Beiträge von Eldorado

    Und nun wechseln wir die Frage auf:


    Und wie geht es mit dem Dollar weiter ? :D


    Let it Snow $$$$$$$$ und die sind alle froh.


    Ich habe eigentlich eine short time Rally erwartet und Zinserhoehungen die den Fiat $ wieder attraktiv machen.


    Gold stiegt nur dehalb weil eben der Dollar abschmierte.


    Wenn der USD Index unter 80 geht dann ""Adios Dollar"". 8)


    Dann gehts ab zum Mond mit dem PoG.


    Cheers


    XEX


    Vorerst bin ich aus dem Kochtopf draussen. :]

    Noch besser mit 137% ? :D....falls so weiter geht. ;)


    Huiiiii, das waere eine Freude fuer die early birds und risktakers.


    Ueber 340 koennte man sagen das schlimmste ist vorueber und sich getrost hinlegen.


    Mal schaun :rolleyes:


    Good luck anyway


    Eldo

    .........Eine Idee der Militärs: Kampfjets sollen künftig mit Hilfe von Kohle und Erdgas fliegen.


    . :D....wohl keine Kohle mehr,kostet ja nur 5 B Dollar am Tag dort zu sein.


    Plus mindestens 40 Tote am Tag. :(


    Was man nicht alles macht um Oil zu kontrollieren.


    Im Namen der Liberation!..... Viva Bush ! X(


    ...President Bush Wacker


    by Donald R. Engen


    President Bush is nothing less than a puppet dictator controlled by his underlings.


    In order to appease and look like a leader, he takes orders from those trying to undermine the only democratic society left in the world. In his own mind he thinks he is doing the right thing, but with hidden conferences, and flagrant political abuse, even the most ignorant percentage of the American people can see right through him.


    It will take the next (hopefully) president, the greater part of his term in office to undue the damage that this so called puppet leader has done to the constitution, and the rights of individuals, that we have lost due to his lack of leadership.

    NEW YORK--(CCNMatthews - May 30, 2006) -


    (Investrend Research Syndicate) Eagle Plains Resources (TSX VENTURE:EPL - News; OTCBB:EGPLF - News) has been rated as "Speculative Buy / 4" by Investrend Research Analyst Shailesh Dhuri, MBA.

    Option or joint venture partners include NovaGold Resources Inc. (AMEX: NG - News), Alexco Resource Corp. (TSX: AXR - News), Blind Creek Resources Ltd., Golden Cariboo Resources Inc. (TSX Venture: GCC - News) and Solomon Resources Ltd.


    The analyst stated:


    Eagle Plains Resources Ltd. is a development stage exploration company exploring for minerals in British Columbia, Yukon and the Northwest Territories. The company's focus is on identifying and securing early-stage exploration opportunities in gold, silver, uranium and base metals, and then attracting joint venture interest.


    The company holds interests in over 35 gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, uranium and molybdenum properties. Three of these are currently under joint venture or option - exposing Eagle Plains to over $8.5 million in mineral exploration over the next 4 years.


    Eagle Plains recently announced a "plan of arrangement" to spin-off, on a one for one basis, its Copper Canyon property which holds an Inferred Resource of 1.16 billion pounds of copper, 37.9 million ounces of silver and 2.86 million ounces of gold.


    Collectively Eagle Plains' Copper Canyon, Sphinx, Blende and Abo properties have a metals in-ground value of approximately $10.945 billion at May 11, 2006 metal prices. (Source: Eagle Plains)


    EPL has an ambitious and diversified exploration program and is debt free with over $8.5 million in cash and current investments.


    To date, the company has reported no revenues as it is a development stage company. Net loss before investment income (loss) and future income taxes till 31 December 2005 amounted to Can$2,675,542, while net loss for the year stood at Can$1,776,058 compared to Can$501,277 posted in the previous year.

    fitzroy


    Stimmt, fast alle Solar im Keller,bei SWW besonders stark.
    Hat wohl mit Euren Sommeranfang zu tun,ihr habt vielleicht ein Wetter bis jetzt. :(


    Da kann man nur mehr hoffen es wird doch noch warm in Deutschland, selbst wenn es nur 6 Wochen sind,dann ist der Sommer 2006 wieder vorbei.


    Gruss


    Eldo

    In death, he was exposed as one of South Africa's most cunning corporate confidence tricksters, a manipulative deal-maker who ran the major companies under his control as if they were his personal piggy bank.


    Hier ein Auszug aus den neuen Buch:


    When he was not in fitful sleep, Brett Kebble lived his life like a combine harvester running on an oversized tank of jet fuel. No matter the problem, project or person in his path, the Kebble juggernaut rolled on, chewed it up and spat it out, propelling countless shards of junk skyward, eventually to rain down fretfully on the scorched earth he left behind.


    One of his greatest pieces of combine harvester art was unveiled on 9 December 2004, when he announced the Orlyfunt black economic empowerment (BEE) deal. By that juncture, Kebble had cultivated a R5-million-a-month spending habit. He was flying around in some of the smartest private jets in South Africa. The larger of the pair, a Gulfstream II, carried a $16 million price tag. The smaller Bombardier Learjet 45 was a snip at a mere $6 million. The aircraft were among the toys that Kebble passed off as his own in order to foster his self-made reputation as one of the most powerful businessmen in the land. He had invested countless millions in creating his public image, but woefully little of the story was true. His entourage, which worked tirelessly to promote his profile, was paid partly by him and partly by the listed companies he ran like his own backyard chopshop.


    One of the truths was that Kebble was an accomplished pianist; another was that he had powerful political connections. It was also true that he had moulded himself into something of an arts patron by sponsoring a competition that showered cash on starving painters, sculptors and crafters two years in a row, though contrary to popular belief, the money did not come out of any personal Kebble pockets. This alone might explain why the highly publicised 2006 Kebble Art Awards, already at an advanced stage when the founder died, were cancelled with unseemly haste by his family.For the most part, the rest of what scriptwriters and actors refer to as 'the back story' had been spun and twisted and contorted so often and so consummately that almost no one questioned any of it. Even mainstream media watchdogs rolled over and became bedazzled, bemused lapdogs, panting about Kebble's self-invented reputation as a mining magnate so faithfully that, while he lived, it remained all but unsullied by the bald truth.


    And the truth is that Brett Kebble, gunned down at the age of 41, was one of the sharpest confidence tricksters the South African investment community has ever hosted.


    Kebble, apparent man of wealth and taste, was a slick con man with the instincts of a street fighter and an imminent willingness to apply them. He had a black heart and a dark soul and, at some point in his life, he had decided that he would play by his own rules. By the time the Orlyfunt deal came around, Kebble was a truly desperate man. His days were spent frenetically nurturing his BEE connections and the political obligations they carried. He was also involved in numerous attempts to rescue his faltering empire, built from the start on sand - or the powdery dust of the mine dumps that had surrounded Johannesburg before advanced technology and urban sprawl conspired to demolish them.


    Kebble was in dire financial straits. Since 1996, when he pulled off some of the most agile acrobatics any stock exchange has ever seen, he had been cash-starved.


    He had assets and control and wads of paper to prove it, but his pockets, never deep, were empty. After seizing control of a vast array of assets in 1997 - of which only one, Western Areas, was sound - Kebble had embarked on a massive asset-stripping exercise. In immaculately disguised transactions shot through with spin, he sold off assets - or more commonly, bits of assets - and raised hundreds of millions of dollars. But long before he was forced to invent Orlyfunt, the money was all gone. Fed to media sycophants as a black-owned investment giant run by 'experienced entrepreneurs', Orlyfunt would acquire an extensive portfolio of BEE entities and various mineral right interests for the sum of R1.4 billion from the venerated and long-established JCI.


    Nine months later, Kebble would be dead and JCI in disarray, his legacy a convoluted financial travesty that would take months, if not years, to untangle.


    From PART I, "Catch me if you can" of Brett Kebble: The Inside Story, the biography of Brett Kebble by Barry Sargeant.

    Gammon uebernimmt Mexgold, es gibt 0.47 Gammon fuer eine Mexgoldaktie.


    http://biz.yahoo.com/cnw/060529/gammonlake_mexgold.html?.v=1


    Highlights of the combined company include:


    - Creates new world-class gold-silver company with a fully-diluted
    market capitalization of over C$1.6 billion (based on May 26, 2006
    closing prices)
    - Once accomplished, full production is expected to measure more than
    400,000 gold equivalent ounces(1) (235,600 ounces of gold and
    10,500,000 ounces of silver) annually (free of hedging).
    - Expected low cash costs of well below US$200 per gold equivalent
    ounce(1)
    - A large Measured & Indicated Resource of more than 6.0-million gold
    equivalent ounces (3.5-million ounces of gold and 165-million ounces
    of silver) and additional Inferred Resources of more than 9.0-million
    gold equivalent ounces (4.9-million ounces of gold and 249-million
    ounces of silver). Included within the Measured & Indicated Resources
    are Proven & Probable Reserves of more than 5.0-million gold
    equivalent ounces (2.8-million ounces of gold and 137-million
    ounces of silver). (Slightly different gold-silver ratios were used by
    each respective Company. Refer to reserve and resource tables at the
    end of this release).
    - Low geopolitical risk
    - Attractive exploration land package
    - With a cash position of approximately C$36 million, the new company
    will be in a strong position to accelerate the exploration and
    development of the combined portfolio of properties
    - Increased critical mass and trading liquidity
    - Strong, committed and entrepreneurial management with proven track
    record


    (1) Gold equivalent values are based on 60 grams of silver
    (equal sign) 1 gram of gold, calculated on a gold price of US$450/oz
    and a silver price of US$7.50/oz.

    What would the gold price be if we could replace all the existing notes and coins in the world with gold?



    Not such a long time ago paper receipts for gold in storage were used as currency, and people would trade these receipts because it was more convenient than carrying around a lot of gold. Over time, those who held the gold and issued the receipts noticed that physical gold was seldom claimed even thought the receipts changed hands several times. The temptation to issue more receipts than the gold in storage became too large to resist, and fractional banking was invented. This allowed the issuers to charge interest and increase the amount of currency in circulation.


    The scheme would work as long as everyone did not claim his or her gold at the same time. Those issuers (or later, banks) who egregiously abused the system suffered from bank-runs, in which receipt holders claimed their gold. Since there was not enough gold to cover all the outstanding receipts, only the first folks through the door would get any gold.


    The system was based on the faith the public had in the gold receipts, with all issuers not being equal. The Federal Reserve Bank was therefore created to regulate the system and stand ready to bail out any bank that could not meet its obligations. Fractional banking was allowed to continue subject to additional regulation and scrutiny, but the system is still based purely on the faith and confidence that people have in pieces of paper.


    Many hardcore believers in the gold standard feel that fractional banking has to be demolished. I personally never liked the idea of fractional banking, but I also don't think the population at large is ready to do without it. And, even if fractional banking were eliminated and a pure gold standard recreated, the temptation to issue receipts in excess of gold on deposit would just exert itself again.


    So instead of the most conservative extreme of a gold standard without the ability of debt creation, let's consider what would happen if we accepted fractional banking, but just took away governments' right to seigniorage.


    If we add together all the currency in circulation (notes and coins) in the US, Japan, China, Britain, Canada, Russia, Australia and the European Union, converted to US dollars for simplicity, we arrive at $2.6 trillion. These countries represent roughly 80% of the world's GDP so by extrapolation we can estimate that all the currency in circulation in the world today is approximately $3.25 trillion.


    Total historical gold production is about 5 billion ounces and most of it is still around. If all the gold in the world were converted to money to replace existing notes and coins, it would imply a gold price of $650 an ounce.


    Back in the 1940s the United States alone held about one third of all the gold in the world and two thirds of the official reserves (gold held by governments). At the time, governments held approximately 50% of all the gold. If we assume that only half the gold in the world could be converted into money then it would imply a gold price of $1,300 an ounce.


    Another model I have used to estimate the fair value of gold is based on relative inflation rates. According to that model (see http://www.paulvaneeden.com/Library/200304%20Gold.php), the gold price should be around $900 an ounce. I found it interesting that both these calculations came up with gold price values in the range of $1,000 an ounce, which is intuitively more acceptable than some of the deflationist models that predict gold at $300 an ounce or alarmist predictions of $8,000 to $10,000 an ounce. While either extreme is a possibility, I do not consider either one to have a very high probability. On the other hand, I believe there is a high probability of seeing gold at around $1,000 an ounce in the not-too-distant future.


    Gold is currently less than that because the US dollar is over-valued on foreign exchange markets. A rise in the gold price from $600 to $900 an ounce purely due to weakness in the dollar would imply that the dollar lost 30% to 35%. Such a decline in the US dollar does not have to be uniform against all currencies, and I doubt that it would be; the dollar will probably fall most against the Chinese Renminbi, the Japanese Yen and other Southeast Asian currencies.


    A newcomer to the ranks of The Dollar Bears is the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The OECD was quoted in Forbes last week as saying the dollar had to fall by 35% to 50% in order to balance the US current account gap. I don't know how they came up with those figures, but they correspond incredibly well to my own expectation of how much the dollar should decline.


    I still maintain that we are not currently in a gold bull market but that the gold price is merely adjusting to monetary inflation and foreign exchange rates. We might well enter into a gold bull market if the decline in the US dollar precipitates a crisis, but we are not there yet.


    Paul van Eeden

    THE BIGGER PICTURE


    Tony Locantro


    http://www.gold-eagle.com/gold_digest_05/locantro052806.html


    Gold and silver stocks in particular had no time to react to the strong movement in prices. Even at $700Usoz for gold you could still buy quality gold juniors for a whopping 15c or 3c above where they were trading 5 years ago. Apart from a handful of market darlings and the big Victorians the gold sector has done didly squat and investors have yet to come to grips with the fact that some of these companies could have been locking in prices of around $1000AUD per ounce and will be profitable for many years to come.
    The rush for mines and resources has not yet begun in earnest. When cash and profits are king I would expect that those with the balance sheets and supporters to do it, will start picking up the micro caps, take them overseas and getting full value for their shots. There have been some takeovers and management shifts here but nothing to really capture the attention of speculators.


    Gold, silver and base metals have enjoyed excellent rises over the last five years with equities still having considerable ground to make up if this is indeed the real thing. Valuations applied to some companies are far from "Bubblevision", however the majority are focussed on what could go wrong as opposed to what could well come off. At the Asia Mining Congress recently held in Singapore someone stood up and closed the conference with the following remark or similar.


    "The speculative market is like someone busting to go the toilet where they are looking at how much paper is left on the roll. :D


    The smart ones would go and get another roll or two out of the cupboard, whilst those stranded yelling, "more toilet paper please" are nowhere near the smaller end of the market at this point".