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Global Economy Bursting?

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Do they think the Chinese are that stupid?
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They got lotsa dollars...they ain't stupid, they want their buck to go as far as possible...
 
What Flavor is the dollar?

... if I were in a restaurant ..... I wonder what flavor a dollar would be?

.... to me it would have to be ........... corriander ...

... Euro's .... I don't know .... Linguini .....

.... Yuan ........ ..... fetish pesto ...
 
Tremendous glut but now the floods threaten the refineries so the longs are holding the price up until they can cover their losing positions... if drivers reduce demand over the next 30 days, the dam has to break and prices fall... but the underlying fundamentals is still bullish on fossil fuels. We consume energy.

What other nation has air-conditioned chicken houses?
What other nation has air-conditioned factories?
What other nation has air-conditioned schools?
What other nation has so many lit parkways and highway systems?
What other nation has the majority of housing with air and heat?
What other nation has an average of over 1 car per household?
What other nation has less centralized employment and shopping?
We are energy spendthrifts and a few windmills on the plains ain't gonna cut it.
 
Money from consumers flows so much to gasoline and then they shift their behavior. It takes away dollars from other areas of the economy causing those productive assets to idle or operate at less efficiency (cost go up) and margins shrink or turn negative.

Bottom line, our economy can't exist on high prices for energy except to contract to the level of the new equilibrium for the price of energy.
 
Terrel L. Shields said:
It seems to me that the big (perhaps biggest) loser, could well be the small investor who cannot earn diddly on a safe investment (treasuries, for instance) which more or less means the investor is forced into equities... a market where they have no influence and can be or are manipulated by the hedge fund experts. It is a pretty unfair and unlevel playing field for a $2000 stock position to compete with a multimillion dollar hedge operated by nanosecond fast trading programs.

The worse position I would think would be someone who has to invest (say they have over $200,000 in a bank account) or have low return /no return cash sitting exposed should the bank fail. They put it in an investment that is completely dominated by traders with huge positions and without any protections whatsoever. For any big investment bank, anything less than $50 million in assets is managed by the newbies, not a savvy trader, to boot. you are small potatoes and your "service representative" is a joke. He is being used by his own fellow traders who bait them with "stock tips" that foist a bad investment off on the new guy while relieving them of a bad position they are in.
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This is nothing new...been going on since the 401k came into vogue back in the late '80s. Just heard Diane Sawyer tonight mention how the average 401k participant saw a 12% increase in their portfolio over the past year. I am sure there were plenty of fools listening who will sell some or all of their pitiful (thank you federal reserve) fixed income vehicles and buy back into the market, just in time to ride it back down again. This fleecing of the small investor appears to be as perennial as the grass.
 
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Looks like the economy is shedding jobs.
 
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