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Davos 2010: George Soros Warns Gold Is Now The 'Ultimate Bubble'
Telegraph(UK) ^ | January 28, 2010 | Edmund Conway

Posted on 01/28/2010 4:38:46 PM PST by Steelfish

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To: Steelfish

I’ve been saying that gold is in a bubble cycle for a least a couple months now; though prefixing that with the adjective “ultimate” is an exaggeration, I doubt it has the potential of previous bubbles.


21 posted on 01/28/2010 5:01:30 PM PST by eclecticEel (The Most High rules in the kingdom of men ... and sets over it the basest of men.)
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To: Steelfish
Bu*ls**t. Soros is trying to prevent people from protecting themselves from the very inflation that Soros and his sock-puppet Obama have been merrily trying to gin up over the course of the past year. That way, by destroying any stores of value people might have, Soros can render us all wholly dependent on government.

Soros is more dangerous than Obama, and should be treated accordingly; thankfully, Soros wasn't smart enough to have his own version of Obama's ultimate insurance policy - Joe "The Joke" Biden.


22 posted on 01/28/2010 5:05:12 PM PST by Oceander (The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance -- Thos. Jefferson)
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To: Cheap_Hessian

Just take anything Soros says as the exact opposite of what he believes or knows. He makes a statement like this knowing gold will take a brief tumble, then sucks up all the gold he can buy. He knows damn well that serious inflationary times are on the way, and as such, gold will skyrocket. I’m no economist, but this is Econ 101. The Fed is printing $$ as fast as it can, the government is spending it, and the dollar will plummet on world markets in the upcoming months. In every such instance in world history, specie has risen inversely to the fall in fiat money. Soros may be evil, but he and his people know these things.

I had to laugh the toher day when someone important suggested the USG unload its gold reserves to pay down the deficit. That’s a joke. The USG apparently has $300B in gold reserves. Obama could spend that in a day.

I have a suggestion for really paying down the deficit (please correct me if the idea is stupid). The USG owns trillions in federal assets, like land. Auction it off and pay down the debt. The USG owns approximately 1/3 of the land in this country. Sell it, auction it, or even give it away to people who want to use it productively. It would be the equivalent of the country winning a lifelong lottery ticket.

Huckfillary


23 posted on 01/28/2010 5:06:48 PM PST by huckfillary (qual tyo ta)
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To: Steelfish

True


24 posted on 01/28/2010 5:13:56 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: freekitty

He needs to go see his homies Stalin and Marx.


25 posted on 01/28/2010 5:14:41 PM PST by oust the louse (The Country has a very bad BO problem...let's use some RIGHT guard!)
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To: huckfillary

I agree with you. Soros is a snake - do the opposite of what he “recommends”.


26 posted on 01/28/2010 5:15:23 PM PST by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: Steelfish

when i first bought gold, it was selling for $250/oz and i could get a burger for $2.00-2.50, or about 100 hamburgers per ounce. i was paying about $2500/mon in monthly bills, or about 10 ounces.

today, i can get a burger for about $3-4 (five guys... great burger), and 100 burgers would run about $400, or 0.33 ounces. my bills are around $3500/mon, or about 3 ounces.

of course, back in 2001, the demand was low and the US gov’t was not hell bent on suicide. fear and uncertainty push the value of gold up as much, if not more, than demand.

in the future, so long as i can pay my bills for 3 ounces, i won’t be any worse off than today. if my bills go up to 10 ounces... then i’d be about where i was in 2001. of course, for that to happen, the US economy would have to be back on track and we would have to have stopped offshoring our workforce, thereby driving up the value of the American dollar. we would also have to drive down the unfunded social programs.

sorry... i don’t see that happening any time soon.


27 posted on 01/28/2010 5:20:07 PM PST by sten
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To: Steelfish

Soros selling gold short?


28 posted on 01/28/2010 5:27:18 PM PST by School of Rational Thought (Most interesting man in the world.)
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To: sten

Lead in boxes of 20 or 50 in your preferred caliber is the best investment. By an extra case or so and share with your trusted friends. One Oz of gold might get you a whole loaf of bread, a full magazine of lead gets you the whole 7-11 and a full tank.


29 posted on 01/28/2010 5:28:33 PM PST by libertyhoundusnr
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To: Steelfish

That’s all I need to know to inspire me to get out there after breakup and dig up more gold!


30 posted on 01/28/2010 5:35:19 PM PST by CaribouCrossing
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To: libertyhoundusnr

One Oz of gold might get you a whole loaf of bread, a full magazine of lead gets you the whole 7-11 and a full tank.


I disapprove of your apparently joking suggestion that theft and threatened murder is a suitable plan. The few loons who think that armed looting is “preparedness” will soon end up dead in any real crisis.

Also, under no economic circumstance in human history has a loaf of bread cost anywhere near an ounce of gold.


31 posted on 01/28/2010 5:36:46 PM PST by Atlas Sneezed ("Personal freedom begins when you tell Old Mrs. Grundy to go to Hell." -Lazarus Long)
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To: Steelfish

Doesn’t gold generally dip in the 2nd Quarter of the FY. He probably knows this and is hoping to fuel a panic in the unwashed masses so they sell off what they have, drive down the prices, then he gets more for even less.


32 posted on 01/28/2010 5:38:47 PM PST by John.Galt2012 (I'll take Liberty and you can keep the "Change"!)
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To: Steelfish

Really interesting, in view of the fact that the guy who started the Quantum Fund with Soros, Jim Rogers, is an advocate of all commodities, including gold, but thinks silver is a better play. Gold WILL get yanked around as long as people buy into the idea that colored strips of paper with pictures of dead politicians on them is “money.” The day the whole world really gets it that governments are printing that stuff like there is no tomorrow...... THEN you will see the ULTIMATE gold bubble.


33 posted on 01/28/2010 5:43:22 PM PST by AK_47_7.62x39
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To: libertyhoundusnr
One Oz of gold might get you a whole loaf of bread, a full magazine of lead gets you the whole 7-11 and a full tank.

Until you come to MY 7-11. Then it just gets you dead, like the rest of the thieving scum.

34 posted on 01/28/2010 5:45:54 PM PST by AK_47_7.62x39
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To: oust the louse

Good one.


35 posted on 01/28/2010 5:52:16 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Steelfish

I am so sick of being subjected to these losers.


36 posted on 01/28/2010 5:52:47 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: WellyP

>> Like all bubbles and iver inflated things, I keep wishing SOROS would blow up!

Well, that may never happen, but... he IS 80+ years old, and he WILL die...

“and after that, the judgment”.


37 posted on 01/28/2010 6:45:46 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Eat more spinach! Make Green Jobs for America!)
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To: Steelfish

Time to buy gold.


38 posted on 01/28/2010 6:47:58 PM PST by Eddie01 (Billy was a mountain, Ethel was a tree growing off of his shoulder)
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To: Nervous Tick
I saw a pretty sick picture of that man whose face reflects his heart with a bunch of young women on a yatch partying.

I also saw up front pictures of him at EVERY DEBATE uhbama was a part of...he had to have been invited to sit up front like that.

Soros knew exactly what party and what person to go to in order to gain help in destroying our nation.

I just wonder why george soros and his sorry kids want to hurt us. Want to rewrite our system of laws and destroy our economy.

It is amazing how very, very small a very, very wealthy man can become if he is full of vile desires.

39 posted on 01/28/2010 7:15:02 PM PST by Republic (I really love Rush.)
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George Soros caught using APMEX coupon codes.
40 posted on 02/16/2010 5:51:41 PM PST by Errant
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