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To: freespirited

My understanding (limited) is that shares in precious metals won’t cut it as an insurance policy against a dead dollar. You need metal in your hand. Gold, silver, or steel.


26 posted on 02/11/2009 10:59:29 AM PST by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (The Stimulus Package: Preamble to the Democrat's new Declaration of In Dependence)
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe

What value does gold offer?

Can’t run a plant off of it. Can’t eat it. Can’t make a vehicle move...can’t transform it into medicine or liquor. Can’t make into a practical weapon...

So WHY invest in gold? I would think that human kind would look at practical purchases...that is EXACTLY what happened to “oil” it was for a time the “new gold” but we all now here it was all “speculation”.

PRAY tell...who here is going to argue that 1000.00 an oz gold isn’t “speculation also”?

I say invest in potatoes and rice...at least with a little manipulation you can drink your worries away.

HA!


41 posted on 02/11/2009 11:07:18 AM PST by antivenom
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