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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TobagoJack who wrote (80823)	10/4/2011 11:26:08 AM
From: prosperous	Respond to of 217752

Yes, its hard to say which way silver goes, one good heuristic to reconsider it is when the zero hedge silver lovers start giving up :-) gold metal will be less riskier bet, although henceforth larger value of gold will be for insurance against unseen/unintended consequences rather than as asset class against inflation. If the central banks successfully inflate away, equities will likely get better return than gold but since they are likely/prone to fail at doing that gold is a better parking place. Its interesting that the most economic sense is coming out of center of US, Kansas, e.g. Tom Hoenig, Bill Black and others. The "occupy myfavoriteplace" movement picking steam up and we are seeing local version sprouting, although if one looks at it, it is pathetic in its roots. It means different things to different people, for people who were stupid enough to get big mortgage and are in fore closure, for students who took larger loans than they should have and have no jobs they think this is their opportunity to get free money from govt, and many others looking for freebies although there are genuine cases where people have been hurt due to job losses etc embedded in there. However, the govt has created such a situation that nobody anymore agrees on what the right thing to happen is. All that the "occupy ..." movement seems to be saying is that the next 20-30% dilution of dollar should be done toward throwing freebies at us and not wall street. I don't see how that converges and what steps the govt takes to appease that crowd if it intensifies enough and what its side-effects will be. We are in a fine mess and getting deeper by the day.