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To: TobagoJack who wrote (306)	9/8/2005 3:23:00 AM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 217657

US Government intervention in stock markets - it is too flippant to say "well, duh, of course" one can make number of reasonable cases for the occasional need for intervention. Nobody worries about governments intervening in foreign exchange markets to maintain sertain exchange ratios and reduce volitiliy, of central banks buying and selling to shape a yield curve. As long as intervention is directed at broad sectors, and rarely at specific firms (save the strategic ones like Boeing, Yukos, PetroChina, AirBus, BP, CNOOC, Air France, etc.) I don't see much of a problem...