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CURRENT QUOTES Gold Stocks Click Stock symbols AUY   IAG  NGX   NEM     KGC    GG     ABX   AU   AEM    RGLD   RBY   GBN   HMY   GFI   GOLD   EGO Exchange-traded fund  GLD tracks the price of gold bullion  ETF that tracks gold miners (GDX)  *****Copper, Gold, Silver FCX Gold Mutual Fund BGEIX

CURRENT QUOTES Silver Stocks Click on the Stock symbols below CDE    SLW    HL    PAAS   SSRI MVG    EXK     SVM *****Copper, Gold, Silver FCX

Pay attention to gold and silver reserve/resource ratios, or how much they’re producing relative to how much they still have in the ground.
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The Earth's crust contains about 15 ounces of silver for every one ounce of gold.
That long-term relationship (15 to 1 ratio) between gold and silver was true for many centuries.
Today, however, one can obtain 70 ounces of silver for the price of an ounce of gold. (70 to 1 ratio)
The huge disconnect from the historical ratio forms an important contention that silver could deliver
greater upside than gold as the mother of all currency, as the financial crisis plays out across the globe.
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ASSORTED STOCKS AND FUNDS BELOW - FOR RESEARCH
Note the 52 week high and low - PE Ratio (price to earnings) and Dividend Yield

Pipelines TransCanada TRP  Kinder Morgan KMP  Teppco TPP  Williams WMB  Dynergy DYN
Pengrowth Energy Trust Canada PGH  Harvest Energy HTE  Penn West PWE
Florida Power FPL   Canada Energy Trust ERF (Note the dividend Yield)  Brazil Petroleum PBR
Natural Resources and Uranium Billiton Limited Australia BHP
Food Resources  Archer Daniels Midland ADM   Bunge BG
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Wireless, Computers and Technology  Intel INTC    Cisco Systems CSCO  Qualcomm QCOM
Research in Motion RIMM   Computer Speech NUAN   Apple AAPL   Intl Bus Machines IBM
Google GOOG   Yahoo YHOO   Microsoft MSFT  Microsoft may consider Yahoo again

General Electric GE    WalMart WMT    WalMart In Mexico WMMVF

China Funds and Stock  Templeton Dragon Fund TDF   China Tech CNTF
Latin America Telecom AMX  Mutual Fund PRLAX

Stem Cell Research GERN   STEM   ALXN  KOOL

Financial Crisis from Credit Default Swaps - American International Group AIG
Bank Stocks Bank of America BAC  CitiGroup C  JPMorgan Chase JPM  Wells Fargo WFC
Auto Stocks  General Motors GM Liquidated  Ford F  Toyota TM  Nissan NSANY

Oil Stocks (XOM) Exxon Mobil  (BP) British Petroleum  (CVX) Chevron  (COP) Conoco Phillips
Ethanol Stocks  VeraSun Energy VSE is the largest ethanol stock. The stock price is down 40%.
Pacific Ethanol PEIX a large ethanol stock is down from a high of $42 a share in 2006 to under $1 now

Since January 2008, a popular exchange-traded fund (ticker: GLD) that tracks the price of gold bullion is up 9% - versus a 32% loss for an ETF that tracks gold miners (GDX). The breakdown comes thanks to the credit crisis and a surge in input costs that have sapped profits of companies that mine gold.

August 2010 - Gold advanced on signs that the global economic recovery is sputtering, helping to revive demand for the metal as a store of value. Gold is up 9.3 percent this year and set for its 10th straight annual advance, the longest winning streak since at least 1920, as investors shield their wealth against economic turmoil and the prospect of currency debasement.

July 2010 China has moved to liberalise its gold market further, increasing the number of banks allowed to trade bullion internationally and announcing measures that will encourage development of gold-linked investment products. The move by Beijing’s central bank comes as the country’s investors pour record amounts of money into gold, in a trend that is becoming a significant factor on global prices. Last year, Chinese investors bought 73 tonnes of bullion, up from 18 tonnes in 2007. The new policies were likely to increase liquidity in the domestic gold market and spur the development of gold financial products, analysts said. China is the world’s largest gold producer and the second-largest consumer, after India, but its domestic market remains constrained by limited investment products.

In terms of Gold the Dow lost 77% purchasing power from 2000 to 2008.
Jan 2000. The Dow at 11,750. If you invested $11,750 in the Dow, you could have bought
41 ounces of gold ..462 barrels of oil ..134 pounds of copper.
May 2008. The Dow at 13,000. If you invested $13,000 in the Dow it would only purchase
14.38 ounces of gold or 65% less than it did in 2000. 105 barrels of oil or 77% less, 74% less copper

Starting Jan. 1, 2012, New Tax - Section 9006 of the Obamacare will amend the Internal Revenue Code to expand the scope of Form 1099. Every time a member of the public sells more than $600 worth of gold to a dealer, the transaction will have to be reported to the government by the buyer. Currently, 1099 forms are used to track and report the miscellaneous income associated with services rendered by independent contractors or self-employed individuals. Form 1099s will become a means of reporting to the Internal Revenue Service the purchases of all goods and services by small businesses and self-employed people that exceed $600 during a calendar year. Precious metals such as coins and bullion fall into this category and coin dealers have been among those most rankled by the change.

This provision, intended to mine what the IRS deems a vast reservoir of uncollected income tax, was included in the health care legislation ostensibly as a way to pay for it. The tax code tweak is expected to raise $17 billion over the next 10 years, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation.

Those already outraged by the president's health care legislation now have a new bone of contention.

Since March 2009 the Securities and Exchange Commission is still soliciting comments and proposals concerning restoring "The uptick rule"  Sec.Gov
The uptick rule was instituted by the SEC following the Great Depression, said that the short selling of stocks could be done only after the share price ticked higher above the prior sale. The rule was designed as a guardrail to prevent short sellers from driving the price of a stock lower at a faster clip.

In a short sale, an investor borrows a stock from a broker, sells it to other investors, and tries to buy it back at a lower price before returning it to the original lender. The difference in the transactions is kept as a profit.

The SEC made the controversial decision to eliminate the uptick rule in June 2007 after its analysis showed it did little to prevent the manipulation of share prices. Of course, many market participants point to the SEC's decision as the catalyst that helped short sellers thrive in 2008.

The Fifth Amendment states, "No person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."

Critics of the current financial system argue that using Federal Reserve notes as legal tender, rather than gold or silver-backed currency, means the value of Americans' money and thus their "property" is siphoned away by inflation, a process perpetuated by the government's reliance on legal tender. Gold and silver, critics say, don't lose their value on the whims of the Federal Reserve.

U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, even favors abolishing the Fed's system of fiat currency to return to dollars backed by gold. "Throughout its nearly 100-year history, the Federal Reserve has presided over the near-complete destruction of the United States dollar," the Texas Republican said. "Since 1913 the dollar has lost over 95 percent of its purchasing power, aided and abetted by the Federal Reserve's loose monetary policy.

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