GoldBalloon @ 17:54      

I don’t have info on Ron Paul in Reno.  I only assumed that you would likely make “the great balloon race” there in early Sept.   There is a good chance I will be there.  The lift offs at dawn are worth getting up early to see.

I support Paul, but really believe that the new paradigm is too far along for any one man, or political party for that matter, to make a difference in the ultimate outcome of events.  We are globalized already, (there are other adjectives that are a better fit).  Done in broad daylight, under the cover of distractions, and if not with outright public approval, at least without our resistance.  Anything or anyone standing in the way is, IMO going to be run over.   We are after all, either ‘with it or against it’ aren’t we?  Personally. ‘I’m agin it’, as grampa used to say, but am not planning to be run over either.

Equisetum @ 15:58 pm

Thanks for your reply.  Hope you do not hold back on your opinions in the future.   I don’t know didilly about TA or FA but do trust my ability to assess who is a person of good will and integrity and who is not.   You have a good nose my friend.  Your willingness to share is a most admirable trait and I fully understand your reluctance.  I follow all leads with DD.   Tracked NAK for quite a while before buying in.  It does not seem to run with the pack.  Its a jungle out there eh?

 best to you

molyminer @ 20:16 pm

Is that like around the McCall area?  When I go to Reno I trek down 95 from Lewiston.

Farmboy @ 14:06 pm

Intel update:  A high volume dealer in my area sends a buyer on a route around the northwest.  When he comes back he has a load of what he calls scrap silver.  It consists of all sorts of dishes, platters, silverware and jewelry.

Because I could not get my daugthers interested in coins, I bought silverware and misc for them.  Their interest exceeded all expectations.  Needless to say I was delighted and wished I had had a video camera rolling as they plowed through the loot.  They did the bash, they did the Bolster bash!!

Back to the point.  He explained to me how he picks through it for the most premium stuff, which he holds for a specialty buyer he has, who comes from the Seattle area and pays him a handsomely for the select stuff.  Endless arbitrage eh?  When I asked what he did with the sterling he didn’t sell he walked me around the corner to show me the 1000 oz bars, ingots really.  He wouldn’t say whether the buyers for the ingots were in country or not.  

Silverware, not a bad buy as it is being melted down and its availabilty decreasing.

When I was a kid my dad had a furniture store.  I made regular trips to the dump with those old round oak pedestal tables, after delivering the new formica ones to the proud  owners.