oh la la.. un article tres interessant! Long mais tres interessant!

Mike Whitney : à quand les soupes populaires ?
http://contreinfo.info/article.php3?id_article=1234

(............ peut etre que les predictions de Madame Mina sont vrais... )

oh la la! ce mec avait prevu la crise de subprimes depuis 2005!!

http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=05/07/27/201219

ben j'en connais qui fafaronnent , qui, demain iront à la soupe populaire, en plus que l'armée n'arrive pas à donner toutes les pensions aux blessés

en fait ils n'en parlent pas, ils n'arrêtent pas de critiquer les democrates et se moquent de nous aussi

la preuve ultime que le dollar vaut vraiment plus un pet de lapin ???

...Jay Z frime avec des Euros dans un de ses derniers clips:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiuNd5SoU8E

la force du symbole

oh la la!

Dollar no longer welcome at Taj Mahal
By Andrew Buncombe in Delhi
Published: 19 November 2007

The Taj Mahal may have been built as a testament to love but some hard-headed business decisions are now holding sway at India's most famous monument. First among them is that the US dollar is no longer welcome.

With parts of the American economy in turmoil and the dollar rapidly losing its long-held position as the currency of choice, Indian authorities have calculated they are losing considerable sums of money by allowing foreign tourists to pay using greenbacks.

A statement by India's Ministry for Tourism and Culture said the government had decided to act "in view of the international practices and also to avoid any anomaly on account of falling exchange rates of the US dollar vis-a-vis the rupee and the consequent fall in revenues".

Until the change, foreign tourists visiting the Taj Mahal in Agra, south-west of Delhi, could enter by paying a fixed $5 (£2.45) fee – a price that was set when the dollar was worth around R50. But with the dollar having fallen by 12 per cent this year against the rupee and the current exchange rate closer to R39 to the dollar, the government has now fixed the entry price for foreigners at R250 – more than $6.

"These rates have been fixed in line with international practices," a ministry spokesman said. "It will avoid any anomaly on account of falling dollar-rupee exchange rates."

The ruling will affect around 120 sites overseen by the Archaeological Society of India, of which 27 – including the Taj Mahal – are World Heritage sites. The new rates are expected to be introduced as soon as this week to avoid a loss of income as the value of the dollar continues to fall.

Indians pay around R10 or R20 to enter the archaeological sites, a disparity often questioned by foreign visitors but defended by the authorities, who say most overseas visitors are considerably wealthier than the locals.

At the moment, nationals from the South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation also do not have to pay the higher fee. Neither do foreigners holding a Person of Indian Origin card. But if India's economic boom – with growth of more than 8 per cent a year and a newly wealthy middle class – continues, the authorities may have to rethink the pricing structure.

The snub to the dollar by the Indian authorities is just the latest indication of how many are now turning away from what for generations was considered the safest of the world's currencies. After months of turmoil, partly created by the collapse of the sub-prime mortgage markets in the US, the lack of confidence in the dollar has reached the point where many international traders are transferring their wealth to stronger currencies such as sterling or the euro.

India earned an estimated $6.5bn last year from the more than four million tourists who visited the country, many of whom will have made the journey to the Taj Mahal to visit India's most famous – and now, probably most expensive – monument.
http://travel.independent.co.uk/news_and_advice/article3174388.ece

les chinois veulent abandonner le dollar!!

u Jian, a Chinese central bank vice director, told a conference in Beijing, "The dollar is "losing its status as the world currency." Meanwhile, at the same meeting, Cheng Siwei, vice chairman of China's National People's Congress, said, "We will favor stronger currencies over weaker ones, and will readjust accordingly."

Craig R. Smith, CEO of Swiss America Trading Corp., told WND he's been in the investment business for 30 years and has "never seen people more nervous."

Alarmed by today's economic news, he dispatched a note to brokers with a warning of ominous potential consequences if China and other trading partners abandon the dollar.

"If that were to happen, all bets are off, and we will be in a depression that makes 1929 look like child's play," he said, "or we will experience Weimar Republic inflation as the dollar makes extreme moves toward devaluations."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58563

ça commence...

Iran stops accepting U.S. dollars for oil
16:34 | 08/ 12/ 2007

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TEHRAN, December 8 (RIA Novosti) - Iran has stopped selling its oil for U.S. dollars, the Iranian ISNA news agency said on Saturday, citing the country's oil minister.

"In line with a policy of selling crude oil in currencies other than the U.S. dollar, the sale of our country's oil in U.S. dollars has been completely eliminated," ISNA reported Oil Minister Gholamhossein Nozari as saying.

He also said "the dollar is no longer a reliable currency." http://en.rian.ru/world/20071208/91488137.html

Sudan's Central Bank opts for euro

The Central Bank of Sudan will deal only in the euro beginning in 2008 and advised local commercial banks to opt for convertible currencies other than the U.S. dollar.

The announcement, made public in a circular note distributed to banks late Thursday, reflected efforts by the central authorities to steer away from the weak dollar amid Sudan's economic boom.

The new policy note, signed by Governor of the Central Bank Sabir Mohamed al-Hassan, said all Central Bank dealings would be in the euro starting Jan. 1.

The note also recommended commercial banks us currencies other than the U.S. dollar, with the view to "lessen the risk of continuing to deal in the U.S. dollar."

The euro bought $1.4701 in afternoon European trading Friday, up from $1.4627 in late New York trading on Thursday.

Banks should advise account holders to commute U.S. dollar assets to other currencies and "enlighten them on the risks associated with maintaining balances in the American dollar," it said, without elaborating.

The advisory also said banks using the dollar would "bear the risks resulting from those dealings," but a shift to other currencies was optional.

After a decade of American sanctions, Sudan has few commercial ties to the United States.

Nearly 75 percent of Sudan's trade is with Arab and Asian nations and Sudanese firms are already using the euro extensively.

Last year, Sudan's economy grew by 12 percent, according to the International Monetary Fund. That growth was propelled by the estimated 500,000 barrels of oil produced each day -- two-thirds of it bought by China.
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8TQI9O00.htm