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To: Dundee Maples who wrote (46265)12/24/1999 12:10:00 PM
From: Zardoz  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 116791
 
All information can be accessed from imf.org

"The SDR is set to a specific quantity of gold. Yes, once every ??"

The SDR is not based on gold, just currency.

Hutch



To: Dundee Maples who wrote (46265)12/24/1999 2:12:00 PM
From: Enigma  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 116791
 
SDRs - It would be interesting to know more - the article didn't mention gold (unless I missed something) - only a basket of currencies. If it is set against a specific value in gold -the next leap for the consprators, will be to show how manipulation is involved in this. After all this apparently started in 1934 and must have been in place when gold went to $800 plus - in spite of US Treasury sales and IMF sales. d



To: Dundee Maples who wrote (46265)12/25/1999 9:01:00 AM
From: long-gone  Respond to of 116791
 
And just Wed. we were told all electrical power would be OK in Europe & US:
Friday December 24 9:59 PM ET
Flashlights Urged for Brit Y2K Moms

LEICESTER, England (AP) - Would-be millennium mothers have been advised to bring a flashlight to the hospital in case the Y2K computer bug causes a power failure, two Leicester hospitals said Friday.

Letters were sent to women likely to deliver their babies between Dec. 29 and Jan. 3 at Leicester General Hospital and St. Mary's Hospital Maternity Unit in Leicester, in central England.

In case of emergencies, the hospitals have onsite generators they would use to power equipment and essential lighting, said David Yeomanson, general manager of obstetrics and gynecology at Leicester General Hospital.

``The suggestion that all women (cont)
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