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Gold/Mining/Energy : Global Platinum & Gold (GPGI) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JACK R. SMITH JR. who wrote (13219)	7/22/2000 7:07:05 PM
From: d:oug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14226

The Tolouse-Lautrec Table, World Markets, Topic du Jour From the Wall Street Journal: Progenitor of the Paper Millionaires John Law’s Currency System Devastated Royal France..... ... to keep the share price rising, Law published exaggerated accounts of Louisiana’s riches, mineral resources..... He created duchies, earldoms, and marquisates in Louisiana (and gave himself the duchy of Arkansas)..... The reality, of course, was quite different. Much of the Mississippi valley was unconquered wilderness. But in Paris, no one knew this. The only thing the French knew with certainty was that prices of the company’s shares would never stop climbing.....