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as simple as your question is......there are so many variables that its not easy to give a direct answer...I personally believe no matter what the outcome ,its a win win for the originators who set up the global monetary policies to rule the world..they did it....! plain and simple.for example .if Ron Paul does win,he will try to abolish the federal reserve..and everybody thinks...,finally ..an evil entity abolished..The federal reserve already has a back up plan called the IMF...They personally are just waiting for the moment when they dont have to answer to the US congress..and morph ito the world bank keeping tibs on all of us through the process India's going through right now...with the real agenda hiding through smoke and mirrors called fraud or what ever child word they want to call how good it is for us.........lol
but.....as far as the EURO,or any other pair,get ready for the year of the US Dollar..the ponsi scheme is running out of steam in my eyes..there will be short term rallies,sure.. ,but dont rely on any long term reversal..buy the dollar for your long term investments,which includes correlated related responses from gold ,oil ect..
oh and happy new years to you also.!
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here it comes......!
Cashless Society: India Implements First Biometric ID Program for all of its 1.2 Billion Residents
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Texas police kill 8th-grader carrying pellet gun
By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN | AP – 3 hrs ago
A Brownsville Police officer directs a parent to a building at Dean Porter Park in …
A photo of the carbon dioxide powered pellet handgun 15-year-old Jaime Gonzalez was …
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The parents of an eighth grader who was fatally shot by police inside his South Texas school are demanding to know why officers took lethal action, but police said the boy was brandishing — and refused to drop — what appeared to be a handgun and that the officers acted correctly.
Dallas Texas chapter of Achilles international is looking for donations for worthy cause..
make sure you send it to the Dallas Texas branch please..
http://www.nycharities.org/donate/c_donate.asp?CharityCode=1946
so sick of politics....
presidents need to be elected for 6 years instead of 4.. cheaper this way in my eyes..
this way we can at least get 2 solid years of work from presidents..
we only get what? a total accumulation of work time is about 6 months..the rest of the time they waste our time on the campaign trail and vacations with our money paying his every whim.
common ....4 million for a 2 week vacation????? pretty big salary for just a mouth piece of the elite.
We need to correct what has been done to this country over the last
15 years or so ,then get Ron Paul in the white house to dissolve the federal reserve and change our monetary policies....That would wound the big wigs on wall street and chances are put alot of the coup d'etat in prison they built for us...?
that works for me.
I really dont think that move was motivated by buying as so much by stop outs and buying to sell short positions held by traders..( end of year tree shake.)
I also think the economist I've been hearing validating that gold and the stock markets are going to continue to set new highs..?? sure,If we weren't in a depression sure I would agree with their point ...BUT..,are they forgetting dollars are harder to come by ?? and in the near future, even tighter ...more and more people are starting to barter...my question to the econimist that see a bright future in 2012..is...where is the money going to come from to buy your wares?
Soros is cashing out of his gold positions..!
All we can hope for is the fed to be able to keep teeter toddering the money in circulation carefully..so far they have done a fantastic job of dividing this country in sections at a time ,and so far has averted a civil war...well enough of this on the last trading day of the year..
this guy comments hits the nail on the head referring to this article.
Joseph W. McQuaid: Ron Paul is truly dangerous
By JOSEPH W. McQUAID
New Hampshire Union Leader Publisher
Published Dec 29, 2011 at 3:00 am (Updated Dec 28, 2011)
www.unionleader.com/article/20111229/OPINION01/712299993
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http://www.unionleader.com/article/20111229/OPINION01/712299993
bald face lie...but ok... im learning thats what we can expect from the foreign policies of the new world order.
U.S.: China not a currency manipulator
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
The Obama administration said Tuesday that China is making headway on its currency-valuation policies and should not be deemed a currency manipulator ..
looking at negative correlation on gbp/jpy hourly chart..1 day left on trading ..gonna try a short position from here.
yea...
Merry Christmas you old goat..! and the documentary called thrive..
i have it listed in the sticky notes if u care to learn what we could never conceive as true reality..........and BTW,hope u took profit from the greece trade..?
and a happy new year if I dont hear from you for 3 months like jrb an the rest.!expecting Cap to chime in soon..,for his yearly visit..
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Unemployment rates in almost all states dropped in November, and 45 states had jobless rates lower than the year before, Labor Department data showed on Tuesday.
good old fashioned U.S. ingenuity.... prisons and fema camps going up everywhere...be someone!
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and if that last post has any validity as being a bubble,the US dollar should be the investment boom of 2012...
Why gold has lost its luster
Nin-Hai Tseng, writer-reporter
December 20, 2011: 11:54 AM EST
For the 11th year in a row, gold prices have rallied, making this one of the longest winning streaks for the yellow metal. And for most of 2011, it seemed like nothing could stop prices from climbing -- gold prices peaked in September at more than $1,900 an ounce.
But in recent months, many high-profile investors have sold their positions, suggesting that gold's glory days could be coming to an end.
Billionaire investor George Soros, who called gold "the ultimate bubble," cut his holdings in the SPDR Gold Trust (GLD) as early as May. Hedge fund manager and long-time gold bull John Paulson held tight for a few months, but eventually slashed his gold holdings by a third during the third quarter.
And last week, economist Dennis Gartman, who correctly predicted the slump in commodities in 2008, sold off the last of his bullion. He stresses that he isn't bearish on gold, but thinks the precious metal isn't exactly the safe haven that many investors have come to know it.
Admittedly, few are screaming bear in the gold market. But even the most bullish investors admit sentiments have changed in a noticeable way.
The last time gold went bust was in 1980, when priced dropped more than 60% in a single year. It wasn't until 20 years later, in 2000, that investors saw positive returns. Is gold returning to a bear market?
Since its September peak, gold has since lost about 15% of its value. Technically, it takes a 20% decline for a bear market to transpire. It's anyone's guess where price may fall in the murky world of commodities investing, but the precious metal doesn't have far to go before it formally enters bearish territory.
Here are four signs that suggest gold may be losing is glitter:
U.S. Treasuries get more love than gold
The world could nearly collapse, but the value of gold will remain. That popular notion has long fueled the rise of the yellow metal. Unlike other commodities, gold is known for its intrinsic value since there are few practical uses for it. And yet, it has been viewed as a safe haven from slumping stock markets and slow growth.
But at a time when European officials struggle with debt woes and slip closer to a recession, investors have actually been scurrying away from gold. Daily price swings have sent investors looking for an even safer bet, and they've found it in U.S. Treasuries. Ironically enough, this comes only four months after Standard & Poor's stripped the U.S. of its stellar triple-A rating.
Bond yields, which move opposite of prices, have fallen to historic lows. Ten-year Treasuries have dropped to 1.87% -- proving that investors' appetite for such securities haven't waned much, even as S&P warns that the U.S. is no longer the safest of borrowers.
Investors aren't too worried about inflation
The flock to bonds also signals that investors aren't very worried about inflation, says Cetin Ciner, finance professor at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington. This partly explains the fall in gold, which is often used as a hedge against steadily rising prices.
"It's very hard to predict where prices could go, but ultimately the fundamentals are not there," says Ciner, who has done extensive research on the gold market. "It's not the safe investment that people thought it was. It has actually become very dangerous right now."
Prices have fallen below gold's 200-day moving average
When gold falls below the 200-day moving average, investors typically take notice. Last week, for the first time in two years, the precious metal fell below the average of $1,615 an ounce and is currently trading at $1,613 an ounce. Though this hasn't led analysts to call a bear market, Boston University Finance Professor Mark Williams says investors should take the development as a "wake-up call."
"The next resistance level is $1,500," he says. "If gold drops below this floor, it is further proof that the bubble, which peaked in September at more than $1,900, has begun to burst."
Gold beats platinum
And then there's platinum, a precious metal that also has industrial uses. Historically, platinum trades at a premium of $100 or more over gold. But that shifted in August when gold neared its most recent peak. Williams points out that this is another indicator that gold prices are inflated. At current platinum prices of $1,400 an ounce, gold could fall to $1,300 or lower, he says
WASHINGTON (CNNMoney) -- The Federal Reserve is expected this week to release a set of proposed rules detailing how much reserve capital big banks will need to keep on hand in the future.
Wall Street is watching the rulemaking closely. Higher capital cushions would directly impact banks' ability to lend,
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this just another clue that tells me they have no intentions of kick starting the economy..they are just forcing us to accept the new world order under their terms as its pointed out in the documentary i posted...
the only safety net for us is to have enough margin so they cant nit pip us..but as kit pointed out it is real ..
How Did World War II End the Great Depression?: Echoes
By Louis Hyman
It is commonly opined, in high school history classes and backyard barbeques, that government spending in the run-up to World War II "got us out of the Depression." This narrative conveys the sense that the end of the Great Depression was both accidental and necessarily belligerent.
But exactly how World War II got us out of the Depression is generally ignored -- even though it provides a lesson at odds with the accepted interpretation.
The war did provide a unique demand for entirely new industries. While airplanes had only been incidentally important in World War I, it was believed that they would be decisive in the 1940s. The problem, for the U.S. military, was that it had only a few planes, and fewer resources to construct them with. The government couldn't simply go to the market and buy some planes; it had to create the market. And it did.
In a genius marriage of finance and policy, the government founded the Defense Plant Corporation, or DPC, in 1940. The DPC was run by a committee of public-minded businessmen from all stripes of commerce: William Knudsen, who had helped organize Ford's production line and then became the president of General Motors Co.; Donald Nelson, a vice president at Sears, Roebuck & Co.; and Ralph Budd, president of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, to name a few.
Before the DPC's founding, government-financed capital spending accounted for only 5 percent of the annual U.S. investment in industrial capital. In 1943, thanks to the DPC, the government accounted for 67 percent of U.S. capital investment, utterly transforming not only how much was produced but what was produced.
In 1940, for instance, Dow Chemical produced only 6 million pounds of magnesium -- needed for aircraft hulls -- per year, in one plant in Michigan. DPC loans to Alcoa soon helped expand production to 600 million pounds per year. In 1939, the military had 28 airfields. During the war, it built 1,000 more across the U.S. In one stroke, the government created the necessary infrastructure and the manufacturing capacity to enable an entirely new industrial sector.
By the end of the war, the U.S. aerospace industry was four times the size of the car industry, which had been the mainstay of the economy for 20 years.
Today, what's most exciting is how quickly and efficiently the DPC moved in transforming the economy. Its practical policies cobbled together different strategies for promoting the new industry, including direct government ownership (sold off after the war), direct financing, indirect insurance for private capital and accelerated depreciation schedules. It wasn't ideological, it was simply logical -- and, for the time, financially sophisticated.
What's sad today, at least for historians, is that the DPC is mostly forgotten. A fantastic history of it was written by Gerald White, but outside of a few specialists, it isn't well known. The story of U.S. aerospace development has been seen as the inevitable triumph of technology demanded by wartime. Actually, American aerospace wasn't inevitable, but the result of smart decisions made by hard-minded policymakers and industrialists.
The Depression ended not simply because the military needed more materiel, but because the government used wartime demand to transform what America made. Financing all those investments helped lead the country out of the Depression and established a new and important sector for the economy. Aerospace and its related industries became a key component of the postwar boom.
Private capital once again had a place to be profitably invested -- which is the secret to any economy's success.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il dead at age 69
Im guessing they put something in the air or the water or our food,because if anybody watched the documentary i posted..should of at least sparked a picture response from jester,along with the blueprints from capitalist and jbr......!
anyways ..,gold,oil...QE3 ?
ive been waiting for a year to see gold drop through the floor like the baltic dry index.....unless they have figured out a way to change physics..(what goes up must come down) ,but then again ..they just discovered the God particle..
this documentary explains everything.
take the time and watch all of it..IF YOU Dare
THRIVE
just looked at it.,i wouldnt touch it just becuase of all the though that went into it..i count zero.
fxcm.com
so are you saying you have a better chance of catching sickle cell anemia than a pip or two with that program?
this documentary explains everything.
this is the blue pill of the matrix.
http://www.tubeplus.me/player/1967593/Thrive/
a run on the banks in Greece!
thats gonna leave a bruise.
the mark comes next.!
sure your on target.....
just a heads up sleepy head..
been hunting?
and....i really didnt mean
LOL..in fact it was just a hmmm.
;)
Iran threatens retaliation after drone shot down
Iran's military said on Sunday it had shot down a US reconnaissance drone aircraft in eastern Iran and warned it would retaliate on foreign soil for the incursion.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/8934086/Iran-threatens-retaliation-after-drone-shot-down.html
Pandora radio....
what an amazing site.
talk about programmer's..now that's amazing.
lol...you have 3 trends in trading ..up,down and sideways......long term short term ,depends on your time frame from which you trade...
robots can actually be helpful and you can be in more trades at the same time..just set it up on your terms and walk away......dont distrust technology...your programming maybe..huh?..im just like trading in my time,i dont use them but I wont distrust them as long as the programmer programs it for the trend at hand.
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actually good to see you still in the game..,I bet your a better trader today...hows life treating you?
ready to cash in on this next move?
almost ready ..can actually get in anywhere from here.US dollar is about to take a leg lower soon..maybe the NY open? anybodys guess ,but this consolidation looks like its about to release soon.......
I think the rest of the game will be fill the gap until the NY open tomorrow...??
looking at gold ,silver ,aud,and the eur...
do you see it setting up for dive?
im going to wait until midnight,but im think im going to short aud/usd before the ny open if not sooner..
hmmm,
wish we were neighbors.....
;)
as far as the markets......? im tired of watching the dos based pong game play its self...
been reading the book "secrets of the federal reserve"
want to really get pissed off? read a few chapters...
clearly shows the federal reserve is nothing more than a legale monopoly of the banking industry in private hands...totally unconstitutional...Washington is nothing but a mayor position for the federal reserve who makes its money from taxes ..so ,and im no lawyer but just common sense tells me if the credit and the money of the land is owned privately........and not by the US government lead by the people for the people......is TAXATION without REPRESENTATION..plain and simple..dont know how they can put people in jail for not paying taxes.
but yea..want to get pissed off..read the researched and factual book "secrets of the federal reserve"
labatts will do that to you every time..
at least it does with me..
but Im a believer that your not having fun on a friday night without slurring.......call me old fashioned.
The wine is brewing ..
wont be ready until DECEMBER...,
store bought beer for tonight..it still puts a smile on my face..
cant you tell?
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