So Doug, are you saying here that there might be a reason for Big

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Capital to embrace gold?  Ya know, once they've bought a whole, whole bunch
in various ways..  BTW, saw my first gold pitch in the Yahoo mainstream of
ads yesterday.  Pitch a bit pasty though...  As I've mentioned, listen to
the right-wing internet radio for 20 min and you'll hear a pitch for owning
gold.   At least that was the case weeks ago before a very contrived
correction, which has not damaged the chart in the least.

Devine, James wrote:


>The worst of the "fundamentalist Marxism" occurred when the Social
>Democrats had some power in Germany at the start of the depression
>and endorsed deflationist policies, making matters worse.

Yup, with Hilferding as finance minister. But there's a good reason
he/they acted this way - because of a gold-flavored "Austrian"
prejudice against statist manipulation. Gold can be assigned a value,
because it's produced by human labor - and fiat currencies (like
fictitious, as opposed to 'real,' capital) can't.

Doug