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  • Precious Metal Developers Provide Value and Upside in 2009
    I am more scared of the Marxist in Washington then the Socialist in Canada. Of most of the companies he list or of those I am familiar with they are Canadian companies. Junior miners that have known reserves and have some capital to survive on should do quite well once those trillions of $$ hit the street. Time will tell of who is right. That is what is great about opinions, they are just opinions in another's eye until after the fact. Care to take a chance? oh yeah I am long on everything I can afford in gold and silver including the companies that bring it up. Was there any doubt?
    Jan 02 12:15 pm |Rating: +3 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Some Latin American Markets Show Profit Potential in 2009, Others Pose Risk
    And Chile is far and away more stable then most. fiscal responsibility like you stated...plus it is becoming a nice place of refuge for ex-pats from around the world. It is modern with 9 universities and is getting into fiber optics, lasers and other high tech disciplines. In the Southern half you will find Brits, Scots, Irish, Germans, Austrians and Swiss all trying to escape high taxes. Once I finish this stint in the Middle East I am heading there too. Prices are lower then the US and taxes about a third of what we have to pay. After the new administration takes office in the states I am sure it is only going to grow that much faster. The Chilian Peso may not look that hot against the dollar or LB or euro but it is a whole lot more stable. Chile is the most free of all of South America and probably all of the America's. There the government does not touch your retirement. All you have to show is that you are investing 10% of your funds towards retirement. Privatization of Social Security would be great in the US but hell the states is not that forward looking. More socialism and controlled markets is what is in the works for the states. Bon Vouge...there is a fair wind a blowing...time to set sail and go
    Dec 15 11:35 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Gold and Silver: Backwardation and Manipulation
    A very fine article over all. Lots of information and explanations regarding the variances in the market. I enjoyed the read. Thank you.
    Dec 15 09:40 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Nuclear and Coal: The Energy 'Dream Team' for Years to Come
    Regardless of whose dream list we want to pursue in regards to generating all that electricity...someone needs to figure out how we are going to transmit from generator to end user. Having spent a few years of my life working in the utilities, I have to tell you that the majority of transmission lines are already loaded. Unless Obama plans on shutting down existing power plants and cranking over the wind turbines in their place. Who is going to build those new transnational power lines to get all that wonder electricity to market? Just a question! But I do believe that coal will be around for a long time, because just like all the other bailouts the money for new green energy will go straight to the same pockets that are taking our money now. Take a look at who Obama is putting into offices. A finer bunch of thugs we have seen before. Yeah coal will be around for quite a while and the transmission lines necessary to get the needed power to market will not be built. And that is why I am building new infrastructure overseas, because it isn't happening at home.
    Dec 14 13:00 pm |Rating: +6 -1 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Raymond James' Top Picks for 2009
    CNQ, AUY and SU are also 5 stars accordingly with Motley Fool. And looking at their fundelmentals, they should do well. Without products from the ground, nothing else is going to move. Alternate energy will go nowhere until they figure out that they have to build a new transmission system. The existing electrical transmission system will not carry any more. So oil and gas and coal will continue to be required if any one is going to have electricity or transportation. And with the financial markets so controlled and manipulated, Armegeddon is already here. If one is going to stay in the market (I prefer that heavy metal against my skin called gold and silver) but if one is going to stay in the market those items necessary to run a society will be stronger then those that simply pass paper. Unless you going to burn the paper to stay warm. Oil, Gas and Coal will continue their legacy for a while longer. Besides regardless of the Osama Obama religion, I prefer a stock with a PE of 8 then one with a PE of 30 or 60 like all the green stuff has. But in doubt, all the gold and silver I have purchased is still worth more then when I purchased it (with the only exception of what I bought this year) and it does feel like ... its heavy... like its... like its ... like its real money.
    Dec 12 15:07 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Dollar vs. Gold - Can We Trust This Change?
    After loosing 65% of my stock values which included good companies with good fundelmentals...after the present administration along with the house putting two power mongers in control of all our financials without oversite and with all the manipulation going on...you now have to guess what political flavor of the day is as to where you are going to invest next because all the logic and charts and fundelmentals are now out the frigging window...I tell you this my physical gold holdings of all but what I purchased this year are worth more then I paid for them...so your financial Amageddon is already here! And besides physical gold and silver feel so good next to the skin...it feels heavy...it feels good...and it feels like real money...Next time your in Dubai check out the gold market...and you will catch the bug too.
    Dec 12 12:51 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Significant Insider Buying at Visa and Nevada Gold
    In a world where the markets are manipulated by a few banks in concert with Comex (Crimex) with the Fed (international bankers) passing funds out the back door, and an administration that will bail out who ever because it no longer matters how the senate or the house votes. The Feds control our universe now. Why even be in the markets unless you can guess where the Fed is going to put your money next. What is the politics flavor of the day? I can hardly wait till the UAE and Saudi get there metals exchange up and running. Good places to purchase gold now as it sure is running out in the America's despite all the phantom short selling by our three favorite federalist banks. Gold and silver and markets the evil men of washington can't touch. Everyone touts Brazil but Chila is further removed from the corruption that stalks all the alleys of wall street. And the Middle East exchange is much more fair and realistic to trade in then what ever is back home. Another reason I live in the desert. But gold and silver will soon pop out of the box that even the kings men can not stop it from happening. But they will hold the lid down long enough to destroy all of which we loved. Physical Gold and Silver!
    Dec 12 12:33 pm |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • The Poor, Poor Dollar
    I must agree with Ozzy43. You have a fluctuation of one fiat vs another fiat. Faith and credit but nothing else. Trading a salmon for a tuna and back again depending on the taste of the day, The South African Rand has dropped tremendously against the dollar in terms of purchasing power but yet the $$ is droping as well. FXF would be the only play in hard times because traditionally it seems to have been a storehouse of faith. But the Swiss are in this crises as well. So back to my favorite which has stood the test of time...gold and silver...or silver and gold. I know the gold markets in Dubai are going great guns these days. Europeans, Americans, Orientals and a mixed bag of other folks are always there and they are always buying. And they are driving BMW, Audi and Mercedes...me I take the bus but I have my hand outstretched as well with my fist full of Durims, Dinar and $$ to trade...
    Dec 12 00:02 am |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • The Fed Still Manipulates Gold and the Markets
    As I have stated so many times in regard to previous writtings at Seeking Alpha...for the nay sayers you need to look a little bit past your shores at what is happening. You need to learn and probably the hard way that the king (Fed) has no clothes. You need to look at history...not the rantings of the talking heads on CNN or on CNBC. Look across the ocean and see what is happening in my neck of the woods or desert as it is. Look at the UAE, Saudi, Bahran, Kuwiet and all the other gulf coalition countries. Look at China and Russia and others where their money is going to. The last big gold sale to depress the price of gold got swallowed up by big players (other countries). The European internationals, UK and the others that own the US banks are screwing up and screwing us by the numbers. Time to wake the hell up! Semper Fi!
    Dec 10 17:03 pm |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Bailout Watch: Heading for a Populist Backlash?
    Besides socialism for the corporations to quote CM in MA, we have a long list of kingdoms and squires of the washington table that feel they are above the law and do not have to participate in the bail out other then stealing others money and no one does a thing about it. Populist backlash? During the Clinton socialism era there were roughly 35,000 American families that uprooted and moved elsewhere. Businessmen and technical folks. I almost went with them. Now that I am working overseas it is just a matter of time before I find my new home as well. With the plans in the punch of the new bunch that offer change I dare say that it will be more then just a populist back lash, it will be a migration of businessmen and technical folks that will leap frog over all the illegals that are granted a free lunch and vanish into other countries. Like my forefathers that came to the Americas looking for freedom, there are many today that will once more be on the move...looking for the same freedom that first brought their families to the new world. That world is being destroyed so it is time once more to unfurl the sails and go seeking a better life. And between our going and the new coming in America will loose what it once stood for. But freedom is not a plot of ground it is a concept and a belief system that will find other fresh soil in which to take root and grow. It is time to set sail and go.
    Dec 09 14:20 pm |Rating: +1 -3 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Negative Real Rates Will Drive Gold Prices Up
    Inflation, deflation, economics, fiat currancy, Bernanke, internationals ... hell I don't know. I am just a ex-pat war junky following our loyal troops around trying to help them out in their fighting the bankers wars over here. What I see as an old ex-pat are lots of folk made up of American, Oriental, Europeans driving up to the Gold market in Dubai UAE, in fancy cars getting out and buying up lots of gold...jewelry in 18, 20, 21 (Iraqi), 22 and even 24 k gold., buying gold coins and gold bars. Me too with what I can keep after paying on a bastard morgage back home for my poor mother. What else I see is Dubai UAE and Saudi's buying gold by the truck loads (ie 1 billion $) at a time. Hear of their exchange they are going to open to compete with the Crimex i mean Comex in the America's. Word is on the street by the Orientals and those from India and Pakastan and Russia (great Russian ladies) that their countries are buying it up too ... slowly as to not cause a stir. I may not be real bright...but something is going down. What is that I smell burning...could it be Rome or is it the Fed? Hell the king has no clothes and everyone is applauding him. Surrealistic nightmare! Glad I am dumb.
    Dec 08 13:36 pm |Rating: +2 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • The End of the Dollar and All Fiat Currencies
    My goodness, working my way around here in the middle east, seeing and hearing what I do on this end of the earth...I am pleasently surprised by such an article. Nice history lesson in brief. Here I thought only the ex-pat community was attuned to what is transpiring. Check out Dubai UAE gold market. Wish we had the same back in the America's. Any way to keep it brief. Nice going and let the nay sayers have their way...because they will be in for a rude awakening from their little ivory tower when everything becomes clear to even the clouded eyes of government extortions and lies. Pray for our soldiers over here that fight the bankers wars. Semper Fi!
    Dec 08 13:17 pm |Rating: +2 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • How Will Temporary Decline in Oil Prices Impact Energy Sector?
    geothermal, solar, wind, electrical storage...I love them all. Problem is that you have a grid that is not capable of handling any more...It is like some of the other infrastructure items falling into decay in America..bridges and roads etc. The cost to upgrade and increase the cross country capacity is going to take time and cost ... as much as it takes to bail out the "big three" plus Citi and maybe a couple other internationals thrown in for good measure. And the cost to get enough energy out of solar and wind and storage etc to make a noticable difference will cost you more then a good reactor or a couple coal powered plants and will take just as long to build. But it is all just B.S. until you get the infrastructure repaired and enlarged to carry all this "new found electricity". And considering everyone in their present state of denial along with the administration and all the powers that be with all of their access to funds whether real or not...you can count on natural gas, oil and gas are here for a long long while and the prices will rise again..
    Dec 07 09:44 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Is It Time to Buy Gold?
    Like my granddaddy used to say, "buy when the price is dropping and sell when the price is climbing". That applies to many things. With Gold and even silver which has been a currancy longer then gold; I have to beg the question: Why are the central banks of Europe ceasing to sell gold? And why is the UAE and Saudi and China and Russia becoming purchases of gold? Just a question! In this time of extreme volitiality, everyone now accepting daily swings of 300 to 400 points as normal (I don't remember this in my 40 years of investing) and at a point of history where the most amount of government meddling (manipulation for what ever reason) has ever occured...we can now say it is all normal. In abnormal times, people one way or the other will seek shelter...either in the best fiat currancy of the time or in items that have stood the test of time like gold and silver. So the battle rages on...as to which is best. Know this that no government or central banking system has ever held the interest or health of its citizens in high esteem. Control, greed and lust for things that do not belong to them characterize the above entities. Anyone that does not believe that needs to take another look at history. And I am not refering to the history being taught in our schools of today. So pick your poison so to speak and let the chips lay where they fall. Semper Fi from the middle east.
    Dec 07 00:05 am |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • The Manipulation of Gold Prices
    Very good article and very informative and covered most of the bases. Of course maybe I feel that way because I have believed - sensed this. From my perspective in the middle east, there was more to the story then the talking heads I watch once a month on US stations just to keep up with the trash everyone is fed. As stated previously the Saudi and Dubai exchanges will open the gate on them sometime next year with their exchanges. And the manipulators know this too. Over here everyone with a spare nickel, dinar or dirum are picking up some extra metal. Cheers!
    Dec 04 12:15 pm |Rating: +7 -1 |Link to Comment |View article

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