Is the U.S.heading for a meltdown?

**froshie1** · December 22nd, 2007 12:56 PM

Originally Posted by 6shooter

Eh kung ayon sa inyo malakas ang ekonomiya nila bakit bumabagsak ang pera nila? Ngunit ang pera na Euro pareho pa rin?

Wala sa pera yan. Gusto ng Feds na mahina ang pera nila para lumakas ang exports nila. Sa pagbagsak nga ng value ng greenback sila na ang Worlds Most Competitive Economy eh.

**CVT** · December 22nd, 2007 01:40 PM

Originally Posted by froshie1

Wala sa pera yan. Gusto ng Feds na mahina ang pera nila para lumakas ang exports nila. Sa pagbagsak nga ng value ng greenback sila na ang Worlds Most Competitive Economy eh.

The US still is the biggest market in the world..... They are still the most influential economy. The world cannot afford their economy to just melt down....

There is a shift in the policy of the US Federal Reserves when Chairman Bernanke took over Greenspan. Rather than being US-centric,- it is leaning towards being world-centric. So, the dollar was not as protected as before...

Right now, because their dollar is weak,- it's creating jobs over there....

It is also making overseas operations for US multinational companies, less attractive........

4909:coffee:

**uls** · December 22nd, 2007 03:19 PM

The weak dollar wasnt planned or intended by the US.

The weak dollar is a result of the Bush admin's huge spending.

They had to finance the war in Iraq and Afghanistan and a whole lot of other stuff...

And Bush also cut taxes...

So where does the US get its spending money?

From big dollar earners like China and oil producers.

The US sells them T bills.

The US simply flooded the world with dollars by printing more and more dollars.

Naturally the USD had to lose value.

Now lalo bababa ang value ng dollar coz the Fed is making more money available for banks to borrow coz of the credit freeze.

**theveed** · December 22nd, 2007 04:51 PM

This surely won't help http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stori...317680/1/.html

**uls** · December 22nd, 2007 05:43 PM

ya that's as bearish as anyone can get.

there are other analysts who say the same thing.

Some even say the recession is already in progress.

But the bulls will only go as far as saying that there will be a slowdown in 1st half of 2008...

That the US economy will stop short of a recession and bounce back...

Nobody can really tell what will happen.

**6shooter** · December 22nd, 2007 11:16 PM

Kaya po naguguluhan po ako. May nagsasabi na di dapat mag alala may nagsasabi naman na katakot ang posisyon ng Estados Unidos.

Baka nga hindi meltdown pero posible ba na bumagsak ang Amerika? Ganun kalakas pa ba sila sa larangan ng industriya at kalakalan? Ang mga malakas po di minsan makikita pero biglang may isang mas maliit na mas mabilis na kukuha sa posisyon nila sa taas.

Posible po na ang Amerika ay nasa dulo na kanyang siglo? Kahit naman po ang mga ibang malalakas na bansa bumabagsak. Mahirap ba paniwalaan na posible eto para sa Amerika? Malakas po kasi ang kutob ko na nasa Asia ang sunod na siglo.

**uls** · December 23rd, 2007 12:52 AM

Over naman yan kung sasabihin natin na babagsak ang Amerika.

Hindi babagsak ang Amerika. It is the world's largest economy.

Even if their economy slows down, it will still be the largest.

**suv** · December 23rd, 2007 01:28 AM

Basta ang gusto ko lang umabot sa 25 pesos ang 1 dollar.....para lumakas buying power ng piso pag bibili ako ng mga gamit sa USA

Kung umabot ng 10 pesos eh hindi ko tatangihan :bwahaha:

**juntzo** · December 24th, 2007 10:30 AM

yes it is nice to have a strong peso so you can buy cheaper american goods!

but it will also shrink our exports that in time it will find a stable amount so that there will be a balance!

actually big exporters (like Japan and China) to the US can't afford a recession there since it means that americans will not buy their products! if ever there will be a recession i'm sure all the major players will meet to solve it as fast as they can!

think of a sari-sari store. what happens if the store's biggest suki goes bankrupt (like losing a job!)? what if everybody in the neighborhood who buys the paninda loses their job? will that do anything good to your profitability? of course not!

the economies of the countries of the world today are so interdependent that it is mutually beneficially to be working together to solve problems when they arise in any part of the world. competition with cooperation!

**froshie1** · December 24th, 2007 05:51 PM

Originally Posted by 6shooter

Kaya po naguguluhan po ako. May nagsasabi na di dapat mag alala may nagsasabi naman na katakot ang posisyon ng Estados Unidos.

Baka nga hindi meltdown pero posible ba na bumagsak ang Amerika? Ganun kalakas pa ba sila sa larangan ng industriya at kalakalan? Ang mga malakas po di minsan makikita pero biglang may isang mas maliit na mas mabilis na kukuha sa posisyon nila sa taas.

Posible po na ang Amerika ay nasa dulo na kanyang siglo? Kahit naman po ang mga ibang malalakas na bansa bumabagsak. Mahirap ba paniwalaan na posible eto para sa Amerika? Malakas po kasi ang kutob ko na nasa Asia ang sunod na siglo.

May nagsasabi yeah kasi ang pera naman nila hindi naka peg sa real currency such as gold. Possible iyon pero hanggang nagtatrabaho ang feds (sa paglaganap ng kasinungalingan urrr. hehehe) nila ok ok pa yan ang question kasi hanggang kailan magiging kapanipaniwala ang feds sa mata ng karamihan? Going back to their money, naka peg lang iyon sa trust and confidence ng mga tao. So print lang sila ng print ng pera. Kung patindi ng patindi at patuloy sila sa ginagawa nila ngayon and halos lahat ng sa kanila ay hindi magbabayad ng utang maaring bumagsak pero hindi naman parang Pilipinas. Babagsak in the sense na hindi na sila kasing lakas ngayon.

As an ordinary joe how can you protect yourself? Diversify!