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Look, I try to have no preconceived notions. I try not to pick fights with guys bigger than me (or if I do, I try to smack him across the forehead with a bat at least once before we get down to business :-) I've been both taking advantage of the Fed's largess in this country with bonds I picked up late last year and with stocks since March as well as abroad in foreign bank accounts. While I am not against owning precious metal...

http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=$USD&p=W&b=5&g=... The red and blue lines look like a bird, a bird doing a swan dive. Cheers Qazulight

Eat yourself silly tomorrow, shop your brains out on Friday and remember that I am holding down the fort... and if that doesn't scare you it damn well should. }};-O Tim <had thanksgiving done with several weeks ago> 443 DEB’S DITTY: Most Canadians have faith. You can tell by the way they drive.

that's an important chart for all the "dollar-is-falling-apart" chatter, it is important to notice that while the US dollar index is at 74 now, it was LOWER at 72 a year and a half ago before it went up all the way to 88. I consider that a warning sign of what can happen with the next financial system hiccup.

Creditors to Call in $1.2 Billion from GM Daewoo The government and creditors plan to collect about US$1.2 billion from GM Daewoo over the next 22 months after GM headquarters in Detroit hinted it will move production lines for some GM Daewoo models including the Lacetti Premier overseas. http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2009/11/20/2009... Gee Fritz, did you expect the Korean government to lay down for you like the US government...

< Indirect bidders, a group of investors that includes foreign central banks, bought 62.5%.> I don't see how anyone can tell how much (if any) of the indirect bidding includes bidding by the Fed to keep a cap on rates. I further don't see how anyone can tell how much of the foreign central bank buying represents either a "gentlemen's/gentlewomen's agreement" between the central banks and the...

ah Qaz, in plain english that was easier to understand.....but the market on those days is still bigger than any hedge fund.....the individual issues though are always being screwed around with by the black boxes..... ...and the govt in all honesty is trying to up the deficits and lower the dollar......as for the Fed....they are into monetary policy....they can barely lower the dollar enough without the central govt's fiscal policies...

... with some statements that could have come straight out of 1984: [...] Speaking at a conference in Singapore on Wednesday, Faber said: "The crisis has not solved anything. On the contrary there is less transparency today than there was before. The government's balance sheet is expanding, and the abuses that have led to the one cause of the crisis have continued". "I think eventually there will be a big bust...

<the Fed has been buying massive amounts of treasuries. > The Fed stopped buying long-dated Treasuries in October. Wendy

I've always suspected this but nice to have someone confirm it for me. No argument from me. Once I grabbed mine and started punching buttons while on the freeway in heavy parkic. (What do you call "traffic" that doesn't move?) It told me the way home, which I already knew. Then I pushed "Detour" and it got me around the blockage.