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

To: Real Man who wrote (12378)	10/5/2008 12:41:12 PM
From: dybdahl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71475

It sounds very unhealthy to me, that an increasing dollar value can improve the account deficit. Does this sound viable to you? As far as I understand the bailout package, the goal is to remove bad assets in order to avoid stagflation the gridlocked Japanese way - although it could still be stagflation. What do you think about this?

To: Real Man who wrote (12378)	10/5/2008 2:00:24 PM
From: TH	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71475

Vi, Those are very solid possibilities. My blueprint is that we are going to have inflation, but they are going to try and be very specific about how far they let it go. And the reason is housing. Wages and employment are the real problems, and I have no idea how they can address those in this environment. So, we hear about Ben's <inflation targeting> and we all think it is to cap or limit inflation. Maybe not <g> This much is clear, as long as housing declines, no bailout bill is going to do anything for the real economy. And it goes without saying that that revolving fund will never turn a dime profit to the taxpayers; not that any government program ever did anyway. That is the funny part. Please give me a real example of a program, bailout, <gift>, that actually reduced the deficit? I don't know of any. I draw a blank <check?>. GT TH