we welcome jason rotman and shane -- [inaudible] bay ridge financial co-founder. cause you've got a way where we can sort of feel a little bit better. we're still looking at in this snowy manhattan right now. everybody's struggling to find, you know, something positive. can you give us something? >> i think the positive is there is a lot of buying opportunities out there. it's a mart of putting your finger on which one, which trend -- zap ann what do you like? >> well, obviously, gold is up well over 12% this year so far, and when you're looking at ya pap right now, japan continues to print money. the u.s. continues to have major debt and print money. gold, if you date back to 2000, i have pages of time right here when gold was $291. sandra: so gold's back above $1300 an ounce, but all it had been doing for week on end was going down. are you saying it's part-timely bottomed out? -- finally bottomed out? >> for 1 years gold -- 12 years gold has been up, and now we have government still printing and mismanaging money, and i hi it's a good time to look at gold and ow