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gharghur2, To turn copper into gold just save and melt those pre-1982 U.S. pennies. They are now worth 2.312 cents. :)

Copper is about as parabolic now as anything I can ever remember.

I guess Buffett is out of his silver "trade" (can you call it a trade when you have to rent a warehouse to put it in?). It sounds like he got out a while ago: http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7B505AA31F%2DEB4D%2D4F1B%2DB532%2D66B44374D2C9%7D&siteid=mktw&dist= This...

Good question. Interactive Brokers doesn't carry it, unfortunately.

"Doesn't faber favor initial hyperinflation followed by deflation these days?" No, as far as I can tell deflation is totally out of the picture in his world view. He also doesn't think we are going to get hyperinflation anytime soon, necessarily, "just" high inflation. Eventually...

For a bit of levity, check out this video: http://www.garynorth.com/public/1216.cfm Personally I am hoping for an "asset dip deflation scare" first per Marc Faber's ideas. I am underinvested in real stuff and have too many dollars! Will I get it? A lot of my money is in U.S. cash in my...

Regarding Vulture's comment: "Good analysis. I think slowly but surely more individuals are coming around to this angle of thought. i.e., equity prices staying well bid in case of, or in anticipation of, the dollar devaluation. " That was basically my thought when I heard about Warren...

In prior times "bond vigilantes" would keep the interest rates in line if there was too much fed money printing. Currently some economists spend much of their time trying to answer the very question you posed, kin2. For example, see Brad Setser's blog at...

Check out this interview with John Williams: http://www.weedenco.com/welling/Downloads/2006/0804welling022106.pdf

EqtTrdr, So true. And even spoken when we are still in a historically low three week range (as of 12:12 EST anyway). I have a feeling there are going to be a lot of margin calls coming up sometime this year :)

A little surprised by some directional action after one of the narrowest range markets on the S&P since 1976? Why? ...And we are still in the range at 11:45 EST. PS. watch the bonds :)

Chai tea contains milk, black tea, and spices. And black tea contains caffeine. You definitely don't want to take that before bedtime.

"I find that when one goes down one goes up" This does not necessarily have to happen. Over a long period of time, it is pretty much guaranteed NOT to happen. There can be situations where bad things happen to a particular country. For example, I am thinking about the Mexican Peso...

Hussman just posted an excellent article, "What Happens When the Fed is Finished?". See: http://www.hussman.net/wmc/wmc051219.htm

I am having problems with the Java add-ons in Internet Explorer since I upgraded a few days ago. I had to disable the Sun Java console and helper class, otherwise everytime I opened an explorer window it took like a minute before the window opened. Also I had problems with the new TWS...

***Well at first they will get it from gasoline converted to hydrogen under the hood. Still using about half of it as it normally would. *** Now that is a really poor idea, having a mini gasoline cracking plant under the hood. In addition to the hydrogen manufactured, there would be copious...

Brokerboy, I never said that there were not good auto engine/power system alternatives. I said that fuel cells (the technology that GM has been investing in) are not one of those viable alternatives. So I'll attempt to answer your question "why are fuel cells not viable". as long as...

Fuel Cells are not a viable alternative. Think about it: Where does the hydrogen come from?

Well, it just sounds cooler. The term "daytrading" is out of fashion: people think of the stock bubble and how they lost lots of money at best, at worst they think of guys who go into offices and kill a bunch of people. "Scalping" is an even less savoury word: an even more painful death...

From the NY Times: "The Minerals Management Service said Tuesday that the evacuation of some rigs and platforms in the Gulf of Mexico had resulted in the loss of almost 50,000 barrels of oil per day, the equivalent of 3 percent of daily production of 1.5 million barrels per day."...