> On Aug 17, 9:57 pm, Robert Cohen msn.com> wrote:
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>> And perhaps because of these other factors simultaneously happening as
>> inter-related, dynamic causes and effects:

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>> Because some  "demand destruction" for oil is "hurting" high fuel
>> prices

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>> And gold, silver and many other commodities seem to be falling in
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>>http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/dc97963e-6aa9-11dd-b613-0000779fd18c.html

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>> Caveat: what such an article doesn't make perfectly clear, though I
>> think should:

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>> IT ALL COULD REVERT TO THE OPPOSITE IN A FEW MINUTES  (or DAYS, WEEKS,
>> MONTHS)

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>> That's how complex, sensitive and volatile our global reality is (imho
>> of course)

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> Here is (apparently) a great contemporary independent-individualistic
> "economist," while there have been several/many doctor doomsers,
> though kept in our nation's kook attic so to speak because of the
> pessimistic prognoses
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> I note Roubini is considered highly skilled in utlizing math (which i
> can't do, goshdamneit),  while his supposedly accurate predictions are
> (seemingly) weighed or based more upon  economic-financial
> "fundamentals," and the prescient predictions are deeemed as
> "intuitions" (rather than as respectable "logic") which surely are
> also derived & aggregated from his varied multi-cultural experiences &
> knowledge
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> Meanwhile: I watched Dr. Larry Lindsay, Bush II's  former major
> economist-sage-shill, predict gloom-doom a couple weeks ago on early
> morning CNBC business cable, ugly but obvious stuff that Lindsay could
> not publicly acknowledge when employed at the White House for many
> years
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