Pierre Lassonde is one of the living legends of the mining and resource world with over 35 years of experience. His accomplishments are simply too many to list, but one example is Pierre co-founded Franco-Nevada Mining Corporation with Seymour Schulich in 1982 and over a 20 year period, provided shareholders with a 36% annualized rate of return. He was able to build up and successfully merge Franco Nevada into Newmont Mining in what was essentially a depression in the mining sector. It was the worst of times, but somehow in the midst of those horrific industry conditions Pierre and everyone associated with him thrived and quite frankly made fortunes. Pierre then became President of Newmont Mining Corporation from 2002 to 2006. Another area where Pierre is becoming legendary is in the area of philanthropy and that is a tremendous passion for him at this point in his life. In this interview Pierre discusses the gold bull market, the Indian Central Bank purchase of gold, competitive currency devaluations, the Dow/Gold Ratio, the undervaluation of mining shares, junior mining shares, the oil market, future consolidation in the mining sector and more.

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http://joshfulton.blogspot.com/2009/11/delaware-beats-switzerland-as-most.html

The Eurozone and Pound Zone have debt that is astronomical.
Their governmental bonds are equally at risk vs the USA’s.

Even the CHF Zone has debt problems that make the CHF questionable.

In this context Gold should be at 4096 USD / oz now, or 4000 EUR (as USD = ~EUR is to be expected).

You are overreacting to a statistically unimportant change in the USD to Gold relationship.

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my favourite Chinese supplier…
apparently these devices are legal in Switzerland, but from my understanding Americans can import these devices (and JUICE) with less hassle than ME (in Canada)

So to all you Nicotine addicts, do yourself a favour and get on the E-CIG…. FUCK PHILLIP MORRIS et al. (Which Max apparently got BURNED on during his Option trading days)

Hey Max, tell us more about that episode of your life…
it MUST be educational!!!

What happened? You had a bunch of PUTS and no one to dump them on or what? No wait… is that CALLS???
I’m still confused about the OPTIONS game (i’m too poor for a margin account and too apathetic to edjumicate me-self)

Bear in mind that gold is the last one to dance at the party, so short term if there’s a sell off to occur, then gold will mark the last dance. Some large cap miners have already dipped a fair bit, so we could expect sideways movement for the next six weeks in gold.

http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=$GOLD&p=W&b=5&g=0&id=p36402577057&a=156853006&listNum=2&listNum=2

Shucks, no, Pa. What ya sayin?

She left a traipsin bout two-hour’n back. Don’t ya see her nexta Billie-Bobs?

She was a-readin some poeetry when I saw her, sittin next to the squash patch, a dreamin’ and a talkin’ like she’z done and found her true love.

LORDY! I told-ya not to send her to college! I been a-waitin’ for them dandeelions, and she’z gone a-lookin for her true love in the cow pies!

Shoot, Pa. If its dandeelions you’z a wantin, I got two bucket set-out-to-back fur makin some wine. Let Steller wander yet. Maybee she sees things a might dandy odd, but Grannie was somethin the same.

But, Ma. She’z a talkin like she’z a hearin voices. Said so bout grapes or somesuch.

Ne-ery mind. Let’s set to makin some of that wine!!! Yeehaw!

Pa, But I keep a’hearin…

Steller, if’n you’d get yur noze outa them books, you’d could see infront-of-em feet’n yours. Now get back outza back and bring me them DANDEELIONS!

Good, Lordy. Pa, ya don’t need to yell. I reckon I can tell a dandeelion from a grape. Just got a might confused, that’s all.