RE: GOLD! OY VEH JERRY!!Why do you think we are in such a financial mess. Its because analysts follow what ever their company dictates. Banks are the worst for this but brokerage firms aren't much better. I have just been through the mill talking to different banks about investments, they have no idea what is in the crap they are trying to sell. You can't even get them to talk gold investments even though banks and governments know that its only a matter of time before the paper dollars of the world will have to be devalued.
Listen to the bank of canada twit yesterday saying we will start out of this recession by the end of 2009. Does he really think we are that stupid. Another case of telling the sheepel what they want to hear. We won't be out of this before the end of 2010 at the soonest. As for the deficit, it will be closer to 45 billion this year and near 60 next year. I have no idea how they came up with this 34B - 30B number but it is not based on common sense. What can you expect however, when you consider Harper claims there would be no deficit in October, with further claims in December that there would be no recession. What that means is we have a serious leadership deficit and we have people running our governments and banks that have no clue what going on around the world and how it effects our export economy. I can see some Canadian banks failing before this is all over. They are trying to make them sound to secure.
Get out of debt, buy gold with any cash you don't need to live on and put investments into gold stocks like YRI, G, RGL and the like. Likely some great juniors out there that could also see 10X returns.