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Gold/Mining/Energy : Gold and Silver Juniors, Mid-tiers and Producers

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To: critical_mass who wrote (11828)5/23/2006 8:10:33 AM
From: E. Charters  Read Replies (1) of 78417
 
Ecuador changes its government too often to organize an effective policy of nationalization. It is a fact that it takes more than the time to draw up a bill and get third reading than exists between breakfast and high tea. They tried orders in council but implementation only got as far as the palace grounds.

Chile is the only SA country that seems to have figured out that the most reliable form of credit to produce minerals comes from private organizations that do not have to follow one government's policy as they are multi national. It works out to be a complex formula, but nationalized industries must be able to finance, and the people you divest in any nationalization generally own the most efficient technology and are the only ones willing to finance and buy metals.

The exception today is China, which no doubt drives the nationalization pretensions of Bolivia, Venezuela and Peru. What these countries must do however is sell 100% of their merchandise to and get 100% of their merchandise, infrastructure and energy from each other, or China thereafter.

This anti-social socialism further isolates this semi-hemisphere that in recent times has been trying to break into markets. All other major nationalization movements have been driven either by semi mercantile support of major interfering powers such as the soviet or were supported by near monopoly of certain products, i.e. oil.

Alienation of markets and money is probably not the best route to prosperity for developing countries. Socialists however appear not to be driven by pure logic so much as a finely developed set of prejudices.

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