hi c2, my general direction is to (i) get out of the dollar, (ii) get away from spare cash, (iii) load up on the real, and (iv) hurry up; and to go short come february/april, depending. i will be taking possession from a newly dispossessed his plentiful excess minerals (au and pt) and three big surplus crystals (sapphire), to help out, at spot and valuation, to clear a market, and to satisfy my imperatives to mineralize and crystalize. i am also making arrangement to directly import platinum wafers, because i have not been able to add to the pile since 2004/2005 when hang seng stopped selling (they still buy) pt bullion, it is rarer and more applicable than gold, and it is priced comparable to gold, auto bust or no auto bust. the home and paper equity savers are phucked, about to take a round trip to 1982 the cash savers have been and will be screwed more, and more harshly the bullion and wafer savers have, to put it simply, done ok, without fuss, management takings, minus board wastrelism and nothing to do with official tithing. it is an odd thing that folks should confuse forced selldowns due to deleveraging of paper credit and slowing velocity of credit money with a massive money inflation that has simply failed to gather forward velocity. no matter recommendation: buygold and get real. cheers, tj |