Hey Hans, how goes the battle in Michigan? For the company itself, financing is key of course, but in the big picture the pog is fundamental. Martin Armstrong thinks the pog will remain down until all the pundit perma bulls are completely discredited. Interesting that in the past few days some of these starry eyed buckaroos have been rationalizing why the pog is not expected to rise much, e.g. Merk saying declining gold stocks in the Comex are not an indicator of low gold stocks supply (and therefore not a leading indicator of a price rise) because the gold is not consumed in any significant way in industrial processes. The very fact that it is currency (at least potentially anyway) makes supply and demand much less relevant to price. And others beginning to accept that deflation is much more likely than inflation as capital is destroyed (e.g., in Detroit and many other places) and housing is levitated by the Fed. So maybe a price rise is in order! Ike