To: Rolla Coasta who wrote (26835 ) 12/24/2007 9:35:20 PM From: TobagoJack Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 218195 three caveates to your mentioned possibilities, and yes they are genuine possibilities (1) in the event of usa market interest rate rise in face of genuine inflation, (i) a lot of fatal bleeding will take place in usa asset space, (ii) gold will rise even as interest rate rises, for a while, enough time to game the rise (2) in the event of usa fiat interest rate increase in face of same genuine inflation (ala volcker style), (i) a lot of fatal bleeding will take place in usa asset space, (ii) gold will drop slower than the rest of the junk, affording enough time to loot asset arena with gold currency (3) in the event of hkd de-pegging from usd engine, and hitched to rmb locomotive, (i) hkd cash generating assets (rental real estate on sure-lock corporate contracts under english common law) will zoom up in worth relative to usd, and (ii) power of panic to be enhanced by incoming hot rmb in advance of panic, assured by you-can-count-on-it inside information, thus assuring a WIN-WIN-WIN situation, and of course (iii) affording plenty of time for orderly exit from HKD arena, to land on the beaches of pulverized Maui, crushed Caribbean, and beaten down Europe, so as to WIN again. Panic is good for business of looting the burning house, and economic freedom assures unhindered capability to loot, without mercy, boldly, and in broad daylight. The underlying support for bullishness on HK remains as always in recent times, a very small island geography hitched to a booming and absolutely enormous continental economy, with an under-valued and negative-priced monetary flow coursing through its system, unhindered by constricting people fro and bothersome capital to, and certainly not burdened by troublesome officialdom tithing. HK will Money Rock in 2008! But just in case not, BUYGOLD.