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GE Christenson:?Nixon dropped the link between the dollar and gold in 1971. Thereafter, the money supply rapidly expanded, consumer price inflation went wild, and both silver and gold increased in price by over a factor of 20 in early 1980.

Volcker raised interest rates, killed both inflation and inflationary expectations, and changed the economic landscape to allow for a nearly 20 year bull market in stocks. Silver and gold dropped below their long-term up-trend. Why put money into silver from 1982 ? 2000 when it was easy to make money in stocks?

The stock market crashed in early 2000, and the world changed after September 2001 (9-11). After that event, borrowing, spending, massive deficits, exploding national debt, war, and even bigger government became the norm. Stocks have gone nowhere, on average, for the last 13 years. Silver and gold, anticipating the massive increases in debt and money supply, woke from a two decade sleep and began a bull market that is likely to run for many more years.

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The correlation is simple. More debt means higher prices for silver. Examine the following graph. Note that RSQ = 0.916 for?smoothed?(13 period moving average) monthly silver prices vs. National Debt ? a close correlation.

You may not believe the bull market in silver will continue, but I suspect that nearly everyone believes that debt will continue to increase ? or until the system resets in some future catastrophic event. I?m not suggesting that increasing debt forever is good or sensible or even possible, but I have seen no evidence that indicates Congress or any president is willing to balance the budget and initiate a sane spending policy.

If silver and gold prices correlate, on average, with the national debt and debt will increase until a crash/implosion/hyperinflation event restructures our economy, then you can bet on much higher silver and gold prices in the future.

Volatility will increase. Gold accelerated into a new high in 2011, and silver almost exceeded its 1980 high that same year. Both markets have been ugly, from a bull?s perspective, since then. Expect future parabolic rallies and vertical drops to become more intense in the next four years.

Expect more frightening and silly?statements from Goldman Sachs?et al about gold going down to $1,200, while they prepare to book fantastic profits from the rally they will encourage, when the time is right for them.?The names differ, the game is the same. It hasn?t changed in hundreds of years.

If you want stress, play the futures market in silver. If you want a long-term investment, buy silver at these low prices and wait for the powers-that-be to devalue the various Dollars, Euros, and Yen that we use. Silver and gold prices will be much higher four years from now, regardless of what you are told via the ?party line? from the Goldmans of the world.

Conclusion

KEEP IT SIMPLE!?Debt is increasing, money supply is increasing, silver and gold prices are increasing.

There is no political will to make any material change in the system until a crisis forces change upon all of us.?After the crisis, would you rather own gold, silver, Goldman promises, paper dollars, or sovereign debt paper issued by an insolvent government?Read?Ten Steps To Safety.

Buy silver at depressed prices (like now).?Sell some, not all, after a big rally, such as in 2004, 2006, 2008, and 2011. Another big rally is coming. Read commentary from?Jim Sinclair.

KISS: Keep Investing and Stacking Silver. Keep It Silver-Simple.

It is your choice. Silver or paper? Physical metal or computer-generated paper equivalents? Thousands of years of history where silver has functioned as a store of value and as valuable money or decades of broken economic promises??Keep Investing and Stacking Silver!

This article is brought to you ?courtesy?of?GE Christenson?from?Deviant Investor.

Related:?ProShares Ultra Silver (NYSEARCA:AGQ), iShares Silver Trust (NYSEARCA:SLV).

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Heart-lung machines prove safe even in the elderly

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? One of the scariest parts of bypass surgery ? having your heart stopped and going on a heart-lung machine while doctors fix your clogged arteries ? is safe even in the elderly and doesn't cause mental decline as many people have feared, two landmark studies show.

Bypass surgery is one of the most common operations in the world. There is great debate about the best way to do it, and patients often are given a choice.

Usually doctors stop the heart to make it easier to connect new blood vessels to make detours around blocked ones. But some patients later complain of "pumphead" ? mental decline thought to be from the heart-lung machines used to pump their blood while their hearts could not.

So surgeons started doing "off-pump" bypasses on beating hearts. Nearly one quarter of bypasses are done this way now. But that brought a new complaint: Results on the blood vessels seemed not as good.

The new studies were aimed at testing all these factors in a rigorous way to see which method was best.

Dr. Andre Lamy of Canada's McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, led a study of 4,752 people in 19 countries. They were randomly assigned to have bypasses with or without the use of heart pumps.

After one year, there were no big differences in the rates of death, heart attack, stroke or kidney failure in the two groups. Slightly more people who had bypasses without a heart-lung machine needed a follow-up procedure to open clogged arteries but the difference was so small it could have occurred by chance alone.

Mental sharpness and quality of life also was similar in the two groups. That suggests that whatever decline occurred was temporary, or a result of anesthesia or something other than the way the operations were done, said Dr. Timothy Gardner, a surgeon at Christiana Care Health System in Newark, Del., and an American Heart Association spokesman.

"I'm actually somewhat surprised" the methods proved equally good because the operation is so much harder to do on beating hearts, he said. "It seems pretty conclusive" that either way is fine.

That was true even in people 75 or older, a group most worried about going on a heart-lung machine. The second study tested the two bypass methods in 2,539 of these elderly patients in Germany. Again, the methods proved equally safe and effective a year later.

The studies were discussed Monday at an American College of Cardiology conference in San Francisco and published online by the New England Journal of Medicine.

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Marilynn Marchione can be followed on Twitter at (at)MMarchioneAP.

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Bipartisan bill to re-legalize cellphone unlocking introduced in Senate

We should have known that it wouldn't take long for someone in congress to take up the fight to re-legalize cellphone unlocking. Those championing the effort on the floor of the Senate are Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) , Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Mike Lee (R-UT) who introduced the Wireless Consumer Choice Act this afternoon. After the Librarian of Congress declared that unlocking a cellphone violated copyright law under the DMCA (that's Digital Millennium Copyright Act) activists kicked into high gear in an attempt to prevent or reverse the decision. Consumer advocates quickly collected 100,000 signatures on a petition, forcing the White House to take a position on the matter. To the relief of many, including the globe trotters and ROM fanatics here at Engadget, President Obama backed our right to circumvent carrier locks -- within reason, of course. This is after FCC chairman Julius Genachowski voiced concerns that the ban could hamper competition and innovation.

Anna Eshoo, a Democrat from California, is pushing a similar bill in the House of representatives, but its the bipartisan senate version that seems to be garnering the most attention. In a statement Blumenthal called the legislation "common sense, crucial for protecting consumer choice and important for ensuring healthy competition in the market." Obviously this is just the beginning of a long long journey and all the sponsors can do is hope and pray their sad little scrap of paper will one day become a law.

Update: It turns out that there's another bill that has been introduced in the Senate as well, penned by Oregon senator Rob Wyden.

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Oil above $90 as stock markets surge

NEW YORK (AP) ? The price of oil got a boost from rising stock markets Tuesday, but traders said that declines that sent oil to its low for the year on Monday will likely resume.

Benchmark oil for April delivery was up 21 cents to $90.33 a barrel in morning trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent crude, used to price many kinds of oil imported by U.S. refineries, rose 63 cents to $110.72 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange in London.

Global stock markets rallied as Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao confirmed the country's annual growth target of 7.5 percent and retail sales rose in Europe. In the U.S., the Dow Jones industrial average shot to a record high.

Oil has dropped about 7 percent over the past five weeks. Monday's temporary decline in crude prices to below $90 a barrel was attributed to the introduction in the U.S. of $85 billion in automatic government spending cuts, which could hurt the world's leading economy.

Lower oil prices have helped push down prices at the gas pump. The average price for a gallon of gas fell a penny overnight to $3.74, and is now 3 cents cheaper than a year ago.

Some traders think Tuesday's oil trading represents a pause in a downward trend.

"The ability of Brent and WTI to rebound back to above $110 and $90 suggests to us a bear market that could be in a pause for a while before resuming a decline that could carry down to about the $104 and $85 areas within the next week or two," said Jim Ritterbusch of the energy consulting group Ritterbusch and Associates.

As this week goes along, oil traders will be monitoring fresh information on U.S. supplies of crude and refined products and the latest government data on hiring.

In other energy futures trading on the Nymex:

? Wholesale gasoline added 2 cents to $3.11 a gallon.

? Heating oil rose 3 cents to $2.95 a gallon.

? Natural gas gained 3 cents to $3.55 per 1,000 cubic feet.

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Pamela Sampson in Bangkok and Pablo Gorondi in Budapest contributed to this report.

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Enjoy The Moments | Personal Training Lexington KY 859-576-4453

Today I want to share an entry in my journal with you. My life has changed immeasurably over the last 2 years ? mostly for the good. However, nothing is good unless you see it that way ? and while reading a book today I realized that I don?t make the most of the time I have; the moments. Everything from here on out is my journal ? myself speaking to myself ? and hopefully to you as well?

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I am successful; I am a success. There were many years that I could not utter those words, at least not without the deep realization that it was a lie. I felt held down, smothered by an unseen force ? it turns out that I was exactly right ? I was held down by myself.

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That being said, I did wake up from that nightmare. I once dreamed that the world had its cold hands wrapped about my throat, that it would not let me succeed, that it was a cruel and impossible host. Then one morning I awoke to a world that rewarded me for my works, that recognized my dedication; and that cold, icy world released its grip and became a dream itself?

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My business is doing better than I ever imagined it would. When I complete a personal training session I know that it is a fantastic investment all the way around. I win because my business succeeds; the client wins because they receive the power and control afforded by the truth; a new body, new strength, health, and a new outlook on life. It is truly and honestly a win-win situation ? a situation where everyone comes out on top.

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Many of the things that I have wanted to accomplish in my life I have accomplished in one way or another. Writing a book, performing stand-up comedy, learning the truth about exercise and nutrition (still learning), television appearances, a successful business, qualifying for Nationals in Competitive Bodybuilding, painting, public speaking, and helping countless others achieve success in controlling their bodies looks and health.

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I have many more things that I would like to do. I am starting a business consulting group with my friend and successful businessman Brian Evans called Bluegrass Elite. I plan on writing my second book, Food for Thought, very soon. I have a rough outline of a novel hashed out and ready to begin drafting. I would like to begin selling my paintings online and art shows. I have solid plans to appear on National Television giving the nation the truth about fitness, and see where that leads?

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But while reading the strange, but intriguing book, Way of The Peaceful Warrior today I realized that I might be pushing too hard in the direction of progress without feeling the progress nearly enough. What am I talking about? I?m talking about feeling and enjoying every moment of life. I don?t think I do that nearly enough.

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When I complete a project I move to the next with hardly a moment of enjoyment. Seldom do I take even a second to relish in the victory.

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I?ve noticed that I rush through my food, so I can rush through my workout, so I can rush through my work day. I?ve noticed that I want the moments to pass ? I want to ?get through? the day and every moment of it ? not because I dislike the moments, but so I can get to the next one. But at what cost do I do this? How many moments do I have left? Why do I want to push through them so numbly and with such haste?

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It?s healthy to want more ? but it?s also healthy to enjoy each moment of what you have accomplished.

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This all started with a realization from Way of the Peaceful Warrior about my eating habits. No, not what I eat, but how I eat it. I eat far too fast ? sometimes in the car, while reading or writing. Sometimes I don?t even remember what the food tasted like ? and there is no excuse for that. Here is the quote from the book Way of The Peaceful Warrior about eating that stuck with me, and made the stop and think about all of this:

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?The pleasure from eating, Dan, is more than the taste of the food and the feeling of a full belly. Learn to enjoy the entire process ? the hunger beforehand, the careful preparation, setting an attractive table, chewing, breathing, smelling, tasting, swallowing, and the felling of lightness and energy after the meal. You can even enjoy the full and easy elimination of the food after it?s digested. When you pay attention to all the elements of the process, you?ll begin to appreciate simple meals.?

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I am not on this earth to glide smoothly along and then slide quickly and effortlessly into a grave. I am here to learn and better myself as much as possible. I want to enjoy my life and be the absolute best I can be ? at anything I do.

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I don?t want to eat my meals without tasting them ? I don?t want to waste moments. I must start enjoying every moment. Walking to mailbox and feeling the sun on my face, the feeling of drifting off to sleep after a long day, the feeling of eating the perfect amount ? stomach not too full, not too empty. I don?t want to drive somewhere and end up there without remembering the roadways and scenery along the way (yes, I do this often).

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I must transcend. I must enjoy every moment. I must enjoy every accomplishment and every detail of a victory. I must enjoy simple things. I must enjoy the car I have. I must enjoy the home I have. I must enjoy the family I have. I must enjoy the years I have. I must enjoy the months I have. I must enjoy the days I have. I must enjoy the hours. I must enjoy the moments?I must transcend.

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Griner, No. 1 Baylor women beat WVU 80-49

Baylor's Brittney Griner (42) shoots over West Virginia's Ayana Dunning (33) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Morgantown, W.Va., on Saturday, March 2, 2013. (AP Photo/David Smith)

Baylor's Brittney Griner (42) shoots over West Virginia's Ayana Dunning (33) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Morgantown, W.Va., on Saturday, March 2, 2013. (AP Photo/David Smith)

Baylor's Brittney Griner (42) works against West Virginia's Ayana Dunning (33) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game at WVU Coliseum in Morgantown, W.Va., on Saturday, March 2, 2013. (AP Photo/David Smith)

Baylor's Jordan Madden (3) looks for a shot as West Virginia's Christal Caldwell (1) and Averee Fields (5) defend during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game at WVU Coliseum in Morgantown, W.Va., on Saturday, March 2, 2013. (AP Photo/David Smith)

Baylor's Brittney Griner (42) grabs a rebound over West Virginia's Ayana Dunning (33) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game at WVU Coliseum in Morgantown, W.Va., on Saturday, March 2, 2013. (AP Photo/David Smith)

Baylor's Brittney Griner (42) blocks the shot of West Virginia's Ayana Dunning (33) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Morgantown, W.Va., on Saturday, March 2, 2013. (AP Photo/David Smith)

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) ? Her fifth career triple-double did little to coax some excitement out of Brittney Griner. Not when there's still a month left in top-ranked Baylor's pursuit of a second straight national championship.

The largest crowd ever for a women's game at West Virginia saw Griner finish with 28 points, 10 rebounds and 10 blocked shots, and the Lady Bears built a big early lead in defeating the Mountaineers 80-49 on Saturday night.

Individual accomplishments mean little to the most dominant player in women's college basketball.

"Nah, I'll do that after I'm done with my college career," Griner said.

It was Griner's first triple-double since November 2010. It tied her with Kansas State's Shalee Lehning (2006-09) for the most in conference history.

"She brings it like that every day, guys," Baylor coach Kim Mulkey said. "That's what makes her special. When I go to practice, I just know if I see Brittney, it makes our practice because she's just that kind of kid. She's not a prima donna, she just works."

In the earlier meeting this season in Waco, Texas, Griner finished one blocked shot shy of a triple-double.

She got it this time with more than 5 minutes left in the game.

"My teammates found me, and got me the ball," Griner said. "And then I was just aggressive getting rebounds and getting blocks."

On Monday night, Baylor will try to become the first Big 12 school to finish undefeated in women's conference play twice, having done it last season. The Lady Bears will take a 26-game winning streak into their regular-season finale at home against Kansas State. The Big 12 tournament is next weekend.

Shortly before tipoff, just as he does every home game, West Virginia's buckskin-wearing mascot fired his musket at midcourt, startling everyone on Baylor's bench.

During the game, it was West Virginia that looked frazzled.

Baylor (28-1, 17-0 Big 12) never trailed. The Lady Bears scored the first 14 points of the game and built a 38-22 halftime lead.

"I thought we played scared in the beginning," said West Virginia coach Mike Carey.

Despite falling behind by as many as 20 points in the first half, West Virginia trimmed the deficit to single digits. A 10-2 run, capped by Christal Caldwell's basket, brought the Mountaineers within 42-34 with 17:27 left in the game. That's as close as West Virginia got.

Just as quickly, Baylor pulled away. Griner's jumper started a 15-3 run that put the Lady Bears ahead 57-37 with 12:27 remaining.

Griner's rebound with 5:22 left gave her the triple double, and her ensuing basket gave Baylor a 70-44 lead.

West Virginia had hoped to get Griner into foul trouble, but she didn't pick up her third foul until there was 5:38 left in the game and she went to the bench for good a short time later.

West Virginia tied its lowest point total of the season. The Mountaineers attempted 21 more field goals than Baylor but shot just 22.5 percent from the floor.

"I thought tonight, from the tip, we guarded West Virginia," Mulkey said. "We talk a lot about what we do on the offensive end of the floor, I don't think people talk enough about what we do on the defensive end of the floor."

West Virginia had hoped somehow to keep pace with the nation's second-best scoring offense by moving center Ayana Dunning, who is 5 inches shorter than Griner, to the outside. But Dunning, in her final home game, made 2 of 7 3-point tries and finished with nine points.

Christal Caldwell scored 14 points to lead West Virginia (17-11, 9-8), which saw its three-game winning streak snapped.

Odyssey Sims added 10 points for Baylor.

Griner got off to a slow start by her standards, but Baylor didn't.

While West Virginia missed its first seven shots, Baylor took control from the opening tip and raced to a 38-22 halftime lead.

Griner did score the game's first basket, then didn't score again until the 12:38 mark. She had 16 points, four rebounds and four blocks by halftime, then turned up the tempo on defense in the second half.

A record crowd of 13,447 watched the Mountaineers fall to 0-5 all-time against top-ranked teams at home. It broke the previous mark of 8,307 set against DePaul in 2008. West Virginia entered the game with the lowest average home attendance in the Big 12 at 1,894.

"That crowd needs to be out here for every game, not just when Baylor comes to town, because that's good," Mulkey said. "That's healthy for West Virginia, that's healthy for the Big 12, that's healthy for our sport. And we love that. "

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