How are you diversifying away from the dollar?

i've got tons in long term tax free muni zeros. i have a bunch in 2 yr tbills, mm, and 1 yr notes that have come due and are coming due in the next yr. but ~2% is all they are renewing at now. so yeah i'm looking too.

gold silver bullion funds sounds interesting.

how do you pick a winning CEF ?

what about forex funds ?

No actually CEF the stock:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=cef

Bought in at $8.5 in 2008

I use forex only to convert my USD to CAD to buy Canadian stocks on the TSX. Otherwise, I don't play with currencies.

? you CEF the gold siv bull stocks only ?

Yes plus all of the other stuff I mentioned. Oil stocks, Utilities gold/silver stocks etc.

Gold/silver can't be debased ... It's the currency of last resort. I think we are near the last resort give or take a year or two.

Isn't the Canadian government going to start taxing the Oil/gas trusts? Happening soon, if I remember correctly Will def reduce yield but probably still a good investment.

oh. i see. you picked a CAN focused oil/gold/sil CEF. hmm... i don't know what to do. i'm considering yen, & euro forex funds, perhaps a "CEF", and will look into the CAN CEF that you have. i looked at lending clubs but that's so little money. also i looked at doing stocks myself but don't have time nor interest nor expertise to futz with it thus i'll lose tons of money like in the '97 crash.

Yes, but the share prices already reflects that by now since the tax scheme was announced in 2006.

Maybe they get sold off a bit when it goes into effect, but it could cut the other way and spike the shares if they moderate the taxes. I am just looking at the reserves of oil they have and I will stomach the taxes.

I'm a commodities idiot. Can you inform me on some of these plays?

http://www.europac.net/

Peter Schiff's Europac is too expensive though I follow what he says. Just open a margin account with Interactive Brokers and you can pretty much do anything with lightning fast speed and cheap trades.

http://www.europac.net/

I looked at the home page, and saw a link to an article saying "retail stores bring back layway plans to lure customers". Plus, I was at K-Mart yesterday and a woman behind me after I checkedout ask to put her stuff on "lawaway". Man, that brings back old memories of my LMC childhood. My parents did layaways at the White Front discount chain way back in the 1960s. It shows how bad the economy is now.

Interactive Brokers

I looked at that site. Wow. Where do I get started. You like oil/gold/sil, I want to spread it more, into Euro and Yen as well.

Ummm....did I just walk into the middle of an infomercial?