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As for the week dollar: The stronger it is the easier to import and harder to export, weak dollar means harder to import easier to export.

the_soultaker wrote:

GATSU wrote: Well since most of the trade deficits are American, it's kind of tough not to blame Bush. Heh, right now there are those who hold Bush responsible for the tsunami in Southeat Asia.

Nope, we're holding his stingy @$$ for that. $10,000 donation, pfft. Wouldn't feed a starving child for 2 days at most!

And "Rev." Phelps glorified the Tsunami as an act of God for "eliminating 3,000 Swedish Gays from this earth." And let's not forget, that missing Swedish Kid would be happier as a Sex Slave!

Yes, but that only works if the products being exported are of equal or greater quality than the products consumed domestically or from other countries. And judging by the corners American
corporations have been cutting over the last two decades-particularly in manufacturing-I wouldn't be surprised if foreigners would rather pay the extra cash knowing that they get a good which doesn't fall apart, because the Chinese or Salvadorian sweatshop worker was tired that day. Also, exports only account for short-term profits. And if you chose to lay off most of your staff, then you'll have less people consuming your product.

You can also check http://www.dollarmanga.com. Most of their titles only $1, many at $3. Not quite sure how they figure shipping, but it's by FedEx, and my order of 15 books cost just over $40, plus $22 for shipping.

I've read somewhere that dollarmanga is indeed ComicsOne.

Who said anything about laying off staff? If anything the increased amount of exports and weaker dollar would create more domestic jobs.

As for the foreign labor: from America to Japan to Europe, everyone out sources. You don’t think Japan takes advantage of cheap Chinese and Korean workers?

Right now it’s hard for American made products to compete with the cheaper alternatives,

Exports are the backbone of most countries economies.

American imports are pretty important everywhere.

Right now the best way for an American business to make money is to sell to Americans.

As for Japan one of their problem is they save too much and spend too little.

People aren’t putting enough money back into their economy, which causes instability and fear, which causes people to save more.

You wouldn’t know it from the big media headlines, but 2004 was a pretty darn good year.

No Terrorist Attacks on U.S. Soil.

This was huge — and it happened for the third consecutive year.

The U.S. economy can’t grow if businesses are shut down and our producers can’t get home safely at night.

Fortunately, whether from better homeland-security information-sharing, enhanced policing, or the Patriot Act, by the good grace of God we were once again spared from terrorist violence.

Bush Reelected. Again, conventional wisdom was flat-out wrong: There was no post-election electoral gridlock.

Instead, Bush won handily.

His victory removed considerable uncertainty from the economy and the stock markets.

There is no better illustration of the positive Bush effect than the dramatic stock market rally that raised share prices by 10 to 12 percent since late October.

Fortunately, the retaking of Fallujah and strong Iraqi voter registration has made for a greater likelihood of successful elections on January 30.

The Afghan elections were a huge plus.

Elections are coming to Palestine.

Democracy will gradually transform the entire region.

Strong Economy. A combination of 4 percent economic growth,

a 5.4 percent unemployment rate,

and 2 percent inflation

trumped repeated naysaying in the media and once again illustrated the economic power of lower marginal tax rates on rising employment and investment.

The productivity revolution also continued.

Internet use soared.

Family net worth reached a new record high.

Conventional wisdom was once more proven wrong. Five Fed rate-hiking moves to drain excess cash from the economy and bolster the dollar were well received by financial markets.

In 2005, less money from the central bank will help generate more non-inflationary prosperity for the rest of us.

Greenspan’s strategy of gradualism is paying off handsomely.

As an alternative media information source, blogging came into its own in 2004.

Dan Rather and John Kerry were but two casualties of blogsite truth-telling.

Of particular note is the fact that bloggers, much like Main Street folks throughout the nation, tend to be optimistic and positive about the countrywhile big established media continues to lean toward declinism and negativism.

The China-impact on the U.S. economy was even more influential in 2004.

The China boom drove up commodity prices, especially energy.

It also led to a boom in U.S. trucking, shipping, and railroading, as well as the transportation stock market index.

Lately, however, China-related shipping and tanker rates have been coming down fast, suggesting that the bloom may be off the China rose.

Local economies will recover following the catastrophic South Pacific earthquake and tsunami, but it will take a while. (The death toll is unbelievable.) Closer to home, four hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico drove up energy prices and drove down Gulf economies — at least temporarily.

Even though stronger-than-expected economic growth is bringing the budget deficit down

But if deficits were really so bad, then why was the U.S. economy so good? The U.S. budget gap is smaller that the fiscal shortages in Europe and Japan.

And if our big European and Japanese customers would only grow faster, the U.S. trade gap would narrow significantly.

What they need is a strong dose of George W. Bush’s pro-growth cowboy capitalism.

Meanwhile, with a solid U.S. economy — featuring strong investment returns and a dose of monetary restraint — the greenback looks to be undervalued.

BTW, Kerry never disproved any of the swift-vets claims,

my mutual fund is growing for the third straight quater,

Osama Bin Ladin has been reduced to parroting the DNC's talking points,

For the record, you seem really disappointed by that "no terrorist attacks on the US for the past three years"

and "voting in Afghanistan".