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Jack-o-Economy

By Prieur du Plessis, on November 1st, 2008 posted in: Humor

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Source: Barry Ritholtz, The Big Picture, October 30, 2008.

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Why the dollar surge won’t last

By Prieur du Plessis, on November 1st, 2008 posted in: Guest Bloggers, Investment, Markets, Money

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Paul Kedrosky, guest contributor, argues in a thoughtful manner that the US dollar’s surge won’t last. “Down is up, and up is down? How is it that a growing US economy was bad for the US dollar, but a potentially calamitous collapse in the same US economy has the US dollar up double-digit percentages?,” asks Kedrosky. [...]

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