I wonder how well the people that made these comments actually trade? Conspiricy Theory sure is a good name for this thread... Whether or not we exercise our moments of fancy by commenting in this thread, it all boils down to what moves the markets that we trade in personally... Going that far upstream surely changes the waters that we swim in, For me, I'm move comfortable to swim in the NYSE, NASD, Futures and Options markets, not the geo-political mega-trillion dollar currency / commodities markets....