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    • Sun Jul 6th 11:06 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      UBS Analyst Raises Gold Stocks' Price Targets on Higher Gold Price Forecasts
      Let's see: Housing debacle has about 3 years to wring out---
      Banks all lined up cliff side in a suicide pact---
      Fiat dollar presses running non-stop--------
      Oil headed for $200 with 0 alternatives-----
      Market and Economy both in crash mode-----
      Fed jammed in a corner of it's own painting, can't lower or raise----

      BUT!! "Gold is going to come down"!!!--no wonder no-one put his name on that one!!!Did it beam in from the third ring of Saturn???

      NOT IN MY UNIVERSE!!!!!
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    • Fri Jul 4th 11:42 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Inflation, at the Core, Is Food and Energy
      The last sentence says it all:
      And it just so happens that the convenience holds the most benefits for Uncle Sam since these are the two items with the highest rate of inflationary costs--volatile or otherwise!!
      Since SS is the 400lb gorilla and is only adjusted annually; why not use the real $$ YTD rise or fall in food and energy to evaluate inflation, as this would negate the volatility factor??
      No--wouldn't want to do that now, would we. And decelerate the thinning out of all that excess parasitic deadwood!!
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    • Thu Jul 3rd 13:16 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      The U.S. Dollar: A Six Month Outlook
      If you want at least 5% on your $, YTD and inflation is 7% (a charitable honest estimate) --Simple, you need a 12% return.
      But Simple gets a little tougher in a recessionary environment.
      Article gives a simple straightforward assessment of what has and --will--pass for currency of the realm, now and tomorrow;
      Things are getting exceedingly difficult!!
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    • Wed Jul 2nd 11:13 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      To Meet Wind Power Goals, Government Action Needed
      We've done nothing but debate this since the brilliant Carter "price controls" 35 years ago which dried up gas at any price.
      What we need now--in the present CRISIS--is the fastest solution, the gains in the economy will make up the difference and give us "Breathing" room. And that's wind!! There's nothing else that can go on line in a month and displace a petro fired generator adding to supply and reducing costs.
      But go ahead and debate it a few more years. Are the only thinking people on the planet the Scandinavians??
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    • Tue Jun 24th 11:31 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Keeping Alternate Energy In Perspective
      Just the definition of the word renewable tells you it will be 100% of the chart someday.
      The only variable is time. Do we want to transition gradually in replacing each of the finite sources before they arrive at the "Crisis" stage oil is today, or twiddle our thumbs and hold hearings till we're at crash and burn when the clock runs out on each??.
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    • Tue Jun 24th 11:08 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Even the Gas Crisis Needs a Culprit
      To assume that "Speculators"... can levy whatever premium they wish on a gallon of gas, just because they bought a futures contract and the consumer will pay&pump just as he did last year, no matter the new price tag on the pump is sheer folly.

      Of course a Govt. that was happy to get $.18 on a gallon of gas a few years ago, has an absolute need and right to collect $.72 today.
      This should go a long way to fund --MORE HEARINGS!!
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    • Tue Jun 24th 10:18 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Corn, Ethanol and Water
      The only way Ethanol is going to justify these prices is if it's re-labeled Vodka!
      Sugar is the answer. If we want to pretend Brazil is populated by fools just to enrich our farmers, that's not the way to "solve" an energy crisis!.
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    • Sun Jun 22nd 13:47 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Inflation-Adjusted Gas Prices at Record Levels as China Raises Energy Prices
      It's not how much they pay, it's how much they consume!
      There's not enough oil production in the world for 2 billion Chinese and Indians to go from bicycle to scooter no matter what they pay!
      They're just like us-without high prices they would step up to cars!!
      High prices=we give up SUV's for a Prious.
      " " =They give up a scooter for a motorbike.
      Either way all the worlds production is consumed!=prices stay high!
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    • Sat Jun 21st 13:23 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      The (Non) Crash of 2008
      All the numbers--(even tho distorted, misstated, cooked and lied about)--can be quantified----"tr...
      The only X=unknown in this equation is T=time.
      You--the Fed and Paulson can stay in denial and "Cum-by-ya" all you want, but yonder is a pale horse.
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    • Fri Jun 20th 16:03 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      When Crude Drops, AMR Will Fly
      Right Chief: Want a play on flying when Oil backs down??
      Forget AMR, go for Pig saddles, AMR will be mothballed and the Porkers will have all the best routes---And a Kosher dinner!!
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    • Thu Jun 19th 10:36 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      The Great Oil Deception: Part Three
      tylake: You said it all: This idea that greater domestic production will lead to lower prices for the American consumer is fantasy land. That only happens in places like Iran and Venezuela where the State is the Oil Co. Here it goes to Japan at world market prices. More oil depressing world prices means OPEC can merely cut back to compensate=raise prices-(they're running out too).

      We made our bed years ago-all our eggs in the oil barrel--now we have to lie in it; and comfort will only come from alternative energy-
      well in the future.
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    • Sat Jun 14th 16:24 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Recent World Events Are Bullish for Metals
      So the 46th African Nation got rid of those white Colonialists and that terrible apartheid!
      Did anyone really believe this time it would be different???
      The one before this was Rhodesia remember that?? we boycotted them to force out Ian Smith--now it's Zimbabwe, Mugabe is Pres. no elections since, and 5,000% inflation.
      There's some Gene pool in the savage heart of darkest Africa, top CEO's are a dime a dozen!!
      Your choice; yell "Racist--Racist&q... or face the facts!!
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    • Sun Jun 8th 11:56 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Headwinds for Gold?
      Unfortunately I buy my staples with dollars here in the U.S.
      Even if the Euro strengthens against the dollar, my gold in dollar terms will hold its value as food prices and gasoline rise.

      A solid value hedge never hurts.
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    • Sun Jun 8th 11:42 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Oil Will Peak at $150-200 - Barron's Interview
      Oil is strictly in a supply demand mode.
      The reserves have peaked and the supply is declining--check production.
      China has replaced Japan as #2 consumer.
      The Chinese and Indians are increasing their demand.
      Per-capita they use a minuscule amount compared to the U.S.
      There are a lot more of them!

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    • Sat Jun 7th 11:10 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Ben Bernanke: Talk May Be Cheap, But It's Not Worthless
      In 1963 the words "WILL PAY TO THE BEARER ON DEMAND" were removed from all newly issued Federal Reserve notes.

      Gold and silver were replaced by "Faith in the wealth of the American taxpayer"

      Since Bennys words have such reassuring and comforting value I think the words "Pay to the bearer on demand" a 1 hour CD of the "Best of Benny" firm currency speaches of the past year.
      This to be packaged with batteries in case your electric has been cut off for non payment.

      Ben says "they're just crying wolf". I sure hope so, but I'm still carrying a gun when I walk through the Fed's "printing press forrest"

      Benny speaks on 6/3--The dollar and the market do a holding hands off lovers leap on the 6th. Nice to know faith in strong words has such a lasting effect!!

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