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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TobagoJack who wrote (26016)	12/4/2007 1:01:49 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 217710

It is not often that I commend stratfor, but I think the comments made in the piece you cited offer more than a grain of truth. Recall yesterday's pic of King Abdullah holding hands with the Iranian nutjob? You don't think that was thought out, staged, deliberated minutely upon, cleared up and down the globe, etc.? Note the fall in the price of oil immediately before the NIE was released? Note OPEC's hints re: opening up spigots, thereby lowering price, at a time when the US does not need more expensive oil and is on the brink IMO of some very substantial economic problems? Note Annapolis? Note that Iran was not invited but Syria, almost as big a pariah, was? Note the failure of stratfor's analysis to mention Israel, a very interested party in these developments? Note Condi's non-stop travels lately? Note the investment in Citi [well, this might be a stretch]? And an even bigger stretch might be Hugo Chavez's loss, but who knows, life is mysterious. These are the additional dots to be connected, the last two admittedly a big stretch. If I am reading them correctly, we may very well see some seismic changes in the Middle East. Perhaps a bit of a welcome relaxation of tensions? Enough to rattle any incipient bear market in a huge way and wake up the bull? Enough to affect the price of gold downwards? Enough to get the real nutjobs off their l-ass-itude and try to torpedo it with terrorism? A way to let the US out of Iraq on a sensible basis? Put your thinking cap on, Jay, talk to me. The markets are digesting these events and will react soon. My guess is another rally, but what do I know. I feel The Force harmonically chanting in a most positive way today. Dark Side in retreat, but not far away.