re: Gold Up $23.60 Today

I just realized I didn't address this paranoid comment of yours:

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Only a moron would attempt to do business with a people, like Chinese, without a thorough knowledge of their language.

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I was NOT doing business with the PBOC. I was there as an invited guest to train their bank examiners on identifying and measuring banking risks. I had a personal interpreter who went with me to every meeting/training session. Did the speak Chinese among themselves at times? Yes, of course they did. (Hint: It's their country and Chinese is their language. I was their GUEST.) When they didn't want me to know what they were talking about, they spoke Chinese. That was fine with me. I'm not paranoid like you are.

When I was speaking with a fellow American who was also there teaching and I didn't want the Chinese to 100% understand me, I spoke Southern. You have no idea how confused a Chinese interpreter gets when you say "ya'll" to him.

I was fortunate that there were several fluent English speakers in each group I taught. There were times when they assisted the interpreter, especially when it came to technical banking terminology that the interpreter was not familiar with.

I wasn't there to sell them anything nor buy anything from them. I was paid by the IMF out of Washington. If the PBOC didn't want me to stay (or go back again, which I did when they invited me to return to train another group), all they had to do was say 'time to go' and I would have been on the next available flight to Tokyo. As it was, they asked me to stay longer than originally planned, which I did.

Only someone as paranoid and fearful as you are would assume there is a conspiracy to be feared behind everything that goes on around you. That must be a miserable way to exist. I feel sorry for you.....