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Is Gold a Good Investment During the Credit Crunch?

Can't eat gold? Maybe literally. Inflation is an easy answer to why people should hold gold. But in truth, if the economy collapses, gold becomes essential. Anyone who knows anything about money will trade at least food for pure gold and silver. That's why you always hold at least some in your portfolio. Pure gold and silver was the only thing that bought any kind of food after WWII and in the South after and during parts of the Civil War. THAT'S why people must hold precious metals.

Thoughts About the Current Bear Market Among Junior Miners

This news is disconcerting. The jr producers that I hold could suddenly run out of funding and I'd be left holding a worthless stock? No telling if big companyies will buy them now. Better to let them go through bancruptcy and get them for a song first. Hmm. Another part of the "perfect storm" in the financial world.

SEC Subpoenas More Than 50 Hedge Fund Advisors

Hedgefund investors better know what the hedge fund may invest in before they committ the money to the fund. If they didn't read the prospectus, they have no business investing in it. If they don't like short selling, then don't be in that kind of fund. Let the market take care of itself. Sooner or later, this kind of risky investing will weed itself out.