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POPSA Rising Euro Threatens American Dominance Benn Steil, director of international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, notes that the dollar's standing has let the U.S. run loose monetary policy without paying the usual prices of capital flight and inflation, but no longer. Steil doesn't use the term banana republic but does outline what happens to the global political clout of banana republics. Not a place the U.S. wants to go.
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POPSCommodities roar into 2008 Pension funds and other long-term investors have pumped well in excess of $100 billion into commodities over the past five years,
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POPSGold Price Indicator This article argues that the next trend change in the dollar will signal a two-year bear run for gold.
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POPSGold News Blanchard, the largest U.S. retail dealer in rare coins and precious metals, gives its reasons that the gold price is showing unseasonable strength.
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POPSDollar Support May Hinge On Equity Flows Over the past four years foreign buying of U.S.bonds has provided an underpinning for the dollar, but this Reuters analysis argues that if the housing slump prompts foreigners to steer clear of U.S. credit markets, unless U.S. equities take up the slack, the dollar will fall further.