My, my, are you upset at being exposed as an economic illiterate? Or, is it because you can’t be bothered to read an entire post before flying off the handle?
I’m sorry that you had to go to the trouble to look up what the dollar index is, but your smokescreen of ad hominem doesn’t cut any mustard. BTW, I’ve been trading currencies and the dollar index for over 30 years, you’re not talking to one of your fellow know-nothing rubes.
My point was and is that this economy is growing DESPITE the worst jug-ears can throw at it and has thrown at it for the last 5 years. There’s no point in denying it, you just make yourself look silly.
Try learning how to come at people without insulting them; maybe you won't get the same back. You come at me like a dick, I will break one off on you.
If you have been trading DI for all this time, why did you lead with your weakest argument?You know damn well that fiat currencies in every country (with, as you know, a few exceptions) have been losing value in the real world of commodities and services, making my point have some validity.
You have your skill set, but I have explored enough in this arena to assert with accuracy that devalued currencies will yield higher stock index numbers.
And before you claim me an unintelligent person yet again, in the fashion that endears you to everyone you do that to on Free Republic, please know that I routinely test in the top 1% in VB.Net, C#.NET, ASP.NET, LINQ2SQL, JQuery, SQL, IIS and Web Deployment, SSIS, SSRS, and a host of other related technologies.
Our economy may or may not have been growing -- if it has, it has been very small -- but you chose to attack the point *I* made, that the stock market is rising due less to the inherent valuations, and due more to worldwide currencies tending to have less value.