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We have the best Congress money can buy.

When investors start to look for safe havens to put money into, they'll look to energy. Domestic integrated oil companies will do really well. Most likely, the companies that will get a bigger push are the more diverse International integrated oil companies like Exxon-Mobil. That sector is probably going to outperform the market, irrespective of what the market does.

I'm always concerned a bit about creative hypocrisy, because it's $49 billion of U.S. money on drugs that is acting as an engine drawing 60 percent of our own cocaine, marijuana, heroin coming through Mexico or adjoining Pacific or Caribbean waters.

What I'm saying to foreign investors who have been putting a lot of money into this market is reconsider that position. For the last 16 months people have been saying it's cheap, but they dumped almost $6 billion into it and it hasn't moved.

We will use the new money we hope to raise to help us to achieve our strategy of acquiring luxury hotels and resorts in high growth markets in the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Central and Eastern Europe.