Tue 2008-07-08 00:00 EDT
Funds: When the dollar is not so almighty - International Herald Tribune
by J. Alex Tarquinio; Franklin Templeton Hard Currency fund; 2006-05-31
Dollar Topic in The Credit Debacle Catalog
Tue 2008-07-08 00:00 EDT
Jesse's Café Américain: Internal Report Urges Gulf States to Rethink Their Dollar Pegs
Jesse's Café Américain: Internal Report Urges Gulf States to Rethink Their Dollar Pegs; dollar losing reserve status
dollars pegged; Internal Report Urges Gulf States; Jesse's Café Américain; rethink.
Thu 2008-06-19 00:00 EDT
Ron Paul and Dwight D. Eisenhower -- True Patriots by Jim Quinn
Ron Paul and Dwight D. Eisenhower - True Patriots by Jim Quinn; If as a country we continue to allow our politicians and their military industrial complex corporate sponsors to spend $700+ billion per year on weapons, to the detriment of higher education, alternative energy projects, and national infrastructure needs...as deficits accumulate, the dollar plummets, and inflation rears its ugly head, our great country will decline as other empires who overstepped their bounds declined"
Fri 2008-06-13 00:00 EDT
Interfluidity :: The Lieberman plan: "Let them eat dollars."
"Trying to address the "commodity bubble" by restricting so-called speculation is a fool's game"
Fri 2008-06-13 00:00 EDT
The REAL reasons for high gas prices | The Economic Populist
oil bubble attributed to fundamentals, falling dollar, Iraqi war
Wed 2008-06-11 00:00 EDT
Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> Decoys
Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> Decoys; Fed faking rate increases to quell commodity bubble, dollar collapse?
Sun 2008-06-01 00:00 EDT
The Great Oil Swindle: How much did the Fed really know?
The Great Oil Swindle: How much did the Fed really know? by Mike Whitney; soaring commodity prices "hoax cooked up by the investment banks and hedge funds...trying to dig their way out of the trillion dollar MBS mess", billions of Fed dollars diverted into commodities
Sat 2008-05-24 00:00 EDT
naked capitalism: Commodities Spike: Vote of No Confidence in Central Bankers?
Steve Waldman; commodity price run-up due to loss of faith in monetrary authorities? large-scale repudiation of financial assets; "nd of a paradigm: large scale OTC markets, lightly regulated players and instruments, dollar as reserve currency, US as the most important global economic actors"
central bankers; Commodities Spike; Confidence; naked capitalism; voting.
Sun 2008-05-04 00:00 EDT
A Special Report: The Right's America-Hating Preacher
by Robert Parry | The Smirking Chimp; Reverend Sun Myung Moon "has invested billions of dollars in financing the U.S. conservative movement and put fat wads of cash into the pockets of many prominent Republicans, including members of President George W. Bush's own family." Rev. Moon's lurid sex scandals, espionage, media empire, drug trafficking, gun-running
Wed 2008-04-16 00:00 EDT
Foreign Policy: 8 Steps to a Trillion-Dollar Meltdown
by Charles R. Morris; how the U.S. financial crisis happened
Fri 2008-04-11 00:00 EDT
naked capitalism: China's Foreign Reserve Increases Accelerate Despite Yuan Appreciation
"Having become a service economy and sent so much manufacturing overseas, a cheap dollar may not produce the benefits the US hoped to achieve."
China's Foreign Reserve Increases Accelerate; naked capitalism; Yuan Appreciation.
Fri 2008-03-28 00:00 EDT
naked capitalism: Chinese Avoiding Dollar as Invoicing Currency
Chinese Avoiding Dollar; Invoicing Currency; naked capitalism.
Mon 2008-03-24 00:00 EDT
naked capitalism: Some Subprime Debt Valued at 5 Cents on the Dollar
Tue 2008-02-12 00:00 EST
The Wall Street Examiner >> Fed Eunuchs Reveal True Selves In Technicolor
by Lee Adler; "Fed has aggressively collapsed the size of the System Open Market Account...to withdraw billions of dollars of what is, in essence, margin buying power from the trading accounts of the Primary Dealers"
Feds Eunuchs Reveals True Selves; Technicolor; Wall Street Examiner.