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Politics : Welcome to Slider's Dugout -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SliderOnTheBlack who wrote (1497)	5/5/2006 9:59:10 AM
From: crdesign	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50084

Happy Cinco de Mayo! I'm going to put the final coat of urethane on a cork floor I installed Then I'm gonna pop a cork... if you know what I mean. Hard to dispute what you say Slider. Keep it up! I know not everybody gets along on the key threads but You all have the same virtuous goal; To make all who read y'alls colorful prose MONEY! I hope to be a witness the day everyone lays down the swords on these threads and decides to fight the common goal of good (all us little guys) conquering evil (the fat bastards high up in the corporate stratosphere.) Tim PS. I heard somewhere, not quite sure where, it's in our human nature to always be battling something. Highly plausible concept IMHO. At times I'm guilty of it too.

To: SliderOnTheBlack who wrote (1497)	5/5/2006 10:38:00 AM
From: SOROS	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50084

So, Slider, when do the "too easy" real estate investors get burned? Why do the gold/silver bulls get "greedy" so fast and deserve to be labeled "pigs", yet the real estate investors can go on forever and not be labeled or get their deserved "reward?" How about the Google investors? How about the Greenspan worshippers? How about the whole US gov't and Fed printing presses? By your theory, I'd say we should be right on the precipice of the end of the US dollar and civilization -- has it not about run its course in terms of empires? I remain, SOROS

To: SliderOnTheBlack who wrote (1497)	5/5/2006 10:45:13 AM
From: ItsAllCyclical	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50084

Gold vs Palladium comparison Your comparision overlooks a few important details. The average US investor has what 2 choices for Palladium stocks? Or they can use the futures market in which case they need to be both right about time and price. Either way it's an incredibly tiny market w/few choices which should get brought into the risk/reward criteria. Gold which is still very small relative to the gen. market at least offers at a min 50+ decent alternatives for stocks for the average US investor. Of course not all of the stocks are at the same point in the cycle as the rest which of course is the big bonus. Rather than using margin or options both of which are risky it's far easier to rotate from play to play specifically from big cap to mid cap and then small cap on various sector moves. The average gold stock has more than outperformed the underlying metal over the last year as well. Sure Palladium stocks have too, but gold has given you the opportunity to do this repeatedly by switching to laggards. As such I would agrue the leverage (potential gains) in gold has been far greater for an a decent investor in both sectors. Of course gold offers a convienient ETF for tracking the physical as well vs playing the futures. I'd say for 99%+ of the investors out there this is a far better option. I'm not making a prediction on future performance here between the two metals. My point is simply the comparison (investment merits) between the two is far more complex than a simple % gain. Of course you already knew that, but that's not how you portray it. Can we put this tiring gold/palladium comparision to rest now?