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    • Sat Sep 13th 10:08 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Pending Fed Rate Decision, Dollar Loses Steam
      There is a much larger aggregate number of dollars out there, many with the ink still wet, thus diminishing the value of each individual dollar.

      No rate ups or downs or investor confidence numbers is going to change this. The value is down and will stay there, except in Govt. stats where like inflation it is where they say it is!. Are you a believer??

      What's a pound of trust and confidence in the U.S. worth???
      Not much I expect---just like the U.S. dollar depending on it!!

      Where is Hank Paulson these days??. At least he got out before Goldman takes their hit. Oh yes, now I remember, in charge of our treasury-------that's comforting!
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    • Fri Sep 12th 14:10 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      OPEC: The Saudis Have Left the Building
      The bottom line is drawn across the bottom of the Earths oil reserve pit.
      Is that all there is??? Ans: Yes, and any single country in an attempt to manipulate price cannot add a single barrel!.
      Spectacular finds like Brazil's not withstanding , check the stats--each year the Global production goes down, the consumption goes up--and nothing else is needed to increase prices.
      To date, Alternatives are a joke and conservation a chuckle. To turn this around someone lacking lobbyists in congress will have to offer the consumer head on competition with fossil fuels.
      This was supposed to happen when oil reached $30 a barrel, and made alternatives profitable. So what's afoot???
      I don't know, but in the meantime either reach for your wallet or pedal!.
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    • Fri Sep 12th 10:58 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      The Next Bubble
      The next bubble will emerge where thieves congregate --around any traded entity which may be manipulated contrary to market fundamentals to their benefit.

      Always apply the sniff test with one eye on the clock. Too much $$ made too easily is always a prime indicator. Nothing is too far a stretch--even tulips. Often present is-"Pssst--water makers-(use any sector)-- are set to explode--Big Time!!". Mini bubbles smelling like methane gas, recently exited with big unfounded gains pop by the hundreds is the speculation swamp.
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    • Wed Aug 20th 11:22 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Do You Smell the Gold Bottom?
      Nice reassurance that what has always been---still is!

      There's a huckster for every point of view.--Don't listen.
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    • Tue Aug 19th 15:27 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Gold and the Dollar: Putting the Relative Cart Before the Relative Horse
      Not me Rich: But it does have merit--if you're proficient!
      Otherwise, do what you do best and Tom Sawyer it out.
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    • Tue Aug 19th 10:54 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Gold and the Dollar: Putting the Relative Cart Before the Relative Horse
      The Chinese think they are protecting their best customer and all the bonds they're already holding--Suckers--wait till it's payback time and they get 1/4 value dollars back.

      Our hollow shell of a dollar will take any help it can get, no matter how short term. Wait till it has to stand on it's own!! all the planets fiat currencies won't be able to afford a barrel of oil--or any other commodity!!.

      We're not as bad as Zimbabwe, but we're too far gone down that same road to reverse course. Just a matter of time for the irreversible bite of inflation to really take hold.

      I mean--Really!!!-did we think it would be different for us??--this time??.
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    • Mon Aug 18th 13:53 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Questioning the Current Outlook for Gold, the Dollar and U.S. Markets
      A litany of "What if's"
      The only valid "what if" is Hank and Ben fiddle, fuddle and manipulate as long as possible and beyond to avoid calamity, pre- election. Thereby just digging a deeper hole of denial that will take a looong period of fiscal restraint to climb out of.
      "If" you don't think Politicians have the will power---buy gold!
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    • Sun Aug 17th 13:24 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      What's Going On with Precious Metals?
      Pretty circumspect Tim but asks the questions that should be asked.

      Most of the answer lies in the fact that the dollar is NOT-getting stronger. Just some honest reporting have revealed the true drop in some other fiat currencies.

      If the improving dollar value counter the Pound, Euro etc.made you happy just compare it to Zimbabwe--You'll be ecstatic!!!
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    • Sun Aug 17th 13:15 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Painful Surprises and Big Lessons with Precious Metals & Energy
      Marc: Pretty clear in most of your thinking---but--

      "that suggest interest rate hikes are probably in the cards. "If these inflation numbers continue, the Fed is going to have no choice but to raise rates," said Matt Zeman"

      Please don't quote "Clueless Matt" anymore! If anyone thinks the Fed is going to increase rates into the teeth of credit "lacking" recession, he'd better ask the dealer to crack a new deck!!!
      Is he with a trading desk, or the last LaSalle division employee of GM??.
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    • Sun Aug 17th 12:59 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Hard Money Inflation: Oil and Gold Continue to Plunge Downward
      "Hard money inflation"?? That says it all for the whole "Theory"

      Theres not enough Viagra in the universe to even get the dollar off the floor to the "flaccid" stage "Hard" cannot be used in the same sentence--in-any context.!!

      The Chinese middle class?? Where do you put this puzzle piece???
      A guy in a repressive Communist regime who just cracked $5,000 a year is going to save GM???

      We're all in the same pot--cooked!!---Please pass me a carrot Woo Fat!.
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    • Sun Aug 17th 12:45 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Oil, Housing and the Dollar
      Whew!--Thanks Bill for reassuring me I was still on Earth.
      The Author has a right to adopt views from the third ring of Saturn--but---when the commentators join him in space, I have to pinch myself!.
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    • Sat Aug 16th 15:13 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Predicting the Bottom in Gold
      All countries print fiat dollars. The only thing behind them is the GDP and ability to tax the citizens. Why has Canada's dollar gone from 1/2 to par value with ours?? Could it be their raw materials and oil, that have real value, that is reflected in their currency??.

      We have good people, with fewer jobs every day, more debt and more fiat dollars, that are worth less and less--just because there are more than yesterday, with nothing but a song and dance to make you happy to take them.

      Now you can believe the song and dance, believe the figures they put out, and believe all the shills who produce nothing, but owe their jobs to the current financial system. Believe "The almighty dollar" is just crossing a speed bump. And load up on more of the same.

      Or you can go with your gut and go for the gold.
      And if your gut doesn't tell you something these days, you'd best just get out of the game and watch CNBC, cause either way you're going to be living off your "Victory" garden till you get some down to earth perspective and a "Gut" you can depend on.

      You got it right Bruno:
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    • Sat Aug 16th 13:15 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Cheap Chindian Cars and High Priced Oil Don't Mix
      Of far more impact than new car owners, are the millions whose newfound definition of affluence, is entering the fuel consumer class by putting a motor on a bike they previously peddled and buying a pint of gas a day.
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    • Sat Aug 16th 11:47 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      The Euro's Long Run Is Finally Over
      If you have a dozen fish and a fish-box-(ice cooler) that holds 10 you can be "fair" or smart.

      If your fish --the dollar--is starting to stink you and rotate it into the box and take out the Euro fish which will then start to stink while your $ fish smells a little better.

      This may have the appearance of fair management but your fish $-is just as rotten as it ever was and when you get to the dock none will be edible. Will you be better off being in the company of equal fools/losers cause they tried to help you??

      You should have gone home with ten fish and asked the others for a small piece of their price. Just cause the Euro fish is starting to smell doesn't mean the dollar fish is any "Less" rotten.
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    • Sat Aug 16th 11:28 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Bullish Dollar Rally - Fast Money Recap (8/15/08)
      I think you've got it Billy: Simple usually has th best chance of success.
      Politicians have no real interest in alternatives--"Wh... spend a lot of money on something that won't come to fruition while I'm in office and can be reelected on my credits for it??"

      The more complicated the formula gets as every divergent interest puts their variables in and deducts what they don't like the less chance it has of working at all.

      Simple things like T. Boons windmill freeing up X+Methane from a power plant to run your car and =X- imported oil is a perfect example.

      Drilling is a temporary return to past policy and at best will be the buffer we need to gain time for a transition to permanent alternatives.

      The last go around (1970's) we squandered the time --there will be no "easy" next time. We can do what has to be done or we can line up behind fools like Pelosi and suffer the consequences.
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