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To: TobagoJack who wrote (70032)	7/27/2008 12:18:01 AM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

>>Bought DZZ and mirror image DGP<< r u ok? ;>)

To: TobagoJack who wrote (70032)	9/5/2008 2:33:56 AM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 74559

Lucky lucky TJ. Platinum way down from $2100 to $1400 kitco.com Gold way down from $1100 to under $800. Time to go shopping in a big way! Those who paid the top prices are so lucky to get a chance to average down during the bargain times. Silver [another very real money] is down from $18 to $12. How exciting for all the Aztecs. Big Ben is obviously running some sneaky plot which should not fool any of you. Buy like there's no tomorrow. Hopefully there will be a tomorrow. Giggle... Mqurice PS: Good move to have a "shed" to hide in from the psychic disturbance of children and people who have little empathy with your activities. A Hong Kong shed is very different from a Kiwi shed [which involves combustible and noisy materials, machinery, chemicals and activities], but it's still a shed. I hope you are not missing all the mobile cyberspace activities. There are mega$billions sloshing around and increasing daily.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (70032)	9/11/2008 7:03:37 AM
From: Maurice Winn	3 Recommendations Respond to of 74559

Hi TJ. Shanghai stock market from 6000 to 2000 in less than a year. More excellent news enabling those who found bargains at 6000, or at least good value, to buy LOADS more at a third the price. Nikkei down to 12,000 [nearly], which is a third of the 1989 irrational exuberance levels = nearly 20 years of doldrums. That's a world record slump. The Great Depression didn't last so long with the Dow relatively rapidly regaining the 1929 high. Gold from $777 to $743 = even better for those who took your advice to buy and buy again, then some more, at $1000. They can now get even more at better prices. Silver $10, platinum $1100. Bargains galore! The bone-pointing at Lehman has had the self-fulfilling effect which such things can have. NZ$ sliding as you read ... let's check again ... $0.647 with interest rates cut 0.5% today. Down from $0.83 at the peak a month or three ago. More to go and people still think their houses are NOT going down in value or price, though they have already done so in US$. But NZ houses are still as good as gold [in fact better because gold has fallen further]. This must be pig heaven for you, with tsunamis of money sloshing around the world, volatility high, opportunities everywhere, financial relativity theory going into hyperdrive [fuel combustion now measured in bursts of $trillions per weekend with new world record efforts at Fannie and Freddie]. China can still save itself by ditching the failed TD-SCDMA and going Gung Ho with 450/800MHz CDMA/OFDMA mobile cyberspace. That process is now underway. Mega$billions are powering the process. Mqurice

To: TobagoJack who wrote (70032)	9/11/2008 1:41:23 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 74559

Yes, and now Lehman officially on sale as expected for so long: <i am pleased - real estate up 40% - coal freight dropped a lot - gold cheaper to hoard - platinum cheaper to pile into - hkd up> My proposal = Barclays plc pile on, with OPEC oil loot which is sloshing around looking for somewhere to go [they want somewhere safe], backed by more loot from Big Ben's discount window, confidence restored with a Bear Stearns type debt guarantee from the USA government, management oversight provided by Barclays = hey presto, everyone is okay again, petrodollars are recycled [which was considered a major problem in the late 1970s as in "How to recycle the petrodollars?" though nobody uses the phrase now and it was a ridiculous idea then. I thought those with the petro dollars would recycle them very easily as it turned out they did by going shopping in a big way, as people do]. Gung Ho, Maurice

To: TobagoJack who wrote (70032)	9/11/2008 10:11:13 PM
From: Maurice Winn	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Indeed: <for we are in on a ride that is once in several generations> But this is not a repeat. This is a never-before, real-time, one-way, no exit, 3D experiment conducted by over 6 billion people enmeshed in a symbiotic conglomeration overlaid by the advent of cyberspace extra-somatic sentience. Aztecs never saw anything like this, though in some respects, such as the French fiat fun of the 18th century, it's a matter of plus ca change. Fractal scale up with different dimensions added. My bet remains that We the Sheeple bumble through without nuclear war, economic desolation, Maoistic maelstrom. The abiding principle is that we all [a few exceptions aside] want our lives to be better not worse. So we are inclined to take actions that we think will improve our lives, which, for the most part, they do. In other words, optimism is the fundamental correct position for life. Pessimism is to be used in small doses, if necessary. With 1.3 billion people in China having been turned loose [more or less, relatively speaking] from the decades and even centuries of total serf status if not actual carnage from civil or external conflict, that's a LOT of turbo-charging in the direction of good. India's 1 billion are not exactly going backwards either. Add to their efforts the leveraging of the Biotelecosmictechdot.com revolution [such as CDMA/OFDMA/Wi-Fi in whatever frequencies] and the sky is the limit. How exciting. Now, there's just the small matter of $1 trillion here and $2 trillion there of debt to be cleared up. Big Ben has the process well underway. USA GDP is going well. The war in Iraq has fizzled out more or less. Iran will fold like a pack of cards. Afghanistan is little more than a live fire training ground of no great consequence just as the world didn't quake when French government terrorists conducted operations in Auckland harbour against Greenpeace [cowardly soldiers bombing Greenpeace] though it was annoying in our locality. Two years into the debt restructuring process and things are steady enough, more or less, on a democratic basis, for most people. Big Ben stands ready with competitive devaluation and fleets of helicopters at the ready, many already tossing bales of bucks into the maw of Fannie, Freddie and Bear Stearns with Lehman Brothers coming up. NZ's Bollard at the Reserve Bank has taken NZ$ down 0.5%, so the USA now is confronted by that challenge [which probably is not a large threat to them]. Mqurice