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Let's just say that privacy is bliss...and no...it is not the Phillipines...I am not familiar with the Phillipines... However...I would encourage those who find the cards stacked against you in the US...to have the courage to make the changes that will make your environment better...

Benefitiing from US job devaluation and retirement deterioration.... Firstly you eliminate your hard asset exposure in the US...Sell your land..houses..buildings..get rid of all of your debts.... If you are a professional trader...you move to a country that is improving while the US is...

SteveD...... Excellent Commentary..... The truth is ...nobody knows for sure.... What we do know is that outsourcing is a growing issue... Outsourcing basically means a shift down in personal incomes... The real question is how sensitive is the US in terms of being economically...

What is particularly misleading about the jobs number is that it does not reflect total job incomes... One hundred million jobs averaging $40,000 versus one hundred million jobs averaging $25,000 is a staggering blow to the US economy... If the US economy is so sensitive that $100 per...

The US is basically a playing field for big corporations... Small businesses of any kind do not meet peak efficiency standards... Big companies just want to sell more product...they do not care if its US labor...they just want to sell more product for more money...so that the earnings can be...

Excellent Commentary... Add: This can be done with a stroke of a pen...and can reduce all prices in the US by more than 30%... Eliminate ¨legal largesse¨....penalize people not companies... Eliminate the IRS...establish a 15% consumption tax...which will be reduced to 7% over 15...

Quite frankly...other currencies in concert with interest paid are far more attractive than any dollar play on the board....The interest offered in any dollar based asset is not attractive...

Excellent commentary..articles..etc.. Russia...Indonesia..Turkey...Argentina..Dominican Republic...Brazil...all are recent real world examples of countries in deep financial trouble... In every case...interest rates went up violently as the currencies collapsed..in less than a year...rates...

Anywhere there is big money to be made...there is big money backing approaches to making it.. Direct access killed Wall Street´s commission business...thus their focus is to make it some other way with equities as can be referenced in the quarterly earnings reports of the publically held...

Oh yeah....Germany is finding out that sovereignty is quite important...just ask Chancellor Schroder of Germany.... http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/12041249.htm Cafta is a farce.... This is what will happen.... Cheap textile jobs shifting to Central...

uninvited guest wrote: I believe that the US Dollar will be at par with the EUR by year end. ............................................................................. Excellent commentary I agree that the US currency has weak points...and strong points... and have always...

The key here is that the rules are not uniform... The world economies are not in equlibrium...particularly with regards to labor... Equilibrium means foreign labor = domestic labor...which means domestic labor will work for less...foreign labor will work for more... Energy per unit of...

Europe does not serve as a comparable because the distance traveled...for everything is less...thus it is money usage per task that should be compared... Alt energy sources get smacked every time...by oil prices coming into comparable favor in short time frames... Obviously alts will not...

Look...a high percentage of the price...has been created out of thin air by speculative hedge funds........ Look at the increases in oil related contract volume.... When interest rates and other returns are so low all over the world...a fund can look like a hero at 16% per year... Hey...

Renewable Energy Renewable energy will not take hold until it can be confirmed that the price of oil will not violate certain levels... Oil prices need to show that they are not coming down...for sure...or investing in the infrastructure by ¨for profit¨will not happen... This catch 22...

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000039&refer=columnist_gilbert&sid=aPTZWwiQTcCM Italy likes sovereignty.... You go Italy !!!!!!!

Just another wonderful job accomplished by the brilliant and priviledged US bureaucratic crony system..... Oh well...when they are finished there´s still hope... The IMF in 2006...

The $25k min was brought about by NYSE...market maker paid for politics...at the time they harassed every business that was a pioneer in direct access trading...This is what you call Walll Street bureacrat politics...Direct access basically erased the stock commissions on Wall Street... For...

Seems to me that trading will gravitate to China as well...where there will not be any US just wonderful änd amazingly stupid bureaucrats¨... Hey...this just might be a good thing...Next thing you know...they´ll be complaining about not getting enough money from the IMF.... Oh...

For comparison the USA is ranked #12. http://www.heritage.org/research/fe...x/countries.cfm Stop fooling yourself that american companies are going to china for freedoms or superior economic policies. The name of the game is Cheap Labor and nothing else. Having said that I can only...