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To: Dennis Roth who wrote (85924)	6/7/2007 8:48:23 AM
From: stan_hughes	Respond to of 206209

Helium shortage = party balloon "inflation"? -- sorry for the bad pun

To: Dennis Roth who wrote (85924)	6/8/2007 1:45:52 AM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 206209

Peak pork: China to tap "strategic pork reserve"? Rise in China’s Pork Prices Signals End to Cheap Output nytimes.com By KEITH BRADSHER GAOYAO, China, June 1 — Few things are as essential to the Chinese as their pigs. From pork spare ribs and mu shu pork to char siu bao — barbecued pork buns — pork is a staple of the Chinese diet. So in this Year of the Pig, an acute shortage of pork has been national news, as butchers raise prices almost daily and politicians scramble to respond. The crisis over pork prices in China, like the jolt many Americans feel when gasoline prices jump, offers one example of how prices can suddenly soar. The Chinese government is struggling to cope — including deliberating whether to sell a snuffling, smelly strategic reserve of hundreds of thousands of live pigs kept at special subsidized farms for precisely the shortage the country is now facing.