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I enjoy the debate. There's just of lot of over-dramatizing, mostly from Panda :-). My portfolio is something like 50% short, 10% gold, 10% commodities, 30% long stuff (can't short the 401k anyway). So I guess I'm a pretty big bear - but I don't really make calls like Dow Jones 10,000 by...

If you're going to go the mutual fund route, BRK.B would get my vote. Yes it's not a mutual fund, but the end result is virtually the same, and the management fees? Zero, and you get what some consider would be the best money manager available.

Panda, I'm still confused by your investment strategy. If you're that certain that China will become the economic giant that it's slated to become, along with other asian countries, why not buy FXI, EWT, EWS or whichever ETF that holds stocks in the countries you believe instead of wasting...

The Columbian Bank and Trust Company, Topeka, KS just failed. $752M assets, $622M deposits, $46M uninsured. Slowly nibbling away another 1 or 2% of FDIC's reserves.

Oh, and to answer your question about which funds i "like"... I don't like any of them. These days I'm short anything that moves :-P. Well, not quite, but you get the idea.

Panda, I see no problem with your particular choise of ETFs per se... but I'm a bit weary about the language you use with regard to your investments... Here is what I hear behind th elines when I read your post: - "Stocks always go UP in the long term!" - "Buy on the DIPS 'cuz stocks are...

Here's tabular data for gold price for every year neginning from 1800. No chart though, you'll need to make a chart yourself in Excel. <a href="http://www.finfacts.com/Private/curency/goldmarketprice.htm">Gold prices</a> Even without a chart, the history of the price of gold is pretty...

I've invested heavily in some of the double short ETFs such as SKF, SRS, QID and so forth. They're all very volatile so you have to be willing to stomach the volatility. For now, I'm holding them and not trading them. You should be aware they all have some error in the tracking of their...

I've certainly grown weary about the recent developments with commodities and gold these past few weeks. Inflation-theories aside, I was mainly interested in these for their supposedly low-correlation with equity markets in which I am heavily invested (on the bearish side). But everything...

<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=ac.pGKwsRx5k">Fannie Mae, Battling Losses, to End Alt-A Mortgages </a>

When's the last time the federal budget actually went down? (if it every happened)

<a href="http://www.housingwire.com/2008/07/31/freddie-mac-pushes-out-foreclosure-timelines/">Freddie Mac Pushes Out Foreclosure Timelines</a> This is getting... disgusting. I can't believe it myself. People who can't afford the home they live in will now get a whopping 10 MONTHS of...