Time with your families is by far the most important thing. It's just money, and with enough patience we'll see some degree of price recovery in this stock. We have the resources, we have mined to some of our resources, we have the mill, we have a place to sell our concentrate... but those things that we cannot control have all aligned and are beating us up pretty bad. Once one or more of those storms blow over, we'll see a healthy recovery in our share price. In the meantime, it's up to Liberty management to make the cash last until that day arrives (be it 6 months, 2 or 5 years from now)

I've been going back through some of Jim Puplava's (Financial Sense Newshour) old archived programs from 2005 and 2006 and it's amazing the clarity he had in seeing the subprime mess unfold. If you have a few hours to kill and are interested, listen to his first broadcast for the new year for 2005-2007 where he goes over some predictions for the coming year and they are eerily prescient. Explosions in gold, oil and the implosion of the real estate market and the subprime fiasco.

The more I've looked, the more voices I've found that had been warning of the subprime mess for years before it happened. It's just that these voices were muted amongst the many optimists that kept us oblivious. (we like optimists a lot more than pessimists!)