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johnslat · Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2004 10:42 pm Post subject: Put not thy trust in embassies

Dear Bindair Dundat,

willy · Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2004 5:56 pm Post subject:

well i think i`ll just sit and wate. the us said everyone should leave as things will get worse ..... and what happend? nothing well there are fewer whit faces here.

i agere with that story something is happing and i think it will start with a market drop.

30 INDUS 10390.10 UP 21.66 OR 0.21%
20 TRANSP 3023.56 DN 4.67 OR 0.15%
15 UTILS 271.17 UP 0.67 OR 0.25%
65 STOCKS 3004.18 UP 3.62 OR 0.12%
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
June 10, 2004 13:30 ET (17:30 GMT)

inds dowen after resents at 10,461 yesterday

Stephen Jones · Joined: 21 Feb 2003 Posts: 4124

Dear Aramas,
You're a few years out. Gold peaked in 1980. The average price was $615 an ounce, though I think there was one month when it reached $800. $615 in 2002 money is $1,463. So $1 you invested in 1980 would be worth 26 cents now.

Aramas · Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 7:17 am Post subject:

zaneth · Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 8:57 am Post subject:

Yeah, better access to airplanes, and we all know how safe airplanes are. But your point is taken. It just worries me that the US embassy is in the middle of moscow and the airport on the outskirts, while monasteries in the middle of nowhere seem like less likely targets. It also depends on where the center of the trouble is. Getting to the embassy and getting to the airport might not be much fun.

I've never been much of a buyer of gold. But I thought the idea of gold was not the percentage rate investment numbers stuff, but the fact that it is (potentially) untraceable, more or less universally valuable, and not dependent on a particular government? Oh, and it (potentially) makes very nice fishing weights.

If I'm growing potatoes in the wilds of Siberia maybe I can find some time to pan a little gold.
Though I think the stuff probably attracts more trouble than it's worth. Potatoes are a much better commodity that way.

John, thanks for the story about non-support from the embassy. I kind of think that if the US govt was all that interested in American abroad it would quit doing things that anger the people around us. The government is your friend, it cares about every single American, the entire US military is ready to go in in defense of a single endangered American. All hogwash. Propoganda. Can you say expendable? Good, I knew you could.

In contrast, has anybody else noticed a recent improvement in efficiency and friendliness at your friendly neighborhood US mission? Our's has been great lately. Professional, friendly, efficient, well-organized, human, and capable of a little humor. Maybe because communist smurf is working there?