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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 01:22 AM Original message |
Why are people "worried" about the dollar? It seems pretty strong |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 01:36 AM Response to Original message |
1. It is doing 'fine' as long as you confine your observations to performance against |
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earth mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 02:07 AM Response to Original message |
2. Food and water are the next things those bastard banksters are planning to game. |
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BzaDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 02:10 AM Response to Original message |
3. The dollar is perfectly fine. |
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Art_from_Ark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 02:53 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Apparently you have never experienced real inflation |
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BzaDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 04:07 AM Response to Reply #4 |
9. The inflation of the 70s was primarily due to increases in costs of imports (such as oil). |
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Art_from_Ark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 04:25 AM Response to Reply #9 |
11. I disagree |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 08:09 AM Response to Reply #11 |
16. Interest rates played into the equation somehow. |
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BzaDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 10:15 AM Response to Reply #11 |
19. Many economists disagree with you. n/t |
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Art_from_Ark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 11:48 PM Response to Reply #19 |
23. As Will Rogers once said |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 05:26 AM Response to Reply #3 |
13. LOL |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 08:27 AM Response to Reply #3 |
17. One hundred years ago, an ounce of gold bought a fine man's suit. |
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Art_from_Ark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 09:48 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. A fine man's suit is $1200??? |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 12:21 PM Response to Reply #18 |
22. Tailored suit, not off the rack. |
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Electric Monk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 02:56 AM Response to Original message |
5. You nailed it in 1. sell overpriced gold |
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Art_from_Ark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 03:07 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Overpriced by whose standards? |
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Electric Monk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 03:20 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Triple what it was a decade ago now. Do you think it's still going up? |
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Art_from_Ark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 03:43 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. It still could go up |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 04:22 AM Response to Original message |
10. Search US debt 2018 |
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tavalon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 05:08 AM Response to Original message |
12. As long as the Chinese stay with it, it will survive |
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dmallind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 10:24 AM Response to Reply #12 |
20. Strange - they own us with about 6.5% of our debt? How so? NT |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 10:29 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. They buy about 10% of the newly issued debt we auction each year. |
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Chulanowa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 07:17 AM Response to Original message |
14. I've begun wondering if monetary agencies are trying to cause a panic |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 08:05 AM Response to Original message |
15. Look at how much debt the dollar is backing. |
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