Can’t proove it, but I would bet that a lot of the stock market drop of the last month (10%) is FOREIGN investment drying up due to the weak dollar.

There are a lot of factors to consider. One is that the weak dollar makes US stocks cheap for foreign investors. There can be investment opportunities for them especially in US companies that have global earnings.

During the past 5 years where we’ve lost almost 30% against the Euro, the DJII is up almost 50%. You should be able to see it on this chart.

Yes, and and enough money left over to buy you and me and
Entelechy each a brand new red corvette and Allapundit an IPhone and an Ipod!

MB4 on November 27, 2007 at 2:17 AM

Hey now…not just anyone is allowed to get a Red Corvette…(got mine so I had to throw that in) It’s an exclusive club don’t ya know…

Which are the members of our armed forces (which support Ron Paul over all other candidates)?

Mark Jaquith on November 27, 2007 at 10:38 AM

I’m assuming that–as jp stated–that claim is still based on nothing but the way donors self-identified their occupation on the Paulnut’s website? So if, say, I wanted to put my occupation down as “Lion Tamer” (when I am not, in fact, a lion tamer) and I could get enough other people to do the same, you’d all be screaming (shrilly, of course) that the majority of lion tamers support Ron Paul?

From this site:

As for The Only Man Who Can Save America, whose cultish followers crowed over this as proof that the troops had become isolationist Birchers, here’s his veteran/non-veteran/total preference line among Republican and Republican-leaning vets:

Paul 1 / 3 / 2

(That Allahpundit guy sure can turn a phrase, can’t he?)

Hmm, you’d think the number in that first column would be higher if our service members had accepted Ron Paul as their Prophet. But don’t let any of us get in the way of you cultish followers attempting to gain Absolute Moral Authority on the backs of my brothers and sisters in uniform.

The dollar has decreased in value about 30% since Bush has been in office… which means everything we buy overseas (LIKE OIL) is 30% more expensive.

Technical point as you understate your own case, a 30% drop in the dollar means a 43% increase in prices.

Can’t proove it, but I would bet that a lot of the stock market drop of the last month (10%) is FOREIGN investment drying up due to the weak dollar.

Romeo13 on November 27, 2007 at 10:12 AM

You may not be able to prove it, but you can “take it to the bank”.

Which are the members of our armed forces (which support Ron Paul over all other candidates)?

there area bout 20 members of the ‘military’, or atleast marked that down as their occupation, that contributed to Paul. This claim is spin and unfounded, all you have to do is analyze the contributions. Paul forces everyone to mark an occupation, with no way of verifying. And with so much Lib support, no doubt the ‘absolute moral authority’ game is being played. Paul requires all his contributors to mark something, none of the other candidates do. That is why Paul has no contributions with no occupation marked, and all the others have a MAJORITY of their contributions coming from contributors that don’t mark anything….

muyoso on November 26, 2007 at 8:09 PM

I am stating the truth that our very presence in the WORLD stirs up all sorts of anti-CHRISTIAN sentiment.
Iranians “liberating” the east coast of the US… what a ridiculous and non-sense analogy.

Paul is mainly drawing his support from the left and from libertines like the brothel owner here, as well as fringe miscreants like Stormfront.

Which am I? Which is my wife? Which is the rest of my immediate family? Which are the members of our armed forces (which support Ron Paul over all other candidates)?

Do you have any facts to back up your assertion, or are you just hand-picking fringe minorities and declaring them to be the base of Paul’s support?

Anyone sure this guy didn’t escape from the island of misfit toys?

thareb on November 27, 2007 at 6:00 AM

That’s it. I couldn’t figure out who this dingbat looks like — it’s Hermy the Elf Dentist!

I’d be more than willing to take the troops in Germany, and Japan, and move them to Israel, where they are actually needed.

Are you kidding me? Israel needing our help? Geez, if we weren’t our continually shackling Israel to keep it from doing what it probably should have done years ago (putting its enemies in their places), there probably would be little need for an Annapolis peace conference. As it stands, the best thing for Israel would be for us to let it do what it thinks it should do to protect itself. The results would be ominous and afterwards we’d all turn to each other with a South Parkian, “Oh.”

jp on November 27, 2007 at 9:58 AM

We only have two major National Security interests in the Mid East… Oil, and Israel.

I’d be more than willing to take the troops in Germany, and Japan, and move them to Israel, where they are actualy needed.

As to oil? We are not drilling HERE! With American know how and a bit of engineering we COULD become energy independent… but instead we fund Ethanol (stupid, and not energy efficient), and support OVERSEAS governments. We have not built a single plant to turn oil into gasoline for FOURTY YEARS! No dams for hydro… no nuke plants… crap, we’re not even trying…

Add in the weak dollar? You’ve got the perfect storm…

The dollar has decreased in value about 30% since Bush has been in office… which means everything we buy overseas (LIKE OIL) is 30% more expensive.

Can’t proove it, but I would bet that a lot of the stock market drop of the last month (10%) is FOREIGN investment drying up due to the weak dollar.

Face it, we could have spent the money we used in Iraq to SEAL the borders of America… and put a good system in place to track those who should not be here….

Romeo13 on November 27, 2007 at 12:57 AM

if you want to play that game, we spend twice as much on Education as we do Defense as a % of GDP, and of that Iraq is a small percentage.

We have major National interest at stake in the Middle East, that is why we are there and why we play the isolationist card with other parts of the world like Darfur and Tibet.

Romeo13, your diagnosis is somewhat correct. However, Paul is a bandaid, not a prescription or a solution for what ails us.

Entelechy on November 27, 2007 at 1:40 AM

Or, you could look at Paul (and Buchanan) as a canary in a coal mine.

Face it, we could have spent the money we used in Iraq to SEAL the borders of America… and put a good system in place to track those who should not be here….

Romeo13 on November 27, 2007 at 12:57 AM

Yes, and and enough money left over to buy you and me and
Entelechy each a brand new red corvette and Allapundit an IPhone and an Ipod!

Yes, he’s a nut… but he’s a nut that is saying what a LOT of Americans are thinking.

No, that would be Tom Tancredo. Who isn’t a nut, but is saying what a lot of Americans are thinking. Too bad a lot of Americans realize he has no hope of winning the nomination.

Or are just oblivious to the whole process.

Ron Paul is more akin to Ross Perot, who is a nut, with far more support on the nutroots side. The Paultards love the anti-war protests, as Zombie’s photo essays show.

This conviction lay behind the invasion of Iraq, Bush’s crusade to democratize the Middle East and his “global democratic revolution” to “end tyranny in our world.” And, as Woodrow Wilson’s crusade “to make the world safe for democracy” gave us Lenin, Stalin and Hitler, Bush’s crusade for democracy is leaving us with ashes in our mouths.

Yet, Wilson’s heart was pure, and he ever exhibited the serenity of the True Believer, the unmistakable mark of the ideologue. One imagines Bush will be preaching the dogma of free trade long after the last U.S. factory has closed and the dollar has reached parity with the Mexican peso.

Fully 1/3 of the American electorate now identifies itself as “Unaffiliated”. They feel they can not trust the government, and that the two major partys are NOT representing the American people… only their own quest for power.

Both the Presidents, and the Congresses, approval ratings are at historicly low levels.

Paul comes in, and speaks about self determination… and freedom from the Nanny State…

Yes, he’s a nut… but he’s a nut that is saying what a LOT of Americans are thinking.

Why are we the worlds policeman? Why, are we the ONLY people supporting the UN? Why are we spending money, and effort, on a war on drugs that is failing? Why are the feds involved in so many things the founding fathers didn’t put them in charge of?

Why? when the majority of things I and my family need from government (Police, Fire, Schools, Roads) are paid for by STATES are my FEDERAL taxes so much higher than my state taxes? (and don’t talk to me about Soc Sec, thats a whole other tax…. I’ll pay my part for defense… but come on…).

Face it, we could have spent the money we used in Iraq to SEAL the borders of America… and put a good system in place to track those who should not be here….

We still have troops in Germany, Japan, and South Korea (NORKS are no threat to the south, they are still using 1950s technology…). Why do we have troops scattered all over the world, when we don’t even control our OWN borders?

I really don’t think you all get the ANGER out here in America pointed at BOTH parties in power in Washington. Paul is a symptom… not a cause…

..And look where that got y’all.

TheSitRep on November 26, 2007 at 5:29 PM

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