That amounts to $4 Trillion, which is 36 TIMES GREATER than the total combined market cap of all publicly owned gold and silver stocks in the world AT CURRENT PRICES ( i.e. $110,000,000,000 is the market cap of all the world's gold stocks/equities - Source: Sept. 25, 2005, Denver Gold Conference). CLEARLY, spec investments in Real Estate represent a hugh reservoir of money that can flow toward high performance precious metals. It then logically follows if any fraction of spec RE monies divest their properties with the objective of taking advantage of the formidable recent returns in Gold and Silver Equities, precious metal values will soar to unimaginable levels.

Your Arab money explanation is highly plausible, but here's another possible scenario for you to consider: the "secret" buyer of US Treasuries is the Federal Reserve itself (possibly in collusion with the Arabs), acting on a political agenda to stabilize the market in US Treasuries to prevent the system from falling apart when foreign governments of record balk at buying. The Fed, of course, can create the money out of thin air.

US financial markets have been manipulated for some time--at least since Bob Rubin showed how it could be done by setting up the so-called "plunge protection team" to step in at strategic times to prevent or buffer a stock market meltdown. So I would not be surprised to find that a similar phenomenon is occurring in the market for US government debt.

Over the past 8 weeks, M-3 is up 129.6 billion, an 8.2 percent rate of growth, and is up a whopping $249.7 billion over the past 12 weeks, a 10.7 percent annualized rate of growth, a $1.0 trillion annual expansion.

Please allow me to offer constructive feedback on your Jank Coffee concept. It is good, but the English are known for their love of tea, not coffee. How about an upscale Brazilian Planter decor?