Oldtent Archives 2007 - 2008

Caye Caulker: http://balloonbill.smugmug.com/gallery/4057246#236271721

Easiest is to click the ’slideshow’ button in the upper right of screen.

Copy that, wayside.

I’m sorry I missed that post; I would have liked to meet a fellow tenter. If you’re expecting to be in my vicinity again, please email me at my handle AT goldtent.net       wayside

Well, so much for the Swiss Franc being the safe haven, hard

currency of choice during financial duress.

Here is when it happened:

A friend sent me this good nanosolar article today and it sounds interesting and ground breaking.

You may well have read a recent post we did on the breakthrough Nanosolar technology (a lot of people did!). Well, here’s a brief update. The Nanosolar blog has just made a rather special announcement:After five years of product development – including aggressively pipelined science, research and development, manufacturing process development, product testing, manufacturing engineering and tool development, and factory construction – we now have shipped first product and received our first check of product revenue.

… Today we are announcing that we have begun shipping panels for freefield deployment in Eastern Germany and that the first Megawatt of our panels will go into a power plant installation there.

Auctioning aside, Nanosolar are selling their ultra-thin film solar panels for a mere 90 cents p/watt. Their production costs, said to be 30 cents p/watt, make this a very profitable enterprise, and one that begins to really compete with traditional dirty fossil fuel energy options:

Cost has always been the burdening factor weighing down the mass application of solar technology at nearly $3 per watt. In order to compete with the energy produced from coal, solar has been in need of finding a way to shrink its costs down to $1 per watt. Nanosolar’s cells use absolutely no silicon as is the standard for current solar production and the efficiency of the PowerSheet cells are competitive with the traditional systems as well. The golden kicker, the cost to produce these solar coatings is a mere 30 cents per watt!!

Does anyone know any gallium or indium rich mines? 

300 DMA = $687.15 = Another All Time High

JBI

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12,171,800………

Every night, Frank would go down to the liquor store, get a six pack, bring it home, and drink it while he watched TV. One night, as he finished his last beer, the doorbell rang. He stumbled to the door and found a six-foot cockroach standing there. The bug grabbed him by the collar and threw him across the room, then left.

The next night, after he finished his 4th beer, the doorbell rang. He walked slowly to the door and found the same six-foot cockroach standing there. The big bug punched him in the stomach, then left.

The next night, after he finished his 1st beer, the doorbell rang again. The same six-foot cockroach was standing there. This time he was kneed in the groin and hit behind the ear as he doubled over in pain. Then the big bug left.

The fourth night Frank didn’t drink at all. The doorbell rang. The cockroach was standing there. The bug beat the snot out of Frank and left him in a heap on the living room floor.

The following day, Frank went to see his doctor. He explained events of the preceding four nights. “What can I do?” he pleaded. “Not much” the doctor replied. “There’s just a nasty bug going around.”

Bummer to have missed the opportunity to stop by and say hello, but I tried. I like to go to the Grand Canyon often, so will hope to see you next time. You must have missed my post a few days before passing through Seligman on Dec. 16th:

Wayside…………………..

-> Posted by GoldBalloon @ 17:39 pm on December 13, 2007 ::

Haven’t picked a route yet, but it’s looking like a drive from Albuquerque to the Grand Canyon, going across AZ tomorrow. The map puts you “…in the Junipers of N Arizona”. Give me a call at 541-350-7843 if you get this message, maybe we can meet.

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Sometime after the 1st of the year I’ll make a trip to Seattle. While I’m busy poking around the dumpsters, you’ll be able to recognize me, ment. I’ll be the one with the Burma-Shave sign!

So looks like we could run up to $5.50 before we have a little more resistance.

The way some of these silver stocks are trading it seems like the metal is about to have a pretty good move up.

www.plata.com.mx/plata/articulos/articulosFilt.asp?fiidarticulo=367

He’s still working on returning silver to it’s rightfull place as money

in Mexico.

Seligman brothers. New York bankers were the source of the name of seligman, ariz… they owned the railroad, cattle co.. etc.. jim Sinclairs father was a Seligman.

burma shave

I got carpal tunnel in my scrolling finger on this one:

www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/willie/2007/1226.html

Does Simon Constable Have A Beef With Gold?

Eric Dubin

It is often noted by subscribers of Bill Murphy’s LeMetropoleCafe.com website that Simon Constable represents the worst in precious metals market news commentary. Constable’s main gig is at TheStreet.com, where he offers summary stories on precious metals trading and occasional “investigative” pieces.

Numerous people have complained that Constable presents gold and silver analysis in a consistent negative frame. For example, last May Peter Grandich informed Constable that no further interviews would be granted. Grandich was frustrated by Constable’s lack of journalistic integrity. “I believe my original interview was twisted by him to suit a bearishness and/or dislike he has had for gold ever since he started interviewing me some time ago.” (see the May 29, 2007 Grandich “alert” published in PDF format - click here.)

Adrian Douglas at LeMetropoleCafe.com often jokes about his “moron of the year” award for worst precious metals market coverage, with Constable frequently the leading candidate. Upon seeing this, our first reaction was to assume this was rather mean spirited. But Constable’s consistent use of bearish framing on almost all of his stories in the least makes it fair to question his assumed journalistic objectivity.

Now, we have the latest gem from Constable: a video story mocking Ron Paul and the Liberty Dollar. It was released on December 21st., 2007. Click here for TheStreet.com site and video.

It’s not clear when the video was produced. But for many weeks, Ron Paul liberty dollars have been trading on eBay for over $100, the result of the federal government shutting down the offices of the Liberty Dollar. Constable mocks Paul’s stance on the Federal Reserve and then proceeds to try to get a shoe shine, hot dog and other goods and services for a Ron Paul $20 silver coin. At no time does Constable explain that silver is trading at almost $15 per ounce. In the least, we assume the hot dog vendor would have taken the coin assuming he was like any other gruff New Yorker with basic knowledge of getting paid more than his asking price. The fact that average people have no idea what an ounce of silver is worth has nothing to do with Ron Paul and everything to do with why the current bull market in precious metals is going to make the last one look tiny in comparison.

Constable makes no effort to tell his man-on-the-street compatriots that the coin is trading on eBay at over $100. Again, perhaps this was recorded well before the coin’s value skyrocketed. We simply don’t know. But it’s clear that the video was released long after the coin skyrocketed in value, and it’s clear that Constable is framing the discussion and presentation of this “investigative reporting” piece to purposely cast a negative light on not only Ron Paul, but the idea of questioning the value of the US dollar, and maybe even the value of silver itself.

Members of LeMetropoleCafe.com have been right all along. While it might be harsh to mock Constable, there can be no doubt that Constable consistently elevates bearish points of view on everything gold and silver.

For readers interested in a constantly updated sampling of news and editorials on precious metals and markets in general, we recommend visiting the “dispatches” page at GATA.com. The page is edited by professional newsman Chris Powell, the Secretary/Treasurer of Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc. and the managing editor of the “Journal Inquirer” in Manchester, Connecticut. Mr. Powell does a wonderful job bringing together important stories that often fail to reach mainstream status. Click here to visit the “dispatches” page.

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ADDENDUM: It has come to our attention TheStreet.com published a Simon Constable article today that just so happens to report exclusively on the 2008 projections of gold bulls. While the timing of the latest article is certainly ironic, we stand by our observations in the above essay. We will let the weight of Mr. Constable’s past coverage speak for itself. If he’s turning over a new page towards greater objectivity, all the better.

I wish I’d known you were headed this way; I get my mail in Seligman, though I live about 20 miles out of town.   wayside

now, THAT, is a very rare technical pattern which I will need to do research on! 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW-3KwXpkkM&feature=related