Archive for December 7th, 2006

The U.S. Federal Reserve has Perfected the Incredible Shrinking Dollar

December 7, 2006 - I must pre-qualify this blog entry as I’m writing it from a café, that unlike previous blogs about the direction of the U.S. dollar, I have not looked at any technical charts regarding the current weakness of the dollar before writing this. However, I will say that as weak as the dollar is (and trust me, anyone, American, Spanish, Cuban, French, German and so on, knows how much the dollar has fallen if you own any dollars at all), I believe that the dollar has much further to all. Not a just a little bit, but a LOT more. I know, sorry, that’s terrible news for all you dollar holders out there.

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The Ocean Becomes A New Growth Point in the World Economy

December 7, 2006 - This blog entry is kind of a part II to my post about global warming opening up new shipping lanes in the Arctic Circle. Wang Shuguang, Director of the State Oceanography Bureau, in China recently stated: “in the past 20 years, the total output value of ocean industry has increased to 327 billion yuan and the annual average growth rate is about 25 percent which is much higher than the average growth rate of the national economy.”

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