if you're a gold bug, here's some fascinating reading

[fishpoopoo]

...and i'm still scared $hitless.

what i take away from this article is...

1) protect yourself against the government printing press by owning physical gold. examples: 1 oz bullion coins like ... canadian maple leafs and south african krugerrands. i'd say get u.s. coins too, but the mint stopped selling them recently. hmmmmmmmmm!!!! i wonder why!

2) hide it and take it out of the country if you have to.

[Nebe]

Art rarely depreciates. good art that is.. not mine

[fishpoopoo]

eben, when real estate, derivatives, and commodity futures were going cuckoo over the last few years ... investors (such as hedge funds) started looking at alternative investments.

unfortunately, after the hedge funds got their grubby paws on fine art, wine, and even collectible firearms ... they became part of the bubble that followed.

cheap money pumps up everything!

[Nebe]

its interesting that you say that. Cheap money has seriously pumped up the glass market as well. Not so much the work that I do, but big architectural instillation type work that I have been trying to get into...
Now all of the work is drying up and just as i was getting the ball rolling, it popped.