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To: 8bits who wrote (9002)	9/5/2006 11:34:04 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217546

china retail market for monetary gold (bullion and bars) developing nicely ... soon selling back to shops & banks by individuals will be do-able, thus making more folks willing to buy and hoard i am hoping that the japanese economic recovery gains traction, so that they will eat more gold specks and flakes with sushi as in the good old days of USD 75,000 per square inch of land :0) a flake a day keeps the gold bears away :0)

To: 8bits who wrote (9002)	9/6/2006 12:38:52 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217546

Apparently there are 144 million in Bangladesh [which surprised me - what a huge number!] So, combine Pakistan, Bangladesh and India and I think you are ahead of China. Though I'm not sure how one goes about counting such numbers of moving people. Sometimes I try to count ducklings with a duck and get lost at about 8 as they jostle around and overtake one another. And that's when they are standing there where I can see them. People don't stand in rows and count themselves off to make it easy for census people. Maybe there are really only 50 million in China, 60 million in India, and 70 million in Japan. Street demonstrations are commonly given widely differing numbers and that's with everyone right there on the street. China counts Tibet, so India could as reasonably count Pakistan and Bangladesh. It's quite a crowd, any way you measure it. Mqurice