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HOLD
ON!
by David N. Vaughn
Gold Letter,
Inc.
April 12, 2007
Wow!
700 is just around the corner! Think long term, long term, long term.
Where oh where is the “doubting Thomas”?

Hold
on to what?
Hold
on to something you can believe in. Sounds simple but few do it. I
remain confident and at peace with this market. Anyway, my ultimate hope
is not in a higher gold price, but I won’t fight it as it comes. In
all of society, history and literature there is no greater topic
discussed than making money and investing. There is nothing wrong with
making tons of money in this gold and uranium market as long as you keep
your perspective in all the right places.
Gold
and uranium continue to ride high. Those still not in the game will sure
wish they were as time passes on.
Who
do you listen to today? The two top geniuses without a doubt are Doug
Casey and James Dines. There are about a dozen others worth following
also. The important point is to visit many wells and not just visit one
small pond. What the crap did I just say? Read a lot and subscribe to as
many newsletters as you can afford. After all, it’s your money on the
line.
“…if
you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it
has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original
without ever having noticed it.” C.S. Lewis
What
we just read is really what is being voiced over and over in these web
pages you are reading. If something rings true and is the truth it
really can’t be said enough.
“Experience:
that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.” C.S.
Lewis
Do
you worry about losing a few bucks in the market? Actually, that is the
only way to learn and definitely the only path to success. The
markets are more real than your 9 to 5 job and the only place you will
ever learn what real speculation is really about. You’ve got to
experience it to understand it.
“Failures
are finger posts on the road to achievement.” C.S. Lewis
Don’t
be afraid to fail every now and then. Failure builds patience and wisdom
and objectivity. And what else can we say about objectivity?
Today
it is very important to look at events with a great deal of objectivity.
We cannot determine the future and base it merely on the past 20 years
of relative peace we have experienced. The great bull market of 1980 to
2000 is over and exists now only as a footnote in history books. Also,
the great precious metals bear market that existed from 1980 to 2000
also is over.
“…understand
that… faces turned obdurately to the past will bring us down.”
Colleen McCullough, C.W., 1996
Gold
and uranium are the investments of choice for the world of tomorrow. We
are in a long term bull market in precious metals and resource stocks
that I personally believe will last for a minimum of 20 years. Future
history books a 100 years from now will talk about the great bull market
in resource stocks that lasted from 2000 to 2020. The only question that
will remain will be why some refused to participate in it. I suppose you
have to ask yourself if you are really serious about wanting to make
real money.
What
is real money?
“Real”
money is always only gold and/or silver. Paper is not real money and
never will be. Only gold and silver have real and lasting value. Paper
can really never be anything except a receipt. Receipts and paper
dollars are OK, but they will never, never replace gold and silver.
Dave,
“I
find it interesting that the gold price hardly "quivered" when
Iran announced the release of the British sailors. In
fact, the price actually increased. It would seem to me
that any geo-political risk premium in the price as far as the downside
has pretty much been played out and that the bull market is a slow
charging locomotive with not much of anything to stand in its way. I
love the consolidation and hope it continues into the fall since the
next move up would be all the stronger.”
R.P.
Paul,
below sends an interesting email. It’s kind of long but informative
and well worth reading.
Dear
Dave
“The
governments’ inflation stats are pure nonsense and everyone knows
it. I have the misfortune to be a mathematically inclined person
who also goes grocery shopping and remembers the pricing from month to
month, year to year. My average cost on ketchup has doubled in the past
two years; general weekly receipts are up around 40% in the same time
frame. Meat prices have doubled. Gas is up 50% over the past year.
Property taxes up 17% this year alone. Utilities up 14%. Need I go on?
Inflation as I see it in my daily life is currently running at
approximately 28% per annum. Investing
in Gold and Uranium are the only things that are allowing me to
beat the governments vicious deflationary/inflationary commitment.
In 2003 I began investing in Gold mutual funds and I currently have a
compound return of 233% over that period or roughly 58% average per
annum. In 2004 I began investing in uranium stocks on both the
TSX.V and AMEX-OTC: BB in the US. I began with 6 stocks and
$25,000.00. That portfolio now consists of 30 stocks worth $387,000
for a rise of 1400% or 466% per year. I have become very knowledgeable
about the Uranium Industry (I have a background in investment analysis)
as you can well imagine. I cannot stress enough that the supply-demand fundamentals of both
gold and uranium will continue to drive these two issues forward well
into the future. To use a baseball analogy, I think we're
only in the second inning of what could be the greatest Bull Run in
history. The shortage in Uranium will persist past 2015 using
today's statistics. I suggest
that all your readers begin to educate themselves on gold and uranium
very soon. I see it as having been able to buy into the internet boom
years before it started. Don't get me started on how Cobalt
and REE's (rare earth elements) are shaping up. I would suggest
that every American discover the resource markets, in particular the
Canadian Toronto Stock Exchange (The Hottest Stock Market On The Planet)
TSX and TSX.V and start their own inflation killing account. I believe
that a huge rush of cash will go into the resource markets as people
shun the real estate markets and can get less than zero from the DOW. A
big fan that doesn't want to end up eating poisoned cat food in my old
age.”
Paul
Gold
Letter emails brief reviews of undervalued gold, silver, uranium and
other resource stocks that are under valued and poised to rise. Our top
10 best performing stocks are up over 2,000% and our top 50 best
performing stocks are up over 500% - 60 minute real time delay when the
markets are open. The top 50 represent around 50% of all Gold Letter's
recommendations since inception. Does any other newsletter keep track of
and publish their performance…online and up to the minute? Let me know
if you find one that does. Thanks!
I
know you probably get tired of me hammering away so vehemently about
success and failure. But I feel so strongly that failure is an important
component of success and even necessary for the learning experiences it
brings. What is the important verse about tribulation and suffering
building character and victory? Same could be said about the markets
really.
“But
to act on what you learn is all that really matters.” B & P
And
how long do you have before this bull market really goes into overdrive?
This is an important consideration because so far we have only seen the
tip of the iceberg. And what will happen when the rest of that gigantic
iceberg becomes exposed? The world presently is only heating up.
Resource stocks are gold, uranium and everything that is extracted from
the bowels of the earth.
Hello
David,
“…I
know one thing; the current situation cannot last forever.” “I
believe that it is only a matter of time before the US invades Iran, and
of course it will cause uranium,
gold and oil to go to unseen before highs.” “Doug
Casey stated that this will be a "once in a lifetime
opportunity" and for those who know what's coming, it'll be a
"once in a lifetime opportunity…"
From
Montreal,
Stephane
G.
Let
me hear from you!
David Vaughn

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2007 David N. Vaughn
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