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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 (330)	7/12/2007 9:52:28 AM
From: Real Man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71412

Too many bubbles to maintain for the Fed. It's all the Fed's fault, and the Fed's paper is the dollar and treasuries. Those have to go down IMHO before it all hits the fan. They surely have succeeded in prolonging and extending the "goldilocks boom", but it appears there is a strong leakage sound from quite a few of the Fed's balloons. They do appear "trapped", continuing to pull the rabbits out of the empty hat. It they raise to save the buck, we'll see what that does to bonds and housing. If they cut to save the housing, we'll see what that does to the dollar, and, eventually, LT rates. The whole pyramid is rocking -g-

To: Box-By-The-Riviera™ who wrote (330)	7/12/2007 10:55:27 AM
From: stan_hughes	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71412

I actually thought in 2004 that we had a pretty good chance of Dubya's handlers engineering some kind of BS "state of emergency" in order to suspend at least the presidential election -- seems to me that the risk of that happening in 2008 has increased 10-fold since the Republicans appear to be heading for the slaughterhouse in a legitimate vote Gee Stan, that couldn't possibly happen here in the USA, no no no...... to which I would reply, "No, not until it does, and then what do you think you're going to be able to do about it after it's happened?" Maybe I'd better get my book out onto the shelves while it's still fiction before it actually takes place