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Still not producing - SOON will be, we are told... (here's a summary and update from MS): Galantas Gold Moves Towards Production Of Certified Irish Gold Jewellery. By Jack Hammer. There’s plenty of activity to be seen on Galantas Gold’s Omagh property in County Tyrone at the moment as the company gears up towards the stated aim of commissioning the mine by late summer and first cash flow by early autumn. Mill superintendent Andrew Warburton said on a site visit on 18th August that the plant should be up and running within six weeks. The clock is ticking on that, but most of the equipment is already in place, including a third generation mill plundered from the old Welsh Gold operations. Indeed the old British virtue of “make do and mend” is very much in evidence here as the shaft sinking kibble from Welsh Gold’s operations is here too, re-incarnated, with appropriate additional holes, as a ball mill discharge sump. It’s all looking very spick and span, indeed the final licks of paint were being applied to the upper end of the gravity circuits even as Mr Warburton, and fellow directors Roland Phelps, Jack Gunter and Moe Levigne reminisced about the old Welsh Gold kit. ... At the moment the cost estimates are production at US$150 per ounce, and the plan is to put 150 tonnes of ore per day through the plant. If the free gold content isn’t high enough to feed the jewellery business the company will just reacquire gold from the concentrate once it’s been smelted at a smelter, the whereabouts of which has yet to be disclosed. It’s a simple enough business plan, if small scale, and if it’s successful it’ll make Galantas the UK’s one and only gold miner. ...MORE: http://www.minesite.com/storyFull5.php?storySeq=3756

You could try emailing Sir Clive directly I will try to get an email... Here's Clive's address : Sinclair Research Ltd 1A Spring Gardens Trafalgar Square London SW1AA 2BB Maybe try: Clive@sinclair-research.co.uk (I am trying to recall the name of his female assistant??) The EMAIL may not work so well as a regular letter. According to a web link: "Where is Sinclair Research now? Is Clive on email? A recent interview in Wired revealed that not only does he not use the internet, he doesn't even have a computer. He keeps a collection of his old babies in his office (at Sinclair Research, which he is still chairman of), but even so he's not particularly interested in them; he could not remember what the machine that followed the Spectrum was called (it was the QL, Clive...). It's rather a shame for us lot I suppose, but Sir Clive was always more interested in inventing new bits and pieces than computers in particular. " SOME YEARS AGO, when I had soem regular contacts with Clive, I normally contacted him through his assistant

CLEAN COAL is coal chemically washed of minerals and impurities, sometimes gasified, burned and the resulting flue gases treated with steam and reburned so as to make the carbon dioxide in the flue gas economically recoverable. The carbon dioxide can then be captured and stored instead of being released into the atmosphere. The primary example of clean coal is the proposed U.S. FutureGen plant - a zero-emissions coal-fired power plant. It is also widely believed that some process similar to the natural gas fuel cell or microbial fuel cell (charged from biomass or sewage) may be practical using coal as fuel. Those technologies are used mostly for stationary fuel cells as charging is slow. A large power plant in a coal mine might be the most energy efficient approach and require the least transport of coal to the users. The US generates 50% of its electricity from coal, and has the world's largest coal reserves. China laso has big coal reserves, but much of it is hig sulfur, dirty coal. - - US Coal Prices - per EIA ... for update Net Generation by Major Energy Source: Total (All Sectors), July 2005 through June 2006 : source - - - counter img My Old Favorite Links: Coal Price..... : http://www.CoalPrice.com ((owned by a friend- for sale??)) Advfn thread : http://www.advfn.com/cmn/fbb/thread.php3?id=1217129 Coal Prices... : http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/coal/data/coalprice.html Other Links Futures exchanges prices http://www.nymex.com/ Coal futures are traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Apart from the current price quotes and charts, the site provides some historic price data. Current price information http://www.globalcoal.com/ Spectron Global Coal provides price indices for members. Registration is free of charge. Forward and spot prices are provided for a number of types of coal, and for different locations. Historical graphs are also available (starting in 1999). http://www.worldbank.org/prospects/pinksheets/ The World Bank provides (in html and acrobat format) commodity price data. You can find annual, quarterly, and monthly averages. The pink sheet for each month contains the data from the previous month. http://www.energy-coal-eur.com Euriscoal web site provides coal prices, average prices CIF main European ports for Cooking Coal and for Steam Coal based on publications of the European Commission, McCloskey Information Services Ltd, and Coal Week International, with maximum 1.5 year of historic data. Country-level prices http://www.eia.doe.gov/price.html The Energy Information Administration (EIA) is a member of Fedstats, which provides statistics from more than 70 agencies in the U.S. Federal Government. This web site gives historic coal price series monthly and annually since 1973. http://www.fieldston.com/cd.html Coal Daily lets you quickly and easily track the U.S. coal market developments, including spot coal prices, plus market and business news. http://www.dme.gov.za/ The Department of Minerals and Energy of South Africa provides bulletins on minerals or energy on request. Samples are available on line = = Coal & Energy Price Report : http://www.energypublishing.biz/newsletter/freetrial.php# Took Free trials on... Domestic Coal Guide (one sample issue) mORE TO COME??

I did, thank you No time to contact Sir Clive before my move to Hk, unfortunately. I hope to rejoin mensa here, so maybe i will have more luck while in HK

A better balance will come eventually- bringing prices back down And new solar cell technologies using less or no silicon are being developed TOUR TO CHINA ==== PV Business Tour China 2006 Date: 26 November - 1 December 2006 Summary: The purpose of this second international trade mission to China is to give private-sector delegates the chance to assess and explore business opportunities and to promote their company and products in China. Participants will be able to establish relationships and facilitate closer commercial ties in the booming Chinese solar industry. More specific objectives of the Trade Mission include: To enhance knowledge of Chinese market conditions and business opportunities To enable business delegates to become familiar with production opportunities and to make individual contacts To develop and expand relationships between the participating companies and the business, government and multiplier organisations in China @: http://www.solarplaza.com/content/pagina/T...CFTpREAodNRkAHw

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Welcome, Renewable I think you will fgind that the Gold & Miningh section here may grow rather quickly in the weeks to come

Welcome aboard!! How did you find GEI? Just curious. Maybe we should do more of whatever it was that led you here

SOLAR COMMENTS - thnx to Hornet Renewables Fund ===== Nearly all the leading solar companies in the US, China and Germany have by now all posted their quarterly numbers. The major points to takeaway from these numbers are: 1. Demand is robust worldwide but supply growth is only limited by polysilicon availability; 2. Those companies that do not have contracts in place for polysilicon are paying up to $2.80 a watt for wafers up from $0.60 a watt 16 months ago; 3. Those who have access to silicon have huge market power and those who don’t have, are and will remain under pressure; 4. Any technology that does not use silicon (e.g. thinfilm) or reduces the amount used (e..g String Ribbon from Evergreen Solar) will continue to gain momentum; 5. We expect announcements from several semiconductor companies in the coming months with regards their plans to enter the solar space; 6. We believe that a version of Moore’s Law will apply to the PV market as technology and production improvements drive solar energy towards cost parity with fossil fuels; 7. We anticipate that the industry will begin to consolidate over the next 18 months; 8. We see the solar market being broken into the haves and have nots and thus best of the best stock selection will become increasingly important for optimal portfolio performance. These points are already starting to influence the share price performance and results of listed companies. As an example, both Sunways and SAG produced very weak results for H1 whilst Solarworld and QCells published strong results. In terms of share performance both SAG and Sunways are down over 30% during the last three months whilst QCells is up 20% and Solarworld down a mere 3%. And why the difference? Both Solarworld and QCells have access to supplies whilst SAG and Sunways need to purchase their supplies on the spot market.

GERMANS AHEAD... The German PV Market 2006 was launched on May 2, 2006. This is Solarbuzz's first comprehensive look at the all important German PV Grid Connect market. Now representing, 57% of the world PV market, the performance of the German market will impact virtually every other major country market. The report analyzes the five main market segments, highlights the major PV projects of 2005, describes the business chain (including volumes), the status of political and funding programs, market prices and also manufacturing base. The main focus of the report is on 2005 market outcomes together with a forecast by market segment to 2010. @: http://www.solarbuzz.com/Services-Reports.htm

SILVER: Better than Ever, says Butler ========== Better Than Ever / By: Theodore Butler / 15 August, 2006 Since I don’t like to beat around the bush, let me state that right now I think silver is a better investment than it has ever been. Yes, I know silver was much cheaper a short while ago. At that time I tried my very best to convince as many people as I could to buy it under $5. Many did and are glad they bought it. But silver is no longer $4.50 an ounce. Now it’s $10.00, so how the heck could it be a better investment at a higher price. Am I just a perma-bull on silver at any price and condition? . . . ...we have yet to witness the counter-balancing up move in silver that we will see when the manipulation is terminated. Since it has not been terminated, but will be, the bullish impact is still ahead of us. The world is a different place, price-wise, than what it was 5 or six years ago, When I started writing for IRI, silver was $4 to $5 an ounce. At that time, crude oil was under $30/barrel, on its way to a $16/barrel low. Gold was around $260 an ounce. In the base metals, copper was 80 cents a pound, zinc was 30 cents a pound and nickel was $2.50 a pound. At their recent highs, measured from the low points, gold was almost 3 times higher and silver was almost 4 times higher. For crude oil and the base metals listed, the trough to peak advance was almost 5-fold. Most of the gains have come in the last year or two. So, in a very real sense, silver has only slightly outperformed gold over the past 5-6 years, and has slightly under-performed oil, copper, zinc and nickel. Silver has also outperformed aluminum and lead, the remaining major base metals. Silver does not look overvalued on a comparative basis. . . . The increase in oil and energy prices greatly increases the cost of mining, smelting and refining. This makes the finished product, real silver, all the more valuable. Minerals and metals are finite in nature and once they are gone, they are gone forever. Peak production concerns seem to be creeping into a broad range of commodities In other words, the "easy" oil, copper, zinc, etc. has already been found and exploited. New mineral discoveries are smaller and more expensive to develop and may not keep up with current production levels. Silver is no exception. ...we have a powerful new force in silver inventory accumulation – the silver ETF. For the very first time, institutional investors have been given access to silver. In the first two and a half months of its existence, the silver ETF has accumulated over 91 million ounces of silver. That’s 70% of the 130 million ounce total they filed for. This is a much greater demand than anyone had anticipated. Not only does this show what institutional investors feel about the value of silver, it has effectively taken silver off the market at current prices. The silver in the ETF has shortened the time silver investors must wait until the manipulation is terminated and prices truly break free to the upside. Remember, the gains, to date, in silver have not overvalued silver compared to all other commodities, demand continues to grow, and production is constrained by increased costs and availability of big ore bodies. Meanwhile, inventories continue to decline. Because silver has declined more from its price peak in relation to gold, I think a special opportunity is once again being presented to gold-only investors. If you own no silver, a switch of some of your gold to silver seems appropriate. Since I first suggested this switch (in 2000), silver has more than held it’s own, performance-wise. Since then we know we have more gold and less silver in the world. We also know that in that time the dollar value of world gold inventories has grown by $1.5 trillion to $2.5 trillion, while silver inventories have increased in value by only a few billion dollars, to $10 billion. In dollar terms, there are still 250 times more gold than silver even though silver has performed better than gold over that time. Someday, a sufficient number of gold investors are likely to recognize this disparity and attempt to rebalance their holdings. This would have a profound impact on the price of silver. This is another reason why silver is a better buy than ever. ...MORE: http://news.silverseek.com/TedButler/1155668561.php

...i'm still writing it... Solar got over-hyped, the inevitable reaction is occurring UPDATED: Symbol Company====== Peak/when Low : Recent chg ESLR : Evergreen Solar.... $17.50/Mar $ 8.00 : $ 9.31 , -46.8% STP-- : Suntech Power..... $45.95/Feb. $19.00: $32.65, -38.9% SIT.L : Solar Integrated.... £3.700/Mar £0.150: £0.515, -86.1% =====: Compare: PBW- : Pwrshs.CleanEgy $24.08/May $16.51 : $17.52 -27.2% Was even worse until recently: Suntech has had a great bounce (+52%) in recent days, from amid-July low

IT'S HAMMER-CITY, in the Solar Sector, as Sheep Get Slaughtered Look at this Chart And look at these Results Now read these comments THESE IS EXACTLY why there is a role for GEI. The media and the big brokers treat private investors like sheep, victims to be sheared of their income.

YES- THE BREAKTHROUGH Solar cells change electricity distribution by Dave Freeman and Jim Harding In separate announcements over the past few months, researchers at the University of Johannesburg and at Nanosolar, a private company in Palo Alto, have announced major breakthroughs in reducing the cost of solar electric cells. While trade journals are abuzz with the news, analysis of the potential implications has been sparse. We approach this news as current and former public electric utility executives, sympathetic with consumer and environmental concerns. South Africa and California technologies rely on the same alloy -- called CIGS (for copper-indium-gallium-selenide) -- deposited in an extremely thin layer on a flexible surface. Both companies claim that the technology reduces solar cell production costs by a factor of 4-5. That would bring the cost to or below that of delivered electricity in a large fraction of the world. The California team is backed by a powerful team of private investors, including Google's two founders and the insurance giant Swiss Re, among others. It has announced plans to build a $100 million production facility in the San Francisco Bay area that is slated to be operational at 215 megawatts next year, and soon thereafter capable of producing 430 megawatts of cells annually. What makes this particular news stand out? Cost, scale and financial strength. The cost of the facility is about one-tenth that of recently completed silicon cell facilities. Second, Nanosolar is scaling up rapidly from pilot production to 430 megawatts, using a technology it equates to printing newspapers. That implies both technical success and development of a highly automated production process that captures important economies of scale. No one builds that sort of industrial production facility in the Bay Area -- with expensive labor, real estate and electricity costs -- without confidence. ....MORE: http://www.energybulletin.net/19262.html

U.S. light crude for September delivery slumped $2.35 to $74 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, a decline of around 3 percent. "When oil comes down the market does tend to act better as an inflationary play," Hyman said. = = PRESS SPIN ...explaining the move So thought there was manipulative buying at the low, to keep confidence alive. In any case, the Press does its usual job of "pinning news on the move": Relief on Wall Street ... Aug 10: 6:26p Major gauges manage gains as investors take in falling crude oil prices, arrests in British terror plot. (more): http://money.cnn.com/2006/08/10/markets/ma...wyork/index.htm Funny that: The disruption of air travel becomes good news, becauseit reduces flying, and hence demand for jetfuel, crude falls. I doubt this will last long, and if it does, there will be some negative knock-on effects of reduced travel.

I was looking to nip it for a very short term trade- that's all

That's Prudhoe Bay related, that move... BP to Shut Down U.S.'s Largest Oil Field; Prices Jump (Update9) Aug. 7 (Bloomberg) -- BP Plc is shutting Alaska's Prudhoe Bay oil field, the largest in the U.S., because of pipeline corrosion and a leak, cutting supplies and increasing criticism of the company's safety record in its biggest market. Oil rose as much as 2.6 percent and shares of London-based BP, the world's second-largest publicly traded oil company, lost 2 percent. Owners of the field, accounting for 8 percent of U.S. output, include Exxon Mobil Corp., ConocoPhillips and Chevron Corp. The shutdown may take days to complete, said Toby Odone, a BP spokesman in London. Chief Executive Officer John Browne already faces a grand jury probe for an earlier Alaska spill, charges of market manipulation in the U.S. propane industry and fines from a Texas refinery blast that killed 15 workers. BP, which gets 40 percent of its sales from the U.S., last month said it will boost spending there to improve safety and maintenance. The Alaskan shutdown ``will prompt further questions about BP's safety procedures,'' said Ivor Pether, who helps manage about $15 billion at Royal London Asset Management, including BP shares. ``It will have a big impact on earnings if it's shut down for a long period of time but they absolutely have to do it.'' Prudhoe Bay accounts for about 1 percent of BP's annual earnings, Pether said today in an interview. Higher prices may offset the effect of lost output, he said. `Big Effect' It may take ``some months'' for BP to replace at least 3 miles of pipelines in Alaska, Citigroup Inc. analysts including James Neale in London, said today in a research note. Odone declined to comment on the Citigroup estimate. Crude oil for September delivery rose as much as $1.91 to $76.67 a barrel in after-hours trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange, and traded at $76.20 at 12:57 p.m. London time. Oil reached a record $78.40 a barrel on July 14. BP shares fell as much as 14.5 pence to 621.5 pence in London. - - `Bad News' Some 400,000 barrels a day of production is being shut, BP spokesman Ronnie Chappell said. The company doesn't know when the pipeline will be repaired, Chappell said. A pipeline that leaked four to five barrels of oil was shut down at 6:30 a.m. Alaskan time Sunday, BP said in a statement. BP owns 26.36 percent of the Prudhoe Bay field. Alaska provides about 10 percent of BP's worldwide oil production. ``It's just another long line of bad news for BP,'' Nunan said. Exxon Mobil, the world's largest publicly traded oil company, owns about 36 percent of Prudhoe Bay, according to its Web site. Company spokeswoman Susan Reeves declined to comment on the field's closure or the effect on the Irving, Texas-based company. Houston, Texas-based ConocoPhillips, the No. 3 U.S. oil company, owns 36.1 percent of Prudhoe Bay. San Ramon, California- based Chevron, the No. 2 U.S. oil company, owns about 1.2 percent and Denver, Colorado-based Forest Oil Corp. has 0.02 percent. @: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=206...&refer=home = = BP might be a buy here

ENERGY RISING, not just oil The EEI said last week that the U.S. set a record for electricity demand for the week ending July 22. The Energy Department last week surprised the market by reporting that U.S. inventories of natural gas shrank by 7 billion cubic feet. Supplies typically build during summer. Still, the country's natural gas inventory is well above historical levels at 2.76 trillion cubic feet. The five-year average for this time of year is 2.27 trillion cubic feet. Analyst Dan Lippe of Houston-based Petral Worldwide believes that, barring any major hurricane damage to platforms and pipelines, natural gas prices could fall sharply in September. "You will see (U.S.) storage facilities full well before the last week of October," Lippe said. Light sweet crude for September delivery rose $1.16 to settle at $74.40 on the New York Mercantile Exchange. September Brent crude futures at London's ICE Futures exchange rose $1.76 to settle at $75.15 a barrel. Oil prices have been choppy in recent weeks, but BNP Paribas Commodity Futures broker Ric Navy said the market could be setting up for a big move up. "The longer you go sideways, the bigger the breakout when it occurs," Navy said. "And at this point, the long-term trend is still higher." Navy said traders could easily become more anxious in the weeks ahead, with the Gulf of Mexico hurricane season expected to pick up and the nuclear standoff between the West and Iran expected to come to a head in late August. The U.N. Security Council passed a resolution Monday giving Iran until Aug. 31 to suspend uranium enrichment or face the threat of economic and diplomatic sanctions. Iran immediately rejected the council's demands, which were watered down from earlier drafts because of Russian and Chinese demands. ...MORE: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/business/4085085.html 2/ "Prices have moved up ... with traders concerned over reports of a serious oil spill on the Druzhba pipeline, which ships over 1.2 million-1.4 million barrels per day of crude oil to Europe," said Barclays Capital analyst Kevin Norrish. Oil prices also gained after the UN Security Council overnight tightened the screws on Iran over its nuclear program, ordering Tehran to halt uranium enrichment work by August 31 or face possible sanctions. But the text stopped short of an immediate threat of sanctions, which have been opposed by Russia and China, and said punitive action would have to be the subject of further debate. Security analysts have said that in the event of sanctions, Iran might retaliate and block the Strait of Hormuz, which is a crucial outlet for oil shipments to Japan, the United States and Western Europe. Iran is the world's fourth-biggest producer of crude oil and exports around 2.7 million barrels per day. ...MORE: http://www.news.com.au/business/story/0,,1...2-31037,00.html

Monday: Oil climbing FAST, clawing back those losses from friday Charts : WTI : Brent/OILB - - Crude Oil Rises After Leak Discovered in Russia's Main Pipeline to Europe Crude oil rose after the Russian government reported one of the nation's main oil links to Europe leaked near the Belarus border, possibly cutting supplies from the world's second-largest exporter.

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Link: http://www.mensa.org What is Mensa? Mensa was founded in England in 1946 by Roland Berrill, a barrister, and Dr. Lance Ware, a scientist and lawyer. They had the idea of forming a society for bright people, the only qualification for membership of which was a high IQ. The original aims were, as they are today, to create a society that is non-political and free from all racial or religious distinctions. The society welcomes people from every walk of life whose IQ is in the top 2% of the population, with the objective of enjoying each other's company and participating in a wide range of social and cultural activities. What are Mensa's goals? Mensa has three stated purposes: to identify and foster human intelligence for the benefit of humanity, to encourage research in the nature, characteristics and uses of intelligence, and to promote stimulating intellectual and social opportunities for its members. How many members does Mensa have? Today there are some 100,000 Mensans in 100 countries throughout the world. There are active Mensa organizations in over 40 countries on every continent except Antarctica. Membership numbers are also available for specific National Groups. What kind of people are Members of Mensa? There is simply no one prevailing characteristic of Mensa members other than high IQ. There are Mensans for whom Mensa provides a sense of family, and others for whom it is a casual social activity. There have been many marriages made in Mensa, but for many people, it is simply a stimulating opportunity for the mind. Most Mensans have a good sense of humor, and they like to talk. And, usually, they have a lot to say. Mensans range in age from 4 to 94, but most are between 20 and 60. In education they range from preschoolers to high school dropouts to people with multiple doctorates. There are Mensans on welfare and Mensans who are millionaires. As far as occupations, the range is staggering. Mensa has professors and truck drivers, scientists and firefighters, computer programmers and farmers, artists, military people, musicians, laborers, police officers, glassblowers--the diverse list goes on and on. There are famous Mensans and prize-winning Mensans, but there are many whose names you wouldn't know. = = = Sir Clive now lives in London and, apart from electronics, includes mathematics, poetry and music among his interests. He is an active member of the British Mensa Society link: http://www.sinclair-research.co.uk/about-srl.php = = = Sir Clive Marles Sinclair has been an iconic and often controversial figure in British industry for more than quarter of a century. He chalked up significant successes - the first pocket calculator, the first pocket television, the best-selling British computer of all time - but is at least as well known for his spectacular failures, most notably the C5 electric vehicle. He was lauded (and awarded a knighthood) by Margaret Thatcher's government for leading what was seen as a renaissance of British industry, but was seen in other quarters as offering only skin-deep solutions to Britain's industrial malaise. Now in his sixties, Sir Clive still continues to produce a variety of innovative products from his London headquarters @: http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/sinclair/sinclair/sinclair.htm

thnx for that, MM. I will consider how to get in touch with CS. One last question: Have you heard of Mensa? If you are a member, it might be easier to arrange a meeting with Sir Clive, who is a former chairman

There may be too many big ideas for me to do much with them all/ So I will focus on two comments from MM: 1/ "Second, to produce electricity: we could install large plates of solar batteries in the suitable regions, like the Great Desert of Africa, or even at the orbit and be connected to them by means of just “a few meters of cables” to use of the produced energy in our cities throughout the world" (Are you suggesting that the solar power would be transported by a short cable runniung through a wormhole? Have I got that right? Surely, it would require vast amounts of energy to open the wormhole, and to keep it open? Or am I making the wrong assumption?) 2/ " I really like to contact to people like Sir Clive, Bob Bigelow or Mr. Gates (or the guys in Gates Foundation). I’ve read a reportage in a Persian magazine about Bigelow and feel close to him. By the way, both me and Bill Gates think to connecting people, he virtually and me really!! But I have problems in making a successful contact to them and introducing my thoughts" (I know Clive Sinclair, and used to see him regularly. But that was some years ago, and I have lost touch. I think he will remember me, and I will look to see if I can make contact with him- before my forthcoming move. Can you trell me where I can get: + A press article summarising your past work? + A good summary of what you are trying to achieve? Perhaps it is on this thread, but there may be better material elsewhere + What is you ability to communicate with the West? Can you travel to the West?

Possibly, YES. See the thread about the coming BUY on Alt-E stocks in the Main Forum

M, I am interested in your reaction to this... The World will be a better place If and When the USA discovers a new mission... As a Country to be the Leader of Innovation in Alternative Energy. To get there, we may need to see: + $200 Oil, + More failures in US political leadership, + A clear peak in Oil resources vs. Production, + A more widespread realisation that the current mission as "the world's policeman and consumer of last resort" is thankless, and will eventually bankrupt the USA