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Strategies & Market Trends : Waiting for the big Kahuna -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Qualified Opinion who wrote (77565)	11/18/2007 10:50:05 AM
From: Real Man	Respond to of 94695

Whatever it is, it's still large, even though it declined a bit. Both trade and current account deficits are large and are not really declining much with the dropping dollar <g>

To: Qualified Opinion who wrote (77565)	11/18/2007 10:58:37 AM
From: Real Man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 94695

Here are some bullish thoughts on the dollar, but those are not bullish thoughts on the economy. Stocks and the dollar are anticorrelated. So, if we see some smacking in the stock land (possible, given some really huge extremes in emerging markets), we could see the dollar rally. -g- minyanville.com The explanation? Deflationary effects of evaporating credit market liquidity. I think the Fed will fight those at the moment, but I could easily be wrong. The Fed does have a certain machine to prevent deflation. -g-