[fogarty]

Ultimately, "the US government has a technology, called a printing press ... that allows it to produce as many US dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost ... Sufficient injections of money will always reverse a deflation", he says.

BWAHAHAHA! Fools. They seem to think it is so easy to fix a credit and deflationary spiral. Like pumping air into a ballon that has been popped, zipping around the room.

With such short-sighted monetarists and Keynesians at the helm, the smart ones among us are doing two things: getting out of all debt and buying precious metals. Things are going to get worse before they get better. Unemployment now above 6% and another surge of layoffs coming in January.

[freeper12]

I've never bought the gold arguement before...but for the sake of argument, if someone wanted to park some money in gold, how do you do this best? buying shares in a mining company?