Let me see if I get this right. Many leading economists like Don Coxe agree it was world governments that engineered this commodity crash and now as a direct result of these harmful interventions, the same jokers plan to use taxpayer money to fix problems they created for the commodity world in the first place. Talk about mismanagement of your tax dollars to the extreme. Meanwhile authorities refuse to deal with real issues like Naked Shorting that when addressed, provide free market solutions that would require no bailout bucks. Eliminating this scourge would allow miners to be fairly-valued in the market and thus be free to raise their own capital as faith is restored in this beaten down sector, requiring only minimal taxpayer handouts, if any. And whatever happenned to Harper's promise to allow tax-free reinvestment of capital gains? That was and still is a great idea that would give the markets a much-needed boost in the arm with capital provided by investors and deployed where it would help the economy most, versus the tiresome status quo of taxpayer handouts to the usual corporate welfare basket cases that should be allowed to fail anyways.