I’m so glad you asked, dear reader. I’ve been without decent Internet access for three days, so I have some catching up to do.
Yesterday we boarded a plane in Chile, and flew and flew, making a stop in Santiago, until we finally landed at an airport in the Patagonia region of Argentina. In my ignorance I’d thought of Patagonia as a windswept empty space, but this part looks like Switzerland – it is quite beautiful.
Unfortunately, the airport was closed – or at least the customs/immigration part of it was closed – when we landed. “They closed the country?” I wondered aloud. But eventually, an hour and a half later, an immigration officer showed up to process us. Then we boarded a bus and came to the town of Bariloche.
Check this out …
This place looks like a Swiss ski village – it is gorgeous, and wealthy to boot AND they have a local chocolate industry. Unfortunately, it has nothing to do with mining; we just have much further to go, and we needed to stop for the night somewhere.
This morning, at 6:45 am, we are going to get back on the bus, go back to the airport, get back on the plane and fly and fly further into Patagonia. We’ll fly over a mining project or two, then land and go see them by vehicle, and get to walk around. We are spending the night in Puerto Deseado, a town that I’m told pretty much defines the word “bleak.”
Then on Sunday, it’s another early morning as we board buses and planes to get to Buenos Aires. I’ll continue on to Miami and land about 4:30 Monday morning.
My company has scheduled me to come in for some camera time on Monday – we’ll see how that goes. I’ll probably be incoherent, LOL.
I’ll talk at you on Monday.
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Sean, there are two very disturbing postings today on the MDCP blog about gold by someone named Paul Goedde. Would you please check them out and put your reaction on the MDCP blog. Thanks from one of your regular readers and purchaser of your gold report.
Sorry, Debra, I don’t know what the MDCP blog is. Send me a link and I’ll check it out.
Sorry, Sean. I was referring to Martin Weiss’ Million Dollar Contrarian Portfolio. The members-only website, which includes the blog, is at contrarianportfolio.com. I just assumed you’d be familiar with it on account of your relationship with Martin, and assumed also that you’d be able to access it. I hope you can, but if not I would be happy to copy those entries and paste them here if you’d be willing to look at them. I’ll check back here tomorrow.
Thank you,
Debra
Hi again, Debra.
I have to admit that I have never been consulted on the Million Dollar Contrarian Portfolio. Weiss Research is a big company, and projects by person A may have little or nothing to do with person B. Million Dollar Contrarian Portfolio is Martin and Claus’ project. Also, you’ll remember that I used to write for Money and Markets, but I’m now at at Uncommon Wisdom. In fact, I think Claus might have taken my rotational slot at Money and Markets. Why that … I oughta … (just kidding).
Uncommon Wisdom is great because it lets me write about whatever I want, whether it’s precious metals, energy, agriculture and other commodities, trips to remote parts of the world, the constant struggle for liberty, American history, and how commodities have shaped the history of the world.
Anyway, I have my own brand of contrarian orneriness, and it’s been doing quite well for me and the people who act on my recommendations, as Red-Hot Commodity ETFs and Red-Hot Global Small-Caps subscribers can attest. You’ll really have to send me a link to the comments by this Paul Goedde dude if you want my opinion. Just paste it into the comments and I’ll follow it. I still may not have an opinion after all this, LOL. But now you really have my interest up.
All the best,
Sean
Hi, Sean.
Per your request, here are links to a couple of articles on the subject about which the blogger was writing (ie. I’ve eliminated the middle man).
http://www.prisonplanet.com/the-rumor-about-london-good-delivery-gold-bars-that-are-allegedly-filled-with-tungsten.html AND http://www.kitco.com/ind/willie/nov182009.html#top.
I know that you’re only indirectly associated w/Weiss Research now. My reason for posting this query to you is that you write a lot about gold and I bought your gold report several months ago. Hope it’s not an imposition, but I know it’s stuff you would want to know if you don’t already. I’d love to have your impressions.
Many thanks,
Debra