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Gold/Mining/Energy : Silver prices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: loantech who wrote (4896)	4/19/2002 8:03:47 AM
From: goldsheet	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 8010

I guess I must approach the metals markets from a VERY different perspective than most. I go back to pulling silver coins out of change in 1964 (age 8), and put all my paper route money into silver instead of a bank. I have collected coins for 38 years, and was a part-time dealer for about a decade. My father ran a foundry, so I have made molds, melted metals, and poured pots of brass, bronze, and aluminum. Gives one another way of looking at things. Gold and silver are commodities, which behave like currencies, and have a residual historical monetary history. When I started GOLDSHEET in 1983, it was just a spreadsheet of mining stocks, and the website (since 1995) was just for sharing data I already had on my computer. The website doesn't make me much money, barely covers costs. Sure, I have an agenda, don't we all ? I just try to provide as much information as I can to assist folks to make their own decisions. I'm for careful analysis of all data, independent thinking, and personal responsibility. I'm against endless verbose essays which always say precious metals are going up. I can not tell folks what they want to hear, but what I think they need to hear. P.S. Quit my day job 13 years ago. With my personality (or lack thereof), could you imagine me saying "Yes, boss, you are absolutely correct even though all the evidence indicates you are wrong"