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Gold/Mining/Energy : Gold Price Monitor -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: d:oug who wrote (45807)	12/9/1999 11:56:00 AM
From: IngotWeTrust	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116762

Doug writes: about how gold can become the store of value and backing for paper money. Sure wish that this becomes a starting place for those in control of picking up the pieces... Doug..with all due respect: THREE things... A) Gold "can NOT!!! become" *what it already is..." i.e.,* a store of value. That is illogical! Gold backing another piece of printed fiat money? B) COUNT ON IT! Especially since it is easier to high-speed Xerox than it is to mine the stuff. You wrote: Those in control of picking up the pieces... C) Who is "those," Doug? *Them's thoses are us-es,* Doug. ***************************************************** Here are YOUR "CAN I PICK UP THE PIECES 5 Questions pop-quiz, Doug: Q #1: Do you, DOUG, know how to identify gold in its various raw and/or alloyed forms? Q #2: Do you, DOUG, know how to AND HAVE THE SIMPLE MEANS TO weigh gold accurately and in the troy system? Q #3: Do you, Doug, know how to determine gold's price without a newspaper or TV or internet cited quote?? Q #4: Do you, Doug, speak the gold's KARAT language? Q #5:** Do you, Doug, know how to do the math to arrive at any gold's karat value and weight and price variable combinations in exchange for future goods or services? For your own financial health's sake and that of your family and loved ones, please, DOUG, PLEASE take the time to honestly tackle the above 5 Question Quiz. Your bread, milk, shelter and clothing may depend upon your ability to do so and know the difference between brass shavings and honest to goodness gold, yes, which can also be "shaved." And this knowing can be acquired with little time expenditure and useful in a very VERY short period of time. O/49r