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How Low Can the Dollar Go?

A rather poor article.

Crisis Strategy: Coping With Trillion Dollar Deficits

If there is any upside to report, it is extremely difficult to find. BAC just stole another 20 billion from taxpayers. Chrysler wants more money.

On Jan 16 07:52 AM John D wrote:

> This is the same kind of 2nd guessing article that goes out of the
> way to create doom & gloom on the chance that if they are right
> they can say "I told you so" & if it doesn't pan out that way
> - no-one will ever refer back to it. If I was reporting anything
> right now it would looking at the upside of something as the news
> groups and newspapers are on the block today due to the drying up
> of advertising funds from the same companies that have been bashed
> - speculated - and reported on without ALL of the facts dries up.
> Perhaps its time to stop the speculating and start HELPING with some
> upside reporting instead of trying to make a bad situation even worse.
> Talk about BITING the HAND that FEEDS YOU !!

Hedge Fund Redemptions May Crash Q1 Markets

There is quite a lot of negative criticism of this post here, but I am not too sure that all of it is justified. I do believe he did mention 1st quarter withdrawals. That does allow sufficient time for a 45 day notice. Certainly, there have already been plenty of hedge fund withdrawals, but the point here is that as bad as everything is, the Madoff affair might very well make a few people wonder whether their money is safe anywhere other than under their matress. It makes me wonder that. I believe I read that Madoff is going to bankrupt the SIPC fund. Sort of makes one wonder whether one should remove ones funds from every brokerage account out there.

U.S. Dollar: The Trade of the Decade

What BS.