Mcgraw Hill Companies (MHP)

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Compare MHP McGraw-Hill Publishing and ABX Barrick Gold

Compare MHP McGraw-Hill Publishing and ABX Barrick Gold Corp and ask yourself which one do I really want to hold in the coming economic collapse. Of course if you believe the current government dribble about there being a recovery then stop here and return to your position with you head in the sand. No one with one iota of intelligence believes that this charade of an economy in this country will last much longer and inflation followed by hyper inflation and/or US Dollars default will happen. Given this very real scenario that is at our door step, then which company would you want to own? To clarify this I own neither company and have no intention of buying either in the near term. The comparison of the two companies is because both are giants in their own industry, one publishing and information and the other gold/silver mining. Barrick has a stock price of $51 and total value in stock price of $44,712,172,833 a/o Feb 18, 2011. McGraw-Hill has a stock price of $37 and a total value in stock of $12,214,914,281 a/o Feb 18, 2011. Both are giving dividends but I believe Barrick is considerably more per year than McGraw-Hill but dividends here are not the issue. What is really the point is which company is going to continually head up in price and which will dive down in price. They are at opposite ends of the investment cycles, one the biggest gold producer in the world (and we all know where gold is heading) and the other a book publisher and information peddler. Barrick is just at the beginning of the gold bull market that will last for many years and McGraw-Hill is at it's end of the consumerism greed market and is crashing now and only held above water by the Federal Reserve QE1 and QE2 money printing scam. Barrick and a couple thousand other mining companies in the precious metals are benefiting from the printing press scam of the government. McGraw-Hill's services in the information industry, their largest income, will not be needed and probably scorned in the coming years because of their bad behavior in the past and people will only care about where their next meal will come from and not McGraw-Hill information. McGraw-Hill textbook division which is only about 17% of the companies income now will virtually blow away in the wind because there will be few college students in the Greatest Depression heading our way and many colleges and universities will drastically cut back or close their doors. Barrick on the other hand with the other couple thousand mining companies will supply the real money in gold and silver that will re-float the world economies the way it use to be when gold backed the world currencies. As stated before I don't own Barrick not because it is not a good company but because in my view there are other similar but smaller companies in the precious metals that will appreciate in stock price more than Barrick will. So back to the original question which company or company in their stock sector do you want to own in the coming (current) collapse, a gold and silver producer or a book and information peddler? Or you can just go back to watching the TV and stick your head back in the sand because we all know the government will protect us all and that big social security check will always be there. Buy the precious metal stocks and dump the publishers like McGraw-Hill while you still have time. Read my other post on the subject and the information site http://fallofthehouseofmcgrawhill.com/ . There will be a time to buy McGraw-Hill many years from now when it is below a dollar a share but now it is time to dump it and buy the metals.