Also note that the Federal Reserve announced in Nov. 05 that it will no longer be publishing data for the M3 money supply.  This will take effect in March of 2006.

Even another twist for an interesting March is the Israeli preparation for an attack on Iran...

Dec 11, 05
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1920074,00.html

Excerpts from the article:

ISRAEL'S armed forces have been ordered by Ariel Sharon, the prime minister, to be ready by the end of March for possible strikes on secret uranium enrichment sites in Iran, military sources have revealed.

The crisis is set to come to a head in early March, when Mohamed El-Baradei, the head of the IAEA, will present his next report on Iran. El-Baradei, who received the Nobel peace prize yesterday, warned that the world was "losing patience" with Iran.

"Defence sources in Israel believe the end of March to be the "point of no return" after which Iran will have the technical expertise to enrich uranium in sufficient quantities to build a nuclear warhead in two to four years."

They say there is no such thing as coincidence!
Sorry for so many posts on the same issue, but Econbrowser has just addressed this issue directly (citing Petrov's "excited" article) in a post titled: Strange ideas about the Iranian oil bourse

http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2006/01/strange_ideas_a.html

One highlight:
"...the notion that the U.S. dollar is currently "backed by oil" is so nonsensical that it is difficult even to fathom what that phrase is intended to convey."