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Strategies & Market Trends : The coming US dollar crisis -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: stan_hughes who wrote (288)	6/29/2007 9:12:54 PM
From: Box-By-The-Riviera™	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71426

nice try. but conditions are closer to the money pools of early 1929 then they are to a wise course with a benevolent helmsman. i'm willing to lose money on that, and i am. <g>

To: stan_hughes who wrote (288)	6/29/2007 10:02:43 PM
From: Real Man	Respond to of 71426

That's right, that's why rates will spike in a crisis. Got Argentina or Brazil? Who said bonds aren't significantly overvalued at $70 oil? Real inflation is higher than 5% per year. Lies about inflation are known to everyone - the published CPI and PPI numbers are a joke. Some day they will backfire, when the confidence is lost. The day the dollar falls fast, and the whole US of A receives a 20% haircut in value -ng- As soon as increased printing starts to lead to an escalating collapse of the dollar and bonds, the feces have hit the fan -g-

To: stan_hughes who wrote (288)	6/30/2007 4:41:41 AM
From: Real Man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71426

Warnings, warnings - from Noland's credit bubble bulletin Dow Jones (Natasha Brereton ): “The global financial system may have become more vulnerable to potentially large financial crises, a senior Bank of England official said… While financial innovation has allowed better management and wider dispersal of risks, the greater integration of capital markets means that were a major problem to occur, it would be more likely to spread quickly across borders, Executive Director for Financial Stability Nigel Jenkinson said… ‘The flip side to increased resilience of the financial system to small and medium-sized shocks may be a greater vulnerability to less frequent but potentially larger financial crises,’ Jenkinson said.”