Yay! RECORD HIGH OIL PRICES! We're number one!!!111

[Bluebear]

The JAWBONE OPEC dance!

[Selatius]

1. When was that footage taken? It seems totally unreal. n/t

[Bluebear]

3. Selatius . . .

It was some photo-op in DC last year, I forget the occasion at which he made an ass out of himself this particular time.

[americanstranger]

7. And that was the part where he looked good.

There were parts when he looked worse.

In case you really want to punish yourself with the whole thing: http://youtube.com/watch?v=FwisQkmpqmQ

Bonus Brazil footage, featuring Condi getting her groove on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO65EMBtFjA&feature=related

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[Zueda]

2. Is oil going up?

Or is it just our dollar sinking further?

[Delphinus]

4. How frightening it is to watch him!

[Ichingcarpenter]

5. Gold Surges $23.70

Gold for April delivery soared $23.70, or nearly 3%, to end at $929.80 an ounce on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Other metals prices also made big gains.


Platinum rally continues
April platinum rallied $89.40, or more than 4%, to end at $2,153.10 an ounce. Earlier in electronic trading, the contract hit a new record high of $2,174.0 an ounce.


Palladium surges nearly 10%
Also on Nymex, March palladium rallied $47.60, or over 10%, to finish at $499.30 an ounce. Earlier, the palladium contract hit an intraday high of $502 an ounce, its strongest level since July 2001, according to Dow Jones Newswires.


March copper soared 20.05 cents, or 6%, at $3.7235 a pound and March silver rose 39 cents, or more than 2%, at $17.508 an ounce.

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/platinum-resumes-rally-gold-surges/story.aspx?guid=%7B337AE4FE%2DE63C%2D473C%2D9B2F%2D6B4E6B8F5D38%7D

[orleans]

6. The JAWBONE OPEC dance--good one

"and tell them to open up the spigots" MY ASS!

yeah, i still haven't forgotten that one either.