President Barack Obama on his tour to China has approached a very cautious approach. While raising issues of contention between the two nations, he has been subtle in his own right.

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Swiss private bank Wegelin announced on Tuesday that it is to stop doing business in the United States.

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Scams, Schemes, Rip-Offs, Jawbones, Touts, Manipulations,.......and RED HERRING

I thought to put something together to try and keep track. Those of you who are more familiar with investing will know more about some of these terms. What I want to do here is try to explain what I call RED HERRING.

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There's Money to be Made Right Now Trading the Forex Because of the Market's Wild Swings. Below are 6 Products That Could Help You Cash in.Below we've reviewed a handful of products that offer value to people wanting to make money with forex investing.

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There is, IMHO, an absence of a Thread on Gold, and how it relates to the Economic mess [disaster] we are in. There is an organization, GATA, that believes the POG [Price of Gold] has been suppressed and controlled.

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Don't look now, but the USTreasury bubble has begun to burst. This should be an ongoing story throughout 2009. The entire sold story of a Flight to Safety is about as moronic and baseless as regarding the US stock and bond markets are regulated.

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Author's opinion is the next "bubble" to collapse will be the US Dollar. A flight from Treasuries by non-FED parties will immediately precede or occur simultaneously with this collapse.

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For some years now, many economists have been predicting an end to the dollar as the world's reserve currency, but this latest plan by the US Treasury will push such a shift forward from "some day" to "now."

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Countries holding dollars were presenting their US dollars and asking for gold in return, and that led to US gold reserves dropping from a peak of 22,000 tonnes to 8,800 tonnes.

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MADRID, May 3, 2008 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- -- The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is extending over 114 million U.S. dollars in a partial credit guarantee program to support energy-efficient projects in China, the Manila-based bank said here Saturday.

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Investors, of course, are always looking for a place to make money. But last year, Williams says, there were also the subprime housing market and stock market to invest in. Oil was one option among many. Now, it looks like the only option.

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"The free ride for American consumers is ending. For two generations, Americans have imported goods produced ever more cheaply from a succession of low-wage countries — first Japan and Korea, then China, and now increasingly places like Vietnam and India."

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No one who lives in the US can serious consider that the cost of living day to day goes up 2-3% per year. This article explores the real inflation rate for people who struggle to get by, and for them the numbers are scary.

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Death by a thousand cuts. The US dollar may not suffer a rapid depreciation for a long time, but slowly moves such as this will make it extremely vulnerable to the trade and budget deficits.

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Iran, the OPEC's second largest exporter, has already cut all of its ties with the greenback with respect to oil transactions.

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While the European Central Bank kept its key rates unchanged today, comments made by its president, Jean Claude Trichet, will serve to increase expectations that the ECB could cut rates in the not too distant future. As a first step, Mr.

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The Suez Crisis of 1956 revealed the enormous power of America not in terms of its military, but in its economic might, effectively forcing the British to back down by not supporting the GBP £.

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"The United States has filled various roles at the World Economic Forum over the past decade: dot-com dynamo, benevolent superpower, feared aggressor, and now, wounded giant."

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This is a solid move, but will it be enough for a sustained rally? It will indeed cause Wall street to rise, but for how long? If this proves to be a short term boost rather than a long term solution, we are heading for serious trouble indeed.

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US Positive Feedback Death Spiral

Energy is going up and the US dollar is going down. We owe exponential debts to our main competitors for energy. We have no savings to pay for energy so must continue to borrow to do so. Our competitors use our repayments to bid more for energy, driving its price up.

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It's going to prove a dangerous 2008 for the US economy.

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Airbus has done very well based on its initial cost cutting targets with Power8...however, the reality is with the US currency now at record lows, Power8 is not enough.

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The Chinese yuan is under a type of managed floatation regime, but even so, it is clear that the Chinese central bank is fighting a losing battle against market forces: the pressure on the currency is up, with most analsyst agreeing that if freely floating, the currency could eas …

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