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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Owle, post: 802989, member: 22004&quot;]<b>China and the Dalai Lama</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know about you, fools gold, but when someone tries to play this game of intimidation, I find it kind of outrageous.</p><p><br /></p><p>Let&#039;s say you get a call from someone warning you of unspecified consequences if you do something they are afraid of. What is your response? If they have great power and you are in debt to them, you may have a pow-wow with your lawyer or a different advisor, and make a safe decision.</p><p><br /></p><p>Remember the last part of &quot;Clear and Present Danger&quot; when the president threatens and cajoles Jack Ryan to not be a whistleblower? He didn&#039;t cave, because he had a duty to the Constitution, to his conscience, and to a recently deceased friend.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is interesting some of the revelatory material that has come out on how &quot;gamed&quot; the financial system is, which we always suspected, but never knew what the insiders knew--like this piece on Kitco today--http://www.kitco.com/ind/Wieg_cor/roger_feb022010.html&nbsp;&nbsp; One more reason to buy coins and hard assets.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m dealing with the ethical problem of growing up in an area that has become over-run by hedge funds and other Alice in Wonderland financial outfits.&nbsp; How can you work for such people unless you are making big money and and are mentally insulated from the reality of what the &quot;masters of the universe&quot; are doing to ruin large numbers of people financially?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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