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

To: stan_hughes who wrote (6181)	4/15/2008 12:55:34 PM
From: John Vosilla	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71475

'.. get the USD price of all those 2BR frame houses next to the freeway in San Diego back up to $850,000' Yes that and central bankers in London, Paris, Zurich, Bejing and Toronto and ect.. attempting to do the same thing<g>. So sounds like real estate protection in the now inexpensive markets of the USA under $125k in growing areas today levered at such low fixed rates is one great place to be and where I'm going after a four year time out during the stupid credit mania. Almost every industry outside of energy, mining, defense and agriculture in this country going down the tubes unless you have significant multinational exposure to the fast growing third world and a weak dollar play.. Bush and company ruined this country. What was going to be stagflation lite is going to make the 70's look like a walk in the park on the back side of all this..I love to hear the taking heads say it is always 'contained' and others talk about deflation and 'cash is king'<g> Still I must say through all this the biggest disappointment is the junior gold miners..All hype and no substance or the biggest manipulation going today until the ultimate day of reckoning? I wonder what the current beaten up areas will awaken from slumber (parts of tech and life sciences along with infrastructure rebuild?)after we try to come out of all this even as we strive to avoid a Jimmy Carter type misery index down the road?

To: stan_hughes who wrote (6181)	4/15/2008 1:51:18 PM
From: Real Man	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71475

LOL! Anything that pushes stocks up. Stocks drop 5% - and you see a parade of Bush, aides, Bernanke and Paulson telling us the economy is OK. Stocks drop 15% - and you see 200 bp. emergency cuts and 150 bln. tax package. Geez, why not just buy 1,000,000,000 e-mini contracts and push the DOW to 20K already? What's this thing with the cuts? Hey, maybe Fed buying housing futures will help? Stocks drop 5%, and the Fed funds expectations for the next meeting immediately start pricing a 75-100 bp. cut. Stocks rally - and the cut disappears. There is no need for the cut all of a sudden, that despite record foreclosures and sharply dropping housing prices.