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To: TobagoJack who wrote (43675)	12/9/2008 12:32:55 PM
From: Riskmgmt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217592

<<the girls i prefer prefer mini cooper :0)>> Very wise! <<i stand ready to increase the bets to all or nothing proportions.>> Reckless and incongruent with the former. From what i know of you TJ I doubt you would bet "all or nothing" on anything even the coveted GOLD.:} Good luck with the investments. R.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (43675)	12/9/2008 3:50:42 PM
From: Seeker of Truth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217592

Hi TJ, Certainly TAN will do well in the very long term but while oil is close to 40, investment in solar energy needs large subsidies. Obama is a politician, hence a realist, so he probably will not quickly spend large sums on solar energy. The latter expenditure will probably be delayed until the need becomes more obvious to more people. So I sold the last of my TAN yesterday. Obama needs things that pay off by November 2010. So I guess. Who knows? SOT

To: TobagoJack who wrote (43675)	12/10/2008 11:14:33 AM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217592

I am still in SRS as I think the comm'l real estate market is rancid, will become putrid very soon and will ultimately [within 6-8 months] become almost non-existent. We are likely to see a ruthless, fraudulent bear market rally for the next few weeks. Then, kaboom! the bear trap will close shut without a hint of a warning, leaving the bleeding, the decapitated and the lame in its wake. The only thing to do is to sell, sell and sell again into any rally so as to have cash and gold and silver and the beat-up mining companies which produce same on hand to weather the storm. The macro is simply much too dismal for anything else to take place. Short vehicles, like SRS, FAZ and SKF, can become very profitable playthings if used prudently. I am more or less following Taleb's advice, though I had done so before I learned of it, and that is to be exceptionally conservative for most of the PF but put a small portion of it into wildly risky stuff. No middling risk at all for what may seem middling now is, in view of the macro fundamentals, likely to contain a toxic Black Swan which will ruin everything. Edit: I see you are in GDX. So am I, in the 22s.I also really, really like silver, esp. its miners. Am currently in Hecla. It burned me a few months ago, but like a moth to the flame, I returned at 1.33 on Nov. 14.