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The United States looks like the winner after all

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Re: The United States looks like the winner after all

Unread postby FoxV » Thu 19 Jun 2008, 16:26:44

I got a kick out of this statement

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '"')The burning question is when to sell oil companies and move back to banks.


Kind of like how everyone piled on to the stern of the Titanic before it finally went under the waves.

I don't buy the inflation argument btw, Inflation has been high in India and china for a long time and their markets peaked pretty much the same time as the US markets. I'm suspecting that with 300% to 400% gains in the last few years, investors have probably decided that its time to pull out their Asian profits to make up for their US losses.

As for putting their money back into the US markets, well the list of profitable sectors is getting pretty small these days. As a matter of fact I believe its now down to three

Energy
Agriculture
Miners

Put your money anywhere else these days is just catching a falling knife
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Re: The United States looks like the winner after all

Unread postby Twilight » Thu 19 Jun 2008, 18:21:14

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('FoxV', 'E')nergy
Agriculture
Miners

Looks like Deffeyes' list of fundamental economic activities.
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Re: The United States looks like the winner after all

Unread postby bodigami » Sat 21 Jun 2008, 02:31:26

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Twilight', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('FoxV', 'E')nergy
Agriculture
Miners

Looks like Deffeyes' list of fundamental economic activities.


Deffeye's list? Could you elaborate?
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Re: The United States looks like the winner after all

Unread postby Twilight » Mon 23 Jun 2008, 18:34:34

This guy.

In Chapter 9 of Hubbert's Peak, he explains that the list of fundamental economic activities is short, and that great wealth used to be concentrated at the bottom of the economic pyramid. Someone has to be down there; we cannot all work in the service sector. The list is essentially of various sectors of food, energy and mineral extraction.
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