[e-gold-list] Re: gold on paper

2003-10-28 Thread jpm
You are certainly a strange fish Robert, you say some incredibly amazingly bizarre things, and then you say some incredibly subtly correct things, and from time to time you give up some astonishingly useful knwoledge! I've always thought this. Sometimes you come off as a complete crackpot and

[e-gold-list] RE: gold on paper

2003-10-28 Thread Arik Schenkler
Shalom, Jim Davidson wrote: I would say the shares should represent an ownership interest in the income potential of the underlying company. Not exactly. I would say that a share represents an ownership interest in the company assets, earnings and management. Although there are different

[e-gold-list] Re: gold on paper

2003-10-28 Thread zenbiker
The second item of concern for me was that because some people equate TGC shares with e-gold there is an inherent potential of perceived inflationary tendencies. But they do so mistakenly; even in the context of private exchanges I am not sure how such inflation is possible (see below.) Imagine

[e-gold-list] RE: gold on paper

2003-10-28 Thread Jim Davidson
Dear Arik, Shalom. I would say the shares should represent an ownership interest in the income potential of the underlying company. Not exactly. I would say that a share represents an ownership interest in the company assets, earnings and management. Although there are different powers to shares

[e-gold-list] Re: gold on paper

2003-10-27 Thread Robert B.Z.
Hello Jim, I was wondering what kept you :o) In fact I was not speaking out against shares - or didn't mean to - at least initialy. I was trying to set the stage for what my latter post was meant to achieve namely warn about *possible* inflationary tendencies of e-gold derivatives, for lack of a