Comments on: Heard On The Street http://livingoffdividends.com/2008/11/05/heard-on-the-street/ Join me on my journey to achieve financial independence through dividends, passive income and investments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 07:31:37 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 By: Weekly Links: Carnivals & Articles - November 9, 2008 | Dividends Value http://livingoffdividends.com/2008/11/05/heard-on-the-street/comment-page-1/#comment-45141 Weekly Links: Carnivals & Articles - November 9, 2008 | Dividends Value Tue, 05 May 2009 11:57:00 +0000 http://livingoffdividends.com/?p=847#comment-45141 [...] Living Off Dividends & Passive Income presented Heard On The Street [...] [...] Living Off Dividends & Passive Income presented Heard On The Street [...]

]]> By: Chris http://livingoffdividends.com/2008/11/05/heard-on-the-street/comment-page-1/#comment-22372 Chris Sun, 09 Nov 2008 07:10:35 +0000 http://livingoffdividends.com/?p=847#comment-22372 It is not puzzling at all. Other nations are buying up USA debts to support US effort on bailing out those companies. Unless there's a margin call from Japan, China, etc, US will continue to borrow and borrow and borrow and......you guessed it, borrow. At 1% interest rate, USD should have gone down relative to other currencies. However, it did not. There's a global effort to keep the USD (as well as flight to safety) value high relative to everything, including oil and gold. All efforts by individual and institutional investors to prop up precious metals for the sake of inflation are in fact being destroyed by the very essence of worldwide govt from proping up USD, Treasurys, etc. Try fighting the govt of the world is like trying to fight a World War where you're the only axis against the UN. Why are they doing this, you might ask? Well, it's a hypothesis but since the entire world is operating on a global economy scale, any hiccup in the largest consuming country, i.e. USofA, will destroy the parasites that are feeding on its hunger (i.e. China, Russia, India, etc) by providing cheap labor, cheap trinkets, cheap oil, cheap everything. Think of those parasites as restaurants and USA is the only customer out there. If USA stops eating, do you think those restaurants will survive? Oh well, so much for this global economy and free trade crap. I think protectionism is going to get a roaring restart. It is not puzzling at all. Other nations are buying up USA debts to support US effort on bailing out those companies. Unless there’s a margin call from Japan, China, etc, US will continue to borrow and borrow and borrow and……you guessed it, borrow.

At 1% interest rate, USD should have gone down relative to other currencies. However, it did not. There’s a global effort to keep the USD (as well as flight to safety) value high relative to everything, including oil and gold. All efforts by individual and institutional investors to prop up precious metals for the sake of inflation are in fact being destroyed by the very essence of worldwide govt from proping up USD, Treasurys, etc. Try fighting the govt of the world is like trying to fight a World War where you’re the only axis against the UN.

Why are they doing this, you might ask? Well, it’s a hypothesis but since the entire world is operating on a global economy scale, any hiccup in the largest consuming country, i.e. USofA, will destroy the parasites that are feeding on its hunger (i.e. China, Russia, India, etc) by providing cheap labor, cheap trinkets, cheap oil, cheap everything. Think of those parasites as restaurants and USA is the only customer out there. If USA stops eating, do you think those restaurants will survive?

Oh well, so much for this global economy and free trade crap. I think protectionism is going to get a roaring restart.

]]> By: NorCalSavant http://livingoffdividends.com/2008/11/05/heard-on-the-street/comment-page-1/#comment-22204 NorCalSavant Fri, 07 Nov 2008 01:49:33 +0000 http://livingoffdividends.com/?p=847#comment-22204 I do not support spending beyond means or borrowing to spend. However, it might be necessary to do just that to maintain the solvency of the global financial system, the plumbing system greasing the economic engine. An inflationary response to the government action is possible but not necessary. It will depend on tax revenues and future economic growth. Remember the deficits left by Reagan, Bush I. Inflation seemed inevitable then too. By the way, I enjoy your blog. Good luck with your goals. I do not support spending beyond means or borrowing to spend. However, it might be necessary to do just that to maintain the solvency of the global financial system, the plumbing system greasing the economic engine. An inflationary response to the government action is possible but not necessary. It will depend on tax revenues and future economic growth. Remember the deficits left by Reagan, Bush I. Inflation seemed inevitable then too.

By the way, I enjoy your blog. Good luck with your goals.

]]> By: Double http://livingoffdividends.com/2008/11/05/heard-on-the-street/comment-page-1/#comment-22100 Double Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:15:16 +0000 http://livingoffdividends.com/?p=847#comment-22100 It all does seem puzzling, a nation in debt going much further into debt to bail out companies in debt. It all does seem puzzling, a nation in debt going much further into
debt to bail out companies in debt.

]]> By: bryan http://livingoffdividends.com/2008/11/05/heard-on-the-street/comment-page-1/#comment-22071 bryan Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:12:20 +0000 http://livingoffdividends.com/?p=847#comment-22071 gold coins as of late have not been a hedge against inflation or a flight to safety. the markets are not rational so any decisions (even into gold) should be thoroughly researched. gold coins as of late have not been a hedge against inflation or a flight to safety.

the markets are not rational so any decisions (even into gold) should be thoroughly researched.

]]>