[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

As an investment sometimes its more efficent to own the stocks, or a mutual fund that trades in stocks of gold mining companies. Look at his US Global Investors Global Resource Fund. Some portion is invested in Gold mining stocks. (Diversification is a good thing!) It went up 99% in 2003, 30% in 2004, and probably about 40% this year. Like any investment it will have down years. What did the dow do in 2003? in 2004? This year? Does he know what he is doing? Some Sap.

[HamiltonJay]

I've seen and heard this all before... remember 5000+ nasdaq? 5 years later, and where is it today?

Speculation always collapses.. just a matter of when, not if.