1) I just don't get it? Perceived reality,,,, the time to throw in the towel for a big stock market rally was a couple months ago. With all the so-called negativity in the world why are gold and silver and precious metal company share prices not rocketing upwards to $2000 or $45 an oz or doubling their share market values today everyone talks about here? Is it because the middle to upper class people that used to have money to invest are now feeling the financial pinch as do the "Occupy sitters". Do these people see their lives reflected like the Greeks capitulating under a mountain of debt so incomprehensible to them to ever pay back that they don't want to think about it and won't bother about it? Why not spend ourselves into oblivion, they think. Who cares is the new attitude. I'll just borrow more cash to spend on my lavash life-style because the Banks always lend me more money anyway. As the human population ages (todays demographics), these people aren't investing or speculating in mining companies anymore. They are cashing out and puttting their funds into safe havens like cash. Dam the 10-bagger that we all thought was coming. The people that we counted on to invest in our companies are retiring and buying big ticket luxury items, end of the world bomb-shelters, fancy food, motor-homes and taking cruises. They are not buying in-the-ground mineral assets. People are fulfilling their lifelong ambitions to live 'high on the hog' before and after age 55. Hedge fund managers knew this all along. They have been shorting targeted weak companies acknowledging all their surveys that their research tells them. Good on them and "my bad".

Are we are going to see a catostrophic drop in share values soon that will make valuable companies look overpriced at ten cents a share? You bet. The young people of the world don't have careers or jobs to invest in company shares. They just worry about paying off their student loans, having a cold one with friends and getting their next rent payment in by the first of the month. I smell a new all-time low in many companies today (like AUM) that will initiate a take-down of another 8%. The sky is falling!

Hee, Hee, Hee, am I supposed to say LOL after this?

2) Any news / or prospects from the recent trade show AUMN management spent money on last week? Pretty quiet. Did anyone from here go?

++++ Dahlman Rose & Co.Global Metals, Mining & Materials Conference, New York, NY, November 16-17, 2011. ++++

What leads are AUMN /AUM management looking for at next weeks Conference?

++++ IIC Hard Assets, Hard Assets Investment Conference, San Francisco, CA., November 27-28, 2011. ++++

3) Come on management of Golden Minerals give us something new to be proud of and publish some optimistic news.

Anyone else looking forward to some positive news to cheer about?