To: E. Charters who wrote (7187 ) 4/23/2006 1:34:00 PM From: marcos Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 8273 To buy, or not to buy, this is not the question ... question is, what does it mean, 'to buy', a term for which, in making up a conveniently argument-specific definition out of the top of our heads, we get 'to effect a trade using money as consideration for the stuff purchased' ... so in your example given, you clearly view the cdn dollars as money, and Gold [pieces of eight be upon us] as the 'stuff purchased' - Gold [poebuu] is 'stuff'?! ... no no, this is backwards in the wording, and therefore in your mind - terminology is important, if you doubt that just ask the wimzlib girls What you propose, at the core of this expedition, is in fact a sale of cdn dollars at 43.39mgAu[poebuu] each ... that this is a good idea is not in dispute, hey take anything near 40mg while you can get it, as long as there is coin of the realm left after beer and flakey little mining promotions, and by the way you could have saved a lot of it by riding your horse to the bank, also by not bothering with excuses to the wife, who will always assume you were with another woman in any case, nothing you can do about it ... mine, notwithstanding the above, brings me Libertades of don Hugo direct from Elektra [google 'hugo salinas price plata libertad', i think it's www.plata.com.mx], since he first began making them [here it is correct to say he is 'Price of silver'] Seriously, i don't know why goldbug sites don't pick up on this, it's not that much work to express the situation accurately, by quoting and charting the fiat currencies and shareprices in milligrammes of Gold[poebuu] ... mg being imho more usable for the purpose than troy ounces That was quite clever of the rmkl thing to finally get its ass in gear last week ... i wonder if stan lightened up on the trr.v in the mid-.teens, prudent thing to do imho, but i'm actually considering leaving in a bid for it again now, aargh ... theory being, they could hit, there's what, a one per cent chance, and in any case even the real dogs get run hard in a real bull, which this pretty clearly is