Alternative View 2006 - for john schou

What Really Happened Jan_06.xls Seite 215
18.02.2006 Reuters 20 The US gov. has moved to within $25 million of its $8.184 trillion debt
ceilingbut it expects to stay below the limit for up to another month
19.02.2006 Aljazeera 20 Iran and Venezuela are encouraging and creating a golden opportunity for
other states to shift foreign-exchange holdings out of $ ... Iran started since
2003 demanding oil payment in €, although the oil itself was still priced in $ ...
Iranian and Venezuelan lawmakers have recently signed a document
condemning nuclear weapons
25.02.2006 WRH 20 Russia‘s foreign trade turnover increased by 32% to $370.4 billion... The trade
surplus for 2005 balance was $120.1 billion, up from $85.8 billion in 2004
03.03.2006 X 20 Midwest Oil fined for selling gas too cheaply - The state imposed a $140,000
penalty for what it called "willful, continuing, and egregious" violations of the
price law
06.03.2006 Wash Post 20 In a letter to Congress, Snow urged lawmakers to pass a new debt ceiling
immediately to avoid the nation's first-ever default on its obligations
10.03.2006 Welt 20 Dresden verkauft sämtliche Wohnungen... Die US-amerikanische Investoren-gruppe
Fortress hat für die rund 48.000 Wohnungen 1,7 Milliarden € geboten
10.03.2006 Berlingske 20 For første gang i årtier falder antallet af dødsfald som følge af kræft i USA
15.03.2006 Financial 20 The US current account deficit suffered its fastest quarterly deterioration in
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the final months of last year, ballooning to a record 7% of national income
17.03.2006 X 20 The federal government‘s fiscal exposures now total more than $46 trillion,
up from about $20 trillion in 2000. This staggering revelation was included in
the US Dept. of Treasury's own report
20.03.2006 Telepolis 20 [Concerning Norwegian planned oil bourse] both Russia [&] the Middle East
have large parts of their economies in €. They would be able to view such a
bourse as a contribution to balancing their economies in a better manner than
at present, where their products are traded solely in $
20.03.2006 X 20 Hawai'i residents are required to pay a 4 percent use tax on out-of-state
goods purchased via the Internet - It's time to dump some tea into yon
harbor, methinks
21.03.2006 BAZ 20 Bush hat ein Gesetz unterzeichnet, das die Schuldengrenze für den Haushalt
auf fast neun Billionen $ hochschraubt. Damit kann die Regierung weitere
781 Milliarden $ Schulden aufnehmen und den Einsatz im Irak ohne
Steuererhöhungen oder Leistungskürzungen finanzieren
27.03.2006 Huffington 20 Since the end of 2000, gross domestic product per person in the U.S. has
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expanded 8.4%, adjusted for inflation, but the average weekly wage has
edged down 0.3%
29.03.2006 Libertyforum 20 China's reserves of dollars and other foreign currencies hit $853.7 billion in
February ... allowing China to overtake Japan as the world's largest holder of
foreign exchange reserves
30.03.2006 Yahoo 20 Sometime in the next 2 years, the total amount of US gov. borrowing is going
to break through the 10-trillion-$ mark
12.04.2006 X 20 The central banks of Bahrain and Oman will likely maintain the dollar's
dominant position in their foreign exchange reserves
19.04.2006 WRH 20 in the 20th century, America was able to tax the world indirectly, through inflation. It
did not enforce the direct payment of taxes like all of its predecessor empires did, but
distributed instead its own fiat currency, the US-$, to other nations in exchange for
goods with the intended consequence of inflating and devaluing those dollars and
paying back later each dollar with less economic goods-the difference capturing the
U.S. imperial tax
20.04.2006 Indybay 20 federal reserve orders 2 trillion $ to be printed and put into circulation
21.04.2006 Financial 20 The US $ fell against € .. as Sweden‘s .. Riksbank revealed that it had cut the
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proportion of $ in its reserves from 37 to 20 %
24.04.2006 X 20 Russia has overtaken Saudi Arabia as the world's largest oil & fuel exporter
27.04.2006 Xinhuanet 20 Russia ready to repay Paris Club all debts this year: Putin
29.04.2006 Reuters 20 The Canadian $ jumped to its highest level in [28 years], taking advantage of
a weakening U.S. currency as oil prices rose
01.05.2006 Times 20 $ starts big slide against major currencies - War against Iran starts tomorrow
02.05.2006 Counterpounc 20 both Chinese and Russian government officials warned of the $'s shaky
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status ... In 2001 the price of gold was about $240 per ounce. Today the price
is $660 /ounce
13.05.2006 X 20 In July Iran will ditch $ in favour of € as the currency in which it will accept
payments for its oil and natural gas exports {thought it was already}
17.05.2006 BAZ 20 Venezuela erwägt .. sich seine Öllieferungen künftig in € statt in $ bezahlen
zu lassen