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Gold/Mining/Energy : Strictly: Drilling and oil-field services -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: rocklobster who wrote (75454)	10/3/2000 4:16:30 PM
From: el_gaviero	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95453

O/T: A New Gold Thread? I too vote against removing the gold discussion to another place. The tone and style of this thread is (for me) extremely useful and productive. Why tamper? Why not trust that what emerged spontaneously did so for a reason. The Strictly Drilling concentration upon oil and gas -- with an occasional foray into other matters -- arises out of an attempt by several hundred people to understand what is going on. Since, IMHO, what is going on is the playing out of three dramas, a stock market bubble, a dollar bubble, and an oil and gas crunch, I am interested in a process and a community of people that help me deal with it -- and style and tone provide the framework in which the community exists on the internet. My fear about a gold thread is that it will die of disuse, which would be fine. But then people might be left reluctant to carry natural extensions of a discussion into matters other than oil and gas. Or if a new gold thread were to become viable, my fear is that it would attract people who believe in gold. And this has its disadvantages. Such people bring too much internal, psychological stuff to their interpretations. I’d much rather hear an oil person talk about gold than a gold person talk about oil, or practically anything else. Oil keeps the mind close to the ground, and yet touches everything. Anyway my vote: onward and upward with the status quo.

To: rocklobster who wrote (75454)	10/3/2000 4:21:56 PM
From: MetalTrader	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95453

I tend to agree that the discussion of gold gone elsewhere would be a loss to this thread. Agree or disagree, the gold discussion has a macro aspect that brings fundamental investment "truths" under scrutiny. This is something we can all benefit from regardless of the focus of our portfolios. The dialogue makes one think, and any loss of thinking would be a negative to one of the best groups anywhere for lively serious debate. My only comments on gold were months ago when I believe I agreed with the direction but that the time was not yet upon us. I've yet to pull the trigger but the time clearly grows nearer. Very near. MT