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When Columbus hit the beach, he was running a little low on cash. He asked the first native American he met where the nearest bank was. The native American said, "Banks closed today."

 

"Oh, really?" asked Chris. "Why is that?" To which the native American replied,

 

"Today Columbus Day."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

apologies to Stan Freeburg.

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The Mogambo's closing comments were to good to pass up.

And speaking of silver, something big is coming, as we gather from

David

Bond at the Wallace Street Journal, who got it from Peter Spina at

Goldseek.com, who got it from Ted Butler at InvestmentRarities.com,

that

"Barclay's iShares filed Securities and Exchange Commission S-1 to

acquire

another 168 million ounces of silver." Mr. Bond helpfully notes, "That

would be 11,525,000 pounds, or 5,232,452 kilos, of the stuff", which is

roughly "one-tenth of the entire output of the Coeur d'Alene Mining

District since the 1880s."

 

Supposedly, this is more than the entire stock of silver in the Comex

warehouses!

 

Until next week,

 

The Mogambo Guru

for The Daily Reckoning

 

Mogambo sez: If you are not buying more gold and silver at these

ridiculously-low manipulated prices, then you are making the biggest

mistake of your life. And that egregious mistake is why the rest of

your

life will be spent reading investment commentary, like the stupid

Mogambo

Guru, instead of drinking champagne at a fabulous luxury resort and

hanging out with your rich friends.

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Also from Daily Reckoning.

 

No one knows why, but the absurdity didn't end with the long, pointless

war...it just seemed to pick up speed. And by the '30s...practically

every

major nation was caught up in the farce. The only major exceptions were

France, Britain and the United States. And in these countries, too, the

institutions of relatively free societies were twisted into hideous new

shapes. In all three, taxes were raised...robbing one group of citizens

in

order to spread the money out among another, more numerous, group. New

'social welfare' programs were imposed - following Bismarck's example -

which undermined private, voluntary institutions in favor of the power

of

the redistributive police state. But the changes were far worse

elsewhere.

Germany was taken over by the Nazis. Italy by the Fascists. Japan by

Militarists. China by Maoists...Nationalists...and the Japanese! And,

of

course, Russia, by the Stalinists.

 

It has only becone worse.

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Today GOOG's management proved that they are idiots (albeit very, very rich ones). $1.6 billion for a company that has no revenues and was based (until today) on copyright infringement.

 

At least they didn't pay cash, they instead printed up more GOOGbucks and paid in stock.

 

Simply incredible.

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Today GOOG's management proved that they are idiots (albeit very, very rich ones). $1.6 billion for a company that has no revenues and was based (until today) on copyright infringement.

 

At least they didn't pay cash, they instead printed up more GOOGbucks and paid in stock.

 

Simply incredible.

 

GOOG has $9B in cash too. So they could have paid for YouTube by just gathering up all the loose change they have lying around in their desk drawers.

 

A couple of billion sounds like a lot of money. But merely chump change these days.

 

Not really sure why GOOG felt the need to spend this money when it already has a video platform (Google Video). Seems like they could toss a few hundred mill into Google Video and blow YouTube out of the water.

 

But that might've taken a year or three to accomplish and, by acquiring YouTube, they gain an instant global market leadership position in online video for now. I guess having $9B in cash and a market cap of $131B makes these decisions pretty easy. Why split hairs for a couple bil?

 

The real advantage will come if/when GOOG is able to corner the copyright market and offer exclusive content. Anyone can technically put up an online video library. Not hard to do. But doing it legally and exclusively will likely take major deep pockets. And GOOG certainly has that at this point.

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Where is The End?

http--img.video.msn.com-s-us-i-vlbg.gif

 

dmm, there is some unreal stuff on utube that shouldn't be there. Graphic killing, people dieing, the whole nine yards. That doesn't even mention the massive amounts of copyrighted material. I can't tell what is actually being put out there on purpose.

 

Lets take Pink Floyd. One of TE's favorite bands

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_quer...d&search=Search

wow!

 

I only see legal ones for the hit series "Lost", but then again there are 32000 pages of clips.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_quer...t&search=Search

The cartoon South Park has full episodes. I am sure they are everywhere.

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