Four out of ten U.S. homes have DVRs, which allow TV viewers to store shows on a hard drive so they can watch what and when they want, without suffering through ads.

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He points to gold - a resilient conductor of electricity - which shows clearly in the connecting prongs of a laptop hard drive.

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Savings are better measured by the Fed's quarterly survey of bank accounts, stocks, life insurance, pensions and debt, which shows, as one would expect, robust financial accumulations from America's hard work and freedom.

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Gijsbert Groenewegen, managing partner of Silver Arrow Capital Management, said the news about Germany seeking to protect its banks shows how murky the European debt situation is, which makes investors seek the transparency of hard assets like gold and silver.

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