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Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries

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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (60114)2/7/2005 4:30:45 AM
From: elmatador  Read Replies (1) of 74559
 
Manoeuvres send a message to the US. Sensible thing to do. There will be a constant string of ships hauling stuff around. Consider if the U.S. sees the empire going and decides to have a desperate go at keeping rising powers at bay?

say, for instance:

Sub emerges and demands a protection fee on each ship hauling the stuff. They say they spend USD400bn a year patrolling the seas. If the payment is not made, some "terrorists" mined the Malacca Straight between Malaysia and Indonesia and sinks a couple of ships.

You see? Its necessary to pay protection against those "terrorists". Now imagine the insurance companies raking the cash on higher insurance premium. Hey. those guys are clever and professional when they want to scam.Wake up mq! those countries in Europe and the US didn't get rich being nice, MQ!

Oh you are going to say it doesn't happen? Who was that pirate paid by the queen of England to rob Spanish ships?
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