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To: TobagoJack who wrote (5727)	4/22/2006 11:12:03 AM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217767

Jay do you think silver will reach up to get back to a historic valuation in relationship to gold of 20/1? i hope so:0) Z

To: TobagoJack who wrote (5727)	4/22/2006 4:34:40 PM
From: gg cox	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217767

J, you might get a chuckle out of this.. Message 22381331

To: TobagoJack who wrote (5727)	4/22/2006 10:40:54 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217767

The less the opportunity for productive investment. The more the speculation. The opportunities for productive investment have long dried up in OECD countries. The economies that have no activity but lots of capital have no alternative but to speculate. This causes bubbles after bubble. Gold, is a way to 'park' money. Money is at the mercy of the central banks. It needs a mechanism t store value that cannot be replicated, the way money is printed. That's how it was used to stabilize the world economy post war period. Today with very little productive investment opportunity in OECD money is parked in stuff and no longer in banks because the banks themselves do not find invetsment opprotunities. So individuals are thinking: Why the banks are rewarding myself too little? Let go out there and try finding some investment opportunities myself. People have lot sof time to devote to this and they are doing it. But I know for sure: Money has, in the end to go where there is economic activity and desert the places where there's money but no economic activity. It will take a while...