Grabbing the YELLOW METAL for a long odyssey

If you've got some time & Money on your hands and looking for some interesting reading, check out http://www.the-privateer.com/gold.html
They're written by Bill Buckler, publisher of The Privateer market letter based in Queensland, Australia. You'll read some fascinating stuff about gold, the history of gold, money and a whole lot more.
My hunch is that you'll find this worthwhile -- even if you don't share Buckler's views on gold or believe gold is the only honest money.
This is every bit as long as it is interesting, though. So you might want to bookmark the site for later reference if you've got things filling up your time right now.

How these guys make.............?

When the whole world is sinking in the cyclic virus called recession, I am really amazed at these managers who overcame the turbulance and able to pile up the greenpack into their pockets. Particularly I have became the fan of Mr.John arnold who runs Centarus energy LLC...
Top 25 Highest-Earning Hedge Fund Managers
Times may be tough for most folks, but not for the top moneymakers on Alpha magazine’s eighth annual ranking of the world’s highest-earning hedge fund managers. They took home, on average, an anything but average $464 million apiece in 2008. Four hedge fund managers took home more than $1 billion each. Altogether the 25 highest-earning hedge fund managers made $11.6 billion, making 2008 the third-best year on record since Alpha began compiling its exclusive ranking.Alpha uses two components to calculate earnings: the managers’ shares of their firm’s performance and management fees, as well as gains on their own capital invested in their funds.The index below is a guide to the profiles of this year’s top-earning managers. Click on the bolded names below to read the top 11 hedge fund managers' profiles.

http://www.iimagazine.com/Alpha/Article.aspx?ArticleID=2165638

Mr.Buffet Metrics says its time to BUY

Warren Buffet says that if prices keep falling, he expect's to soon have 100% of his net worth in U.S. equities. Prices did keep falling - the Dow Jones industrials have dropped by about 10% since Oct. 17 - so presumably Buffett kept buying. Alas for all curious investors, he isn't saying what he bought
Take a look at this interesting article...
http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/04/magazines/fortune/buffett_metric.fortune/index.htm