Hal.P.

Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

This is crazy. Our free market society was supposed to liquidate these bad banks to begin with. That’s what it does with failed businesses. It’s what keeps the markets strong and thriving. Should have liquidated them to begin with. No business or country for that matter is too big to fail.

What’s too bad is I doubt that the advice of liquidating them will be heeded.

Does Gold Beat the DJIA? It Depends

I agree with many of the comments. A fair number of folk see gold as a long term store of their wealth. It's not a lump of metal that returns dividends like the stocks of some companies. It is an item that holds it's monetary value over time and performs it's task when needed.

Is Gold on a Deflationary Death Watch?

Great article. Well thought out and argued, Justice.

You last point about the ups and downs of the gold market are dead on.

I tend to think that silver is another to work at accumulating over time.

Why Are Investors Returning to the Dollar?

That's a good point. I think it's definitely a factor for some investors.

Why Are Investors Returning to the Dollar?

Good article and explanation on the current strength of the dollar. It echoes other explanations I've been reading and hearing from others.

Like you I don't see it able to sustain itself as it is so much built by emotion and emotion burns out and reality settles in the aftermath.

Stocks, Gold, and the U.S. Dollar

Your statement, "The inflationary pressures will be very strong on the other side of this credit crisis." is the one that really sticks in my mind and is what I've been expecting.

Who Will Bail Out the U.S. Government?

I'm not sure that investing in other countries is such a good idea. If the US system crashes a lot of other countries will take a big hit. In the least I think we should be taking some of our money in investing it in silver and gold.

I do believe that our country can get out of this but it will mean facing the issue and not bandaging it with bailouts which I think in the end could lead to financial gangrene for the patient.

Are Investors Waiting for a Crash-Like Decline?

"We investors are always looking for a good bet on the future but the future is notoriously difficult to predict." Amen!

And it is definitely looking like an uncertain time. I do think that the housing loan issues continue to be one of the main strings in the whole spaghetti mess, that and the consumer debt. Alone those are pretty big issues but negotiable. Add into the mix the bailouts that the government is doing and considering and the whole mess begins to look like a lump of plastic explosive just waiting for a trigger.

So yeah, mediapro, I feel a lot like you. Still it's hard to know what the future will bring and I won't attempt to predict and will just try to securely wait for it.