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George Bush is either completely ignorant or delusional. (I would lean toward the former.) He has little to nothing to with the dollar unless you believe he influenced the decision for Bernanke which I doubt which would only contradict what he said in the first place...

Let's put Robert Mugabe and the execs of C in a Guatanamo for a few years. Or better yet let's put them in Sheriff Joe's Tent City...

American exporters don't need politicians to baby and pamper them. The politicians will only make things worse. That's their job: to completely screw up and the economy and make things worse for us for generations afterward. No, our exporters can handle themselves just fine thank you...

Some would say that a falling dollar can fuel inflation. However, I would argue that the inflation we have experienced is, for the most part, not related to inputs. The typical American is experiencing inflation due to 1) rising price at the pump and 2) health insurance and, for those with a...

You mean East European?

Detroit is another beautiful example. Supposedly we have been crushed by Asia, right? Wrong! Ford and GM are doing very well overseas and that fact has resurrected their previously lifeless corpses. (See below.) Sorry but all the pessimism about this great country is simply unfounded. The...

Details: "Schultz told Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) that the company plans to license 150 new coffee shop locations in Germany, Britain and France in the next three years, with 120 of those in Germany. "The international business is cushioning the weakness in America at the...

Then why are our exporters doing GREAT?!? I would agree with you if our exports were dwindling. But they're not. Earnings are up on virtually every SnP company overseas' sales. Caterpillar, Coke, Pepsi, MacDonalds - the list goes on and on. Btw, Starbucks is an interesting example...

Well, in spite of the insult, I'll try to dialogue. My opinion is that the dollar was long overinflated. In fact, I think it still is. The US should be an exporting powerhouse, but it couldn't be because our dollar was being propped up by various factors. Right now we still only export a...

Hank Paulson, or any other government official, has little to do with globalization and I think you know that. And thank God they don't. Fortunately, globalization is an animal much too large for any government official to try to tame and destroy...

As an fyi, they are finally coming up with documentation that globalization is saving our butts: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d87f2158-46a4-11dd-876a-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1 Trade has saved America from recession By Fred Bergsten Published: June 30 2008 17:51 | Last updated: June...

Btw, here's a beautiful example proving what I am saying. Solar is at the top of the heap of Viable Alternate Energy Sources and Congress looks like it will vote it down. And I don't even want to think what they'll piss away the billions of dollars using instead...

They call it "technimentals". I swing trade and from what I've seen, you must use the combination of both. You must follow the money and the only way to do that is with fundamentals...

ET is a great site, but beware: a lot of the advice is from people that sound good at first and then, after a little probing, are found to have absolutely no idea what they are talking about. But ET is GREAT for generating trading ideas and hearing key concepts as you mentioned. Just keep in...

I highly recommend you ask this question on the Energy Forums on Elite Trader. They beat this theme into the ground with much more insights than you'll get here. Here are some good links as well: http://upge.wn.com/?template=cheetah-photo-search/index.txt&query=oil&language_id=-1...

That's only true if you think that our leaders are completely incompetent and self-serving. Oh wait - I guess you're right!

There's one thing you can count on: find the alternative that is the most bone-headed, inane and generally destructive to the economy solution and they will support it with billions and billions of our hard-earned dollars.

I agree with you to a point. However, solar in particular has a lot of potential and the Dems are not going to put any significant dollars into it. If they had poured the billions that they suck out of all our wallets into solar (and possibly wind and a few other ideas), we would probably be...

Beautifully stated. Stagflation, here we come!

In this particular case, I don't see how it can take but a fraction of American jobs/mfg away?