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    • Wed Jun 25th 17:13 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Is the Fed Being Hawkish Enough?
      Imagine ... a go-for-broke system where you work like an bee and save like a Trojan, but your government steals your honey to buy enough votes to raise your taxes.
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    • Fri May 30th 17:43 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Is Crude Oil a 'Bubble' Ready to Burst?
      Want oil prices to come down? Start greasing the skids for the world's first offshore coal-fired electric utility.

      Feel free to pump the relatively benign CO2 through beds of algae if that it is what's necessary to assuage in-country, blame-America-first, anti-capitalist, global warming fanatics and alarmists (cheerleaders all for their dreams of the one great collectivist world order), if that is what is necessary to combat out-of-country energy-monopolists.

      The relatively low price of coal is the biggest weapon available to America, India and China, when and if it comes down to a fight for economic survival. Since the US is the Saudi Arabia of coal, it's long past time for the leadership of the country to start getting positively charged about it.

      If the leaders of the nation will simply vote for public servants in the House and Senate to put America first--and kick all of the other rascals out--that alone will put a big dent in the every oil barrel thereafter.
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    • Wed May 14th 22:12 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Yield Implosion Muddies Currency Waters
      What to make of this: "When money moves in and out of any commodity, it tends to do so at breakneck speed," from the article? What's happening here? Are you saying liquidity is so tight, the velocity of money is being kicked in the rear, harder and with more desparation than a company's controller squeezing A/Ps down to 31 days because the company's line of credit is tight? Is so, then the global economy needs more greenbacks. If you saying people with options choose "short" the dollar by exchanging for bank balances in other currencies ... then, at this point, I would call that nothing but speculation--perhaps a well-financed speculation--but likely as prescient as investing in Global Crossings at the top of the Dot.Com.
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    • Wed May 14th 10:57 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      The Fed Finds Religion
      Some countries manage a political consensus that gives more weight to price stability than to employment. For other countries, for whatever the reasons—especially including the US—full employment is the new economic tar baby, slow to no growth is a recession and unemployment swelling to 5% is just one interventionist government edict away from a depression.
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    • Tue May 13th 20:19 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      The Dollar Is Currently Bottoming
      I'll take all the UUP you got at $22.30 or less and ... thanks for all the fish!
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    • Tue May 13th 20:00 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      U.S. Monetary Policy: Defending the Status Quo
      Europe, Japan ... all helped more directly -- by ponying up bucks -- to help Bush I bring order to the Middle East. Europe is so moribund now, that under Bush II, Europe can only help in this very small way of not griping too much as US exports become more competitive.
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    • Thu May 8th 20:12 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      The U.S. Dollar: A Marathon, Not A Sprint
      Europeans are now flying the US to shop, which is exactly the sort of thing that Econ 101 says will happen, is happening now.
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    • Sun May 4th 23:40 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Fading Glory: The Dollar as the World's Reserve Currency
      For sure China is doing things that cannot be done in the U.S., e.g., adding every year the equivalent of the UK's entire nuclear energy production, mining coal--and buying coal from the US--and of course using coal to make energy, builidng oil refineries too. A oil refinery has not been built in the in the US in 30-years.

      The left in the US is anti-business, anti-religion, anti-personal liberty. The left in China is just the same, except that, it isn't anti-business.
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    • Fri May 2nd 12:20 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Friday Outlook: Commodities, Emerging Markets
      When trying to determine the optimum value of the dollar on the world stage, the following is what all Americans should know about Europe. They do not believe in lowering the price of a good, and profit by selling more at a lower margin (the Euro mindset is related to the sort of zero-sum thinking that pervades anti-capitalists thought here). Euro-thinking leads them to try to get utmost profit from every single unit they sell, as there are only so many units that they intend to sell, that can be sold. The idea of increasing the popularity of an item by lowering the price—thereby increasing its value—is anathema: that would only mean hiring and training more employees and accepting some business risk. In other words, Euro-thinking is much like that among the members of the oil cartel, except that Europeans, if at all possible, do not want to buy anything from you, and do not ever want a bill from you for everything you do that benefits them around the world. These simple facts of life are why dollar-Euro exchange rates are meaningless.
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    • Thu May 1st 13:28 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Thursday Outlook: 'As Advertised'
      I understand the argument you make: that we really are in a recession, despite the numbers. However, the effect of increasing the cost of a key factor of production—e.g., higher oil prices, leading to, among other things, increased costs of energy, production, transportation, etc.—does not real inflation make.

      In a business atmosphere that was less politically charged, we’d either have the price of oil coming down by now, or U.S. growth would be through the roof instead of just above zero, as investment flowed to new and alternative sources of energy and carbon, such as nuclear energy, more oil and gas drilling, coal mining—not to mention, research and development of mitigation strategies and methods.

      What you see in the numbers is an understating of the economy. It is a failure to more objectively quantify—and add to the GDP—an amount equal to the apparent value of having anti-business, anti-capitalists stymie energy planning and policy as they hamstring U.S. energy production and demonize energy users.
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    • Tue Apr 29th 10:55 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Tuesday Outlook: Y2K Head Fake Redux?
      Is it just the pattern you're looking at or re you seeing some comparisons today with the [I}dot-com bubble,[[/I] as follows:

      "The [B]'dot-com bubble'[/B] (or sometimes the 'I.T. bubble') was a speculative bubble covering roughly 1995–2001 (with a climax on March 10th, 2000 with the NASDAQ peaking at 5132.52) during which stock markets in Western nations saw their value increase rapidly from growth in the new Internet sector and related fields. The period was marked by the founding (and, in many cases, spectacular failure) of a group of new Internet-based companies commonly referred to as dot-coms. A combination of rapidly increasing stock prices, individual speculation in stocks, and widely available venture capital created an exuberant environment in which many of these businesses dismissed standard business models, focusing on increasing market share at the expense of the bottom line. The bursting of the dot-com bubble marked the beginning of a relatively mild yet rather lengthy early 2000s recession in the developed world." (wiki)

      I don't see that
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    • Mon Apr 28th 11:08 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Tax Talk and the Economy
      George Walker Bush, Machiavelli's president? He's certainly been tortured enough by the DeMedici!
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    • Thu Apr 17th 11:05 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      It's Time to Focus on the Value of the Dollar
      Government taxation has become the unwelcome house guest. It shows up when things are booming--eating pie and throwing your dollars around--and then slinks off when things are not going so great and when you could use a little help clearing the table.

      Imagine government as the sponge in the middle of a frozen glass of water; as the water melts, the sponge gets bigger and bigger. When all the water has melted, and the sponge is as big as it can get, no matter how hard you work at it, all there is to drink is the wee bit that the sponge has not soaked up.

      Government should be spending when times are tough. Government should be putting money aside in the booms-i.e., staying the heck out of the way. Look to California to see the story unfolding of what Government should not do: it's not liberal economics that is the problem--it's liberals.
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    • Mon Apr 14th 11:18 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      When the Rest of the World Stops Hoarding US Dollars
      This is the new world-wide "silver-standard&... with the oil-rich but otherwise poor nations of the world as the new monopolists, leading of course to a necessary realignment--either for good or for now (who knows)--of all of the basic factors of production, labor, energy, capital, etc. Ask not when the dollar will strengthen; ask when the cost of oil will fall due to increased production or increased investment in nuclear power.
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    • Mon Apr 14th 10:56 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      The Dollar's Rout: Beginning of the End or End of the Beginning?
      Living with a loose dollar has been W. Europe’s sole (excluding UK) contribution to saving Western Civilization from the anti-Pope; and, the increased purchasing power of their currencies have made it an easy ride. The re-pricing of US breadbasket products, due to the increased cost of oil, does not Europeans either because they’ve discriminated against those products for years. What we’re hearing—but in my words, not in theirs—is that G7 really has nothing to gripe about and is bashfully thankful for the US taking the risks it does for their relative collective free ride.
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