Posts Tagged ‘ Dollar ’

ZH: Dollar LIBOR mkt hints that Credit Agricole was Bank X

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/dollar-libor-market-hints-credit-agricole- was-bank-x 66x leverage?! Excerpt: And given Credit Agricole's 2nd worst position on Bloomberg's Tangible Common Equity Ratio screen (behind Landesbank Berlin no less), it is...
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Europe: Bernakenstein to the rescue

Two stories in the past 24 hours on this, one from Aljazeera and the other AE-P. The idea is that the Fed buys European govt bonds to hold down yields. The Aljazeera story (an opinion piece from a Washington think tank) gives more background detail, co...
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14 Reasons why we should Nationalize the Federal Reserve

One of the most important steps that we could take to bring prosperity back to America would be to nationalize the Federal Reserve. Doing so would allow the federal government to quit borrowing money, dramatically reduce taxes and eventually pay of...
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US Dollar Update: Zero Hour Approaches; Bottom Appears Imminent

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October 29, 2011
US Dollar Update: Zero Hour Approaches; Bottom Appears Imminent

I think that short positions on the dollar right now are very high risk. Two weeks ago, the dollar gave some false signals, apparently indicating that it was nearing the end of its correction.  At that time, it appea...
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Doug Casey Speculation Series – The dollar is a paper abstraction that will dry up and blow away,

http://vimeo.com/29058918 Seems he agrees with HyperTiger sort of... but I am not sure if he is on top or not. I don't agree with everything he says in this and it does seem to be a bit , well no very self serving. But I agree with more than I disag...
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Holiday Retail Sales Set to Slide Amid High Unemployment and Low Consumer Confidence

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October 5, 2011
Holiday Retail Sales Set to Slide Amid High Unemployment and Low Consumer Confidence

Holiday retail sales - which account for almost 40% of retail revenue, worth $453 billion in sales last year - are in jeopardy.

Consumer spending continues to be restrained by an unemployment rate that has stayed above 9% for 26 of the past 28 months. Furthermore, rising food...
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S&P Could Fall 20%, 2-Year Treasury Hit 0%: Analyst

S&P Could Fall 20%, 2-Year Treasury Hit 0%: Analyst Published: Monday, 12 Sep 2011 | 4:27 PM ET Text Size By: John Melloy Rising risk aversion, a surging U.S. dollar, historical seasonal weakness and a climb in bonds could send the S&P 500 down as mu...
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Bernanke: "U.S. bank exposure to ChocoZone is…

Ya gotta give Bernanke credit for being THE most consistent clueless (or lying) Fed Politburo Head, ever. For, as reported here: http://www.cnbc.com/id/44411981 ...our own loveable, Pigman in Chief is now soothingly cooing that the U.S. bank's: TWO...
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King Dollar Is Being De-Throned

A couple of weeks ago as the markets were tanking and everyone was running around like a chicken with its head cutoff; i was quietly watching the markets, currencies and commodities and trying to decipher what was happening and all the while i notic...
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A Currency Markets Primer with Four Ways to Pocket a Profit

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September 1, 2011
A Currency Markets Primer with Four Ways to Pocket a Profit

If you haven't traded in the currency markets, you're missing out on the largest financial market in the world.

Average daily trading volume in the global foreign-exchange markets (forex or FX markets) was $3.98 trillion in 2010, according to the Swiss-based Bank for International Settlements, and estimates...
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Why is the Invisible Hand in My Pocket While China Grows Unchecked?

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August 11, 2011

Gold Soars.  Stock Markets Tank.  US Debt Downgraded. China Calls for End to Dollar Dominance.  Riots in London.  Devotees of Rapture Theory are likely wondering why they got left behind during the Tribulation.  More worldly, modern perso...
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Safe-Haven Currencies: If You Want to Flee the U.S. Dollar, Here Are Four Places to Hide

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July 26, 2011
Safe-Haven Currencies: If You Want to Flee the U.S. Dollar, Here Are Four Places to Hide

As a young British banker in the inflation-ridden 1970s, I got used to carrying large amounts of German deutsche marks, Swiss francs and Japanese yen in my wallet - to have some security against the lousy performance of the British pound sterling.

While paying for a pizza in London with...
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China urges U.S. to boost confidence in debt, dollar

They must be watching cspan. Yesterdays house session was a farce. link
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Inflating Away America’s Future

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June 24, 2011
Inflating Away America’s Future

Americans are suffering from a lack of adequate savings to fund a comfortable retirement. Our growing debt burdens virtually assure us that the lofty living standards of today will soon be nothing more than a long forgotten memory.

Those ideas are now becoming more promulgated.

But what...
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Exporters to the US Lost the War on Deflation

Exporters to the US Lost the War on Deflation

Exporters to the US Lost the War on Deflation By Howard Simons Jun 14, 2011 Now that “financial repression” is well on its way to becoming today’s phrase that pays, let’s see whether exporters to the US can be included on the list of those wh...
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The "Pesofication" of the U.S. Dollar

The "Pesofication" of the U.S. Dollar By Martin Hutchinson, Contributing Editor, Money Morning ...
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The "Pesofication" of the U.S. Dollar

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June 2, 2011
The "Pesofication" of the U.S. Dollar

I've dubbed this the "pesofication" of the U.S. dollar.

But we're really talking here about the dollar's long-term demise.

The pesofication of the dollar represents the end of the greenback as a major world currency and figures to be one of the major long-term challenges that we U.S....
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Look Alikes, Dominos and Slippery Slides

Look Alikes, Dominos and Slippery Slides

May 14, 2011 Analysis from Chris Kimble Here's a weekend update from technical analyst Chris Kimble with several charts that inspired his arresting title. Click for a larger image Click for a larger image Chris comments: Multip...
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Analysis: Dollar vs commodities play strong on end of QE2

Reuters link
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Is the $ Crashing NOW???

This analyst thinks the dollar is crashing now right before our eyes and a currency crisis has begun. "The biggest story in the market is the currency crash right now occuring in the US" http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=1906892049
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The Death of the Dollar: Will the Fed Kill the Greenback at Tomorrow’s FOMC Meeting?

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April 26, 2011
The Death of the Dollar: Will the Fed Kill the Greenback at Tomorrow’s FOMC Meeting?

Months or years from now, when analysts are studying the death of the U.S. dollar, they'll look back and see that the greenback's demise began on a specific day - Wednesday, April 27, 2011.

As in ... tomorrow.

At 12:15 p.m. tomorrow, at the conclusion of a two-day Federal...
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Dollar takes kidney punch, drops to the canvas

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April 20, 2011

Viper trying another "715 is THE TOP" call
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What’s Hated Most May Be a Contrarian Buy (U.S. Dollar)

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April 19, 2011

What's the obvious contrarian trade? Long the U.S. dollar. I've been discussing the U.S. dollar since January (Could the U.S. Dollar Rise 50%? January 12, 2011), based on a simple trading observation: it's the most despised investment on the pla...
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Hardest States To Make A Living In

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April 15, 2011

Though many economic experts say the American job market is back on track, some states are more firmly on the right track while others have pretty much fallen off completely. Because these day, even if you can find a job, making a living in your s...
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Why The Feds Are Desperate to Avoid a Correction

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April 12, 2011

Whoa! This is getting interesting. Two major central banks are tightening – China and the ECB. But nobody seems to care. These central banks are warning investors to sell their high-risk investments. Instead, gold hits new records! The dollar is ...
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Fed’s Easy Money Policies = Hard Times for the Masses

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April 8, 2011

As predicted, the feds’ easy money policies are turning into hard times for the middle and lower classes. Oil prices have gone up with the Fed’s balance sheet. For every dollar the Fed added, the price of oil ticked up too. Now, the Fed has th...
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Worried About The U.S. Dollar?

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March 1, 2011

The latest on the greenback.. Long seen as a place of safety in times of turmoil, the dollar may be losing its haven appeal. Soaring oil prices, driven by upheaval in the Middle East, falling equities and elevated volatility have all made investors u...
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Damon Vickers’ hypothetical dollar crash…

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February 27, 2011

(and book promo)... Link
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Dollar Crash? Truth from CNBC…

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February 25, 2011

Link The money line by Damon Vickers is, "Who's buying?"
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America, Poised For A Hyperinflationary Event?

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February 9, 2011

Interesting piece from Forbes..... It is a long standing proposition of many, supported on both theoretical and historical grounds, that one of the surest roads to hyperinflation is one grounded in a government whose answer to every economic and so...
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