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Has Gold Been Manipulated?

Brad, I'm on to you. You're just part of the disinformation cadre abetting the evil manipulators. We are in the midst of the paramount battle of good versus evil that will ensure civilisation. This is a metaphysical and spiritual struggle that your conspirators' financial perversity cannot be allowed to win.

Wells Fargo: John Stumpf's Letter to Shareholders Is a Must-Read

Paula Paula Paula. Your comments are pure agenda blather. All the 'facts' still don't support a conclusion much less your conclusion. An assertion preceded by a cut and paste parade is not a chain of inference.

2010: Time to Arrest the Oil Extortionists?

Erroneous 'information' mates with invalid logic to birth conclusions that Sparta would not suffer. This article's therapeutic venting would've been optimized at a 50% word count.

The Trouble with Clean Coal

So, the 2nd L of T applies here by essentially saying you cannot ‘round-trip’ at a net gain. That makes a lot of sense. If C(oal) + O2 = H2O + CO2 + Energy(heat), then I guess I’d want to try to capture that darned CO2. Gas is awful pesky as it tends to leave home; even if in a ‘tank’. If ‘dissolved’ under pressure, that’s still a ‘tank’. So, then I’d next look to make a stable substance (other than coal – the forbidden ‘round trip’) that could be formed by CO2 + XX + Energy (0 to much less than that which is the point of the exercise). If there were some way to use photosynthesis in a closed system that you could ‘bleed’ off the oxygen and ‘harvest’ carbon based products, such would be a great science fiction resolution.

Battery Investing for Beginners

RE: 2012 Please join me and our band of designated survivors at a secret plateau in northern Arizona where we will escape the end of the world by transporting to the mothership. Pay no mind to the blather of dyspeptic doomsters, you have an alternative. Send $2.00 to PO Box 2012, Roswell NM.

Want to Own Silver? Forget About SLV

Gold - silver, meh. I'll take canned pork & beans and a shotgun & shells. You can store the 'truly valuable' for me.

Why ETFs Are a Scam

Neil's article is an embarrassment to read. Poorly conceived and shot full of non sequiturs. There are cautionary aspects of these instruments that have been much more cogently addressed right here on this site. Very poor job.

How the Gold Game Could End

Gold has its 'mystics' and their self-validating credos just as every religion before the before. That is the strength of gold and its vulnerability. Its a 'storehouse' of wealth, until it isn't; just as for every value concept.

If This Is a Recovery...

How many years will it take till were being warned about a paucity of workers as the boomers die off?

PHEVs and EVs: Plugging into a Lump of Coal

Clearly, many here are tempted to stray from "Seeking Alpha" to "Seeking Psi." At times it looks like we're poaching in the 'precognition' preserve of an ESP seminar. 'Sexy science' is great for an IPO but not so great as an investment that has already soared to an unsustainable premium.

Kinder Morgan's Dividend Payout Rate Is Unsustainable

A lot more thought and research needs to be given to a topic when presenting an article. This article reads like a poorly researched incomplete assignment from a finance sophomore. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. However, it is less dangerous to be erroneously warned off an investment than to be touted a toxic cousin.

Four Winning Stocks for 2009

You all need to lighten up. Everybody here treats all these names as starting points for due diligence. Unlikely anyone's going to buy any names based on any posting here, or anywhere else for that matter, without due diligence.

Best High Yield Dividend Stocks for 2009

Bet the fellows who don't look both ways when approaching a green light are too risk averse to buy steady yielding but slow growing stocks, yet are in cash at .5%.

A123 vs. BYD and Other Irrational Battery Investments

Most salient is "As near as I can tell, PHEVs and EVs will always be at the bottom of the lithium-ion food chain because there will always be more sensible applications that are far less price sensitive."

China's Wind Energy Development Hits a Road Block

GE is a 'big picture' stock subject to the world economy and liquidity in the market, not to any particular technological development or implementation. No one is going to invest in GE based upon even proven and acknowledged dominance in any particular technology.