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    • Tue Nov 11th 23:14 PM
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      U.S. Mint Makes Drastic Cuts to Its Collector Gold & Platinum Coin Offerings
      The real reason for withdrawing this non-productive investment vehicle from the available investment options of the general public is that not- circulating, hoarded wealth can no longer be multiplied in economic activity.

      That's not welcome at this time.
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    • Thu Oct 30th 19:30 PM
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      Using Futures to Buy Metals Wholesale
      It is not hard to think of a good economic reason for the US mint to halt supplying retail size bullion coins: why pour fuel on a fire of dollar distrust that would withdraw further dollars from circulation at a time when they are most needed to revive consumer demand?
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    • Wed Oct 8th 19:18 PM
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      Real Price of Gold Soars
      You're standing on the beach before the Tsunami saying, "Look! the ocean's gone!"

      A misleading analogy. In the case of counteracting massive and rapid deflation with measured inflation, the central bankers (and the politicians representing the taxpayers who ultimately have to foot the bills) are unlikely to get the measure or the timing right.

      Too little money infusion, too late, is what is happening now during the uncontrolled collapse.
      The inevitable inflation caused by the monetizing of debt and the interest on it will be a more controlled process.
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    • Sat Oct 4th 03:54 AM
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      Some True Safe Havens Are Still (Surprisingly) Undervalued
      What about Mr Kaiser being happy to see PAL shares go to 1 dollar, and then making another offer for another 30 or 40% that cannot be refused?
      PAL can mine and stockpile rather than sell unhedged in the spot market, just like it did for one quarter under the previous CEO, giving Mr Kaiser a low share price. Will this be the policy of the new CEO?

      Or will he opt for negotiating new hedges?

      The operating word is caution, because if PAL cannot borrow, there may be another dilutive sale of equity.

      In the long run, I agree that Mr Kaiser will have a very lucrative investment indeed.
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    • Fri Oct 3rd 23:22 PM
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      The 20-Month Gold Puzzle
      Mark,

      Using the link you give for the 2006 report, I can only find the 2007 report.
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    • Tue Sep 23rd 09:26 AM
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      Why I Got Gold Wrong
      "Islamic law more-or-less mandates that gold be used as money".
      Factually incorrect.

      Islamic Law proscribes lending-for-interest/u...
      Islamic Banking provides for risk-and profit sharing instead. In hindsight, a lot less unstable than debt securitization :-)

      The author might also think a little deeper about what he calls "false and chimerical" in the belief that somehow gold is money after all.

      Please, SeekingAlpha editors, when will we get that article-rating option??
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    • Thu Sep 18th 18:59 PM
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      How Precious Is Silver?
      I cannot believe that SLV would not have real allocated bullion backing. Barclays would not allow such a situation to persist for more than a few weeks at most. If it did, there would be very dire consequences indeed.
      That means that the Ebay bullion sellers are currently like ticket scalpers, arbitraging a temporary anomaly.
      Rather than paying their outrageous mark-up over spot, I would rather invest more in that maligned "paper" silver as it inevitably catches up with the physical demand.
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    • Tue Sep 16th 18:06 PM
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      A Tale of Two Commodities' Charts: Crude Oil and Gold
      Bah! Can we please have a rating system for articles on Seeking Alpha?
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    • Wed Sep 10th 19:50 PM
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      iShares Silver Trust: Inventory Climbs as Metal Price Plunges
      I see no surprise in the inventory growth of SLV.
      SLV represents hoarding or silver, as opposed to leveraged trading.

      As the price drops, hoarding some more silver in SLV becomes more attractive.

      Redemptions will take place when the silver prices are high and better investments are available.

      That is not the case now.
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    • Mon Sep 8th 08:28 AM
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      Why Microsoft's XBox 360 Will Outsell Nintendo's Wii
      Wii players do not become hardcore Xbox gamers after they have become bored with Wii sports and Wii fit. (if ever)
      They don't care for graphics and computing power.
      They will buy more Wii games and Nintendo will continue to rake in the money from their biggest user base.
      The balance board gives more opportunities for new entertaining games.
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    • Mon Sep 1st 17:57 PM
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      Gold Is Nocturnal Too: Daytime vs Overnight Performance
      Do this exercise with other precious metals, such as Pd, which is heavily traded in Zurich , and you will see an even more pronounced difference in price action in the different hours. I'm sure some people can make money trading these anomalies.
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    • Thu Aug 21st 23:03 PM
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      China: Olympic Fever and the Market
      Thanks, Mr Pettis for pointing that out. Once China starts on the buying path beyond what is now in the Reserve pot, it would make sense that it did so with a fully convertible (and revalued) Yuan.
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    • Wed Aug 20th 20:25 PM
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      Whose Freddie Investment Thesis Is Right?
      @jasonC
      "Huge numbers of people are rooting for a complete collapse of the financial system. They are not friends of the United States."

      They are not friends of the World.

      Due to its greater flexibility, the US would recover sooner from such a calamity than the rest of the OECD.

      I strongly agree with MarkJGrant and other commentators, who hold that the obligations (not the shareholders) of GSE's must remain sacrosact. If they have to be renationalized to achieve that, so be it.

      The alternative is Third World credibility and status for the US.
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    • Tue Aug 19th 18:50 PM
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      Can Specialized Search Nibble Away at Google?
      I don't see why Google cannot create it's own "niches" that reflect the search bias that some segments of searchers would prefer.
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    • Wed Aug 13th 20:59 PM
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      Six Reasons To Buy China Soon
      Repudiation by the Government of China of $260 billion of its sovereign debt and the pending reclassification of the Chinese government’s sovereign credit rating into ‘Selective Default’. --------
      You have to make it clear that this concerns the long-repudiated debt of the old "Republic of China".
      Maybe the court case and the publicity will make the government change its mind and decide to honour these old debts after all.

      That would be hugely positive.
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