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Looks like normal folks sell it too...On TV and on street corners I see adds: "we buy gold"...get "real cash" for that "junk"... Wonder what drives those buyers? Pure speculation or good knowledge of supply and demand?

DBO is an option they roll differently, use contracts further away...thus less affected by contango, which is more pronounced at near months... it held up much better then USO relative to spot the market cap is just 46 M...have not checked spreads...may be good for long term

The whole world runs on real grain, real gazoline, real labor. Why can't it run on real medium of exchange??? You can't put a fractional gaz in your car... Sugar crash is different from crack crash....

I am looking for chart/data which shows performance of bond ladder portfolio which reinvests yields. I think such index is useful in showing performance of cash as an asset class, and watching big tides. We do have DOW/S&P for stocks, CRB for commodities.... There must something like this...

11-15-08 10:05 AM Quote from StarikNYSE: Best city for traders its KHARKOV (Ukraine) I will pitch in....Hes comment was after comment about women. Some people say that eastern European/Russian women are attractive. KHARKOV is in Ukraine, and some would say that Ukrainian...

Word on ETNs...Illustration of credit risk: Lehman Brothers ETNs Delisted Submitted by ETNCenter.com on Fri, 09/19/2008 - 13:12. * ETN News With the failure of Lehman Brothers to find a buyer and its subsequent bankruptcy, all of its Opta ETNs have stopped trading, and are now...

a look into what some etf's hold (physical or futures): http://seekingalpha.com/article/64220-commodity-etf-overview also, http://etf.stock-encyclopedia.com/category/commodity-etfs.html

very interesting spin...

3.25 ...ouch! when you think it can't go any lower, it smacks down again... Now a bottom? 1.5?

is trendline from Log chart is a valid trendline?

totally. nice good inflation seems to be a best tool to even things out. pay debt and wages with inflated dollars - after few rough years things will be ok...why not?

net wash currency wise - yes, but commodities will rise. and as far as continuing printing money...it appears to be a policy thing. They knew about all the problems with lending and hosing. But kept rates and regulation policy's the same. Now policy is to bail and inject cash... Look...

how can the do it?

Sarcasm?

Is it possible, that OP refers not to gold specifically but to actions of the gov? And that the gov can do similar acts again? The form may be different. But the essence is the same - violation of previous agreements based on being in position of power. Default, technical default, war -...

what is your horizon? how paper can rise in value long term? the purpose of paper is to make more paper...and paper is politically influenced, thus can't be trusted

agree.

riots, maybe? high prices/inflation very likely

In previous post, I forgot one more possible cause for low prices: 4) technological advancements in agr allowing for more efficient production...but I doubt it is the valid cause

Does anyone know US ETFs/instruments w/o credit risk mentioned above??? Ideally they should just hold several fut contracts and keep rolling them over. W/O use if any leverage.