All the above plus increase cost of goods since Chinese labor is getting paid more. So basically every angle that can increase price is pretty much in the works. Transportation (oil costs), clothing (cotton prices), Fed money printing, etc, etc.

What's with the US dollar?!

Inflation is about to be a huge problem in the U.S. Walmart CEO just announced that everything in the store is going rise in price and consumers need to brace themselves for the shock.

What's with the US dollar?!

EDIT: In 2 month sample I'm taking the highest value, in this case 148. Okay, starting to get over my head. Would it be fair to say that if a currency pair has 148 pips average range over the previous 2 months and 101 pips is 68% (or 1 standard ...

ATR and Standard Deviation

Update: 1 standard deviation contains 68.2% of data. So I guess what it means is that 101 pips is one standard deviation worth of the 148 pips.

ATR and Standard Deviation

The U.S. goberment is in debt, the treasury is part of the gobernment.

What's with the US dollar?!

Well technically the FED can never be in debt since it can always print more money.

What's with the US dollar?!

Summed up very nicely.

I don't want to get rich

Interesting article that I think sums up some of the recent discussion in this thread. Nasdaq Bubble, Real-estate Bubble… Silver Bubble? url

XAU/USD & XAG/USD - Gold & Silver Traders Thread

LOL. I was supposed to go to sleep a few hours ago, exit stage left.

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LOL, no it was fiat currency and central bank manipulation.

What's with the US dollar?!

Like I said a very simple example. It's dollars per doughnut, so you divide. If you have 100 dollars and 100 doughnuts, then 100/100 = 1. That is 1 dollar per doughnut. If you have 200 dollars the 100 doughnuts, then 200/100 = 2. Now you have 2 ...

What's with the US dollar?!

Yours is the Keynesian definition of inflation and mine is the Austrian definition. Since we know Keynesianism is a proven fraud of a theory, why not stick with how the world really works? Austrian all the way, baby!

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OMG. Inflation CAUSES prices to rise. Let's have a very simple economy at work. You have a world with 100 doughnuts and 100 dollars. 1 dollar buys you 1 doughnut. Every night you go to bed and put 1 dollar on your night stand and when you wake up ...

What's with the US dollar?!

Maybe I'm getting confused on how the term bubble is used, but I think I see your point. You think that we are in the early stages of a bubble and it has a way to go before it bursts, but that it is still tradeable in the mean time.

XAU/USD & XAG/USD - Gold & Silver Traders Thread

I'd have to look those terms up to fully understand them. A very quick look at wiki to get definition and I'd say this: Prices rising because supply and demand have changed isn't inflation. Inflation is the increase in the money supply. Looks like ...

What's with the US dollar?!

I can agree with most of that.

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You are joking of course. Inflation doesn't rise because prices are rising, prices are rising because of Inflation.

What's with the US dollar?!

Great point. In the 60's and 70's one person in a household could work a basic blue collar job and support a spouse and put 2 kids through college, own a car and a home. They could afford to go on a family vacation every year. How much would you ...

What's with the US dollar?!

Ummm... With a gold standard you don't need a central bank ripping off the people of a country and creating boom and bust cycles. Actually, you don't even have a central bank!

What's with the US dollar?!