T&J,I don,t want to sound arrogant here, but economic conditions, POG, gold demand etc, are all very important aspects and are not mute articles.They play a part in your daily life outside of the stock market, so they do affect you in other ways. For ex; if the banks keep getting fine after fine and keep getting sued, and more go under, how safe is your money or stock accounts in these institutions? What about if some of these banks make it through with big fines, usually the first thing they will do, is raise fee,s, that will affect you, will it not? When you go to the corner store for a half gallon of milk and find that it has doubled overnight because of a war that made crude skyrocket, would that affect you? If the bank that you had all your savings in folded overnight and only pennies on the dollar could be salvaged after many months of waiting, would this affect you. If the POG skyrocketed overnight, would this affect sp,s in gold stocks? If demand for gold increased two fold in a year and forced the POG higher and higher, would this affect any of your holdings? If majors went on an aquisition frenzy because they knew the POG was gonna go through the roof and started buying speculative ounces (like they already have started doing), would a gold company have to have much proven up to be taken out? IMO, none of it is mute and every aspect of it can and will apply to us.

Don,t worry about the SH gang, worry about yourself , they will be forced to wake up in time or just dwindle away. They may be having their time in the sun now, but we will have ours again.

And no, thats not how it is, sometimes things are not as they seem.