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On Inflation, Precious Metals and the Mayan Calendar

Rocks: Glad I could add some comfort to your son and his cronies. I hope someday I get to meet them all! By the way, my last name in German means, "comforter," as in one who offers comfort.

Guns: ROFL!

I hope the Angels win tonight, and then the Yankees win game seven in the nineteenth inning.

On Inflation, Precious Metals and the Mayan Calendar

Double: Mayans gone? Though they suffered years of genocide in the 1970's and 1980's, there are over 7 million Mayans alive today. For that matter, it took the Spanish under two years to conquer the Aztecs, but the Mayans were not "conquered" for ~ 179 years. It really wasn't a conquering so to speak, it was more of a forced melding of the catholic religion into theirs, because they were so spread out in the jungles and hinterlands. The Mayan religion the Catholics considered demonized. The Catholics burned hundreds, if not thousands of screenfold books, enslaved them, suppressed them, gave them syphilis, wiping out millions of Maya, but all this did not break their spirit.

Once the governments, especially Guatemala, realized the value of Maya-related tourism, was when the Maya became second class citizens, and left more or less to their own means.

In history, most Mayan cities were "out of business" by 900 AD. Before then, over time, the Mayans depopulated their cities, and as they did, their sophisticated culture and knowledge, including writing, starwatching and mathematics declined and eventually deteriorated to where writing, carving stelas and building of cities ceased altogether.

I've been in many tiny villages that were still 100% ethnic Maya.

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Has the website changed for you? Only about three or four comments appear on the home page, way down on the bottom right. Much harder to chase my cyberpals down. Much harder to measure the community pulse. It's like I'm seeing with one foot.

3 Promising Gold Stocks

Stephen: Take a look at Jaguar Mining (JAG). They expect to increase production by 700% by 2014. This is a junior going to mid-tier status. Their e-presentation is the best I've ever seen from any miner. Plus, it's in Brazil. JAG is my favorite, but Northern Dynasty, with their 82 billion pounds of copper, the largest copper strike ever in North America, and 52 million ounces of gold, makes (NAK) a long term play. NAK will begin scratching the earth next year.

Royal Bank of Scotland Comments on Metals and Energy

Maybe you should have added uranium (mining stocks) to you article. There are a bunch of mining stocks that are up over 100% since March 6th lows. For instance, Teck Cominco, principally a copper miner, is up from $3.03 to $11.61!

But even more recently, Denison Mines, Corp., a uranium play is up from 94 cents on April 7th, to $2.02 today.

During April, most gold and silver mining stocks have remained flat.

I expect the next minerals to zoom up will be palladium and platinum; those new ETF's are coming.

So my trifecta idea is, or has been, to take the gold gains from November through middle March and rotate them into copper and uranium, and then, when I see palladium and platinum start to take off, I will rotate out of copper and uranium into stocks like Stillwater Mines (SWC) and North American Paladium.

I'm already accumulating small batches of the last two stocks mentioned.

We'll see.... Good luck!