To: d:oug who wrote (72656 ) 6/30/2001 1:08:49 PM From: ubetcha Respond to of 116944 Thank You for your honest response. The interesting part is that I agree with you. If a person is charging for information, than that information should not be given away for free. Your intellectual property is your own, and everyone has a right to do with it as they please, but I personally would not buy an information service from someone that gave it away free. It is certainly proper for anyone to say whatever they want on this thread or any other, and to even hock their own agenda, but is important for each person to make their own decisions. You may not really know where the other person is coming from. I receive the GATA E-Mails, and enjoy the information provided. I researched all the information on the ESF, and the PPT, and found both to be quite interesting. I do not think things have changed much since we have a new president. I do not think the government is going to change the way they do things. What is going to change the price of gold is the money supply that is currently being pumped into the economy. An increase in the money supply creates inflation, especially when it turns into M-1. In my business, we continue to pay more and more for our raw products, in some cases over 20% in the last year. Of course I forgot that their is no inflation in our economy. We in America think that "bigger" is better. We must always be bigger and sell more. Me thinks the worm has turned. When the American people stop buying the latest and greatest, things will fall off rapidly. Japan currently has 0% interest rates, and cannot get their economy going. Remember when we all wanted to clone ourselves after their financial model? Maybe we have enough computers and DVD's. It should get interesting over the next few years. TWILKO