Doomsday Dick and the Plague of Frogs

[Jcrowley]

Everything He Touches Turns Into Someone Else's Gold
Doomsday Dick and the Plague of Frogs
By MIKE WHITNEY

Gold traders love Dick Cheney. Every time he opens his twisted lip and barks out another threat to Iran, the dollar takes a powder and gold futures shoot to the moon. Maybe that's the way Cheney likes it. After all, he dumped about $25 million in euro-bonds before he took office. Judging by the way he and brother-Bush have flogged dollar, he must have doubled his investment by now.

The old greenback has dropped nearly 35% in the last 6 years while gold has just about tripled. In 2000 the dollar was a trim, sinewy pillar of strength. It entered the ring like a young Mohammed Ali; darting to and fro while pummeling his prey with quick laser-like blows that were barely visible. Now, the greenback plods along like a 60 year old Rocky Balboa, wheezing heavily and reeling with every punch; waiting for the one roundhouse that will leave him staring up from the canvas, spitting up broken teeth and blood.

The dollar's in a heap o' trouble and "Doomsday" Dick is doing his level-best to make sure that it hits the skids before he leaves office. Just yesterday the snappish Vice President said, "It would be a serious mistake if a nation like Iran were to become a nuclear power. Then he added ominously, "All options are still on the table."

That comment put the dollar on its backside and sent Tokyo gold futures to a 21 year high.

Good work, Dick.

http://www.counterpunch.org/whitney02262007.html

[donsu]

1. if it doesn't give a neo con a profit, they don't do it

Iraq is giving them huge profits, so Iraq will continue.