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Bailout Aftermath

Posted in Commodities, Credit Crunch, Currency, tagged , , , on September 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I have to first congratulate my old economics professor for nailing the root of the dollar’s weakness in a prior post:
The US economy, rightly, faltered first – With no fiscal policy upon which to draw, Bernanke got it all with not even a blindfold to keep him company. Rates were slashed, time and again. Meanwhile, [...]

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The US (dollar) is back, baby!*

Posted in Currency, Financials, Global Economy, Monetary Policy, tagged on August 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »

August 24th:
*Actual results may differ.
Chris, your noble Economic Equity…ist .. has asked me if I’d care to write something in his stead – a kindness to which I am not unresponsive. However I no longer teach Economics: I’m a fully-fledged Health Economist again, in another country, and I take no responsibility for knowing what I’m [...]

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