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To: Richard Mazzarella who wrote (58355)	9/19/2000 9:12:45 AM
From: Enigma	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116762

Explain how the diamond industry can possibly ever, by the wildest stretch of the imagination, be a model for gold? When only one producer remains? Get a life, a brain, whatever!

To: Richard Mazzarella who wrote (58355)	9/19/2000 9:15:02 AM
From: LLCF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116762

<David, <<perhaps there is more to the story?>> Yes there is, the people that bought forward need to preserve price as long as they can> IMO the net non-longterm position in gold is 'short' not long [ie. by non-producers, and non-users of the metal]. So it's the other way around... shorts are likely to try and hold the price down. Luckily the shorts are U.S. dollar players or they'd be getting KILLED as gold SOARS in most non-dollar terms as I stated before. <That's the problem with a "useless" commodity (useless in terms of application), price needs to be regulated, supply and demand isn't relevant.> Disagree again... supply and demand still drives the gold market, otherwise why would you bring up all the CB supply? And speaking of 'useless' commodities, assets, whatever.. what about the dollar? Why is IT so strong? People burning it? No, the dollar is irrationally in demand at this point in time, and vs gold and many other currencies this too shall reverse IMO. Buy gold, sell dollars. DAK

To: Richard Mazzarella who wrote (58355)	9/19/2000 9:31:50 PM
From: d:oug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116762

Richard, Your comments about physical gold on this thread are similar to those ravings of a jilted lover. As for your outcry that she is a useless commodity in regard to her use in applications is not only incorrect but also a show of your response like a 1950s heart ache and broken heart love song where the man who lost the love of a woman tells all other men that she is not able to receive and return love. Just the flip side of my song of "... if i cannot have you, i want nobody." as your song is "... if i cannot have you, i want nobody to have you." Gold is not a useless commodity but a valuable one in mission critical situations like military and space exploration, and in the trivial use as jewerly both utilizing gold's character to have a very low chemical reaction with that which touches it. Gold as jewerly is not really what folks today know it to be, as long ago before the Madison Avenue of New York City type folks figured out a way to sell an ounce of gold at ten times current market value, back then when gold was reconized for it limited occurance on planet Earth, and it ability not to be damaged through corrosion and not to be changed in function through for example it happens to be crushed or hit by another harder thing, that yes it became the best then and still today as what Bon BeeSee is unable to see a link between something that serves not only as money, but the ultimate money object knowned as a Store of Value that has no ties or strings or links or dependency on People who can represent themselves as good, misguided and evil. Kind of, i did, lose focus in above sentences, but before gold became the jewerly of today it was a store of value, and folks keep it on their person for a lack of a safer place, and since the best place to keep was not a pocket with a hole, but tied on a string and worned as a belt or a noose around neck or a ring around a finger, this lead some to become exhibitionists and flaunt their wealth, and as expected other joined. But it was just chunks and rocks of gold, but easy to melt and form and add things to.... so jewerly came to be a big way to carry your store of value "in fashion." Today its ridiculous as a gold jewerly piece in most all forms have not the function as a store of value, but like an art piece able to obtain a worth far exceeding the amount of cost of parts & labor. For your, ... price needs to be regulated ... supply and demand isn't relevant ... diamond industry ... the future model for gold all Hog Wash, not fit for pigs. Now Richard I know you from another SI thread and know you to be honorable and honest and stand up and highly educated and somewhat a mini zeev type scientist, but this love affair turned bad takes no prisoners, has no mercy and can not be washed away or turned away or hidden. The only words of help I can deliver is that aTime is what can only lessen the hurt, and its like radiation sickness that will not be fatal but yet you feel like to are a compose pile getting ready to be used to help grown next years tomatoes in the gaden. But no, next year you will be eating those tomatoes, but yes, next year the radiation sickness will still be, and like aRadiation it has a half life, for this kind 10 months. D:o)ug with Tongue in Cheek and lots of <<VBG>>s