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To: jim_p who wrote (4629)	2/28/2007 11:43:27 PM
From: surelockhomes	Respond to of 50416

Stumbled across this post today that kind of sums it up for me, but we'll see. >>So they'll "flood the market with liquidity" huh ... what are they going to do, take interest rates down to 1% USD and 0% JPY ? It's been done .... there is no wiggle room left. I said it before and I'll say it again, Greenspan sat on the button too long and the springs have worn out. The central banks wore out their phantastical "monetary policy" tool. What a bunch of morons. Japanese still can barely coax inflation with 0% interest rates ... this "monetary policy" thing aint working too well is it helicopter ben?<< investorvillage.com Things are getting more interesting every day as some chickens are now coming home to roost in the sub prime market. .

To: jim_p who wrote (4629)	3/1/2007 12:04:17 AM
From: Jamey	Respond to of 50416

"The unwinding will be very interesting and how the fed responds" When you are riding the wild horse of liquidity injection there is no way to get off. You ride it into the ground. Truth as I see it. Jim

To: jim_p who wrote (4629)	3/1/2007 9:07:29 AM
From: ldo79	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50416

<2. Higher commodity prices for food driven by an insane policy to produce ethanol.> There is another, mostly unnoticed, situation that might send food prices through the roof. Consider the consequences before it's laughed off. Disappearing honeybees imperil crops, keepers Harvesters in 24 states report hive population rates have mysteriously fallen 30% to 70%. Alexei Barrionuevo / New York Times March 1, 2007 VISALIA, Calif. -- David Bradshaw has endured countless stings during his life as a beekeeper, but he got the shock of his career when he opened his boxes last month and found half of his 100 million bees missing. In 24 states, including Michigan, beekeepers have gone through similar shocks as their bees have been disappearing inexplicably at an alarming rate, threatening not only their livelihoods but also the production of numerous crops. "I have never seen anything like it," Bradshaw, 50, said. "Box after box after box are just empty. There's nobody home." The sudden mysterious losses are highlighting the critical link that honeybees play in the long chain that gets fruit and vegetables to supermarkets and dinner tables across the country. Beekeepers have fought regional bee crises before, but this is the first national affliction. In a mystery worthy of Agatha Christie, bees are flying off in search of pollen and nectar and never returning to their colonies. Nobody knows why. Researchers say the bees are presumably dying in the fields, perhaps becoming exhausted or disoriented and falling victim to the cold. As researchers scramble to find answers to the syndrome they call "colony collapse disorder," growers are becoming openly nervous about the capability of the commercial bee industry to meet the growing demand for bees to pollinate dozens of crops, from almonds to avocados to kiwis. A Cornell University study has estimated that honeybees annually pollinate more than $14 billion worth of seeds and crops in the United States, mostly fruits, vegetables and nuts. "Every third bite we consume in our diet is dependent on a honeybee to pollinate that food," said Zac Browning of the American Beekeeping Federation. The bee losses are ranging from 30 percent to 60 percent on the West Coast, with some beekeepers on the East Coast and in Texas reporting losses of more than 70 percent; beekeepers consider a loss of up to 20 percent in the off-season to be normal. Over the past two decades, the number of beehives, estimated by the Agriculture Department to be 2.4 million, has dropped by a quarter and the number of beekeepers by half. It could just be that the bees are stressed out. Bees are being raised to survive a shorter off-season, to be ready to pollinate once the almond bloom begins in February. That likely lowered their immunity to viruses. Mites have also damaged bee colonies, and the insecticides used to try to kill mites are harming the ability of queen bees to spawn as many worker bees. The queens are living half as long as they did just a few years ago. Researchers are also concerned that the willingness of beekeepers to truck their colonies from coast to coast could be adding to bees' stress.

To: jim_p who wrote (4629)	3/1/2007 8:03:28 PM
From: roguedolphin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50416

I think alot of the recent volatility in markets may(????) be at least partially related(no matter what the talking heads are telling you) to what I've prophesized the past few months to be the BIGGEST single financial event "possibly" coming down sometime this year........ The "back-room political decision" to allow the Chinese yuan currency to be freely traded with little or no limits on trading "bands". Huge event when it happens.....are there rumblings afoot??? Remember the Plaza Accord back in the day?? They better work out this little detail I would think before we attack Iran....right?? Heard it here first. Rogue