You may want to first read his posts to me or "about me" earlier, that will explain what you call "friendly fire" and term "statement of facts". You may want to reread JW characterization of me: For instance from #msg-544022: "Zeev since a sincere mental challenge, laced with political overtones he is vulnerable in a few critical places I dont mean for abuse, I mean rather for exposing fallacious views that might someday seriously undermine both his positions and those of his copycatters". Fallacious views? He decides if some views are fallacious or not? Under what authority? His genius? Just a relic from the days of the Imperial times.
or: #msg-544173: "from your claim last spring that the USGovt was managing the dollar currency properly and responsibly had a hundred undercurrents, supported by your few comments about required national spending levels, which has direct socialist implications, thus politics your comments seemed laughable then, laughable now"
and then outlandish lies like: "you claimed then to have knowledge and teaching experience regarding gold and banking," it would be intereting to see a citation from SI or I-hub where I ever claimed teaching anything outside mathematics, physics, biotechnology, chemistry and bioethics, though I don't remember even mentioning these activities either on SI or I-hub, till now.
Zeev does not engage in intellectual discourse very well dont worry, Haps... this exchange has been going on since early June he has trouble admitting his limitations his gold views are straight out of conventional Federal Reserve treatises no historical understanding whatsoever, thus political expedience he seems to prefer to have infinite intellectual reach he needs to keep things short but mainly he needs to speak down to people
"I used to teach quite a lot, and anyone that would give me a five page argument would fail. The case for and the case against gold can be made each with half a page, even that might be too much. ....... gold is not a metal which is in short supply once the price is above $300/ounce"
arrogant, and ignoring all investment gold potential I produced 20 reasons why gold will thrive, now I have 21 each reason could have a cogent argument in favor of gold, composed within 1-1/2 pages if Xeev cannot get past half a page, then his problem depth of argument transcends beyond the shallow gold bylines
getting hungry, more later very amusing childish outburst by Xeev he must resort to name calling when frustrated by limitations of comprehension my guess is he loves argument, will return, but instead hates discussion except when he sits on some throne