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  • Commodity Prices Continue To Be A Key Issue

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    The most vexing problem currently facing the world is finding affordable commodities. When push comes to shove, if oil still traded in a cyclical fashion at around $20 per barrel and copper averaged about a buck a pound, today's debt problems would be much more tractable, and growth would be much easier to accommodate. Indeed, a strong argument can be made that the 2007-08 bubble occurred due to consumer borrowing to keep even with falling living standards. And living standards continue to fall as corporations resist higher wages in favor of cost controls - especially costs related to commodities. Historically one of ... (full story)

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hasaenz777
Jan 16, 2013 7:48pm
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Bologna, the 2007-2008 crisis was a MAN CREATED crisis. It was 'cause borrowing was made easy to create the bubble. The final objective was to achieve a slow down of the spiraling growing economies. Who did it...? Nobody knows. Hard to pinpoint. Nevertheless, it was real.
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hasaenz777
Jan 16, 2013 8:26pm
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Wages & Prices is the key issue of the "THE GOOD, THE BAD, OR THE UGLY" any Economy may run into. Depending who the Boogieman is in charge of running the store, the net results would be either.

Us as small investors can be safe ass long we get to spot the opportunity coming along. It does not matter to us who is doing what to whom. Cherry picking is the final answer to make a little profit.

Remember, The Bank of International Settlements (BIS), and the termed "The liquidity coverage ratio (LCR)".... are the creation to provide a safety net for all the wrong doing of BANKS, not necessarily a correction on their behavior. That behavior is what will lead us to make Good or Bad financial decisions.

It all is interconnected.
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