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    • Wed Nov 19th 13:27 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Surprising Call for Return to the Gold Standard
      I agree; we're most interested in a blockbuster quarter than in building a company!


      On Nov 19 08:25 AM Black Rain wrote:

      > My theory is our current mess is GREED! It appears to me that risk
      > has been mis-aligned with senior executive compensation. There is
      > simply too much incentive to drive corporate earnings at any cost.
      >
      >
      > Most compensation is in the form of stock options. When you are a
      > CEO you only care about driving the earnings of your company during
      > your tenure. There is no long-term consequences to taking outsized
      > risks -- all of the risk lies with the shareholders if you put the
      > company on a path to destruction that will play out years down the
      > road.
      >
      > When you retire, the guy behind you (next CEO) has to take even bigger
      > risks in order to keep driving earnings upward at an increasing pace
      > to make HIS stock options pay off. Rinse and repeat as you go through
      > multiple CEO's and you have a perfect recipe for overleveraging your
      > balance sheet and taking unwarranted risks to drive as much short
      > term earnings as you can.
      >
      > I think this is what caused Alan Greenspan to question his belief
      > in the system. His view of the system was that companies would have
      > a motivated interest in their own survival that would prevent them
      > from doing the absurdly stupid. But how can that be when you are
      > going to increase top CEO compensation from the normal $5M - $10M
      > to $10s or 100s of millions for a few extra nickels and dimes of
      > earnings today? The only way to achieve this would be to increase
      > the risk your company is taking . . .
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    • Mon Nov 17th 13:04 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Credit Markets and the Price of Gold
      creating credit ad nauseam doesn't reduce debt; and doesn't encourage savings. That is USA's real problem.
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    • Fri Nov 14th 12:59 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Cramer's Lightning Round - Ceasefire on Northrop Grumman (11/12/08)
      how can u luv a stock at 14 and hate it at 3? Is the world coming to an end next week- which seems to be ur time horizon. Ur advice is crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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    • Mon Nov 10th 12:55 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Don't Let Bulk Shippers Sink Your Portfolio... For Now
      write on...


      On Nov 10 05:10 AM antwillant wrote:

      > An article like this might have been worth reading several months
      > ago when stock prices were still high. In other words, its a bit
      > late and using only hindsight as a measure of the value of the industry.
      > As usual.
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    • Sun Nov 2nd 12:37 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      UBS Lowers Gold Expectations Again
      I AM AFRAID A MAJOR WILL BUY NXG ON THE CHEAP!
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    • Tue Oct 28th 13:16 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Gold Miners: Amazingly Cheap
      I can't believe a major like Goldcorp, Newmont or Freeport won't bid for NXG, AZK, LMC or NG!!!
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    • Sat Oct 18th 12:39 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Opportunity Knox: Distressed Gold Miners Present Good Entry Point
      The bigs are going to start buying the small and mids to add to their reserves. These are firesale prices now... .
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    • Tue Oct 7th 16:14 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Is China BAK Battery More Attractive After Warren Buffett's Investment in BYD?
      My understanding is that GM wants to warrant their car batteries for 10 years. Such a battery doesn't exist right now.
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    • Tue Sep 9th 16:51 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Dryshippers: A Buy or a Sell?
      A lot of these pay nice dividends!!!
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    • Fri Sep 5th 12:34 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Pimco's Bill Gross: Jim Cramer Is 'Courageous' and 'Entertaining'
      the best time to sell a stock is a week or 2 after he recommends it; ask anybody who bought horsehead, lundin mining, finisar blah blah blah...
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    • Thu Jul 17th 13:20 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      The Great American Sellout - Cramer's Stop Trading! (7/15/08)
      Cheap dollar, discounted future earnings, anticipated foreign purchases of US companies is about the only reason not to be 100% in cash or commodities (depending on ur risk tolerance).
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    • Wed Jul 2nd 10:41 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Is Lundin Mining Misunderstood?
      What about Horsehead (ZINC) as a value play?
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    • Thu Jun 26th 12:43 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Solution to the Global Petroleum Crisis
      Why doesn't the U.S. agree to build and run nuclear power plants in countries around the world? Eventually China Japan or Russia will start doing it.
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    • Mon Jun 23rd 11:47 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Will Gold Break Out?
      A declining 50 day moving average penetrating a declining 200 day m.a. not a good sign for gold!
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    • Sat Jun 21st 13:49 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Jim Kingsdale: Selling SQM and Bullish on Dryships
      Jim do u have any thots re: China Bak Battery CBAK?
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