Investment idea:

[Ilsa]

Any company that prints menus. They are all changing right now to raise the prices.

Got any more? Maybe beer companies? Liquor companies?

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Just take your money & buy Euros.

[Ilsa]

2. Gonna get worse than Eu1=$1.57? I was thinking gold was too high.

Husband travels alot and was telling me about all the restaurants raising prices. Lots of reprinting to do.

[Jackpine Radical]

3. I think the $ is gonna take some real hits in coming months

& years as the international oil bourse goes to the Euro.

As for the printing idea, I don't know how serious you are about that, but menu printing isn't a big industry. Most places will probly print their own menus on inkjets & laminate them or something. The print jobs are usually done by small printing companies, and are a very small part of their business. Those printing companies will be hit hard as people cut back on their orders for new business cards, stationery, etc.

[Warpy]

4. I think we can count on the continued slow slide

until we get Stupid out of office and probably for some time after that. Face it, the fiscal health of this country is in serious jeopardy and it will take a great deal of wisdom and courage to resuscitate it and get it on the road to recovery.

[Ilsa]

5. Not serious at all. Just commenting that prices are changing, and

when they start having to print, it isn't a temporary blip. Yeah, I suspect alot of food service companies have their own internal printing division.

I asked my broker about Euros back in 2002. He dissuaded me from opening a commodities account. He isn't my broker any more. I've done better with my own picks. He knew which mutuals to put funds into, though.