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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (79713)	9/18/2011 5:27:47 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217700

hello hm, last week's report: (i) been away last week asia tuesday - saturday to indonesia (jakarta n bali) for work, mostly meetings, but many meetings. jakarta is just booming. less than 5 kilometers (3 miles?) in city center took about an hour to travel; we were late to a wedding reception by 1 hour; the reception we attended at the mulia hotel (5,000+ guests) required a 30-40 min lining up to greet the couple and their families; and we left about two hours before the end of the reception but waiting for our car to line up from parking garage to hotel's front door for pick up took about another 40 min. our modest van was caravan-ed in the longest line-up of luxury cars i have ever seen to date. i can recommend revolution to indonesia, but feel the society is actually very stable due to its tribal structure and geography. (ii) on gold, i say, "anyone who has a position in gold may not have swiss francs; but just about everyone that matters who has a position in swiss francs, especially if leveraged, and many if not most of them would be, would also have a position in gold even if not leveraged. the swiss franc just got hit, badly, by action of central banks and rogue trader(s)." ... is all i need to know about gold at the moment. (iii) had added gld @ 175 range, as well as (iv) shorting gld puts december strike price 170 @ the 7/shr level (v) am very behind on other work, so must use the rest of this week to catch up, before going to hong kong disney land saturday to celebrate birthdays of erita, jack, my wife, and my father-in-law, and then run off straight from disney land to hk airport heading for koh samui to meet w/ partners from canada, for work over the next week; at the end of which, frighteningly, october starts. cheers, tj