My Main Man Miscreanity.  i've been holding my breath waiting for you to show up.  now its time for my head to hurt!

you're the only one who's opinion i value around here even if i don't think its right!

give me a bit to get my head together and i'll consider starting up our heated discussions once again.  not sure i want to.

i started that thread on Aug 9, 2011 gold hit $1782 and was 1.5 wks before the top.  who do you know who called it that close?

its had several devastating drops since then which i profited by shorting.  you're also seeing a series of lower highs and lower lows.

i also made it publicly clear in that same thread when i sold silver at at $49 and at an avg price of $44 last May.

i also called the top in the pm miners here:   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=35956.msg522374#msg522374

i could just as easily say that if you invested at $49 per ounce of silver, you've suffered greatly.

Matthew; are you prepared for a generational ramp in the USD from the next deflationary wave?  everyone understands inflation.  hey, just print.  

Deflation is the more difficult argument to understand but you have to for your health.  there's even a thread over on Economics right now by a poster trying to understand its dynamic.  i suggest all of you read it. my original gold thread explains it even better.  

just look at the futures right now.  they explain it all; $DXY up, everything else down, stocks, gold, silver, oil.

i'm sure there is nothing i can say to convince you otherwise.

yes it is and badly so.  who's been more right since last August, your experts or me?  the only chart not completely busted in the pm space is gold but soon it will be too.  everything else has been destroyed; majors and junior miners and silver itself.

you don't realize it yet but you already had your parabola; last August.

hey, you're using my analogy!

how much punishment are you willing to take?  i'd advise you to go back to my original gold thread and read about the primacy of the USD and how it affects all assets including gold/silver.

the silver chart is BUSTED.  it leads gold.  don't be a hero.

but i can tell you from my Gold Thread back in August that many of my critics, some of whom are showing up here again like Matthew, were heavily marketing pm mining stocks and they continue to do so.  i don't blame them b/c this is what the so called pundit experts are doing as well.  they've been destroyed.  and IMO they are leading the pm price down.

edit:  can u imagine if AAPL rolls from here and takes down stocks?  pm's will get smashed.

mining stocks and physical are linked.  they won't disconnect.

clairvoyance...

hey, it's hard enough to get the right direction on things let alone the magnitude.

but you guys are laughing prematurely.  it ain't over yet.

i'm betting on several more of those down $100 days coming in the near future.

edit:  i know several of you guys have been pumping pm mining stocks ever since i started the other Gold thread last August.  i told you to get out then.  how's that going?

ya think?

a collapse doesn't have to happen suddenly.  i called the gold top in August last year as well as the silver collapse from May last year.

all the gold/silver bugs say that the end will be defined by a parabolic blow off.  i think they will be ground down the slow, painful way.

a couple of additional points.  

there are ppl who suggest that golds retreat is indicative of fear coming out of the market resulting in an all clear sign for a continued ramp in stocks.  i see it differently.  it appears to me the progression of the rollover is going to be different than in 2007-08 in that this time pm's and commodities are rolling first to be later followed by the Dow and stocks.  back in 2007, the Dow rolled first in October only to be followed by gold and oil about 9 months later.  liquidity is coming out of the system as exemplified by the Greek debt writedown and the coming other PIGS.

shadow banking is also contracting substantially.

also, i've read a few posts that say stocks have little to no resistance to the upside from here.  i disagree.  look at the volume profile as it relates to the old highs btwn here and 14198.  this represents tremendous overhead resistance:

i totally agree.  i've never liked the term.

thats the 2nd Forbes article he's written in the last 2 wks isn't it?  since when did he become a regular?  if so, we have our mole!

its really too bad more ppl don't step up and donate.  for all the things we're getting as a community we need you to spend more time developing this product.  given how much you've already added just this last month i could only imagine how much better the product would be if you were working on it full time.

the fact that the article published a map of the facility makes it highly suspect to me.  perhaps they're playing Ben's game of perception management.

it wasn't a different question.  the OP already said he was surprised that there was a reference to this article already posted and there is only a quoted passage in the post; no question.

all this is quibbling so why don't we just consolidate all discussions relating to this article in the original thread like we usually do?

the problem with this analogy is that those small grains in the video were panned out of a stream.  as i said, here in the Western world which is the frame of reference from which i am coming from, 1 oz coins tend to be the most common form of gold that most of us hoard.  even if it wasn't, you and i would have a hard time shaving off just the right portion to buy a loaf of bread.  with Bitcoin and its ability to divide down to the Satoshi level, i submit it is so much more practical and divisible.