~*~Mining and Metals Du Jour~*~

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Let us know how you're doing with your treatments, cork, because we're all rooting for you.

I still see many for rent, for lease, for sale business locations and homes around greater L.A. And, in good neighborhoods. (Though the wealthier residents are rehabbing houses and tearing down and building bigger houses where the real money is located.)

You have to think the bean-counters and their social and political long term strategists in China and Russia, (who are both steadily buying gold) have a keen eye on our;

Bloated pensions (unpayable of all of them)http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/analysis-pension-pipe-dreams-put-taxpayers-on-hook/ar-BBrCOBe?li=BBnbfcN

Unbelivable national debt level in the trillions and the USA gone from a creditor nation to the world's largest debtor nation. (It's like being in a house in a huge snowstorm with a heavily laden roof already covered with snow that only needs a few more inches of snow to collapse the roof)

Student loan debt (also a portion of which will never be paid back)

https://www.good.is/articles/student-loan-debt-is-astronomical

The obesity rate (physically weakened population) and who is strong enough to go and fight to defend our country? The practically illiterates who'll take the armed forces pay rate?

http://stateofobesity.org/adult-obesity/

The endless gridlocking paralyzation by politicians who only know how to spend taxpayers dollars, (while using their positions to eventually make more money for themselves outside of politics based on the their inside knowledge of how the 'system' works), while getting benefits (health, retirement) many people only dream of.

http://www.vice.com/read/how-gop-gridlock-continues-to-cripple-the-us-government-456

The also see that corruption pays over here too, (as it does over there) as companies like Goldman pay billions in fines for lying and cheating, (but NO ONE takes the rap and fall into jail for their devious ways of filching the investing

public.)http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-14/goldman-says-it-will-settle-u-s-mortgage-probe-for-5-1-billion