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To: TobagoJack who wrote (12192)	12/6/2006 8:50:52 AM
From: Slagle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218050

TJ, On the subject of Hong Kong, what is your opinion of REITS there, do you have a favorite? Or anywhere else in the region. I have Ascendas (Singapore). BTW, thanks for the heads up on Record (they are now ALLCO Group) and things there look peachy. And and another thing, on your advice I read "The Power of Gold" and really enjoyed it. Great read for a history buff. And so now I buy gold on a regular basis or when I find some spare change in my pocket. I live in a small town in Florida so I can't just walks to the bank and buy it like you do. What I do is mail a check to a gold broker in a nearby city and then maybe once a month go there to collect my purchases. I mostly buy Eagles. They are pretty, aren't they? <Grin> In "Power of Gold" there is no mention of Ferdinand Marcos and the "Yamashita" Japanese gold in the Philippines. You know that they are still searching for this stuff, though mostly now in Swiss bonded warehouses rather than buried in Philippine cemeteries. Have you ever read any of the Sterling Seagrave books? In his book "Marcos Dynasty" there is an interesting chapter "Black Gold" (and Seagrave is NOT writing about oil) and give it a read if you get a chance. Seagrave is a bit hyperbolic but on the Marcos stuff I know from personal research that at least some of his Marcos assertions are true. For instance, some of the locations in Manila where he says that treasure hunting excavations were conducted did actually happen because I went to the sites myself to see. In the "Black Gold" chapter he has some interesting claims about the amount of "black" and "white" gold in the world and also about some of the large scale movements of gold, much of it in Asia. Slagle