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While You Were Sleeping, The Dollar Continued To Get Crushed
The Business Insider ^ | Joe Weisenthal

Posted on 10/01/2010 4:29:39 AM PDT by blam

While You Were Sleeping, The Dollar Continued To Get Crushed

Joe Weisenthal
Oct. 1, 2010, 5:36 AM

Or to put it another way, the US gained ground in the global competitive currency devaluation war.

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(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: currencies; devaluation; dollar; yuan

1 posted on 10/01/2010 4:29:45 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam
Race To The Bottom (Peter Schiff)
2 posted on 10/01/2010 4:31:43 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam

Headline should also read “While you were sleeping, George Soros made alot of money”....Obama and the Demonrats have executed the Cloward Pivens strategy to perfection so far....can the November elections derail the runaway train?.....God help us.


3 posted on 10/01/2010 4:43:59 AM PDT by oust the louse (When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.)
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To: blam
With Its Manufacturing Slumping And Currency Surging, Germany Is About To Dive Into The Yuan Battle With China
4 posted on 10/01/2010 4:47:06 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam
Interestingly, this could be BAD news for Europe--especially if you're EADS, the corporate parent of Airbus. Why? Because it makes Boeing airliners cheaper, and with Boeing already having big best-sellers with the 737-700/800/900 series and the 777-300ER and now ramping up 787 production, it could make Boeing hyper-competitive in the airliner market.
5 posted on 10/01/2010 4:55:37 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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“it could make Boeing hyper-competitive in the airliner market”

But, methinks that the world commies won’t buy Boeing just because it’s American.


6 posted on 10/01/2010 4:59:46 AM PDT by vanilla swirl (We are the Patrick Henry we have been waiting for!)
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To: blam

Oil, gas, winter fuel oil, diesel, every thing imported, all cloths, shoes, cars, auto parts to go up 15%.

Rich foreigners don’t like to loan a trillion a year at near zero and get back funny money. So, yet more pressure for the inevitable interest rate hikes.

So, basically, we’ll be poorer. It hard to get richer at 1-3 percent growth rate when basics are increasing at 15 percent.

The good news is that housing nation wide is following the Buffalo/Detroit model. So, young people with out decent jobs, and who can’t afford children, will have a place to burn moldings and furniture to crash in.

Repubicrats and the Federal Reserve and paper money, oh yeah!


7 posted on 10/01/2010 5:01:08 AM PDT by Leisler ("Over time they create a legal system that plunders and a moral code that glorifies it." F. Bastiat)
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Gold’s looking like a good buy then.


8 posted on 10/01/2010 5:05:29 AM PDT by agere_contra (...what if we won't eat the dog food?)
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9 posted on 10/01/2010 5:11:55 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
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To: blam

A weak dollar is actually bad news for countries that hold our debt. Our debt is in dollars, so every time the dollar drops in value they loose money. China isn’t happy about it, so they’re threatening not to lend us any more money. It would hurt in the short run, but it might force the US Government to live within its means for awhile.


10 posted on 10/01/2010 5:13:56 AM PDT by mbynack (Retired USAF SMSgt)
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And, if the needed money is in the till, so what, we got the loan.

The price of all stuff is going to rise. We have been living in a dream world of super low prices or a long time and that time is ending.


11 posted on 10/01/2010 5:20:40 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Greetings Jacques. The revolution is coming)
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To: oust the louse
can the November elections derail the runaway train?.

I think it's probably too late.

Obama realized if he wanted to destroy America he had to do it quickly. It's already been done - I suspect that things are MUCH worse than we even realize, but O and his minions with the help of Soros are propping everything up until such time that they just pull the plug and watch it go down the drain.

If the elections go our way in Nov., he just might pull the plug and disappear to some hideaway to watch the destruction from afar.

12 posted on 10/01/2010 5:36:10 AM PDT by Mygirlsmom (Just ask Coates: The Obama Admin has no problem with racism as long as it's "applied correctly")
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To: blam

Likely deliberate as part of this game of trade chicken we appear to be playing with the ChiComs. And for long-term debt monetization.


13 posted on 10/01/2010 6:59:01 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: blam

But Obama said we are on the right track. /s


14 posted on 10/01/2010 10:17:42 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: oust the louse
can the November elections derail the runaway train?

Nope, Fed policy is driving this massive devaluation. The Fed is "independent", so there's no stopping them.

15 posted on 10/01/2010 10:20:20 AM PDT by kevao
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