"So how, you may ask, will Britain’s most ruthless share trader make money in 2006? Shorting overvalued rubbish is easy but I will also make a mint from my vast portfolio of gold stocks. I have been predicting for many years that the addiction of the Occidental Governments to printing vast amounts of new money in order to buy off stupid and short-sighted electorates would end in tears. The end is nigh. Gradually it is dawning on the ill-educated masses that paper currencies across the world are being devalued faster than you can say “Cherie Blair is a habitual free-loader” and the only way to play that is to buy gold. God is not fiscally imprudent. Man, by nature, is. I note that gradually it is dawning on the herd that gold is a good bet. When the frenzy really starts the price will rocket ahead – I could see gold hitting $800 oz when the madness really starts. Gold producers are geared plays on the gold price and handily enough I own vast numbers of shares in several companies which are either already producing or soon will be, namely Centamin, Uruguay Minerals and – via its portfolio of interests – Golden Prospect."