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Message:: [QUOTE="Cloudsweeper99, post: 900396, member: 3011"]I guess that what bothers me most is the inability of many people to distinguish fact from opinion.  Everone is entitled to opinions.  But when a quote from the IMF is posted with the IMF saying, "we do xxx;" and their financials are published verifying that they do xxx, and people still deny it and say everyone is entitled to their opinion, what can you do?  I probably read the same stuff as other people here.  Most of it is useless.  I'll listen to just about anybody's opinion because I fully realize that I'll almost never be one of the first to discover some new important development.  I first heard the term "peak oil" when I read a National Geographic artice in about 1998.  It greatly impressed me and after some further checking, I've been heavily in energy investments ever since.  There is no way to predict where the next good investment idea will come from.  But a lot of folks here received their economic education from reading goldbug editorials and somehow believe that this is the way the world works, and they've been let in on some secret that most people don't know about.  I currently think most of it is crap, but also believe gold and silver are good investments for other reasons seldom discussed.  So I intend to greatly limit my future input into these discussions and just watch how they develop.[/QUOTE]