How Will Niagara Falls Fit Through a Garden Hose?

How Will Niagara Falls Fit Through a Garden Hose?
by Jeff Clark, Senior Editor, Casey’s Gold & Resource Report

“There’s no doubt in my mind that we’ll have a mania in gold. And because the gold and especially silver markets are so tiny, the rush into them will be like trying to push the contents of Hoover Dam through a garden hose. Our positions will go absolutely ballistic.” –Doug Casey, September 2009

Dear Readers,

Elmer Sutton’s eyebrows shot up when he saw the ad proclaiming gold stocks might make you wealthy.

It sounded like the perfect solution for his stock portfolio, loaded with investments going nowhere. He vaguely recalled hearing a little about gold, but if what the ad said was true, he thought he could make a killing.

So he called the broker and made an appointment for the next day. The broker seemed very knowledgeable and took the time to explain why he felt gold stocks were one of the best investments right now. He said this was not a get-rich-quick scheme, but that if you stuck with it, you could see potentially enormous profits. It sounded good. Elmer wrote a check for $2,500, and the broker bought three gold stocks for him.

The very next day, gold took a big drop and his spankin’ new gold stocks sold off hard. Not only that, there were riots in South Africa, where one of the companies was located. Elmer was instantly disgusted. He was losing money yet again. This time, however, he’d play it smart and get out before he lost it all – something his wife made sure he understood – so he hastily called the broker and told him he wanted his money back.

“Elmer, you can’t do that,” the broker told him. “This isn’t Woolworth’s.”

“I’m not buying them!” he yelled to the broker and slammed the phone down. Elmer wanted out, and that was that. He wasn’t about to lose any more money in the stock market.

Three years later, long after he’d forgotten about that broker, newspaper headlines were screaming about gold. Everyone at the party Elmer attended the night before was talking about how well their gold stocks were doing. His co-workers bragged about the good deals they were getting buying gold and silver coins. Everyone was talking about precious metals.

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