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1 posted on 11/16/2007 1:57:36 PM PST by republicpictures
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Somethings about to happen.................


2 posted on 11/16/2007 1:59:23 PM PST by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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I guess this means the Chinese government has decided that the dollar has fallen far enough and will sell pounds and euros at their current high value to separate its citizens from their dollars.
3 posted on 11/16/2007 1:59:57 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Government is the hired help - not the boss. When politicians forget that they must be fired.)
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Oh-oh! Here we go!


5 posted on 11/16/2007 2:00:27 PM PST by Paperdoll ( Go Duncan Hunter '08)
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Dump the Dollar, China State TV Tells Viewers

If I were short the dollar, I'd consider covering on news like that...

6 posted on 11/16/2007 2:02:22 PM PST by snarks_when_bored
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A state news program, quoting unnamed "wealth management experts," told residents with dollar accounts on the mainland to convert their holdings into yuan

Since the yuan is pegged to the dollar I don't think that's going to help.

7 posted on 11/16/2007 2:04:12 PM PST by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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The Chinese announcer forgot to add: “and as you do you will raise the value of the Yuan to the point you will kill your imports in the US, which are the basis for your rising economy.”

Until it gets that bad, because the majority of the mainland Chinese exports are for foreign owned companies and because a big portion of them are for US company-owned plants in China, the gradually lowering sale figures, by units sold, in exports to the US will earn more dollars per unit, not less, and will be reflected as such on the books of the US companies.

Currency values are not zero sum items.


12 posted on 11/16/2007 2:10:17 PM PST by Wuli
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mayhem at simultaneous shopping malls at x-mastime could make a dent in the dollar

I also see a pattern in recent history, Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, all with trails leading back behind the bamboo curtain, always using a puppet to do the fighting

sorry, but I'm getting paranoid, China controls international shipping, so they have a trojan horse delivery system in place.

Cosco is just the commercial facade of the Chinese navy

13 posted on 11/16/2007 2:14:15 PM PST by KTM rider (..left or right,......... socialist, or socialist light ?)
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Not many Chinese are likely to have money in US currency. Of those that do, most are likely very skeptical of financial advice from a Communist government TV station.

This is just a typical appeal to nationalism. They are telling their people that China is great and that US dominance is weakening.

The only place you won't here such nationalistic comments is in the US media, because they hate their own country.

15 posted on 11/16/2007 2:17:08 PM PST by untrained skeptic
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I'm confused. The Chinese have artificially kept their currency "cheap," and as a result they have a booming economy. The US currency is now "cheap," but the experts are saying that it will destroy the US economy.

What gives?

16 posted on 11/16/2007 2:17:31 PM PST by Cowboy Bob (Withhold Taxes - Starve a Liberal)
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Dollar has already demonstrated a “double” or “W” bottom this week. Expect it to really further against the Pound and Aussie dollar in the coming weeks, and against the Euro (though not as much).


18 posted on 11/16/2007 2:20:52 PM PST by montag813
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I’d take a wild guess and suppose that most Chinese citizens “eating lunch” don’t have access to an international bank that specializes in currency exchange. Even if they did, is the average Chinese sophisticated enough to exchange dollars and pick the “right” choice - yen, euros, panda gold bullion or tulip bulbs. And what’s the rate exchange cost that the bank charges? (That cost might wipe out any gains made) And does the average chinese citizen have enough dollar cash laying around to make the conversion worthwhile?

I’d just continue eating lunch if I were a Chinese man or woman, and worry more about whether puppy tails are in my Guangdong dumplings.


21 posted on 11/16/2007 2:31:42 PM PST by sergeantdave (The majority of Michigan voters are that stupid and the condition is incipient and growing.)
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Dump the products “made in China.”


25 posted on 11/16/2007 2:55:52 PM PST by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
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Chinese lunchtime television on Friday gave ordinary people a basic tip on how to play the currency markets: sell the dollar!

So they don't censor all truthful news?

29 posted on 11/16/2007 3:14:24 PM PST by ExSES (the "bottom-line")
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It is happening...Are you going to be ready? Are the free traitors and Crapitalists ready?


36 posted on 11/16/2007 3:37:31 PM PST by Captainpaintball
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What’s about to happen is we are about to destroy terrorism in iraq and declare complete victory. The rest of the world is angry and scared that we are so capable in military efforts and are attempting to punish us for it.

When you’re king of the hill, everyone tries to knock you down. It’s much easier to attack the king than it is to be the king.


38 posted on 11/16/2007 3:39:34 PM PST by mamelukesabre
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That’s a really intelligent statement. These godless (brainless) commies fail to remember that they are one of the biggest holders of T-bonds. Causing a run on the US$ will only ensure their financial ruin.

Really bright.


45 posted on 11/16/2007 6:44:09 PM PST by Constitutional Patriot (Socialism is the cancer of humanity.)
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sell the dollar?

Well, the people in China have learned NOT to do what the government tells them. They should have told the Chinese people NOT to sell the dollar, then it would have gone down like lead on a sinker.

47 posted on 11/16/2007 7:26:49 PM PST by Candor7 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Baghdad_(1258))
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bttt


50 posted on 11/17/2007 1:19:53 AM PST by AnimalLover ( ((Are there special rules and regulations for the big guys?)))
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My Brazilian boss said he is trying like mad to move his assets home before the coming crash.

We are in some very interesting times.

51 posted on 11/17/2007 5:58:28 AM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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chicom bump


55 posted on 11/18/2007 7:44:04 PM PST by indthkr
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