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  1. Nothing Shines Like Gold • February 25, 2009

    Asset classes go up and down. Precious metals are, of course, another asset class. They move with the economic tides. In the past 30 years, gold has rocketed up and plummeted down.

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  2. Gold Hits $1,000 – Plus Updates On Our Portfolio • February 20, 2009

    The prices for gold and silver are on a tear. Gold topped $1,000 per ounce today. Silver is nibbling around $14.50 per ounce. The world's currency markets and investors do not trust the politicians not to screw up the currency.

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  3. Mr. Lincoln's Birthday • February 12, 2009

    So it's no coincidence that the other day, the Carnegie Library in (where else?) Carnegie, Pa., hosted a talk on Lincoln by Edwin Bearss, the former chief historian of the U.S. National Park Service.

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  4. Portfolio Updates and Energy News • February 5, 2009

    I used to get a kick out of the conspiracy theories about how there were oil tankers parked offshore waiting for the price of oil to go up. People have been talking like that since at least the early 1970s.

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  5. The Great American Blackout… • February 1, 2009

    You probably don't worry too much when you turn on the lights. You just put your finger under the toggle switch and make a short and easy movement of your hand. Voila. Let there be light, right?

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