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To: russwinter who wrote (66041)	3/18/2001 1:11:15 PM
From: goldsheet	Respond to of 116759

Sometimes a simple Metacrawler search does the trick.http://search.metacrawler.com/crawler?general=foreign+ownership+of+treasury+securities&target=&method=0®ion=&rpp=20&timeout=10&hpe=10 You may appreciate these sites: dismal.com and its cousin freelunch.com

To: russwinter who wrote (66041)	3/18/2001 3:38:09 PM
From: W PAUL	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116759

russwinter and others I think you might be interested in the following article zealllc.com which has some interesting statistics about the BOE's drawn out auctions (cumulative over subscription is so far in excess of 700 tons) and the suspiciously roundfigured 1,800,000 oz's bid for last time round. Perhaps the reduction in future auctions down to 20t is merely a pretext for further prolonging the process. And to think this is all my ...government. Or rather I should say our esteemed Chancellor (Mr Prudence himself) Gordon Brown. The irony here is that with New Labour almost certain to win the next General Election in a few weeks time by another landslide, Blair's biggest decision in the next government will be when to hold his Euro referendum. The smart money is that of all leading Labour politicians Brown is the most euro sceptic - he would almost certainly lose some of his flexibility, indeed control, of the UK economy by having more obviously to be within EU straightjackets and pressures to tax harmonise.EU have quite recently criticised his spending plans. Brown is arguably the most powerful figure in the government anyway but he is still trying to obtain the top job which Blair deprived him of. Nevertheless if the $ fell and the Euro rose (which would also mean the the £ fell against the Euro) there would then be enormous impetus to go ahead with an early referendum as being the most advantageous time for the UK to join. (Marvellous for manufacturing, farming etc etc).Suppressing the price of gold - which the BOE almost certainly are doing - and maintaining the value of the dollar would I suspect suit Brown's position of continued prevarication and caution. (But has Blair himself realised this I wonder ?!)