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To: Nihontochicken who wrote (11835)	9/19/2008 2:26:07 PM
From: RWS	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50291

Cash is in short supply so ever more and more will be printed by the criminal enterprise. Why would they not pull every lever available to confiscate gold, short of an outright government decree? Raising margins forces the relatively smaller player to either come up with more scarce cash or sell to a deeper pocket. I suspect that this hike in margin rates will not precipitate a selloff in gold and gold stocks, but result in a sideways consolidation, as these scarce assets are acquired by the criminal gang. Holding my gold stocks. RWS