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Politics : Welcome to Slider's Dugout
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To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (2485)9/28/2006 5:45:41 AM
From: SliderOnTheBlack  Read Replies (5) of 50506
 
re: "Here we have Goldman, qua keeper of the commodities index, manipulating markets..."

-whodathunkit?!?

And who was the Prime Broker for these Hedge Funds that just went up in smoke?

re: The Commodity Collapse:

First -- Nat Gas
Second -- Gold
Third -- Oil

"The deal with the Devil" was made by the Fed during the LTCM bailout...

Riddle yourselves this:

1. What "one thing" would make the Investment Banks more money than any other economic event, or act (dwarfing what they've made both long and short in commodities)?

2. What needs to happen to the economy, to the financial markets and in the geopolitical picture -- for that to happen?

SOTB`

"What goes on offshore...stays offshore."
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