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Sunday, March 6, 2011
Oil’s rise to 2-1/
Oil’s rise to 2-1/2 year high ignites inflation fears | Reuters: (Reuters) – Oil jumped to 2-1/2 year highs o... http://twurl.nl/jg2r5l
Tom Petruno: Is infl
Tom Petruno: Is inflation wolf at the door? – latimes.com: Veteran Wall Street trader Victor Sperandeo had a ... http://twurl.nl/dkhz5x
Tom Petruno: Is inflation wolf at the door? - latimes.com
Veteran Wall Street trader Victor Sperandeo had a chilling forecast for the audience at an investor gathering last month in Century City.
Hyperinflation, he warned, had become a serious possibility for the U.S. given the unprecedented fiscal and monetary stimulus supporting the economy.
That could translate into the consumer price index eventually rising at a rate of 50% or more per month, said the man known as Trader Vic.
Not unexpectedly, Sperandeo also had a product pitch for the 100 or so investors who were there at the invitation of money management firm Rydex SGI. In a time of hyperinflation, Sperandeo said, Rydex's so-called managed futures funds would be a way to ride what could be exponential increases in the prices of commodities such as wheat and gold.
We've reached a point where inflation has become Topic A in many discussions about what comes next for the U.S. economy and financial markets.
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Oil's rise to 2-1/2 year high ignites inflation fears | Reuters
(Reuters) - Oil jumped to 2-1/2 year highs on Friday on more violence in Libya, and more expensive crude sparked inflation worries that drove up gold but pressured copper and agricultural commodities on fears economic growth would slow.
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Jim Conrad’s Natur
Jim Conrad’s Naturalist Newsletter: Issued from Hacienda Chichen Resort adjoining Chichén Itzá Ruin in YUCAT... http://twurl.nl/tljxsa
Jim Conrad's Naturalist Newsletter
Issued from Hacienda Chichen Resort adjoining Chichén Itzá Ruin in
YUCATÁN, MÉXICOMarch 6, 2011
RATTLESNAKE
Deep in the dry season curled, brown leaves littered the grove's floor as I wandered among trees not paying much attention to where I was going. Maybe a not-consciously noted movement on the forest floor alerted my woolgathering mind to the 2½-ft-long (76cm) snake laid out before me, one whose diamondback pattern beautifully camouflaged him in the dry-leaf mosaic.It was the Neotropical Rattlesnake, CROTALUS DURISSUS, a species occurring from northeastern Mexico south to Uruguay and Argentina, the distribution area being highly fragmented so that in some areas where you'd expect it, it's just not there.
We were away from the main tourist area but close enough to be of concern. I made the five-minute hike to the hut to get a bucket with a lid on it to put the snake in, and when I returned he was still there, not far from where I'd left him.
I held my walking stick before him to see how snappish he was, and he hardly seemed to notice. I passed the stick beneath his head, then farther back, until it was about midway beneath his body, lifted him up, and he behaved as if this happened to him every day. Gently I dropped him into the bucket, where he curled up, never once having shown fear or anger and never having rattled his rattles. Sometimes he looked around and once he flattened his head cobra-like, but that was his only hint that he noticed anything unusual happening to him. This mellow behavior is just like what I've experienced among Timber Rattlers back in Mississippi.
You can see the snake curled inside the bucket at
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