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Precious Metals: Emotions Still Stronger Than Fundamentals

None - that's NONE - of you know s**t about what will happen to gold, and I don't either - except that it will never become entirely worthless.

Lax Underwriting , Foreclosures, and Credit Crunch Stimulate Misery Industries

Thanks, Jimmy, for your penetrating and poignant article. Something is systemically wrong to allow such widespread flim-flam.

What the Homebuilders Are Telling Us

Tim, you need to find that lost sales data from the 80s and 90s you did the analysis on. It probably didn't conclude what you think it did. There is no way real estate is stabilizing.

Real Estate Bubble Is Only in 4 States: CA, FL, NV, AZ

Don't call him a moron. He's just palpably wrong!

Real Estate Bubble Is Only in 4 States: CA, FL, NV, AZ

Sorry, Mark, it's not that simple. Nationwide, the banks, builders and building supply companies are suffering? Clearly, the housing slump is nationwide.

Trends That Impact Homebuilders [Housing Tracker]

Somehow, they're still building in central Florida.

Financials and Housing: The Outlook Remains Ugly

None of the comments equal Tilson's insightful analysis. Great job, Whitney!

DZZ: How To Short Gold by Going Long

Naked short traders should be forbidden - in all markets. They make a lottery of legitimate stock trading. Hopefully they will be caught naked when the tide goes out.

ETF Update: BRIC ETFs Crumble, Investors Stick with Gold ETF

Serious GLD investors don't panic.

You Can Get on the Gold Train and Ride the Dollar

This dollar-pusher is off-the-wall! His advice defies gravity.

Long Term, Gold Is On Its Way Down

The price of gold is inversely tied to the dollar which, with current Fed policies, can only go down in value, i.e., inflate. Thus gold will go up for both psychological and fundamental reasons until the Fed increases interest rates to moderate inflation.

Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

There is nothing out there to support the proposition that inflation is subsiding or under control, and everything to assure the opposite. The current strengthening of the dollar is clearly a blip that will quickly fade away. Wish it were otherwise, but wishing won't make it so.

Commercial Real Estate Foreclosures [Housing Tracker]

May Steve Wynn be brought down to size. Las Vegas runs on air and there is a widening economic puncture.

NYT - 'Prime Loans About to Implode': Where's the Evidence?

All the pieces are, and have been, in place for substantial home-price declines, but they don't come. Why?

3 Investment Ideas for the Rest of 2008 and 2009

Dream on, Russell. Alternative energy, however, will probably be the next hyped-up bubble.As for the dollar, there is no way it can regain its previously vaunted value for a very long time, if ever.