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To: TobagoJack who wrote (740)	9/23/2005 12:26:17 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217656

Since you mentioned geography. This is the snake pit: parstimes.com All countries run by a old guy relic from the Soviet era. Iraq one side, Iran to the south, Afeghanistan another... Consider: getting your energy needs from this snake pit or getting some ethanol from, well, you know from where :-)

To: TobagoJack who wrote (740)	9/23/2005 1:32:52 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 217656

< the QCOM vs NEM chart is misleading, because NEM has a "zero" date as well, and the wager is that NEM will be around a lot longer than QCOM, because QCOM will, as do the airlines, give back all to money heaven.> Maybe. They are both just businesses, producing goods and services which others buy, hopefully for a profit. Either or neither could go to zero, either sooner or later, depending on what good, or bad, decisions are made by management. What probably escapes viewer's attention on first glance is that both are moving in unison, more or less, against financial relativity theory's amazing accelerating and shrinking yardstick, Uncle Al KBE's promissory note. Both are relatively small shrubs, measured against Uncle Sam's giant money tree, which is fully grown and has been bearing fruit in huge quantities. Uncle Sam has something like $10 trillion 'out there', floating around the markets, looking for a hiding place while lenders pay them in Happy Meals. NEM and QCOM combined have barely $100 bn 'out there'. One day, QCOM, or whichever company or entity or group or society or swarm, produces the Quid, will dwarf the once-great US$, which will have shrunk in accordance with financial relativity theory's rules into the nano technology realm, with US$1 million measuring barely a metre. Houses will measure millions of cubic dollars, gold will weigh thousands of dollars per cm3, CDMA/OFDM/BREW/etc will be worth buckets of dollars per megahertz and bushells per megaflop. Note to readers that a megaflop is what the US$ will eventually be, but here means gd.tuwien.ac.at Mqurice Quid = brand new all-singing and dancing, complete with bells and whistles cybercurrency owned by the holders of the currency and without a pixelation button for a kleptocracy to press when they want to issue themselves some more from the money tree. Any pixelations to increase the supply would be owned by the owners and used as bait to reward new owners and participants until the defeat of other currencies was achieved, at which time the quantity on issue would be fixed and people would bid to rent some, exchange for other things [such as gold], trade for work or goods, and so on - usual monetary processes. PayPal/Skype/eBay are in a good position to initiate such a thing. Uncle Sam will foam at the mouth, twitch and start arresting people who 'wish to destroy the foundations of the world's economy' - meaning compete with his personal money tree/Ponzi scheme/pyramid game. Any little boys pointing out the king isn't wearing any clothes will be sent for "re-education".

To: TobagoJack who wrote (740)	9/23/2005 3:05:32 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 217656

TJ, it's not surprising that the Stans are largely in the orbit of Beijing and Moscow. If they have gas or can provide transit for it, then Beijing will be delighted to take delivery. Beijing can pay with US$ and Russia can supply Beijing and the Stans with military equipment and oil and gas technology. The Stans can go shopping with their US$ around the world. I don't know that the USA would be too upset, though of course they'd prefer everyone to pay tribute and kneel towards Washington rather than Mecca, Moscow or Beijing. The money ends up back in the USA anyway, [most of it anyway, with a small siphon off to Kiwiland for yours truly]. Mqurice

To: TobagoJack who wrote (740)	9/23/2005 6:22:57 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217656

"CRB Index of 19 commodities rose 3.8 percent, the most since Dwight Eisenhower was US president 49 years ago." In the 80s' <<The Dow Jones Industrial average and CRB Index have trended opposite of one another. Deflation has meant that with declining costs of food, energy, metals, and fiber U.S. corporations buy inputs more cheaply and U.S. consumers don't spend as much of their income on basic necessities, thereby freeing dollars producing growth in the consuming segment of the economy. Their costs are declining while incomes have increased. Thus the greatest economic boom in the nation's history resulted.>> Today is the opposite.