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Strategies & Market Trends : The Epic American Credit and Bond Bubble Laboratory

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To: ild who wrote (11288)4/4/2004 10:16:39 AM
From: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck  Read Replies (2) of 110194
 
>Panic Scenario #1: OPEC oil producers decide to stop pricing their oil in dollars, and switch to a basket of currencies for both the pricing and settlement of crude oil transactions.<

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"Saddam sealed his fate when he decided to switch to the euro in late 2000 (and later converted his $10 billion reserve fund at the U.N. to euros) -- at that point, another manufactured Gulf War become inevitable under Bush II. Only the most extreme circumstances could possibly stop that now and I strongly doubt anything can -- short of Saddam getting replaced with a pliant regime.
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