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had defeated Communism and Boris
Yeltsin assumed leadership of Russia. Russia was then insolvent, it could not pay
its workers and the economic collapse of the country was a certainty. The Ruble is
now devalued, Russian banks failing and the world financial situation looks to be
in chaos. Surprise, Surprise!
What
now can we expect?The anxiety among mutual fund investors and all other
"experts" in the economic/financial world, is far worse then any flu, it
is spread electronically and instantaneously world wide. They begin to loose their
grip on reality, act and react impulsively and check out the news this is what you
see. Market analysts like to refer to this condition as a "correction",
they dislike words like "meltdown", "sell-off" "panic"
or "crash," but it is all of those things and then some. |
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The momentum that builds with
this sort of thing combines, crisis upon crisis, situation upon situation, as the
whole process of monitory management becomes totally out of control. As we saw with
the Bank of Canada's increase in the Canadian interest rate it only slowed the dollar's
decline, instead of stopping or raising it, while the Australian dollar almost steadily
par with the Canadian dollar, has continued to fade to the mid fifty cent range.
The inflated US dollar presents an even more precarious situation, as that money
that has increased the apparent value of the currency, can flee just as quickly and
the resulting reaction,
catastrophic to American business and employment. |
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