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Originally posted by rue:
And that's STILL all you've got ! That's STILL your best and only argument !

Got anything to add to the TOPIC ?

BTW - I have lots of dollars. The problem with giving up your dollars for things - gold, argon (or maybe silver, hard to tell with your poor knowledge of chemistry), even real estate - is that when you need the dollars, they aren't there.

When credit freezes even more and dollars stop circulating it's really, really nice to have some dollars to spare. And your gold - has no value.

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Originally posted by rue:
STILL all you've got ! STILL your best (and only) argument !

You are a fart in an empty pair of pants.

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Originally posted by rue:
A dollar - just like gold or argon - is whatever people make of it.

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A dollar - just like gold or argon - is whatever people make of it.

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Originally posted by rue:


...No, here's the real deal.

When the vast majority of people have no money, any money you may have becomes increasingly valuable.

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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:

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A dollar - just like gold or argon - is whatever people make of it.

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...All that said, no offense, but y'all sound like a pair of second graders arguing over a playground toy, I swear...

-Frem

PS. Language is a skill too, and one I happen to suck at, someone who speaks a bunch of em has enough value to me that I would trade with them on quite favorable terms.

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Originally posted by rue:
Ehh - you're so good at chemistry you cited Ar which stands for ARGON - not SILVER. Silver is Ag, FYI.

"What was the last thing you made of argon ?"
Plasma. In an ICP-MS. Don't strain your brain at figurin' it. You'll fry.

So, are you saying that gold has the intrinsic chemical property of being valuable ? Because if you are, then you are not only a bad chemist, you are a bad economist.

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Originally posted by rue:


A dollar - just like gold or argon - is whatever people make of it.

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In all this turmoil, you'd think gold would be soaring. But it isn't - in fact it's gone up a mere 3% over the last week - and is only $10 / oz higher than a year ago - while the DOW has plunged 17%.

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Originally posted by rue:


...And a return of 1% in an entire year ! Why, that almost kept up with inflation ! Only 6% short ! Oh that's right, gold NEVER loses value. It didn't go DOWN and then go up. It's a time warp, that's what it is.

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Originally posted by rue:
I'm just getting a blank screen.

http://66.38.218.33/scripts/hist_charts/yearly_graphs.plx

is all I can get.

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Originally posted by rue:
Stupid - when I click YOUR link I get a blank page. What are you going to map on a blank page ? Something imaginary ? Is that like gold being 'valuable' because of the periodic table of the elements ?

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Originally posted by rue:
Stupid - when I click YOUR link I get a blank page. What are you going to map on a blank page ? Something imaginary ? Is that like gold being 'valuable' because of the periodic table of the elements ? Is that another imaginary reference ?

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Originally posted by rue:
Oh yes, btw, here's a little collection of YOUR LIES and slander - things you put up when you've lost and have got nothing - just thought I'd put it up here so you don't post-edit like you did changing Ar (ARGON - what a turd) to Ag:

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Originally posted by rue:
Ehh - you're so good at chemistry you cited Ar which stands for ARGON - not SILVER. Silver is Ag, FYI.

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with the symbol Ag , and belongs to the class of light tinctures ,
called "metals". It is very frequently depicted as White...

White is a color that has high brightness but zero hue ... and usually considered interchangeable with it.

There are a number of uses for the word Argentum , or may be indicated with the abbreviation ar. in them.

The name derives from Latin .

Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in Latium...

Argentum , which means 'white money', or Silver...

The word argent had the same meaning in Old French , 'Blazon'.

In heraldry and vexillology , a blazon is a formal description of ,
most often, a coat of arms ,
from which it passed into the English language .

...a kind of silver leaf was applied to those parts of the device that were argent."


Didn't mean to go all 'medieval' on you , but it does kinda reveal you to be a 'one-trick pony'...

It's what 'rue' would call a 'typo'...

Since your logic devices are failing you , and you can't access historical data about the value of gold , here's a chart that shows the historic performance of a Lawful $...Notice that the 'dollar' does best during periods when its 'value' is pegged to designated amounts of Metal...Just for review , kids :

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Originally posted by Shinygoodguy:
Really interesting article Out2theblack....

It's what I've been saying all along, somebody had to know that this was coming. The gloom and doom reported on the news was to get everyone to panic and agree that the bastards must be saved to save our way of life...

...If JFK were alive today, he would truly die.

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"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."
-President Thomas Jefferson, author of Declaration of Independence and US Constitution

"The Bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it!"
-President General Andrew Jackson
www.dailykos.com/story/2006/12/7/221733/660

"I cannot believe that the killing of 2,000 Englishmen at New Orleans qualifies a person for the various difficult and complicated duties of the Presidency."
-Henry Clay

"After eight years as President I have only two regrets: that I have not shot Henry Clay or hanged John C. Calhoun."
-President General Andrew Jackson

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"I killed the Bank!"
-Tombstone of President General Andrew Jackson, which does not mention that he served as a president of the United States

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