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Politics : Dutch Central Bank Sale Announcement Imminent? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tom Byron who wrote (13259)	2/6/2002 1:14:28 AM
From: Ahda	Respond to of 81996

Tom when the ability of currency to create increased value is questioned as i am sure it has been in Japan, or not so much of it would of been converted to dollars you are looking at a reduction in value. As you stated what do you invest in for hope of future growth? People then attempt to safe guard what they have so gold does have a value as the cost to produce it is far greater that fiat. The end result is if companies are decreasing employees and reducing expenditures and find they are not seeing increased earnings for their efforts you see is what appears to be happening which is funds are being withdrawn from mutuals. If you take this to a world front and think in terms of oil if their is contraction here in business, the dollar will not increase in value as it has been doing, next you have the Oil bearing nations wondering just how far the dollar is going to go. Gold and silver there of become of value only because it is something we can't burn at will. You can probably apply this to the whole commodity market which is composed of materials we use that can be accounted for as touchable. As i go off topic totally and think in terms of simplicity where you sell an object at X dollars and it cost you X-Y to produce. That X_Y is lost somewhere in depreciation and numerous tax situations that have become so darn complex that X is not relevant but Y is. We write off and down items that are not decreasing but increasing in value due to value creating inflation. We have come to the point where the reason of X is the numerous type of numerical figures that result in the minus Y being the prime factor and the X is total accident that attempted to deal with costs that increased while technology actually decreased base costs. Apply this to a global economy compiled with currency conversion and labor intensive and you have the makings of a global migraine. Then we can touch the Bush administration stating clearly responsible for. I liked this responsible factor it means i did it was my fault not Monica did it not my fault i was an accidental by stander. Then i would be the one who was stupid enough to say I liked Lay he not only screwed you but me too. If we the people need the security of wisdom to lead at a very questionable time in our economy it is here we need wisdom that states long range that truth is the easiest and simplest approach. So is this a fifty fifty or is it impossible for honest to be foremost? In this global economy political stability is an absolute requirement. I wonder how much venture fund money has gone to Israel in the last few months. Enough said, as we read about payroll reduction and the migration of those from other nations back to the nation they came from, employment figures I don't think keep tabs of this so how accurate are they? So we are pretty well stuck with honest audit figures if we are investors and can we find them? Have our laws become so very complex that in order to operate and produce the legal aspects of all governed by the sec are just to costly. Have we created dollars that are bordering on insane value for labor ability in an global economy that we invest in to assist both they and us in growth opportunity but find we now are competing in a job market that is much less costly than our own. I sure don't know but it does make gold seem like a much more simple alternative.