a silver standard.
The federal reserve notes on the other hand are not backed by any real money or tangible asset, instead its value is derived from the mere belief that the notes contain value in and of themselves.
More on the topic of real money and fiat currency can be discovered here in this great Youtube video series, Hidden Secrets Of Money by Mike Maloney:

Thanks for reading, Be Smart.