Global Economy Bursting?

[Restrain]

So now that Ben Laden is dead, possibility of more Middle East turmoil due to desperation attacks by AQ. May increase instability and oil disruptions.

 

[Big ole Boy]

So now that Ben Laden is dead, possibility of more Middle East turmoil due to desperation attacks by AQ. May increase instability and oil disruptions.

THe guy was there for 6 years ........ the USA has probably known about is whereabouts for some time ....

.... the US ..... is looking for any moves to shore up its legitmacy .......

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[Randolph Kinney]

Silver margins surge 84 percent in 8 days

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011...ings You Need To Know Before The Opening Bell

All it takes is an 84% rise in trading costs to bring down the price of silver.

 

[Randolph Kinney]

The 91-Year-Old Woman Selling $60 Suicide Kits

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-...eath-on-the-internet/?cid=hp:beastoriginalsL8

Legislators in Oregon, where assisted suicide is legal, are trying to ban the sale of the kits.

New job formation and reducing the deficit spending at the same time, what a brillant idea. :new_all_coholic:

 

[Randolph Kinney]

Oil, Gold, Silver and gasoline all had major declines today.

 

[Couch Potato]

Oil, Gold, Silver and gasoline all had major declines today.

Looks like the commodities bubble has popped. I wonder where the next bubble will be?

 

[Randolph Kinney]

As long as the FED prints money, it has to go some where. The CME boosted margin requirements by a large amount, which took some of the leveraged plays out of hedging and an urgency to liquidate positions.

I suspect money flows and hedging will go back to what can be sustained under the new margins.

The economy is softening quite a bit. Demand destruction has reduced consumption of oil and gasoline.

 

[Couch Potato]

Most of the money the fed is printing is merely filling the hole created by the real estate debacle; however, that hole is just about full.

 

[Randolph Kinney]

Companies Hedge Bets at a Cost to Consumers

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/06/b...dities.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha25

For reasons not well understood, commodities have become more volatile, increasing the costs of the futures and options that protect companies against such changes.

The sucker's play of passing risk onto the next guy is losing its appeal and effect.

 

[Randolph Kinney]

Ending Run, Investors Abandon Commodities

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/06/business/06prices.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha25

Fear of an economic slowdown in the United States and the rest of the world pushes down prices for commodities. Place your bets gentlemen, will she or won't she? Excess money creation has to flow somewhere.