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Can I have your sources please? Places I have looked suggest otherwise, this shows in housing supply increasing around 7% over population (Not that constraints in housing supply has historically prevented crashes, eg Japan) This graph shows the percentage increase in different types of housing between 1992 and 2007, including both new builds and stock that has been converted to a different form of tenure....Housing stock in the UK increased from 23.5 million to 26.6 million homes (a 13.2% increase) http://www.hnm.org.u...ing-supply.html Increase in population during same period 5.916% (1992-2007) ((60,986,600-57,580,400)/57,580,400*100) http://www.google.co...q=uk population

It doesn't "exaggerate" the situation, it takes one set of statistics (ie high & low range of mineral content) and completely misrepresents it as something else (ie organic food vs conventional). Having said this, I am an organic food advocate myself, but this study clearly does not show what people say it does. I have become more interested in health issues recently ( - perhaps a sign of getting older?) and wondered this myself. I am also interested in foraging/wild food and it often is the case that food which grows naturally has much higher nutritional value, for example rosehips have about 30 times more Vitamin C content than oranges. I'm not sure if it is down to the industrialisation of agriculture or the food we produce most easily on a mass scale is not what we would naturally eat, so we are not getting enough nutrients. The different environment- more pollution, poisons, etc may also mean that we require more nutrients to cope with this, or it is perhaps a combination of these factors. I have tried supplements and felt better, but recently discovered that many of these supplements might contain GMOs, something I absolutely do not want to eat, so I'm not sure where to go from here. They are sneaking it in through the back door. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-180537/GM-products-slip-foods.html#ixzz2EMNOvLRL From Customer services, Holland & Barrett - http://www.connectotel.com/gmfood/gmwho.html

By this I mean the table that you posted on the Bears study, not the fact that minerals may be missing from our diets.

I'm afraid that this is incorrect. http://njaes.rutgers...t/misquotes.asp

Lots of talk of this, but I'm going to stick my neck out & say it's not going to happen - too much buying pressure for physical. If it does, it will at best be a 'nominal' pullback - watch the premium over spot on Ag for phys, my bet is that will increase in line with the drop.

KITCO ERASES EVIDENCE OF CARTEL SILVER RAID http://www.silverdoctors.com/kitco-erases-evidenence-of-cartel-silver-raid/ What do people make of this? They can be a tad (ahem..) "over-enthusiastic" at SD, but they have a point. Live chart data sampled at a frequency should not then retrospectively change, should it?

And would still be a bargain - over the last 4000 years, the Ag:Au cumulative production ratio is surprisingly consistent, varying from to 16:1 in 1800AD to 9:1 currently. www.gold-eagle/editorials_00/mbutler031900.html

I haven't been here for a while, so I've had a quick look to see what's been going on. In summary: For most of human civilisation, from Ancient Egypt to Rome, Gold has always acted as money. With the entire world now on the verge of massive financial armageddon, the only historical safe store of wealth, will not increase in value, but instead collapse. The reason for this is that the illuminati 'might' have some of yamashitas gold, which they are going to dump on the market so they can exchange it for some more of the paper that they themselves print. They have a cunning plan to do this. By utilising their control of the media, they persuade everyone to actually *sell* all their gold for "cash" instead. It's probably some clever reverse psychology. Or something. Meanwhile, it's trading as usual in the Silver market as paper to the value of 80% of the entire world's mined supply of Silver gets dumped on the market in less than an hour, indicative of the healthy, manipulation-free market this has become. This is 100% guaranteed because somebody once met someone, who's brothers monkey knows Blythe's dog. Andrew Macguire doesn't exist, and neither does anyone else who has presented actual, real evidence to the contrary. The resonant frequency for tungsten is an arbitrary 666Hz, which means that this metal is inherently evil, and Nazi aliens are trying to dispose of it by cleverly hiding it in 1Kg gold bars which the gullible public are now buying in their droves because they've been told to sell it. Anything I've missed?

"The UK's biggest mortgage lender, the Halifax, is expected to raise its standard variable mortgage rate (SVR) from 1 May." http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17234257

The thought of Doncaster becoming the next UK property hotspot also brought a tear to my eye. What started off as shaking, quickly became an uncontrollable belly laugh, and finally, tears.

(From a post by Santa over at TFM) Here is why S&P downgraded the US credit rating. • U.S. Tax revenue: $2,170,000,000,000 • Fed budget: $3,820,000,000,000 • New debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000 • National debt: $14,271,000,000,000 • Recent budget cut: $ 38,500,000,000 Now let’s remove 8 zeros and pretend it’s a household budget. • Annual family income: $21,700 • Money the family spent: $38,200 • New debt on the credit card: $16,500 • Outstanding balance on the credit card: $142,710 • Total budget cuts: $385 Anyone done something similar for the UK?

Thailand recently buying gold + Russia recently buying gold + South Korea recently buying gold + Kazakhstan recently buying gold + Greece recently buying gold + Ukraine recently buying gold + Tajikistan recently buying gold + Mexico recently buying gold + = USD finished as world's reserve currency.

Won't someone help this poor chap out & post a picture of a rocket???

Is there enough gold in the world to go back to a gold standard? Could someone please help out this poor chap, I really don't think I can be bothered anymore...

I think Frizzers, Pixel8r, Dr Bubb, cgnao, and Goldfinger have all now been banned from, or given up posting on HPC. As an aside, if you had to pick five posters on here who have made some great calls in PMs over the years, what would you say?