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To: TobagoJack who wrote (29881)	3/23/2003 11:32:19 PM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Hi Jay - Wish I had a clue also. Have been rethinking the inflation / deflaion issue. I think we get both, but not sure which order now - I previously thought it would be deflation then inflation. Your statement that the Crash is a process, not an event , has been very useful to my thinking. My present view is tend to soemthing like this - I am in a small boat with a number of valuble items, and not enought sapce t ostore them securely. I am going down the rapids, which are bouncing hte boat around more and more - so fast I cannot steer the boat effectively. I want to diversify into many differernt types of assets, to try to get as much wealth / purchasing power throught this as possible. I want to take advantage of high reward / low risk opportunities, with the goal that having more wealth makes it easier to have enough wealth survive. I don't see the end of this process yet.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (29881)	3/24/2003 12:39:40 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 74559

<<Iraqis would like to buy lots of consumers goods from Asia, food from all over the world, road building and farming equipment instead of weapons>> That's was exactly what they were doing before and that is exactly what everybody in the planet earth likes to. Brazil were exporting ship loads of cars. Building railways and selling them frozen chicken. I don't know who concocted this idea that people like to die, or being maimed. This is the last resource of desperate people. These conflicts are only useful for fat cat bureaucrats and the military caste of the US and for Fluor and Bechtel and big oil. Americans in general don't spend a second thinking about the welfare of any Iraqi person under a dictator. After ten years + of starving the country, denying them export of oil they fell in love of the oppressed people of Iraq? Nope. This is not a liberation, this a country with the highest technical resources in the world, but which lacks money. This is only the beginning: After the UN, the US will show that they don't give a fig to WTO or any multilateral organization. Wait and see. desperate people do desperate things. I just don't buy the goody goody thing we have been served.