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Gold/Mining/Energy : Big Dog's Boom Boom Room

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To: CommanderCricket who wrote (162407)1/13/2012 1:40:09 PM
From: Webster Groves3 Recommendations   of 206169
 
Shutting the Straits is not a battle of WWI dreadnaughts.
It's 1000 magnetic mines on time release anchors, speedboats with jet torpedos, and shore-to-ship missiles.
Iran would lose the naval war, of course, but at what cost to the US and the supertanker fleet ?
At minimum a real war takes out all Iranian production - what does that mean to the markets ?
Meanwhile China buys cheap oil while the posturing continues. I am long domestics.

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