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Strategies & Market Trends : The Epic American Credit and Bond Bubble Laboratory -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: roguedolphin who wrote (90490)	1/15/2008 5:19:30 PM
From: roguedolphin	Respond to of 110194

This article is great for understanding (it articulates the US government debt bubble fairly well) how the "mother of all Ponzi-schemes" the US Treasury debt market..... ...is a bubble of epic proportions that may not(?) last forever. theatlantic.com

To: roguedolphin who wrote (90490)	1/15/2008 9:25:55 PM
From: Arran Yuan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

If you are so bearish on US FRN$, for which I am, you are better off to have Au/Ag. RMB Yuan will go down with FRN$ before the current system goes bust. Then comes the time to have RMB Yuan, imhho.

To: roguedolphin who wrote (90490)	1/15/2008 10:03:55 PM
From: Sea Otter	Respond to of 110194

Excellent article. Thanks for the posting!

To: roguedolphin who wrote (90490)	1/15/2008 10:40:32 PM
From: Proud Deplorable	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

"When the dollar is weak, the following (bad) things happen: the price of food, fuel, imports, and so on (no more vacations in Europe) goes up. The value of the stock market, real estate, and just about all other American assets goes down. Interest rates are higher. Tax rates can be higher, to cover the increased cost of financing the national debt. The only benefit is that American-made goods become cheaper for foreigners, which helps create new jobs and can raise the value of export-oriented American firms (winemakers in California, producers of medical devices in New England)." This is the biggest bunch of crap I've read all day. What American made goods is he talking about, Nissans made in Tennessee?