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[michaeld] 07/7/2011 22:21

RE 2817 Trader; yes I think that when the USD starts to collapse then it may approach zero in an awful hurry owing to panic selling around the globe. I hope that it doesn't happen because it would lead to chaos for a while with disruption to food and fuel supplies, banking systems etc. My family think that I am over reacting in stocking up with food and fuel supplies etc but I can see no harm in being prepared for the worst case scenario? Tinned food and red diesel keeps pretty well and can still be used if the currency turmoil subsides.

[traderabc] 07/7/2011 18:46

[KR162] Keiser Report – Europe's Neo-Feudalism

[traderabc] 07/7/2011 17:56

I stopped reading it after the first line.

16 Reasons To Feel Really Depressed About The Direction That The Economy Is Headed


The American Dream
July 7, 2011

If you do not want to feel really depressed, you might not want to read this article.

[traderabc] 07/7/2011 17:30

michaeld, I get the feeling the main currencies will all come down together, which will mean large increases in prices for just about everything. The Asian currencies would in theory go up whilst this is happening. Commodities and metals would soar.
'Collapse' to me means another 50% off the $,£,and Euro, maybe it will take up to 10 years. Are you saying you think they will go to zero in an awful hurry?

[traderabc] 07/7/2011 17:23

The Coming "New World Order" Revolution: How Things Will Change In The Next 20 Years - A Kondratieff Cycle Perspective

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/06/2011 22:20 -0400



SocGen has published a fantastic, must read big picture report, which compares the world in the 1980/1985-2000/2005 time period and juxtaposes it to what the author, Veronique Riches-Flores predicts will happen over the next two decades years, the period from 2005/2010 to 2025/2030. Unlike other very narrow and short-sighted projections, this one is based not on trivial and grossly simplified assumptions such as perpetual growth rates, but on a holistic demographic approach to perceiving the world. At its core, SocGen compares the period that just ended, one in which world growth was driven by an expansion in supply, to one that will be shaped by an explosion of demand. And, unfortunately, the transformation from the Supply-driven to the Demand-driven world will not be pretty. Summarizing this outlook: "Over the last three decades strong growth in the working-aged population across Asia and the opening-up of world trade have led to considerable expansion in global production capacities.

[michaeld] 07/7/2011 16:31

I wonder how food and other commodities will be traded if the USD collapses? Any currency that people have confidence in, precious metals or exchange/bartering system would be my guess. Maybe a new international currency would be set up pronto based upon a variety of assets but things would be very difficult for a while eh?

[traderabc] 07/7/2011 10:33

Agri-Food Thoughts
07/06/2011
By Ned W Schmidt

Circles are somewhat special. They have no starting point nor ending point. Where they end is where they start. Such the time-worn phrase of "coming full circle." This Summer in Agri-Foods where we started this time last year is where we begin again.

[michaeld] 06/7/2011 23:14

Yes Trader, re your post 2810, I found Nigel Farage to be a very straight guy, unlike many in politics. Maybe a bit too straight at times as his forthright views can cause some offence, as did his dressing down of Mr Van Rumpoy in the EU parliament; 'third rate clerk that no one would recognise or vote for' etc, or something like that. He likes to go out for a pint or two with the lads and worked as a London commodities trader at that time. He's got a good sense of humour too. We could do with a PM like him imho.

[jeff h] 06/7/2011 13:33

Some decent positives I thought.

The new Dublin site trading well.

Stansted to return to the fold shortly. With Edinburgh retained that leaves of the BAA airports the loss of Heathrow and Glasgow.

South African franchise at an advanced stage with others potentially following.

Big question here is will the marketing efforts succeed in developing the on-line business.

[traderabc] 06/7/2011 11:57

[KR161] Keiser Report – Robbed and Securitised

[traderabc] 06/7/2011 11:57

michaeld, Farrage strikes me as genuine and the real deal, something rare in a politician. On a personal level is that what you found?
I often wonder if there are any other politicians in the EU who speak like him, you do hear applause after some of his blistering attacks and obviously the president of Hungry is singing from the same page, he should also be natural allies with the true Finn party. I just wonder how much support he gets from the rest of the chamber.
I couldn't believe it when he appeared on the Alex Jones show last year, the guy is full of surprises.

[traderabc] 06/7/2011 11:45

Colombia's gold rush

Gold fever is sweeping across South America and is at its most lethal in Colombia where it is fuelling the civil war.



Gold fever is sweeping across South America. Nowhere is it more lethal than in Colombia, where the gold rush has become a new axle in Colombia's civil war.


Turf wars are erupting between paramilitaries and leftist rebel groups who are fighting to take control of mining regions. It is fuelling an old ideological conflict that has displaced thousands of people.

Helicopter raids by the Colombian army on small community mining collectives have become commonplace and the Colombian government is accused of targeting poor workers to protect big business interests and committing human rights violations with impunity.

Thousands have fled their homes where land is violently contested and others live in fear that they will be removed from their land, arrested or killed.

The multinationals are flooding in too. With gold now worth around $1,500 an ounce, everyone is getting in on the act, including North American mining companies. Colombia's pro-business mentality has seen arbitrary concessions by the state sold to multinational companies, often on indigenous land.

[michaeld] 05/7/2011 18:32

Thanks Trader; I always enjoy listening to Nigel, especially when he lays into Europhiles! I used to go campaigning with him years ago for UKIP but reckoned we were bashing our heads against a brick wall when we regularly only polled a couple of hundred votes. I admire him for sticking with it.

[traderabc] 05/7/2011 16:17

Michaeld, Farrage saying it as it is.


Nigel Farage: The Worm has Turned

[lbo] 05/7/2011 16:05

Well I can see cash increased yet again to now GBP2.74 million (circa 27p per share) and see no mention of a "massive marketing experiment"?

Quite the contrary going on the dividend and:

"we have made the necessary changes to enable the business to refocus and rebuild. The next twelve months will be an exciting period for the Company with much of the focus on testing new player acquisition using sophisticated Life Time Value based models, through both online marketing channels and previously untapped physical locations."

Seems to be low cost and well thought out marketing that will grow top line and profits further and add yet more cash to the balance sheet. If management don't take it private then perhaps someone else will.

[envirovision] 04/7/2011 09:43

Well LBO no chance of that by the sound of it, instead shareholders funds are going to become the subject of a massive marketing experiment as they appear to be going to try a number of new untested formats. The website does not inspire either with falling transactional value, who cares if numbers are up when that's a falling equation !

I cant see anything here to inspire confidence, no wonder the shares are discounted.

[traderabc] 03/7/2011 23:39

Washington and Wall Street's Incestuous Corruption
"HONESTY is not the policy of Washington or the Investment Banks."

Martin Armstrong

[traderabc] 03/7/2011 23:14

Nicole M. Foss is co-editor of The Automatic Earth, where she writes under the name Stoneleigh. She and her writing partner have been chronicling and interpreting the on-going credit crunch as the most pressing aspect of our current multi-faceted predicament. The site integrates finance, energy, environment, psychology, population and real politik in order to explain why we find ourselves in a state of crisis and what we can do about it. Prior to the establishment of TAE, she was previously editor of The Oil Drum Canada, where she wrote on peak oil and finance.

Foss runs the Agri-Energy Producers' Association of Ontario, where she has focused on farm-based biogas projects and grid connections for renewable energy. While living in the UK she was a Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, where she specialized in nuclear safety in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, and conducted research into electricity policy at the EU level.

Her academic qualifications include a BSc in biology from Carleton University in Canada (where she focused primarily on neuroscience and psychology), a post-graduate diploma in air and water pollution control, the common professional examination in law and an LLM in international law in development from the University of Warwick in the UK. She was granted the University Medal for the top science graduate in 1988 and the law school prize for the top law school graduate in 1997.

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[traderabc] 03/7/2011 21:48

Sunday, July 3, 2011

Jim Rogers : Shortages developing in many commodities
legendary investor Jim Rogers chairman of Rogers Holding is ultra Bullish on commodities in 2011 Jim Rogers says commodity prices are likely to rise irrespective of world economic recovery especially because shortages are developing across certain commodity classes :" If the world economy is going to get better commodities are going to do well because there are shortages developing , I do not know if you tried to buy any tin or sugar or rubber or cotton or a lot of things recently we have shortages already , If the world economy does not get better commodities are still the place to be because governments around the world are going to print money it is not the right thing to do because that's all they know to do , so they are going to print more money and that's always good for real assets " Jim Rogers told the Indian TV NDTV

[traderabc] 03/7/2011 21:01

Greek Austerity, Greece Bailout. Max Keiser, Nigel Farage, Gerald Celente.

[traderabc] 03/7/2011 20:53

The Essence Of The Banking Industry...

[traderabc] 02/7/2011 11:09

Don't try snacking on these bars: The vending machine that sells gold not chocolate
Shoppers can pick up a 1g coin for roughly £40 or a 250g bar for £10,250

By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 2:29 PM on 1st July 2011



If you think chocolate bars are a little overpriced these days, then this isn't the vending machine for you.

For the only bars you can get here are made of pure gold and will set you back somewhat more than 70p.

Britain's first gold vending machine 'Gold to Go' will open today in the Westfield shopping centre in west London.

[traderabc] 02/7/2011 10:49

Jim Rogers - Goldseek Radio 30 June 2011