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

To: re3 who wrote (19297)	3/30/2009 10:25:47 AM
From: Real Man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71455

Monetization should drop the leverage, so I personally consider it a "cure", which essentially amounts to redistributing bubble fallout from the culprits to the whole country. In general, we should have a wicked brew that normally appears in currency crises, but we already had quite a bit of that. Gold is in a bull market, but it remains prone to a seasonal decline. Watch the trend line -g-

To: re3 who wrote (19297)	3/30/2009 10:41:26 AM
From: Real Man	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71455

This post says everything. If derivatives and finance are accomodated, not restructured, then we'll see hyperinflation from all the printing. If we take the necessary steps to restructure the post-bubble economy, we will see a genuine recovery down the road, with some inflation, of course. "The crash has laid bare many unpleasant truths about the United States. One of the most alarming, says a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is that the finance industry has effectively captured our government—a state of affairs that more typically describes emerging markets, and is at the center of many emerging-market crises. If the IMF’s staff could speak freely about the U.S., it would tell us what it tells all countries in this situation: recovery will fail unless we break the financial oligarchy that is blocking essential reform. And if we are to prevent a true depression, we’re running out of time." jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com