RE: so quiet hereNew short #'s from this weeks Barron's show as of 1.15.08 the short position in RGLD increased 7.5% to 3,864,681. I agree with your analysis, the potential here is huge, I called IR last week to find out how leveraged the stock is to gold prices. I was told that with the royalties now on stream revenues increase $900,000 for every $20 increase in POG. And this has none of the risks of production (think SA). Not sure if the convertible is holding the price down now, but it was nice to see the company authorizing a buyback of $30million of stock.