Gold

[skid]

"""I wasnt thinking just about gold physical delivery although I recall GoldCorp """

Goldcorp. LOL Ray Smith, who scammed the suckers and took off with his mistress to Utah. Not what you would call a reputable company, I pulled my money out of the sharemarket in 1986 because the writing was on the wall.

I could've made a lot more but I was getting very nervous watching everyone line up at the NZX in Queen St.

From its all time high in 2007 the dow fell 7000 points [in march 2009] Since then it has increased to almost 1000 points higher than its 2007 high. Look around you at the economy and draw your own conclusions.

[skid]

SOME MORE quotes your fav pres SKOL
50. "I promise you I will listen to what has been said here, even though I wasn't here." --at the President's Economic Forum in Waco, Texas, Aug. 13, 2002

49. "We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease." --Gothenburg, Sweden, June 14, 2001

48. "You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test." -Townsend, Tenn., Feb. 21, 2001

47. "I am here to make an announcement that this Thursday, ticket counters and airplanes will fly out of Ronald Reagan Airport." --Washington, D.C., Oct. 3, 2001

46. "Tribal sovereignty means that; it's sovereign. I mean, you're a -- you've been given sovereignty, and you're viewed as a sovereign entity. And therefore the relationship between the federal government and tribes is one between sovereign entities." --Washington, D.C., Aug. 6, 2004 (Watch video clip)

45. "I couldn't imagine somebody like Osama bin Laden understanding the joy of Hanukkah." --at a White House menorah lighting ceremony, Washington, D.C., Dec. 10, 2001 (Listen to audio clip)

44. "You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror." --interview with CBS News' Katie Couric, Sept. 6, 2006

43. "The same folks that are bombing innocent people in Iraq were the ones who attacked us in America on September the 11th." --Washington, D.C., July 12, 2007

42. "I'm the commander -- see, I don't need to explain -- I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being president." --as quoted in Bob Woodward's Bush at War

41. "Oh, no, we're not going to have any casualties." --discussing the Iraq war with Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson in 2003, as quoted by Robertson

40. 3. "I think I was unprepared for war." –on the biggest regret of his presidency, ABC News interview, Dec. 1, 2008

39. "I will not withdraw, even if Laura and Barney are the only ones supporting me." --talking to key Republicans about Iraq, as quoted by Bob Woodward

38. "I hear there's rumors on the Internets that we're going to have a draft." --presidential debate, St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 8, 2004 (Watch video clip)

37. "I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family." --Greater Nashua, N.H., Chamber of Commerce, Jan. 27, 2000 (Listen to audio clip)

36. "Do you have blacks, too?" --to Brazilian President Fernando Cardoso, Washington, D.C., Nov. 8, 2001

35. "This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating." --as quoted by the New York Daily News, April 23, 2002

34. "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees." --on "Good Morning America," Sept. 1, 2005, six days after repeated warnings from experts about the scope of damage expected from Hurricane Katrina

33. "I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully." --Saginaw, Mich., Sept. 29, 2000

32. "I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5 pound largemouth bass in my lake." --on his best moment in office, interview with the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag, May 7, 2006

31. "They misunderestimated me." --Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 20
30. "For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three non-fatal shootings. And, folks, this is unacceptable in America. It's just unacceptable. And we're going to do something about it." --Philadelphia, Penn., May 14, 2001

29. "This is an impressive crowd -- the haves and the have mores. Some people call you the elite -- I call you my base." --at the 2000 Al Smith dinner

28. "Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream." --LaCrosse, Wis., Oct. 18, 2000

27. "I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe -- I believe what I believe is right." --Rome, Italy, July 22, 2001

26. "See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." --Greece, N.Y., May 24, 2005 (Listen to audio clip)
25. "People say, how can I help on this war against terror? How can I fight evil? You can do so by mentoring a child; by going into a shut-in's house and say I love you." --Washington, D.C., Sept. 19, 2002

24. "I wish you'd have given me this written question ahead of time so I could plan for it...I'm sure something will pop into my head here in the midst of this press conference, with all the pressure of trying to come up with answer, but it hadn't yet...I don't want to sound like I have made no mistakes. I'm confident I have. I just haven't -- you just put me under the spot here, and maybe I'm not as quick on my feet as I should be in coming up with one." --after being asked to name the biggest mistake he had made, Washington, D.C., April 3, 2004

23. "You forgot Poland." --to Sen. John Kerry during the first presidential debate, after Kerry failed to mention Poland's contributions to the Iraq war coalition, Miami, Fla., Sept. 30, 2004

22. "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter." --in parting words to world leaders at his final G-8 Summit, punching the air and grinning widely as those present looked on in shock, Rusutsu, Japan, July 10, 2008

21. "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." --State of the Union Address, Jan. 28, 2003, making a claim that administration officials knew at the time to be false
20. "The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him." --Washington, D.C., Sept. 13, 2001

19. "I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority." --Washington, D.C., March 13, 2002

18. "So what?" –President Bush, responding to a an ABC News correspondent who pointed out that Al Qaeda wasn't a threat in Iraq until after the U.S. invaded, Dec. 14, 2008

17. "Can we win? I don't think you can win it." --after being asked whether the war on terror was winnable, "Today" show interview, Aug. 30, 2004

16. "I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace." --Washington, D.C. June 18, 2002

15. "I trust God speaks through me. Without that, I couldn't do my job." --to a group of Amish he met with privately, July 9, 2004

14. "Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed." --speaking underneath a "Mission Accomplished" banner aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, May 1, 2003

13. "We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories ... And we'll find more weapons as time goes on. But for those who say we haven't found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they're wrong, we found them." --Washington, D.C., May 30, 2003

12. "Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere!" --joking about his administration's failure to find WMDs in Iraq as he narrated a comic slideshow during the Radio & TV Correspondents' Association dinner, Washington, D.C., March 24, 2004 (Read more)

11. "I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office." --Washington, D.C., May 12, 2008

Next > Still More Idiotic Bushisms
10. "Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?" --Florence, South Carolina, Jan. 11, 2000

9. "As yesterday's positive report card shows, childrens do learn when standards are high and results are measured." --on the No Child Left Behind Act, Washington, D.C., Sept. 26, 2007 (Watch video clip)

8. "If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." --Washington, D.C., Dec. 19, 2000 (Listen to audio clip)

7. "I'm the decider, and I decide what is best. And what's best is for Don Rumsfeld to remain as the Secretary of Defense." --Washington, D.C. April 18, 2006 (Read more; listen to audio clip; watch video clip)

6. "There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on --shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again." --Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002 (Watch video clip)

5. "Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country." --Poplar Bluff, Mo., Sept. 6, 2004 (Watch video clip)

4. "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." --Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004 (Watch video clip)

3. "You work three jobs? ... Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that." --to a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005 (Listen to audio clip)

2. "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job." --to FEMA director Michael Brown, who resigned 10 days later amid criticism over his handling of the Hurricane Katrina debacle, Mobile, Ala., Sept. 2, 2005 (Listen to audio clip; watch video clip)

1. "My answer is bring them on." --on Iraqi insurgents attacking U.S. forces, Washington, D.C., July 3, 2003

~Compiled by Daniel Kurtzman
GOD MESS ABLARICA and save the world from BUSHES

Your an easy target Skol

[Skol]

Your an easy target Skol

Am I?

I don't own any gold, I own 90,000 units in the BT Japan Fund that I've been accumulating for years, it's payday.

IN the last 12 months:

Gold -9%
Silver -19%
N225 +63%.

Who's making money and who isn't?

BTW, George W. Bush was more popular than Obama is now.

[Skol]

From its all time high in 2007 the dow fell 7000 points [in march 2009] Since then it has increased to almost 1000 points higher than its 2007 high. Look around you at the economy and draw your own conclusions.

I've been drawing my conclusions about gold for years, it's on the 'skids'. lol

Economy looks OK to me, just looks bad to goldbugs who like to blame everyone else (JP Morgan, the Fed, Obama, Goldmans, ECB, ad. nauseum) for their misfortune, which is about to get a lot worse.

[stevo1]

Still the best and most entertaining President, and he took down Saddam Hussein, who was gonna screw the world with high oil prices.
Took out lots of terrorists as well, a real hero!


Hope you don't own any gold Stevo, or you're goin' down too. lol

''Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.''

—President George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004


Skol i do own some gold.Not a truckload but some- prices I paid range from $30-$500 /oz for it so yes I have owned it for some time and even with gold at $2000/oz havent sold.[It is my insurance against American stupidity.Which is not confined to the Bushes

''My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.''

—Vice President Dick Cheney, on invading Iraq, ''Meet the Press,'' March 16, 2003



''I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man.''

—Joe Biden, referring to Barack Obama at the beginning of the 2008 Democratic primary campaign, Jan. 31, 2007


''People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got.''

—Richard Nixon at a November 17, 1973 news conference

''If I were a single man, I might ask that mummy out. That's a good-looking mummy.''

—Bill Clinton, on ''Juanita,'' a newly discovered Incan mummy on display at the National Geographic museum


''During my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative in creating the Internet.''

—Vice President Al Gore, during the 2000 presidential campaign


''I promise you, the president has a big stick. I promise you.''

—Joe Biden, citing Theodore Roosevelt's famous quote, ''Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far'' (April 26, 2012)

''Folks, I can tell you I've known eight presidents, three of them intimately.''

—Joe Biden, Aug. 22, 2012


''Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.''

—Dan Quayle

''It depends on what the meaning of the words 'is' is.''

—Bill Clinton, during his 1998 grand jury testimony on the Monica Lewinsky affair

''I was under medication when I made the decision to burn the tapes.''

—Richard Nixon


''Well, I learned a lot....I went down to (Latin America) to find out from them and (learn) their views. You'd be surprised. They're all individual countries''

—President Ronald Reagan

''A zebra does not change its spots.''

—Al Gore
''I want to say one thing to the American people. I want you to listen to me. I'm going to say this again: I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. I never told anybody to lie, not a single time; never. These allegations are false. And I need to go back to work for the American people.''

—Bill Clinton, Jan. 26, 1998


''Facts are stupid things.''

—Ronald Reagan, at the 1988 Republican National Convention, attempting to quote John Adams, who said, ''Facts are stubborn things''

''I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.''

—President Ronald Reagan

'When I meet with world leaders, what's striking -- whether it's in Europe or here in Asia...''

—President Obama mistakenly referring to Hawaii as Asia while holding a press conference outside Honolulu, Nov. 16, 2011
http://politicalhumor.about.com/libr...tm?PS=548%3A16

[BIRMANBOY]

Oh the joys of being a public figure!!! Good laugh there Steve...its much less stressfull being a fool in private

''Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.''

—President George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004


Skol i do own some gold.Not a truckload but some- prices I paid range from $30-$500 /oz for it so yes I have owned it for some time and even with gold at $2000/oz havent sold.[It is my insurance against American stupidity.Which is not confined to the Bushes

''My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.''

—Vice President Dick Cheney, on invading Iraq, ''Meet the Press,'' March 16, 2003



''I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man.''

—Joe Biden, referring to Barack Obama at the beginning of the 2008 Democratic primary campaign, Jan. 31, 2007


''People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got.''

—Richard Nixon at a November 17, 1973 news conference

''If I were a single man, I might ask that mummy out. That's a good-looking mummy.''

—Bill Clinton, on ''Juanita,'' a newly discovered Incan mummy on display at the National Geographic museum


''During my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative in creating the Internet.''

—Vice President Al Gore, during the 2000 presidential campaign


''I promise you, the president has a big stick. I promise you.''

—Joe Biden, citing Theodore Roosevelt's famous quote, ''Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far'' (April 26, 2012)

''Folks, I can tell you I've known eight presidents, three of them intimately.''

—Joe Biden, Aug. 22, 2012


''Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.''

—Dan Quayle

''It depends on what the meaning of the words 'is' is.''

—Bill Clinton, during his 1998 grand jury testimony on the Monica Lewinsky affair

''I was under medication when I made the decision to burn the tapes.''

—Richard Nixon


''Well, I learned a lot....I went down to (Latin America) to find out from them and (learn) their views. You'd be surprised. They're all individual countries''

—President Ronald Reagan

''A zebra does not change its spots.''

—Al Gore
''I want to say one thing to the American people. I want you to listen to me. I'm going to say this again: I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. I never told anybody to lie, not a single time; never. These allegations are false. And I need to go back to work for the American people.''

—Bill Clinton, Jan. 26, 1998


''Facts are stupid things.''

—Ronald Reagan, at the 1988 Republican National Convention, attempting to quote John Adams, who said, ''Facts are stubborn things''

''I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.''

—President Ronald Reagan

'When I meet with world leaders, what's striking -- whether it's in Europe or here in Asia...''

—President Obama mistakenly referring to Hawaii as Asia while holding a press conference outside Honolulu, Nov. 16, 2011
http://politicalhumor.about.com/libr...tm?PS=548%3A16

[Skol]

Skid,
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Skol i do own some gold.Not a truckload but some- prices I paid range from $30-$500 /oz for it so yes I have owned it for some time and even with gold at $2000/oz havent sold.[It is my insurance against American stupidity.Which is not confined to the Bushes
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Not selling it at $1,900 was a mistake, because it's not going back there any time soon. The world is recovering, all is well, this century won't be the Chinese century, it's probably going to be the American century the way things are going in China.

[Skol]

Here's a laugh-lots of chinese 'aunties' have been buying gold for some reason westerners are unable to fathom. This is from Bloomberg-what the papers had to say about the aunties.
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On Sunday, Shanghai-based Liberation Daily, a newspaper owned by the Shanghai Communist Party, not only joined other news outlets in comparing the gold-shopping habits of aunties to grocery shopping but also suggested: “Their knowledge of banking and finance is close to zero, so their investments change with the winds. They’re also based on feelings, as well as the advice of close friends.”

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lol

[Skol]

Another bad day for gold and silver. Gold $1,429, XGD down 4.8%.
When will it end?
Not anytime soon.

Any guesses when gold will hit $1,000? Mine is about January next year.

[elZorro]

[QUOTE=Skol;406661]Another bad day for gold and silver. Gold $1,429, XGD down 4.8%.
When will it end?
Not anytime soon.

Any guesses when gold will hit $1,000? Mine is about January next year.[/QUOTE]

I'm just locking in that estimate Skol - we'll see if the Gold bugs are closer to the price direction. US$1350 to $1400 is the current average rock-bottom breakeven on mining investment, so after the shorters have finished, it should recover back past its previous high, as gold always does eventually.