XPost: can.general, can.politics, ott.general   
   From: campbell@neotext.ca   
      
   On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 09:29:13 -0600, Canuck57 wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Yes.  By and large because guys like you are specializing in managing   
   existing assets instead of baggin' and draggin' fresh meat.   
      
   Dhu   
      
      
      
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   Duncan Patton a Campbell is Dhu >>> Ne Obliviscaris   
      
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