Saturday, September 15, 2007

Lending crisis sets US$ on fatal course

Sept 07
http://www.sprott.com/pdf/investorsdigest/investors_digest_September_07_2007.pdf

Dollar's retreat raises fear of collapse

13.9.07
Finance ministers and central bankers have long fretted that at some point, the rest of the world would lose its willingness to finance the United States' proclivity to consume far more than it produces - and that a potentially disastrous free-fall in the dollar's value would result.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/13/news/econ.php

Saturday, September 8, 2007

Will Derivatives Wipe Out Some Currencies?

6.9.07
Over the last several years, there has been a lot of discussion about the size of the derivatives market, and how much it has grown since 1990. That market was around $20 trillion in size in ‘90, and now is estimated by the BIS to exceed $600 trillion world wide
http://www.kitco.com/ind/Laird/sep062007.html