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

To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (3828)	2/4/2008 3:25:11 AM
From: dybdahl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71456

The word konjunktur is usually used by non-economists to describe the mechanisms that boost the economy sometimes and slows down the economy at other times. It is often used when describing politics, because good times can be because of current politics, or the result of the previous government's politics, because of underlying factors or simply konjunktur-related. In some countries, you often see that voters swing right in good times and left in bad times. In several languages, many topics are almost impossible to discuss without using the word konjunktur, which means that politics, interest rates, trade deficits, unemployment etc. are always put in relation to each other when people meet socially. This is also why possible overheating of the economy has been the main political topic for several years in my country. Voters care a lot about it. The actual judgement of konjunktur as being up or down sometimes depends on who you ask: and that makes a lot of sense, because it's just like judging the future value of a stock.