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If the dollar continues its’ downward trend and real estate continues to be more appealing to the foreign investor what will stop an investment group from Europe or Middle East to work a deal out with multiple banks to buy…

I truncated your post after “buy” because I like most of what you wrote up to that word. You are on the right track in anticipating the action of foreign monies, but you are mistaken in thinking it will primarily be spent on housing – and you are mistaken in thinking the coming transfer of wealth and economic power (from USA to foreign nations) is a result of our housing downturn.

This is a complex topic and I suggest you read Anne Korin over at http://www.iags.org/

She’s covered the complexities of the topic far far better than I can.

Anne sees an inevitable and massive transfer of power and money to oil producing nations, unless we (USA) break our addition to oil.

Foreign money is not after our homes. Something far more sinister is in play.
Sovereign funds of wealthy oil producing nations are making strategic political and economic investments in America, and the goal is power and control.

Now they may occasionally spend some billions buying corporate buildings in premier locations in American cities, such as in Manhattan, but again that’s not their primary acquisition goal.

Instead, they are using this very recession as a great opportunity to buy powerful ownership positions in the key power institutions of America. These are opportunities that would normally be politically blocked for them were it not for a recession (and credit crunch) pushing key American institutions to bankruptcy. Who do you think sits on the board of Sovereign Funds in oil-producing nations? These are not private citizen businessmen, like we have on corporate boards here in the USA.

The reason I find this topic VERY interesting is that I try to study global trends like this and look for opportunities for investing by figuring out which way and where will the huge flows of money be moving five or ten years from now.

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If the dollar continues its’ downward trend and real estate continues to be more appealing to the foreign investor what will stop an investment group from Europe or Middle East to work a deal out with multiple banks to buy…

I truncated your post after “buy” because I like most of what you wrote up to that word. You are on the right track in anticipating the action of foreign monies, but you are mistaken in thinking it will primarily be spent on housing – and you are mistaken in thinking the coming transfer of wealth and economic power (from USA to foreign nations) is a result of our housing downturn.

This is a complex topic and I suggest you read Anne Korin over at http://www.iags.org/

She’s covered the complexities of the topic far far better than I can.

Anne sees an inevitable and massive transfer of power and money to oil producing nations, unless we (USA) break our addition to oil.

Foreign money is not after our homes. Something far more sinister is in play.
Sovereign funds of wealthy oil producing nations are making strategic political and economic investments in America, and the goal is power and control.

Now they may occasionally spend some billions buying corporate buildings in premier locations in American cities, such as in Manhattan, but again that’s not their primary acquisition goal.

Instead, they are using this very recession as a great opportunity to buy powerful ownership positions in the key power institutions of America. These are opportunities that would normally be politically blocked for them were it not for a recession (and credit crunch) pushing key American institutions to bankruptcy. Who do you think sits on the board of Sovereign Funds in oil-producing nations? These are not private citizen businessmen, like we have on corporate boards here in the USA.

The reason I find this topic VERY interesting is that I try to study global trends like this and look for opportunities for investing by figuring out which way and where will the huge flows of money be moving five or ten years from now.

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If the dollar continues its’ downward trend and real estate continues to be more appealing to the foreign investor what will stop an investment group from Europe or Middle East to work a deal out with multiple banks to buy…

I truncated your post after “buy” because I like most of what you wrote up to that word. You are on the right track in anticipating the action of foreign monies, but you are mistaken in thinking it will primarily be spent on housing – and you are mistaken in thinking the coming transfer of wealth and economic power (from USA to foreign nations) is a result of our housing downturn.

This is a complex topic and I suggest you read Anne Korin over at http://www.iags.org/

She’s covered the complexities of the topic far far better than I can.

Anne sees an inevitable and massive transfer of power and money to oil producing nations, unless we (USA) break our addition to oil.

Foreign money is not after our homes. Something far more sinister is in play.
Sovereign funds of wealthy oil producing nations are making strategic political and economic investments in America, and the goal is power and control.

Now they may occasionally spend some billions buying corporate buildings in premier locations in American cities, such as in Manhattan, but again that’s not their primary acquisition goal.

Instead, they are using this very recession as a great opportunity to buy powerful ownership positions in the key power institutions of America. These are opportunities that would normally be politically blocked for them were it not for a recession (and credit crunch) pushing key American institutions to bankruptcy. Who do you think sits on the board of Sovereign Funds in oil-producing nations? These are not private citizen businessmen, like we have on corporate boards here in the USA.

The reason I find this topic VERY interesting is that I try to study global trends like this and look for opportunities for investing by figuring out which way and where will the huge flows of money be moving five or ten years from now.

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We do shop about once every two weeks at Wal-Mart, but we do NOT enjoy it. Obviously we go there for a limited basket of items on which Wal-Mart undercuts everyone on price.

I’ve noticed a significant decline in the cleanliness of their stores over the last five years. Also, five years ago Wal-Mart always kept its shelves stocked and organized. Now every Wal-Mart we go to the shelves are a MESS, and often items unstocked and missing.

I see someone wrote this which we AGREE with completely:

worse can’t stand some (not all, some) of the shoppers that fit the stereotypes about walmart shoppers there. Glut glut glut of purchases of useless crap.

THAT above is the main reason going to Wal-Mart is like torture we put up with so we can save a few bucks. Screaming and yelling kids running through the aisles, unwatched by their single welfare mom’s, who are filling their carts with junk food. Also, we cannot even push a shopping cart through Wal-Mart shopping aisles because so filled up with incredible OBESE illegal immigrants speaking whatever language but they don’t understand “excuse me” so they block all the aisles.

Every time my wife and I LEAVE a Wal-Mart, we look at each other and say “THANK GOD we got out of that nasty place!”

We buy ~80% of our groceries from COSTCO

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We do shop about once every two weeks at Wal-Mart, but we do NOT enjoy it. Obviously we go there for a limited basket of items on which Wal-Mart undercuts everyone on price.

I’ve noticed a significant decline in the cleanliness of their stores over the last five years. Also, five years ago Wal-Mart always kept its shelves stocked and organized. Now every Wal-Mart we go to the shelves are a MESS, and often items unstocked and missing.

I see someone wrote this which we AGREE with completely:

worse can’t stand some (not all, some) of the shoppers that fit the stereotypes about walmart shoppers there. Glut glut glut of purchases of useless crap.

THAT above is the main reason going to Wal-Mart is like torture we put up with so we can save a few bucks. Screaming and yelling kids running through the aisles, unwatched by their single welfare mom’s, who are filling their carts with junk food. Also, we cannot even push a shopping cart through Wal-Mart shopping aisles because so filled up with incredible OBESE illegal immigrants speaking whatever language but they don’t understand “excuse me” so they block all the aisles.

Every time my wife and I LEAVE a Wal-Mart, we look at each other and say “THANK GOD we got out of that nasty place!”

We buy ~80% of our groceries from COSTCO

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We do shop about once every two weeks at Wal-Mart, but we do NOT enjoy it. Obviously we go there for a limited basket of items on which Wal-Mart undercuts everyone on price.

I’ve noticed a significant decline in the cleanliness of their stores over the last five years. Also, five years ago Wal-Mart always kept its shelves stocked and organized. Now every Wal-Mart we go to the shelves are a MESS, and often items unstocked and missing.

I see someone wrote this which we AGREE with completely:

worse can’t stand some (not all, some) of the shoppers that fit the stereotypes about walmart shoppers there. Glut glut glut of purchases of useless crap.

THAT above is the main reason going to Wal-Mart is like torture we put up with so we can save a few bucks. Screaming and yelling kids running through the aisles, unwatched by their single welfare mom’s, who are filling their carts with junk food. Also, we cannot even push a shopping cart through Wal-Mart shopping aisles because so filled up with incredible OBESE illegal immigrants speaking whatever language but they don’t understand “excuse me” so they block all the aisles.

Every time my wife and I LEAVE a Wal-Mart, we look at each other and say “THANK GOD we got out of that nasty place!”

We buy ~80% of our groceries from COSTCO

[stockstradr]

We do shop about once every two weeks at Wal-Mart, but we do NOT enjoy it. Obviously we go there for a limited basket of items on which Wal-Mart undercuts everyone on price.

I’ve noticed a significant decline in the cleanliness of their stores over the last five years. Also, five years ago Wal-Mart always kept its shelves stocked and organized. Now every Wal-Mart we go to the shelves are a MESS, and often items unstocked and missing.

I see someone wrote this which we AGREE with completely:

worse can’t stand some (not all, some) of the shoppers that fit the stereotypes about walmart shoppers there. Glut glut glut of purchases of useless crap.

THAT above is the main reason going to Wal-Mart is like torture we put up with so we can save a few bucks. Screaming and yelling kids running through the aisles, unwatched by their single welfare mom’s, who are filling their carts with junk food. Also, we cannot even push a shopping cart through Wal-Mart shopping aisles because so filled up with incredible OBESE illegal immigrants speaking whatever language but they don’t understand “excuse me” so they block all the aisles.

Every time my wife and I LEAVE a Wal-Mart, we look at each other and say “THANK GOD we got out of that nasty place!”

We buy ~80% of our groceries from COSTCO

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We do shop about once every two weeks at Wal-Mart, but we do NOT enjoy it. Obviously we go there for a limited basket of items on which Wal-Mart undercuts everyone on price.

I’ve noticed a significant decline in the cleanliness of their stores over the last five years. Also, five years ago Wal-Mart always kept its shelves stocked and organized. Now every Wal-Mart we go to the shelves are a MESS, and often items unstocked and missing.

I see someone wrote this which we AGREE with completely:

worse can’t stand some (not all, some) of the shoppers that fit the stereotypes about walmart shoppers there. Glut glut glut of purchases of useless crap.

THAT above is the main reason going to Wal-Mart is like torture we put up with so we can save a few bucks. Screaming and yelling kids running through the aisles, unwatched by their single welfare mom’s, who are filling their carts with junk food. Also, we cannot even push a shopping cart through Wal-Mart shopping aisles because so filled up with incredible OBESE illegal immigrants speaking whatever language but they don’t understand “excuse me” so they block all the aisles.

Every time my wife and I LEAVE a Wal-Mart, we look at each other and say “THANK GOD we got out of that nasty place!”

We buy ~80% of our groceries from COSTCO

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In this thread on May 2007, I see Paranoid wrote:

Dow is going to 14000 and SP500 is going to 1600 before the end of the summer. It may continue to go up or turn around and go down after that.

WOW. That was a remarkably accurate prediction! Very impressive.

Paranoid essentially got the number right for the market top, and was only off a few months on the timing. The peak happened in Oct 2007, with the DOW hitting 14,000 and S&P 500 hitting 1560.

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In this thread on May 2007, I see Paranoid wrote:

Dow is going to 14000 and SP500 is going to 1600 before the end of the summer. It may continue to go up or turn around and go down after that.

WOW. That was a remarkably accurate prediction! Very impressive.

Paranoid essentially got the number right for the market top, and was only off a few months on the timing. The peak happened in Oct 2007, with the DOW hitting 14,000 and S&P 500 hitting 1560.

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In this thread on May 2007, I see Paranoid wrote:

Dow is going to 14000 and SP500 is going to 1600 before the end of the summer. It may continue to go up or turn around and go down after that.

WOW. That was a remarkably accurate prediction! Very impressive.

Paranoid essentially got the number right for the market top, and was only off a few months on the timing. The peak happened in Oct 2007, with the DOW hitting 14,000 and S&P 500 hitting 1560.

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In this thread on May 2007, I see Paranoid wrote:

Dow is going to 14000 and SP500 is going to 1600 before the end of the summer. It may continue to go up or turn around and go down after that.

WOW. That was a remarkably accurate prediction! Very impressive.

Paranoid essentially got the number right for the market top, and was only off a few months on the timing. The peak happened in Oct 2007, with the DOW hitting 14,000 and S&P 500 hitting 1560.

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In this thread on May 2007, I see Paranoid wrote:

Dow is going to 14000 and SP500 is going to 1600 before the end of the summer. It may continue to go up or turn around and go down after that.

WOW. That was a remarkably accurate prediction! Very impressive.

Paranoid essentially got the number right for the market top, and was only off a few months on the timing. The peak happened in Oct 2007, with the DOW hitting 14,000 and S&P 500 hitting 1560.

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I do agree that Powayseller is a nitwit

Having said that, my instinct is that the S&P500 will go to 1,000 within 24 months.

But just ’cause I have that instinct doesn’t mean I’m betting any significant amounts of my portfolio it will happen!

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I do agree that Powayseller is a nitwit

Having said that, my instinct is that the S&P500 will go to 1,000 within 24 months.

But just ’cause I have that instinct doesn’t mean I’m betting any significant amounts of my portfolio it will happen!

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