Of course you want a prediction on the future of gold and a wild one too.

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Sure, I can twist numbers and make wild guesses about the future of employment, interest rates, Fed policy or the banking system.

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But they have the potential to work, he argues, and even in their flawed form they are better than the alternative, which has usually been wild vengeance that has, in turn, laid the seeds of future conflict.

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The other wild card is the debut of a third party, the Coalition for the Future of Quebec (CAQ).

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