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

To: RJA_ who wrote (8456)	6/6/2008 12:22:44 PM
From: dybdahl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71454

The main topics right now in the news: - Strikes: A strike in the health care sector, that was started by the labor unions because wages are not regulated by market mechanisms, and they want more pay, and they want to break the systems that currently regulates their wage. The labor union has now lost all their money and mortgaged their office building, the hospitals saved some money, the private hospitals are happy and I guess it's all part of a bigger scheme to make everything more market based. - Terror: Bombing of our embassy in Pakistan because some people don't like freedom of speech, which we practice more than most countries. - Traffic: Car sales have been huge over the last 3-4 years, and traffic seems to grow a lot in the future, too. If we want to grow traffic to the amount of L.A., we would have to remove half of the buildings in Copenhagen. That's not realistic. Others talk about creating high rise buildings, but that meets a lot of resistance with the population. So right now, most traffic improvement is about trains, how to keep cars away from big cities and new bicycle bridges. - Extreme weather (draught, no snow etc.), biodiversity problems etc. Garden owners hate it to showel hundreds of kilograms of snails in order to save their gardens from invasive species. - Obama vs. Clinton and U.S. economic problems. It's obviously very interesting for the media. The media seems to prefer Obama, and nobody seems interested in McCain.