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


To: Real Man who wrote (5933)4/6/2008 9:35:59 PM
From: ggersh  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 71475
 
I hope you're right.....from where I'm sitting I believe that the box has been opened.....

Can it be closed successfully, or is it to late?



To: Real Man who wrote (5933)4/6/2008 10:26:34 PM
From: RockyBalboa  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 71475
 
Are you slightly bullish on the US Dollar?



To: Real Man who wrote (5933)4/7/2008 3:57:14 AM
From: stan_hughes  Respond to of 71475
 
Things may not happen as quickly as you would like on the export front -- there are still a lot of leaks in the boat despite a lower dollar

The following is an article using Michigan as a case study for the transition of the US economy toward its newfound lesser status in a globalized world --

For bargain-basement America, foreign investment no panacea

"To the extent that the United States continues to have low levels of savings, well, the rest of the world, they are not going to give us that excess for free," said Matthew Slaughter, an economics professor at Dartmouth. "We have to sell them something. There's no metaphorical free lunch for the United States."

iht.com



To: Real Man who wrote (5933)4/7/2008 11:43:15 AM
From: Tommaso  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 71475
 
>>>FWIW, Bernanke is not printing much at all, so far.<<<

Vi, the MZM and M2 figures are up hugely in recent weeks. I think the shadow M3 figures have not yet been sufficiently updated.

As we all know, there's not literal "printing," but I have never seen figures like this for any period of U. S. history since the middle of the Civil War.

research.stlouisfed.org

research.stlouisfed.org