DC Bass: Yes, I too was sorry to hear of your loss. As spiny said, we are all friends here.

As for getting up to speed on all the facts and details ... that is the blessing of this site.

Have a good week end all. I sit here wondering what Monday will bring in the PM markets.

Will gold/silver be taken down with options expiry? Will the take down be a sharp big/small spike and the a rebound by the PM?

Will the JPMS be attacked early in the week only to fly later? When will some of the big funds go long gold/silver and short the general equties? When will the silver short squeeze explode? What will all the printed new dollars flooding into the equites do to the dollar and how fast? What will the Japanese do to devalue the Yen and how will that affect gold/silver as the Japanese pour into gold?

Is the resolve of the cartel disintegrating? What will all the big buyers of gold do next week if it dips?...can they afford to wait/be coy with so little supply and so much investment demand ...NO... there are so many buyers jockeying for position now and they can easily overwhelm the cartel...India is now buying much quicker on the dips...and China, who knows what they are busily buying up? ...then the Russians are adding monthly...and...and..it goes on forever. So, how is the cartel even managing to keep a lid things now? the paper skullduggery must be mind boggling. It must be very anxious times for them. There are hundreds more questions.

One ting we do know...it is still easy to manage dow the prices of the JPM goldstocks, but when the head of the evil Octopus is dying, hw long can the tenticles squirm?

What will SFMI do as part of the JPM group? How long will it take for investors to nderstand how severel the stock is underpriced?...as I read daily about newly drilled 2 and 3 hole new exploration wonders trading at 50 cents to a buck...with several this past week doubling and tripling?

Well, we shall all have to wait to see the unverse unfold. Whatever your perspectives, no one can say it is boring.