Your cogent question evokes this response: While historical bull and bear measurements are available, the "wild card variable" is the instanteousness of information dissemination and nearly instant ability to respond except with locked in pension plan monies.
This e*commerce and e*info will not be going away, anymore than the industrial revolution was postponed or thwarted.
This is indeed a glorious time to be alive, and to be a gold prospector/recycler as well as an "online trader/investor." Who wudda thunk we'd be alive during such a marvelous paradigm shift of such magnitude as the industrial revolution was from agrarian economics several decades past? That paradigm shift we "missed out on being in the thick of"..but have lived to benefit from.
As a goldbug of the highest, hardmoney, universal currency order... Fear is a natural human response to change, and so is exuberance at least in the light of this new information age day. However, when the day ends, we are just one rung further up the ladder of this shift into the information age/creation/distruction/instantaneous response or reaction cycle.
Living in both worlds, the ancient one of gold prospector and the thoroughly modern one of being a gold prospector with a laptop w/modem and wireless telephony is about as good as it gets.
Let the piper be paid, i.e., the margin excesses be rung out of the 'DAQ/NYSE, and let us resume the information/e*age march on to bigger and better...and I'll just bring along my $20 cost per ounce gold/wealth builder skillset, too! members.aol.com
Ole "modem mindin', gold findin' /49r |