[Biofuel] U.S. Dollar Collapse: Where is Germany's Gold?

2013-02-05 Thread Keith Addison
http://www.globalresearch.ca/u-s-dollar-collapse-where-is-germanys-gold/5321894 U.S. Dollar Collapse: Where is Germany's Gold? By Peter Schiff Global Research, February 05, 2013 LewRockwell.com The financial world was shocked this month by a demand from Germany's Bundesbank to repatriate a

Re: [Biofuel] U.S. dollar

2006-06-01 Thread Hakan Falk
Mike, I said that I found it amazing in the text, that was copied, and referred to by you. I did not said that you blamed anyone. If it was your text, then I misunderstood your referral. I must have misunderstood you, since you now are saying that other countries defend themselves from US. I

Re: [Biofuel] U.S. dollar

2006-06-01 Thread Keith Addison
Hello Mike Keith, You wrote: He means the other superpower, the Social Forum in Porto Alegre for example, and I'm sure the policy changes have more to do with the World Bank/IMF/WTO than with the US government or other governments. It's hard to misunderstand his meaning - especially since he

Re: [Biofuel] U.S. dollar

2006-06-01 Thread Mike Weaver
Hakan, I think you've gotten your Mikes mixed up. I'm Mike Weaver, or Mike the Elder. I didn't say any of this. Go back and check the headers. I responded to your post of a few days ago, and basically agreed with you that the US suffers from corruption, pollution and lack of transparency. I

Re: [Biofuel] U.S. dollar

2006-06-01 Thread Mike Weaver
WHICH MIKE? Henceforth I'm signing my posts as Weaver. ARGGH. -Weaver Keith Addison wrote: Hello Mike Keith, You wrote: He means the other superpower, the Social Forum in Porto Alegre for example, and I'm sure the policy changes have more to do with the World Bank/IMF/WTO than with the

Re: [Biofuel] U.S. dollar

2006-06-01 Thread Hakan Falk
Mike W, If you look at my post, it was an answer to Michael Redler's post, so do not worry. We are probably all confused by all the Mikes and it might be good if you sign your posts with Weaver or Mike W. Maybe you should sign it with The Real Mike. LOL What you are saying in Swedish is I

Re: [Biofuel] U.S. dollar

2006-06-01 Thread Fred Finch
Hakan, Weaver and Redler are the same person. He does this to confuse the point and disorient us all!!You want proof? Have you ever seen them together in the same room?fred On 6/1/06, Hakan Falk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike W,If you look at my post, it was an answer toMichael Redler's post, so do

Re: [Biofuel] U.S. dollar

2006-06-01 Thread Hakan Falk
The Real Mike, Sorry, I got two messages from you, one personal and one through the list. I appreciated you message, but sent the same answer to both you and the list. It was not until afterwards, that I saw the difference and that you in the personal one try a Swedish sentence, also much

Re: [Biofuel] U.S. dollar

2006-06-01 Thread Mike Weaver
I'm taller and have much better hair than Redler Fred Finch wrote: Hakan, Weaver and Redler are the same person. He does this to confuse the point and disorient us all!! You want proof? Have you ever seen them together in the same room? fred On 6/1/06, *Hakan Falk* [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Biofuel] U.S. dollar

2006-06-01 Thread Mike Weaver
That's my fault - I sent two messages - I was worried you were mad at me. -Weaver Hakan Falk wrote: The Real Mike, Sorry, I got two messages from you, one personal and one through the list. I appreciated you message, but sent the same answer to both you and the list. It was not until

Re: [Biofuel] U.S. dollar

2006-06-01 Thread Hakan Falk
Fred, If it is the same person, he is going through a lot of efforts to hide it, even using two different computers, with different software and different locations, if you read the message headers. It is not likely that they are in the same room, so maybe you are right. If he go trough

Re: [Biofuel] U.S. dollar

2006-06-01 Thread Fred Finch
Hakan, He's good...Really good!!fredOn 6/1/06, Michael Redler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...fair enough.Mike R Hakan Falk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike W,If you look at my post, it was an answer to Michael Redler's post, so do not worry. We are probably all confused by all the Mikes and it

Re: [Biofuel] U.S. dollar

2006-06-01 Thread Michael Redler
...fair enough.Mike RHakan Falk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike W,If you look at my post, it was an answer to Michael Redler's post, so do not worry. We are probably all confused by all the Mikes and it might be good if you sign your posts with "Weaver" or Mike W. Maybe you should sign it with

Re: [Biofuel] U.S. dollar

2006-06-01 Thread Keith Addison
WHICH MIKE? Mike R., the one I replied to. Okay, I'll put it on top next time, sorry. Henceforth I'm signing my posts as Weaver. ARGGH. -Weaver You don't mind hello Weaver? Or is that ARGGH-Weaver? :-) But I don't think of you as Weaver, I think of you as Mike. Well, whatever, I shall

Re: [Biofuel] U.S. dollar

2006-06-01 Thread Michael Redler
Hakan,"I try to write to you in your language and get upset/ridicule my choice of words, instead of try to understand what I want to say in a positive manner."I thought your message was very clearly written. I also think your English is excellent. I fully understoodyour child analogyand my

Re: [Biofuel] U.S. dollar

2006-06-01 Thread Mike Weaver
Stop making fun of my name. My mother was an ARGGH, my father was a Weaver. Therefore, it's ARGGH-Weaver. Honestly, what did they teach you in school? Mike ARGGH-Weaver Keith Addison wrote: WHICH MIKE? Mike R., the one I replied to. Okay, I'll put it on top next time, sorry.

Re: [Biofuel] U.S. dollar

2006-05-31 Thread Hakan Falk
Mike, Very good analysis and it describes the situation. The problem is the currency base, which before was stable with the gold standard. Now the currency base is the collective wealth of the society. Rising debts and deficits should in theory mean some adjustments downwards of the currency,

Re: [Biofuel] U.S. dollar/question??

2006-05-31 Thread Marylynn Schmidt
There was a post from another list that has me confused. I trust the source so I pay attention but can not understand any possible reasoning here. There are several old/closed gold mines in the U.S. that still have good veins with rich to very rich ore in these veins .. and the veins are

Re: [Biofuel] U.S. dollar

2006-05-31 Thread Hakan Falk
Mike, At 04:16 31/05/2006, you wrote: snip Also, say what you want about the US but it is still by far the most dynamic economy in the world. China and India still have significant infrastructure, corruption, pollution and transparency issues to overcome. snip And US have none of those

Re: [Biofuel] U.S. dollar

2006-05-31 Thread Mike Weaver
I didn't say that. Nor would I. I said the US has a dynamic economy. Our infrastructure is beginning to fall apart; the highway system is crumbling; the electrical grid is shaky; we have no energy policy...the list goes on. But it it better than the systems in most of the world, except

Re: [Biofuel] U.S. dollar

2006-05-31 Thread Mike Weaver
I'd call it Magical Thinking. We're still pretty much the only country in the world that can print money to pay its debts. Gotta wonder if that temptation will rise... Our economic policy is nuts. I personally don't mind a *little* foreign debt, in fact I think it's good; keeps our neighbors

Re: [Biofuel] U.S. dollar/question??

2006-05-31 Thread Mike Weaver
I'm not sure I believe that - there is quite a bit of gold mining going on in the US. Newmont Mining: At the heart of Newmont’s Eastern Nevada operations is the Carlin mine. The mine traces its origins to 1961, when geologists began probing the high desert area around the Tuscarora Mountains

Re: [Biofuel] U.S. dollar

2006-05-31 Thread Hakan Falk
Mike, I would not take issue on pollution per facility, but pollution per nation. US is very much larger polluter per capita than both China and India together. US is also larger polluter in absolute terms,so it is not surprising that US did not sign Kyoto. Even Bush said that it would be too

Re: [Biofuel] U.S. dollar

2006-05-31 Thread Mike Redler
I think the 5/30/06 post and attached article from AltEnergyNetwork did a excellent job explaining the administration's decision making process, the U.S. economy and how it compares to similar situations in other countries. http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/msg63309.html

Re: [Biofuel] U.S. dollar

2006-05-31 Thread Keith Addison
Hello Mike R. I think the 5/30/06 post and attached article from AltEnergyNetwork did a excellent job explaining the administration's decision making process, the U.S. economy and how it compares to similar situations in other countries.

Re: [Biofuel] U.S. dollar

2006-05-31 Thread Hakan Falk
Mike, The weakening of the dollar is not a result of any concerted foreign effort. The dollar is amazingly strong, considering that US breaks all fundamentals. It is probably the opposite, it is a concerted effort to try to hold the value of the dollar high, when it according to all financial

Re: [Biofuel] U.S. dollar/question??

2006-05-31 Thread E. C.
Marylynn; By way of explanation, one word: control. For clarification, add one more word: corporate control. And to refine that to bring in reality, tweak that: corporatocracy -- the system we live under. The same notion driving NAIS, and NSA databases, and ANWAR drilling, and a massively

Re: [Biofuel] U.S. dollar

2006-05-31 Thread E. C.
Hey Mike; What Katrina did to New Orleans wasn't an ecological disaster? The Corps. saw that coming 30 years ago, but it suited the suits in Big Oil corp. suites to let it happen, for the good of the dynamic economy -- as we're finally beginning to realise, there's more to dynamism than bottom

Re: [Biofuel] U.S. dollar

2006-05-31 Thread Mike Weaver
I was specifically addressing pollution, not ecological disaster, althoug arguably Katrina is similar to Three Gorges Dam. Both were (largely) avoidable, with Katrina especially. 1. I think there is a good argument to be made that global warming contributed to the severity. And that to FEMA,

Re: [Biofuel] U.S. dollar

2006-05-31 Thread Michael Redler
Keith,You wrote: "He means the other superpower, the Social Forum in Porto Alegre for example, and I'm sure the "policy changes" have more to do with the World Bank/IMF/WTO than with the US government or other governments."It's hard to misunderstand his meaning - especially since he actually uses

Re: [Biofuel] U.S. dollar

2006-05-31 Thread Michael Redler
Hakan,You wrote: "...it is a concerted effort to try to hold the value of the dollar high, when it according to all financial rules and fundamentals should be much lower."So, there are no organizations or governments attempting to defend themselves from U.S. Hegemony by trying to increase

[Biofuel] U.S. dollar

2006-05-30 Thread Mike Weaver
I don't see a wholesale collapse of the US economy. I do think the dollar will continue to slide until the country elects some Republicans or Democrats. I am not sure what to call the gang in power now; they are most certainly NOT Republicans. I'm also not sure how successful the Iranian oil

Re: [Biofuel] U.S. Dollar and China

2004-12-15 Thread Legal Eagle
: [Biofuel] U.S. Dollar and China Maybe very interesting but not entirely accurate. The Chinese yuan is pegged to the US dollar, so the dollar cannot deflate with relation to Chinese currency. This helps them because if the dollar deflated relative to the yuan imported Chinese goods would become

Re: [Biofuel] U.S. Dollar and China

2004-12-11 Thread Ken Riznyk
Maybe very interesting but not entirely accurate. The Chinese yuan is pegged to the US dollar, so the dollar cannot deflate with relation to Chinese currency. This helps them because if the dollar deflated relative to the yuan imported Chinese goods would become more expensive and their sales to

[Biofuel] U.S. Dollar and China

2004-11-28 Thread robert luis rabello
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4186041 Most of us know that when the value of the dollar falls, we end up paying more for imported goods. But how else does this affect the U.S. economy? We turned to Mark Zandi, chief economist for the consulting firm Economy.com, for a