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To: energyplay who wrote (23470)	10/4/2007 4:48:25 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217828

Buying before the money bags arrive: The four actors – petrodollar investors, Asian central banks, hedge funds, and private equity – had collectively amassed $8,400bn in assets by the end of 2006, excluding cross-investments between them, three times what they held in 2000. Lots of money seeking good assets. Asset owners may want to sell nut are being blocked: "block Canadian oil producer's acquisition by a United Arab Emirates company." Four actors' money to go to Africa, LATAM and Asia! But ahead of them fast acting players buy before they arrive with big money bags. "Cia. Vale do Rio Doce, the world's biggest iron-ore producer, will bid in an auction tomorrow to operate a new stretch of Brazil's North-South Railway, allowing it to ship more agricultural commodities and general cargo." The guys coming from outside they know very little about God Forsaken lawless places like Africa and LATAM. The isniders always gain adavantges as you can see Portugal, Spain and Mexico advanced and gained a foothold in LATAM. This sotuh-south abttle has just begun: On the Ibsa website (www.ibsa-trilateral.org) we read that the following agreements have been signed: Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Agriculture and Allied Fields; MOU on Bio-fuels; Agreement on Merchant Shipping and Other Maritime Transport Matters; Action Plan on Trade Facilitation for Standards, Technical Regulations and Conformity Assessment; and MOU Framework for Cooperation on the Information Society. Brazil's large-scale investments in Africa have so far focused mainly on Angola and Mozambique, with which it shares linguistic and historical ties, bypassing SA. The behemoth mining company CVRD recently downsized its South African office and moved most of its staff to Mozambique, an indication of where they believe their priorities and future lie. Angola and Mozambique are in large parts being reconstructed by Brazilian construction companies

To: energyplay who wrote (23470)	10/4/2007 5:45:26 PM
From: Slagle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217828

Energyplay, You are probably right about that with regards to the excessive amount of mining "free silver" could have caused. But there were other possible routes that could have been taken short of total "free coinage of silver". After all, "free silver" was just a concept and a political slogan anyway. Seems to me the real nub of the thing was the desire on the part of many of the free silver advocates that the ratio of gold and silver be fixed by law, this concept being known as bimetallism. With "free and unlimited coinage" this could have been a real problem. But what if a great deal more silver had been coined? Every session of congress debated this and fixed the amount of silver coinage for the mint. What if they had simply allowed two, three or five times as much? Or maybe a limited amount of "free silver" or maybe increased silver coinage without the enforced ratio? Anything that could have put more money in the hands of the people out in the middle of the country and especially in the south would have been a good thing. Maybe there would never have been a great depression, a New Deal or a Federal Reserve. And without a Woodrow Wilson probably no world wars, for us anyway. And over time the silver would has risen in value anyway, most surely by 1964. Slagle