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Dollar dives as US slump spreads
The Telegraph ^ | 10/19/07 | Ambrose Evans-Pritchard and Joe Moulds

Posted on 10/18/2007 6:07:42 PM PDT by bruinbirdman

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To: Professional

What is the benefit (other than to speculator types and arbitrageurs) to differently valued and fluctuating currencies?


41 posted on 10/18/2007 7:52:11 PM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: Last Dakotan

Where do they now make those goods?

You think the US complains about losing “good jobs to foreigners” what you think the Japs say??


42 posted on 10/18/2007 7:52:40 PM PDT by Professional
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To: bruinbirdman

Dems are not behind the destruction of the dollar, Republicans are. Of course Dems could have and would have made its plight far more poignant, but due to their earlier non-majority status that dubious distinction is entirely owned by Republicans. Of course the Dems cheer news of disaster like a mortician with excess capacity. No they are not likely in cahoots with the Fed, even though Dems would love recession speak prior to general election.


43 posted on 10/18/2007 7:54:33 PM PDT by kcar (HillCare 2.0: Freedom's deathbed)
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To: VegasCowboy

It’s not bad news, It’s the market. Play it. (It’s Global now by the way)


44 posted on 10/18/2007 7:54:33 PM PDT by eyedigress
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To: editor-surveyor
So instead of 70% lower from its inflation adjusted high it will be 63% lower. Whooptydo.

Commodities are turning into the next bubble at any rate. Dotcoms then real estate now commodities.

45 posted on 10/18/2007 7:55:42 PM PDT by rb22982
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To: VegasCowboy

:^)


46 posted on 10/18/2007 7:56:05 PM PDT by eyedigress
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To: bruinbirdman
Extend gold up to $765 and the dollar off the page down to 77.5 to update it to today.


47 posted on 10/18/2007 7:56:20 PM PDT by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: eyedigress

I’m up 140% in the last 4 years and do not invest in currency whatsover or any other speculative investments...Only large mutual funds with at least 10 years of history.


48 posted on 10/18/2007 7:57:55 PM PDT by rb22982
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To: eyedigress

That is almost exactly the same answer i got in 1999 when I screamed and yelled at folks that the bridge was out, and that tech stocks would kill them. They were pretty smug about how much money they were making....

Good going, you’ve made money. Not a bad thing at all, it is just that the game is pretty much over, the bubble is about ready to burst. Same thing with foreign stocks, and especially Chinese.


49 posted on 10/18/2007 7:57:56 PM PDT by Professional
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To: Travis McGee

I’m way up and wonder when to bail! Any Suggestions?


50 posted on 10/18/2007 7:58:04 PM PDT by eyedigress
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To: rb22982

Since Oct 2003, you own mutual funds that are up 140%? Really, what funds are they?


51 posted on 10/18/2007 7:59:51 PM PDT by Professional
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To: Revel
Err, most of the article, including that line, is discussing economic conditions in England, not the US. Only the first bit is about the dollar.
52 posted on 10/18/2007 7:59:57 PM PDT by JasonC
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To: Professional

I feel the same anxiety! I’ll pose the same question, Do you have a silent indicator that says jump? (one FReeper to another) :^)


53 posted on 10/18/2007 8:00:16 PM PDT by eyedigress
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To: Professional

dittos, and then what will the Chinese do?


54 posted on 10/18/2007 8:01:06 PM PDT by Tarpon
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To: VegasCowboy

Saved by the Cowboy! Thank goodness, getting lots of arrows shot my way...

The bond thing is important...


55 posted on 10/18/2007 8:02:22 PM PDT by Professional
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To: kcar
The stock market hit new records just last week. Some "fleeing". I agree the dollar is a problem, the low US savings rate is a problem. But the hyperbole is out of place here.
56 posted on 10/18/2007 8:02:47 PM PDT by JasonC
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To: dennisw

What are we supposed to do? Hold a gun to the heads of foreign countries and MAKE them buy stuff from us that they can get elsewhere for half price?

Economic simpletons amuse me.


57 posted on 10/18/2007 8:03:50 PM PDT by RockinRight (The Council on Illuminated Foreign Masons told me to watch you from my black helicopter.)
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To: Travis McGee

I bought gold in 1978 and it was 198$
Today that would translate into 631$ so gold is still reasonable

http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl

Bet on natural resources commodities and gold

Weiss reports here

http://www.emailpreferencecenter.com/epcLogin.asp


58 posted on 10/18/2007 8:05:26 PM PDT by dennisw (France needs a new kind of immigrant — one who is "selected, not endured" - Nicholas Sarkozy)
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To: rb22982

My mutual is hanging on (17%) but I went private on the dollar creation without backing and hedged. It paid off. I know it won’t last but want to get out near the top. Any help from the pro’s would help.


59 posted on 10/18/2007 8:06:10 PM PDT by eyedigress
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To: Johnny Crab

I have it on good authority that it will be called the Illuminato Council Unit.


60 posted on 10/18/2007 8:07:45 PM PDT by RockinRight (The Council on Illuminated Foreign Masons told me to watch you from my black helicopter.)
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