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To: SliderOnTheBlack who wrote (5828)	8/6/2007 1:06:14 PM
From: maxncompany	Respond to of 50712

Nothing new about "inflate or die". There are no more Volckers. CB gold intervention? Again, not new. I don't worry much about gold unless it skyrockets or plummets. Individual natural resource stocks do quite well. And given the coming rate cuts, probably even better. Now, the investment banks move into China's financial world is huge. You have mentioned it before, though not yet in detail. Privatization of SSec didn't happen with a Republican Congress. You're dreaming if you think it'll happen with a Democratic Congress. There's no getting around increasing consumer debt loads, housing ATM's disappearing (Ohio, Michigan, Indiana had no housing bubble, yet RE is tanking anyway) and consumer spending slowing ever more. On the side of the coin, as you noted, a good bit of US corporate business is now overseas. Gobally is where the growth is. On the homefront, things are not so good. The disparity between haves and have nots is very likely to increase even more.

To: SliderOnTheBlack who wrote (5828)	8/6/2007 3:37:14 PM
From: Jamey	Respond to of 50712

"2. The privatization of the U.S. Social Security System." Just a comment. Bush couldn't push privatization and neither can Paulson. The election is the Democrats to lose and they won't bring this matter to the fore ever again. This is just another method for the robber barons to rob the poor. All of the one world economy and job off shoring will meet it's demise, even if it takes a repeat of the Great Depression. Americans are wising up to this government and besides, they are running out of ready cash to buy trinkets to feed China. When the investor no longer has money to trade then the investment banks and hedge funds will have to take their white collar robbery elsewhere. I am entirely bearish on the stock market and the economy and all conditions are screaming for a severe hyper inflationary effect on the US of A. PS: I hope you are not one of the "barons." Jim

To: SliderOnTheBlack who wrote (5828)	8/6/2007 7:47:15 PM
From: nohalo	Respond to of 50712

Slider: I have read your posts, some of which were quite obtuse to a mind like mine. This is just about the best post I have seen on SI, and I give compliments grudgingly. Your reference to the Canary in the Mine has finally convinced me that you are bearish on Gold not because you are Slider, but because you have thought long and hard about Gold's place in the Economic Universe, and that you have deduced that Gold will be beaten down from any lofty perch, so that the Boys will feast,and feast they will. Your call on sugar was profitable, but your call on GS, I believe, will outshine all your calls. Thank you for sharing your insights (yes, insights!) with us.