As technology advances and evolves, it is becoming apparent that it is starting to control the user instead of the user controlling it. The often talked about “Crackberry” may be a case in point. Developing a technology where the user can access it to make life more enjoyable and efficient, rather than addictive and ultimately limiting, is a solid way to find profit. Ideas that approach technology from this standpoint are increasingly finding favor and, if they can take hold in an ever changing consumer landscape, becoming incredibly profitable.

PNI Digital Media Inc., a transaction based digital media company, works to provide retailers and other commercial operations digital platforms to capture customer revenue through digital means. The company offers many digital options to its customers but is best known for its digital photo processing and ordering systems.

From a general point of view, the company sells retailers and other commercial operations a

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The short-term path of gold is still unclear says David Galland. But its a good sign that demand for physical gold soars when prices tip towards $750 an ounce. And this threshold is likely to creep upwards as the US dollar loses its worth, and foreign governments convert currency reserves for the precious metal.

This from Money Morning:

Of late, I have read a number of analysts, Jim Rogers even, who have expressed the view that gold could dip to the mid- to low $600 level.

It could happen, but I think not. Already, buyers of physical gold are finding anything near $700 to be cheap and are helping to build a floor under the monetary metal. On that topic, a friend sent this item along recently:

(Gulf News, Nov. 12) Riyadh: There has been an unprecedented demand for gold in the Saudi market recently, with over 13 billion Saudi riyals ($3.47

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By David Galland Editor, The Casey Report Of late, I have read a number of analysts, Jim Rogers even, who have expressed the view that gold could dip to the mid- to low $600 level. It could happen, but I think not. Already, buyers of physical gold are finding anything near $700 to be cheap and are helping to build a floor under the monetary metal. On that topic, a friend sent this item along recently: (Gulf News, Nov. 12) Riyadh: There has been an unprecedented demand for gold in the Saudi market recently, with over 13 billion Saudi riyals ($3.47 billion) being spent on the yellow metal during the prior two weeks. Demand is expected to rise still higher as more investors turn to gold as a safe haven in the midst of the global financial crisis, according to market sources. Sami Al Mohna, an ...

Of late, I have read a number of analysts, Jim Rogers even, who have expressed the view that gold could dip to the mid- to low $600 level.  Could happen, but I think not. Already, buyers of physical gold are finding anything near $700 to be cheap and so are helping to build a floor under the monetary metal.

On that topic, a friend sent this item along last week…

(Gulf News Nov 12) Riyadh: There has been an unprecedented demand for gold in the Saudi market recently, with over 13 billion Saudi riyals (Dh12.75 billion) being spent on the yellow metal during the last two weeks.Demand is expected to rise still higher as more investors turn to gold as a safe haven in the midst of the global financial crisis, according to market sources.

Sami Al Mohna, an expert on the gold market, said the trend had resulted in a

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There has been a great deal of articles lately on shortages and unavailability of gold at the retail level.

My thoughts on this, are that in time it may become increasingly difficult to acquire physical gold at the retail level. This is a repeat of history.

I have suspected for some time that this would happen, but didnt imagine it would happen so quickly.

For a time I have thought, at some point, the only way people will be able to get into gold in large quantities, not a coin here or a coin there, especially if we see a default at Comex, is through a firm with access to gold and silver at the refinery level, and not just any refinery, it will have to be the big ones.

I have reports coming in from all over the world of shortage, its not just the USA. our business partners in Canada, UK, Germany,

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M3 Money through Oct. 10th is sitting at approximately $14 Trillion, and 16% year over year rate of increase. I have said this before, but if you have not figured it out yet, if money supply is expanding at 16% that means your investments MUST grow at more than 16% or you are going backwards.

On the gold shortage front, a recent letter from Bill Murphy over at GATA caught my attention:

Bill,

I talked to the chief broker in charge of the precious metals dept. of one of the largest metals banks in the Netherlands this morning. He told me that his bank had no gold in the vault for the first time in one hundred and forty seven years of its history! He had clients waiting in line for bullion coins of any type, and for the first time in his career,

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Food prices to post biggest rise since 1990: USDA WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. consumers should brace for the biggest increase in food prices in nearly 20 years in 2008 and even more pain next year due to surging meat and produce prices, the Agriculture Department said on Wednesday. Food prices are forecast to rise by 5 percent to 6 percent this year, making it the largest annual increase since 1990. Just last month, USDA forecast food prices would climb between 4.5 and 5.5 percent in 2008. "It's a little bit of a surprise how strong some of the numbers were in July," USDA economist Ephraim Leibtag, who prepared the forecast, said in an interview. "We've been waiting for some moderation, but especially with some of the meat prices and how much has come through relatively recently (at the retail level) leads me

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Dont Look, and Dont Tell..Paper Gold Prices have decoupled from Physical Gold Demand and Supply

I was having a chat with several colleagues of mine in the precious metals industry over the last few days, and a few things have become readily apparent.

1. The massive sell off in paper gold contracts has forced the paper price down substantially

2. The majority of this sell off appears to be coming from large financial entities in liquidity crisis, and desperate for some relief and cash flow that are divesting themselves of metals

3. This does not reflect what the common man investor of gold and silver is looking for, as demand at the retail level is many fold higher than it has been in some time, with some of my colleagues completely inundated with buy orders that they cannot keep up with, nor find physical stocks to provide from

4. Physical supply at the retail

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