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ARCHIVED DISCUSSION FROM 3/19/2006 All times are U.S. Mountain Time (Yesterday's Discussion.) Goldilox (3/19/06; 23:20:17MT - usagold.com msg#: 142591) West Point Mint Here's a tidbit I didn't know. The West Point mint, smallest of the branches, is located at the Military Academy and strikes all US gold coinage. Goldilox (3/19/06; 23:02:24MT - usagold.com msg#: 142590) Secrets of the Mint . . . on the Travel Channel right now. Starting out talking about minting of silver and gold "collector coins", as they call them. Caradoc (3/19/06; 21:55:43MT - usagold.com msg#: 142589) @Gandalf/ TIH http://www.globalfundanalysis.com/default.php?page=/excellence_speaker.php&&id=150 The photo does look like someone barely past twenty, but a link from 2001 says he was 33 that year. Oddest thing about the fellow is not that he's doing a Dorian Gray, but his fascination with online gambling. The article TIH linked has him investing in PartyGaming, and an article in Salon told the story of the truly unusual circumstances of that firm's founding:http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2005/06/03/online_poker/index_np.htmlHe even got The Guardian to front him £200 for online poker:http://technology.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,,1326250,00.htmlNo matter what his age, I suspect he'd do better with gold, silver, and maybe a little palladium. To his credit, he has pointed out that what seem like optimistic projections of the price of mining shares often turn out to have been too conservative:http://business.guardian.co.uk/speculator/story/0,,1702954,00.htmlCaradoc Gandalf the White (3/19/06; 20:57:07MT - usagold.com msg#: 142588) TIH 22<;-) The Invisible Hand (3/19/06; 20:32:20MT - usagold.com msg#: 142587) Don't worry, the sky is the limit! http://business.guardian.co.uk/speculator/story/0,,1734826,00.html A bull stampede is dangerous, but I don't think this is the time to stop running Nils PratleyMonday March 20, 2006The Guardian ==A sign of the times. You have the author's picture next to the article. Guess his age. Ned (3/19/06; 19:17:53MT - usagold.com msg#: 142586) @ Black Blade Thank you very, very much for the 'heads up' for the CNN documentary just finished "We Were Warned". We've been watching the 'peak oil' news for some time now, I sense, for better or worse, that maybe a sliver of Joe 6 Pack (aka J6P) may have caught a sliver of the show.Scarey indeed. Wait 'til this gains a 'sliver' of momentum.Man 'o Man, your tunes ring out tonight my friend, "get out of debt", save a nickel or three, slowly accumulate some real assets, save up some non-perishable food-stuffs.Funny the episodes into Nov. 2009. Timing seems about 'bang-on'. Wonder how they decided that?Thanks again. Quixote (3/19/06; 18:50:22MT - usagold.com msg#: 142585) amazing i predict msg 142583 will go down in the books as one of the most foolhardy bits of complete and utter stupidity ever uttered. mdgc (3/19/06; 18:03:31MT - usagold.com msg#: 142584) Freedom - Xinhuanet articles http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-03/18/content_4314872.htm The issue China View that had the story of the execution of that Chinese billionaire had another article of interest.The other article notes that the renminbi or Chinese yuan is at a 12 year high against the dollar. Chris Powell (3/19/06; 16:14:30MT - usagold.com msg#: 142583) Justice over money in China? Maybe. Or maybe the government justwanted the billionaire's money. Freedom (3/19/06; 15:39:29MT - usagold.com msg#: 142582) http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-03/18/content_4315410.htm Ladies and Gentlemen, Here is something NEVER seen in America. All the rich, from Klaus von Buelow to O. J. to the execs at ENRON should look at this example. I acutally "stumbled" onto this article while reading about the new Gold Theme Park that will open in China. The story is: Billionaire executed for contract murder. <snip> BEIJING, March 18 -- Billionaire Yuan Baojing and two other men were executed Friday in Liaoning Province in the contract killing of a man who threatened to expose Yuan's attempt to murder a businessman. Imagine that: justice prevails over money somewhere. USAGOLD / Centennial Precious Metals, Inc. (3/19/06; 14:32:24MT - usagold.com msg#: 142581) We put a world of gold at your fingertips... http://www.usagold.com/buy-gold-coins.html Ten Bears (3/19/06; 13:24:33MT - usagold.com msg#: 142580) Life imitates art and vice versa This Sunday's comics have more politics than an editorial page… One depicts George Bush as an obvious hireling receiving his speech from an ear piece and accidentally referring to his" bosses" while addressing a group of like minded reporters with one gagged dissident.Current action movie "V" is constructed around an historical event where either: (a) one religious group attempts to prevent the ascendance of another, or (b) agents-provocateurs from the ascending group attempt to divert support from the descending group, by the blowing up of buildings. The destruction is portrayed as a virtuous act.The junior Senator from Wisconsin introduces a bill to censure G.B. for using false information to draw the U.S. into a war. Not impeachment, but censure.A line from the movie "Havana" comes to mind. The criminal cartel ruling Cuba paid large sums to the politico's. A sub-boss, says to the gambler, They have their money both ways, they are supporting both sides, and they think I don't know.George B. Shaw play "Pygmalion", later produced as the movie "My Fair Lady" characters Henry Higgins and Col. Hugh Pickering were able to determine where one lived in London by simply hearing the person's accent. Now computer programs are used to determine one's politics by what sites are visited on the internet.We live in interesting times, A bit of gold or other sound money is often useful in such times. 968 (3/19/06; 13:02:43MT - usagold.com msg#: 142579) China to open theme park dedicated to gold http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200603/s1595500.htm Gold-hungry China plans to open what it has billed the world's first theme park dedicated entirely to the precious metal, state media reports.Construction of the theme park kicked off near a working mine at Rushan city, east China's Shandong province, the Xinhua news agency says. When the 3.6-square-kilometre, $A34 million park is completed, it will allow visitors to watch gold being mined and processed. It will also include a DIY area where the visitors themselves can be gold miners for a day, the agency says. China is the world's third-biggest market for gold after India and the United States, the World Gold Council says.Last year, Chinese demand for gold rose 8 per cent to more than 250 tonnes, the council's data showed. Gold plays an important role in Chinese culture and is evident everywhere from temple decorations to the jewellery of newlyweds and the dental cavities of the rich. Last year, the China Economic Daily issued a special edition, published in gold. It came in two versions, with the more expensive priced at $A11,300 and used 500 grams of gold. canamami (3/19/06; 11:15:48MT - usagold.com msg#: 142578) The Other Iranian Threat http://www.westernstandard.ca/website/index.cfm?page=article&article_id=1513 Kevin Steel's article on the Iranian bourse, from the March 18, 2006 edition of the Western Standard. Goldilox (3/19/06; 10:27:22MT - usagold.com msg#: 142577) Internationalization of contests @ Sundeck,I have always maintained that the world would be better served by placing the bullies who propogate wars in the contest ring "mano a mano", as opposed to sacrificing the blood of their "followers" through war propaganda. Goldilox (3/19/06; 10:23:07MT - usagold.com msg#: 142576) Globalization @ Sundeck,And you can "buy" better savings in precious than in nationalistic FIATs.I was impressed by the following quote from TIH E2020 post:"Decoding of the event "End of publication of the M3 macro-economic indicator"The end of the publication by the American Federal Reserve of the M3 monetary aggregate (and that of other components) [3] , a decision vehemently criticized by the community of economists and financial analysts, will have as a consequence to lose transparency on the evolution of the amount of Dollars in circulation worldwide. For some months already, M3 has significantly increased (indicating that « money printing » has already speeded up in Washington), knowing that the new President of the US Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, is a self-acknowledged fan of « money printing » [4]. Considering that a strong fall of the Dollar would probably result in a massive sale of the US Treasury Bonds held in Asia, in Europe and in the oil-producing countries, LEAP/E2020 estimates that the American decision to stop publishing M3 aims at hiding as long as possible two US decisions, partly imposed by the political and economic choices made these last years [5]:. the ‘monetarisation’ of the US debt. the launch of a monetary policy to support US economic activity.… two policies to be implemented until at least the October 2006 « mid-term » elections, in order to prevent the Republican Party from being sent in reeling.This M3-related decision also illustrates the incapacity of the US and international monetary and financial authorities put in a situation where they will in the end prefer to remove the indicator rather than try to act on the reality." Smeagol (3/19/06; 10:00:16MT - usagold.com msg#: 142575) Sorry about that Sssir Sundeck... ...we was in a hurry. We'll take more care next time!S. The Invisible Hand (3/19/06; 03:26:01MT - usagold.com msg#: 142574) Oops! Replace "April" by "March" The Invisible Hand (3/19/06; 03:22:22MT - usagold.com msg#: 142573) The last week of April 2006 http://www.europe2020.org/en/section_global/150206.htm My calendar says April 31 is a Friday.So the week starting tomorrow, Monday April 20, is not the last, but the last-but-one (full-working) week of April.Just to be sure what these 'contrarian' pages http://www.europe2020.org/en/section_global/150206.htmhttp://www.europe2020.org/en/section_global/150306.htmmean by the last week of April 2006. Sundeck (3/19/06; 03:11:05MT - usagold.com msg#: 142572) Globalisation of baseball Yes Sir Goldilox, ...even baseball might find its apogee (highest point, in orbit) "offshore" in these days of the "global village"..."nations" may be becoming just an artifact of geographic ignorance, and "the state" similarly. Just think how we might benifit from fewer politicians ;-) and fewer wars between the states that they "represent"...Get used to it...the English have, after all, relinquished supremecy in cricket and rugby to other countries...at least, most of the time!...and I dare say you might be able to buy a better curry in London than in the whole Indian sub-continent...Rather than feeling threatened, I suggest we should all feel rather priviledged...:-) Goldilox (3/19/06; 00:10:10MT - usagold.com msg#: 142571) Baseball going the way of dollar hegemony Wow, Cuba and Japan in the WBC final. With all the MLB star players on Team USA, DR, and Venezuela, the last MLB players remaining in the tourney are Ichiro and Aki Otsuka (Padre turned Ranger this year), with NONE on Team Cuba.Even America's "pastime" is finding better renditions overseas. ViewYesterday's Discussion.
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