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

To: Box-By-The-Riviera™ who wrote (313)	7/2/2007 10:33:27 PM
From: Real Man	Respond to of 71409

Current account data: census.gov The total cummulative current account balance 1960 through 2006: - 5366.56 Billion $ Similar number for 1960-1986: - 196.616 Billion $ 1960-1999: - 1615.974 Billion $ Bush presidency contribution (2000-2006): - 3750.586 Billion $ Where, oh, where are those bucks. Please, stay where you are, don't dare to come home. -g-

To: Box-By-The-Riviera™ who wrote (313)	7/3/2007 5:50:13 AM
From: Real Man	Respond to of 71409

Rates are the key to successful carry. They paying to lend silver, to never see it back. Even I would short it. What a deal! -g- Talk about negative interest rates -ggg- kitco.com No way gold is going down if we see Yen spike. We've seen that in 1999 - a nice 3-day 30% gain for gold. Now, here is gold in 1987 Not so good, considering the scale of the dollar decline. It declined in other currencies. It did not do a thing when stocks crashed, but Gold equities crashed with the market. Note that the dollar declined from about 160 to 85, so this was actually the end of that decline, and gold was just in the beginning of the secular bear market. I think that has ended. -g-