by KTA » Sun Mar 16, 2008 12:39 pm
It is supply and demand price driven, well it used to be, now it is more investor driven. the US doesn't make anything anymore, all we sell to the rest of the world of any value is food. That is also why prices for corn and other grains have shot through the roof. The US has no money, we have spent it all thats why we have a deficit!! Countries like China now have all our money, Dubai and the UAE have more of our money than they know what to do with. They aren't interested in investing in US manufacturing as its not profitable, so they invest in Oil, that in turn makes oil prices go up even more. The same thing is happenning with Corn prices. Thank Wal-Mart, McDonalds, and every other company that buys and sells foreign products. You can thank capitalism and the American mindset as well. We want everything cheap cheap cheap thats why we buy Chinese crap at walmart instead of American made goods which cost 3 times as much. At one point tariffs on foreign goods to equalize their cost with American made products would have solved the problem, but we are too far past that point now. Had we to have done that we could have kept American wealth circulating with in the American economy, now that money is gone and will NEVER BE COMING BACK. In the next 20 years the US will be a 3rd world country. There is only soo much global wealth, as every other countries standard of living comes up from us buying stuff from them, ours has to go down by the same amount. That is one reason why the US dollar is worth less everyday. Blaming the government is stupid, we have no one to blame but ourselves the consumers.
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