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To: SliderOnTheBlack who wrote (7437)	12/26/2007 7:28:23 PM
From: pogohere	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50126

"Central bankers have added unprecedented levels of liquidity, and with an unprecedented level of coordination and cooperation between each other. . . . From the Bank of Japan jawboning the Yen - trying to keep Yen-carry traders in check, to Ben Bernanke talking tough about headline inflation, while simultaneous turning up the printing presses to hyper-drive... to Jean "Tricky" Trichett trying to keep FX traders on their toes by injecting an incredible 350 Billion Euros ($500 Billion in US Dollars), and then withdrawing 420 Billion Euros just days later... Central bankers are using coordinated market intervention like never before. . . . With this unprecedented level of coordinated intervention, liquidity injections, and money supply growth by global central bankers... any correction in gold, or gold stocks into "present" fundamentals - is a back up the truck trading and buying opportunity." Intervention: yes liquidity: no see: Are the Fed and the ECB Misleading Investors About Liquidity? at: hussmanfunds.com It's important to get this straight and not let the drama obscure the facts. Intervention, yes, liquidity, no--unless someone can demonstrate otherwise. And yes, I'm on board with gold equities. Tis the season to be gold jolly and stay that way for a while.

To: SliderOnTheBlack who wrote (7437)	12/26/2007 9:33:10 PM
From: wildandwonderful	Respond to of 50126

"When paper money systems begin to crack at the seams, the run to gold could be explosive." Harry Browne "The desire for gold is the most universal and deeply rooted commercial instinct of the human race." Gerald M. Loeb "Gold was not selected arbitrarily by governments to be the monetary standard. Gold had developed for many centuries on the free market as the best money; as the commodity providing the most stable and desirable monetary medium." Murray N. Rothbard "The history of fiat money is little more than a register of monetary follies and inflations. Our present age merely affords another entry in this dismal register." Hans F. Sennholz "As fewer and fewer people have confidence in paper as a store of value, the price of gold will continue to rise." Jerome F. Smith "Those entrapped by the herd instinct are drowned in the deluges of history. But there are always the few who observe, reason, and take precautions, and thus escape the flood. For these few gold has been the asset of last resort." Antony C. Sutton "For more than two thousand years gold's natural qualities made it man's universal medium of exchange. In contrast to political money, gold is honest money that survived the ages and will live on long after the political fiats of today have gone the way of all paper." Hans F. Sennholz "Until government administrators can so identify the interests of government with those of the people and refrain from defrauding the masses through the device of currency depreciation for the sake of remaining in office, the wiser ones will prefer to keep as much of their wealth in the most stable and marketable forms possible - forms which only the precious metals provide." Elgin Groseclose "America today has insufficient savings to finance both crucial investment and its consumption of imports." James Dale Davidson "We need only take our heads out of the sand to see clearly that interventionism not only has failed to provide the promised something-for-nothing, but has led to all sorts of undesirable consequences. Indeed, many are just beginning to realize that we are moving towards disaster even though we have been on a wrong heading for decades." Leonard Read "Do the American voters know that the unprecedented improvement in their standard of living that the last hundred years brought was the result of the steady rise in the per-head quota of capital invested? Do they realize that every measure leading to capital decumulation jeopardizes their prosperity?" Ludwig von Mises "The dollar will be wiped out." Dr. Franz Pick "The way I see it, gold is headed over $1000 an ounce, probably much higher. At anywhere near current prices, it's the lowest risk, highest potential investment I can think of." Doug Casey "In the long run, the gold price has to go up in relation to paper money. There is no other way. To what price, that depends on the scale of the inflation - and we know that inflation will continue." Nicholas L. Deak "Gold bears the confidence of the world's millions, who value it far above the promises of politicians, far above the unbacked paper issued by governments as money substitutes. It has been that way through all recorded history. There is no reason to believe it will lose the confidence of people in the future." Oakley R. Bramble