On 2008-10-12, cavelamb himself wrote:
for what it's worth, I'd hate to have socked everything I could spare
into gold recently.

Ouch!
http://www.kitco.com/images/live/gold.gif

So far, everything is very consistent with everyone wanting to hoard
cash in various forms.

--
Due to extreme spam originating from Google Groups, and their inattention
to spammers, I and many others block all articles originating
from Google Groups. If you want your postings to be seen by
more readers you will need to find a different means of
posting on Usenet.
http://improve-usenet.org/