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To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (3622)	11/7/2008 3:59:13 PM
From: LTK007	Respond to of 3906

The World Tires of Dollar Hegemony by Paul Craig Roberts creators.com What explains the paradox of the dollar's sharp rise in value against other currencies (except the Japanese yen) despite disproportionate U.S. exposure to the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression? The answer does not lie in improved fundamentals for the U.S. economy or better prospects for the dollar to retain its reserve currency role. The rise in the dollar's exchange value is due to two factors. One factor is the traditional flight to the reserve currency that results from panic. People are simply doing what they have always done. Pam Martens predicted correctly that panic demand for U.S. Treasury bills would boost the U.S. dollar. The other factor is the unwinding of the carry trade. The carry trade originated in extremely low Japanese interest rates. Investors and speculators borrowed Japanese yen at an interest rate of 0.5 percent, converted the yen to other currencies and purchased debt instruments from other countries that pay much higher interest rates. In effect, they were getting practically free funds from Japan to lend to others paying higher interest. The financial crisis has reversed this process. The toxic American derivatives were marketed worldwide by Wall Street. They have endangered the balance sheets and solvency of financial institutions throughout the world, including national governments, such as Iceland and Hungary. Banks and governments that invested in the troubled American financial instruments found their own debt instruments in jeopardy. Those who used yen loans to purchase, for example, debt instruments from European banks or Icelandic bonds faced potentially catastrophic losses. Investors and speculators sold their higher-yielding financial instruments in a scramble for dollars and yen in order to pay off their Japanese loans. This drove up the values of the yen and the U.S. dollar, the reserve currency that can be used to repay debts, and drove down the values of other currencies. The dollar's rise is temporary, and its prospects are bleak. The U.S. trade deficit will lessen due to less consumer spending during recession, but it will remain the largest in the world and one that the United States cannot close by exporting more. The way the U.S. trade deficit is financed is by foreigners acquiring more dollar assets, with which their portfolios are already heavily weighted. The U.S. government's budget deficit is large and growing, adding hundreds of billions of dollars more to an already large national debt. As investors flee equities into U.S. government bills, the market for U.S. Treasuries will temporarily depend less on foreign governments. Nevertheless, the burden on foreigners and on world savings of having to finance American consumption, the U.S. government's wars and military budget, and the U.S. financial bailout is increasingly resented. This resentment, combined with the harm done to America's reputation by the financial crisis, has led to numerous calls for a new financial order in which the United States plays a substantially lesser role. "Overcoming the financial crisis" are code words for the rest of the world's intent to overthrow U.S. financial hegemony. Brazil, Russia, India and China have formed a new group (BRIC) to coordinate their interests at the November financial summit in Washington, D.C. On Oct. 28, RIA Novosti reported that Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin suggested to China that the two countries use their own currencies in their bilateral trade, thus avoiding the use of the dollar. Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao replied that strengthening bilateral relations is strategic. Europe has also served notice that it intends to exert a new leadership role. Four members of the Group of Seven industrial nations, France, Britain, Germany and Italy, used the financial crisis to call for sweeping reforms of the world financial system. Jose Manual Barroso, president of the European Commission, said that a new world financial system is possible only "if Europe has a leadership role." Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said that the "economic egoism" of America's "unipolar vision of the world" is a "dead-end policy." China's massive foreign exchange reserves and its strong position in manufacturing have given China the leadership role in Asia. The deputy prime minister of Thailand recently designated the Chinese yuan as "the rightful and anointed convertible currency of the world." Normally, the Chinese are very circumspect in what they say, but on Oct. 24 Reuters reported that the People's Daily, the official government newspaper, in a front-page commentary accused the United States of plundering "global wealth by exploiting the dollar's dominance." To correct this unacceptable situation, the commentary called for Asian and European countries to "banish the U.S. dollar from their direct trade relations, relying only on their own currencies." And this step, said the commentary, is merely a start in overthrowing dollar dominance. The Chinese are expressing other thoughts that would get the attention of a less deluded and arrogant American government. Zhou Jiangong, editor of the online publication Chinastates.com, recently asked, "Why should China help the U.S. to issue debt without end in the belief that the national credit of the U.S. can expand without limit?" Zhou Jiangong's solution to American excesses is for China to take over Wall Street. China has the money to do it, and the prudent Chinese would do a better job than the crowd of thieves who have destroyed America's financial reputation while exploiting the world in pursuit of multimillion-dollar bonuses. To find out more about Paul Craig Roberts, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate web page at www.creators.com. COPYRIGHT 2008 CREATORS SYNDICATE INC.

To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (3622)	11/7/2008 4:15:43 PM
From: LTK007	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3906

The Jam today was FIERCELY up at close(on a 50/50 chance. CG this has been consistent, these closes that have ABRUPT action at EOD, and are NOT TA predictable. It is Random Pattern intentionally from the Super Machines that set up the close, as they want other traders to be clueless. If you have bee watching , on these last 10 minutes or 20 minutes EOD MASSIVE Buy or Sell programs are now COMMONPLACE. Floor Traders themselves can not know what will happen, and are angry it is going on. But thanks the That Criminal Chris Coxe and his mafia thug allies, he made the TOTALLY ILLEGAL "Behind The Curtain " trading legal. The moves are abrupt one way or another, because the Huge Brokers have NOTHING to stop them from collussion, and make sure the direction is decided, and they CASH IN BIG PROFITS on positioning their BEHIND the Curtain purchased future in accordance to the pre-agreed direction of the move. This practice is now 18months old, it it will NOT be removed, as the market will remain grostesquely Criminal. O yes , those 9 annointed Banks/Brokerages ALL are members of the "Behind the Curtain Royalty"(one gets in via INVITATION only.) Max

To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (3622)	11/9/2008 7:40:12 PM
From: LTK007	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3906

<<The Chinese government will spend US$600bn through to 2010 on measures designed to stimulate its slowing economy. The Chinese economy had been growing at break-neck levels of near 12% prior to the credit crunch and the government had been undertaking measures to slow that growth, including interest rate rises and currency revaluations. It has now fallen back into the 8-9% range, and some economists are predicting a fall below 8%. For China, this is recessive. The country needs 8% economic growth to maintain a level of job creation that supports its vast population. The stimulus package will be spent on infrastructure, welfare, and other "key" sectors. Infrastructure spend is good news for Australia as it implies further consumption of commodities such as iron ore and base metals. Power infrastructure would further assist the coal and perhaps uranium industries. China runs huge surpluses, so unlike the US it has little qualms in spending such funds.>> They did not have to newly print this money. Gees that is a novelty:) Also means that is 600billion dollars that will not be going to support U.S.Treasuries. Perhaps some significant implications.