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Gold/Mining/Energy : Gold Price Monitor
GDXJ 114.87+3.6%Dec 11 4:00 PM EST

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To: lorne who wrote (47677)1/30/2000 9:17:00 PM
From: PaulM  Read Replies (1) of 116811
 
U.S. TO PUT STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVES ON MARKET

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The DOE seems to be contradicting the "let-the-markets-decide" mantra of only a few day ago. (That mantra, in turn, flew in the face of the administration's sale from the SPR during the last re-election campaign). The paralells to gold lending are there: a sale is disguised as a "swap" with the promise that the oil will return in the future, with interest.

The best face you can put on this is that the adminisration is buying a little time to manuevre ahead of a real emergency near term emergency. (The worst face is that SPR sales will last right up until the election, setting the US up for an absolute catastrophe thereafter).
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