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

To: Real Man who wrote (4114)	2/10/2008 4:09:25 AM
From: dybdahl	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71455

USA tops the list of GDP/PPP per capita, so I guess it needs to become extremely bad before life is bad :-) But the different between GDP/Nominal and GDP/PPP is becoming worse, and I guess this is one of the main problems. As USAs share of the world GDP/Nominal decreases, so does USAs influence. Local companies here say, that even if USA goes into recession, it's a bad thing, but it doesn't matter a lot. To some companies it does, of course (Bang & Olufsen). Anyway, USA is the only top 10 GDP per capita country, that doesn't have abundance of oil and doesn't have a high level of tax. I wonder if you need to raise taxes in order to raise GDP/Nominal above a certain level?

To: Real Man who wrote (4114)	2/10/2008 12:34:26 PM
From: Zuiderzon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71455

There are some signs that foreign companies don't like the dollar slide. I tried getting a Nintendo DS in the states (Euro 89 each) but couldn't get a single one in shops in California. Here in the Netherlands (Euro 149) you can get as many as you want, everywhere. Now, if you were a Japanese company, where would you ship your stuff? Same is true for the WII. Sony doesn't seem to be doing this but that is probably because they want to push Blu-ray in the US market.