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Watching C-Span this week, I happened to take in what money Obama was proposing to spend as part of the Stimulus. One of those items was money to improve the availability of education for all who desire a better education, but can’t afford it. It reminded me of the rapid growth in cost to obtain a good education. And coupled with this proposal were two stories in the local paper the past few days concerning contributions of some college students.

It seems that the communications satellite to be put into polar orbit by India in April was designed by college students and their instructors at Madras University in India. Another newspaper story carried the information that a new method for detecting breast cancer had been developed by students and instructors at the University of Arkansas. The detection method analyzes the chemical composition of tears collected from the eyes to detect telltale indications of the breast cancer. Now that’s money well spent and knowledge and experience almost impossible for young minds to get in any other scenario. Continue reading →

Central to the argument that my investment thesis is wrong is the belief that the crisis is over or that the recent trends will continue until it is. But the crisis is just beginning and the movements thus far in the dollar, commodities, and foreign stocks, are mere head fakes. Once the speculators have been flushed from the markets, the underlying long-term trends I have been following should return in earnest.  FULL ARTICLE

In my humble opinion, physical gold at today’s price is dirt cheap financial insurance and physical silver is super dirt cheap. One word of caution though: please do not expect to get rich by saving gold or silver. However, in the long run these silly feeble-brained Keynesians are barely able to think ahead more than a week these days, try thinking 5, 10 years gold and silver will protect your purchasing power. The paper Dollar, the paper Euro, the paper Whatever will not.  FULL ARTICLE