To: Zeev Hed who wrote (243 ) 6/7/2002 2:44:28 PM From: Jim Willie CB Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 89467 Zeev, I may have misunderstood your very brief reply to me I will dig up you minimal response from last April but that might require me to sift thru about 18,500 posts on your thread since April in the exchange I expounded on many issues regarding the US Federal Reserve's easy Keynesian money policy and its potentially detrimental effect on the dollar you had made lauditory remarks about "responsible" management of the USdollar currency over the years I rebutted rather lengthily forgive me if I misinterpreted but when a 5-page rebuttal earns about 3 lines from you, I naturally assume you dont have much knowledge about gold you certainly have deep knowledge about most other issues I have read a number of your comments about gold in general, I find them to be very narrowly based referring to technical movements on gold and US stocks and USdollar but never on anything relating to numerous other macro-economic factors that have historically had strong influence of gold's price and trend changes you deny here admitting to knowing much about gold fine, so maybe I should say "if Zeev knows much about gold, he doesnt share it" you seem to consistently overlook (or not address) a great many of gold's dimensions, as they relate to - real rates of shorterm interest - trade gap - MZM money supply - its opposite demand and supply function wrt price - monetized vs demonetized - miner forward contracts unwinding - net short commercial futures positions - Asian and Arab purchases (Japan, China, India, Islamics) - trade tariff impositions - currency turbulence worldwide - usage of US$ as foreign banking reserve asset - desires of secretive Bank for International Settlements I would love to hear any thoughts you share about the above not hearing any comment when solicited and when unsolicited, I naturally assumed little knowledge maybe you dont respond to me because you just dont like me no dont like my style if so, no problem but I would love to hear shared thoughts no, not reading challenged just perhaps assume a bit too much from dropped invitation to debate respectfully, Jim