XPost: can.general, can.politics, ott.general   
   From: Canuck57@nospam.com   
      
   On 08/09/2011 11:15 PM, Duncan Patton a Campbell wrote:   
   > On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 21:58:34 -0600, John Fleming wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:45:29 GMT, while chained to a desk in the   
   >> scriptorium Duncan Patton a Campbell  wrote:   
   >>> $On Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:27:26 -0600, John Fleming wrote: $   
   >>> $>>  $Canada too is in this boat but is a temporary haven as in the   
   >>> world $>>  $scheme of things, Canada is a flea on the dog.  Just along   
   >>> for the $>>  ride. $  By the end of 2012 I will have 50% of my portfolio   
   >>> in $>>  central/south $America (except Argentina) where banking is more   
   >>> stable $   
   >>> $Ha.  And I'd 'ave picked Argy as one of the few places down there   
   >>> $safe for my level of "investment": a mortgage on some BA property   
   >>> $probly has more long term stability than most everything else there...   
   >>> $might go down but A. it will come back up and B. it will still be   
   >>> $yours.  Now if I had the coin and moral inclination of a currency   
   >>> $speculator I think Brazil would have more potential for sweatin' $down   
   >>> favellas and growing soy from ashes.   
   >>   
   >> Brazil is an emerging economic power in the world.  One of the world's   
   >> largest mining companies, Vale, is Brazillian. One of the world's larger   
   >> aircraft manufacturers, Embrear, is Brazillian.   
   >   
   > I'm not knocking their accomplishments, but there's a lotta stone-suckin'   
   > poverty there along with the truly rich, and no much else.   
      
   But they are getting better fast while we are on a slow decline.   
      
   --   
   First rule of holes:  If your in one, don't keep digging.   
   So in the hole, why do we insanely want more debt?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)