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To: Archie Meeties who wrote (60735)	2/5/2010 3:56:23 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217815

<<I'm open to the possibility that because of the massive creation of debt of late, all currencies may become weak vs. some commodity. Still trying to sort through that possibility. My thought has been that the best performing commodities in such a scenario would be those with utility. IE, tungsten, copper.>> central issue is debt for all critical problem is absolute and relative (to gdp) size of debt for many major concern is that debt can only be (i) qe-ed / monetized / printed away, (ii) paid down, (iii) reneged on sum of fears is that should debt collapse, and part of debt always do, all assets would as well, except some varieties of cash useful metals are not cash, that is perhaps why they are useful if seashells and paper are cash, then perhaps gold is better or best cash