[BartSimpson]

I just did a transfer from my CDN$ account to my US$ account (no fee) and the yield was US$0.86 - a year ago when I did this the yield was $1.02.

Interesting.

Edit: My f***ing Euro account is getting hammered today.

[martin14]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

I just did a transfer from my CDN$ account to my US$ account (no fee) and the yield was US$0.86 - a year ago when I did this the yield was $1.02.

Interesting.

Edit: My f***ing Euro account is getting hammered today.

GET OUT GET OUT OF THE EURO RIGHT NOW !!!!!!!!!!

It will drop more as QE and Greece make a mess, the Euro may lose
more than the Canadian dollar.

Btw, at what rate are you buying another house in Vic ?

[DrCaleb]

It's not really a bad thing either. (CAD, not EUR)

I'd get out of the Ruble too.

[BartSimpson]

I'm stuck in the Euro funds until the end of next month. On the ruble I'm doing pretty good as I did a twelve month short on the ruble this time last year when I suspected Russia was going to invade Ukraine and that turned out to be a pretty decent gamble.

If the Canadian dollar drops to .75 on the US dollar then I'm rolling my 457 account into a house in the general area of Vic. We'll do this without a mortgage or, worst case, I'll borrow against another retirement account for the balance.

[martin14]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

I'm stuck in the Euro funds until the end of next month. On the ruble I'm doing pretty good as I did a twelve month short on the ruble this time last year when I suspected Russia was going to invade Ukraine and that turned out to be a pretty decent gamble.

If the Canadian dollar drops to .75 on the US dollar then I'm rolling my 457 account into a house in the general area of Vic. We'll do this without a mortgage or, worst case, I'll borrow against another retirement account for the balance.

75 cents..

So, that'll be March then.

[BartSimpson]

Damn! That's what I call pessimism!

[martin14]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Damn! That's what I call pessimism!

More reality than pessimism. Still kicking myself for not buying a big pile of USD
when the rate was 1 to 1.

Easiest money you could make.

[Regina]

We're taking one for the team. When Russia gets out of the Ukraine or runs out of money to fund it........the Canadian dollar will rise to normal levels.

[martin14]

Regina Regina:

We're taking one for the team. When Russia gets out of the Ukraine or runs out of money to fund it........the Canadian dollar will rise to normal levels.

That's an interesting idea.

What would one have to do with the other ?

[Regina]

martin14 martin14:

Regina Regina:

We're taking one for the team. When Russia gets out of the Ukraine or runs out of money to fund it........the Canadian dollar will rise to normal levels.

That's an interesting idea.

What would one have to do with the other ?

Gas and oil. Maybe just a conspiracy theory though.........but one that makes sense.

[Thanos]

Regina Regina:

martin14 martin14:

Regina Regina:

We're taking one for the team. When Russia gets out of the Ukraine or runs out of money to fund it........the Canadian dollar will rise to normal levels.

That's an interesting idea.

What would one have to do with the other ?

Gas and oil. Maybe just a conspiracy theory though.........but one that makes sense.

Toss in the overwhelming hatred the US/AIPAC has for Iran, and even a peevish desire to hurt Venezuela, and it becomes even more apparent that the American government doesn't care how much their own oil sector gets hammered as long as their overseas enemies are punished. Russian, Iranian, and Venezuelan economic collapses are the happy by-product of the oil price collapse. Those of us who are getting clobbered here at home are merely an acceptable bit of collateral damage as long as the bad guys overseas get kicked in the teeth. Stephen Harper, for example, can't backtrack on causing economic damage to the Russians because of the loud and incessant way he was mouthing off about how Putin's activities in Ukraine needed to be punished.

Nice world, ain't it, says the guy who's pretty much losing everything thanks as much to the antics of politicians as I am through any bad decisions of my own. Like I said though, each and every single one of us is acceptable collateral damage to our leaders, the oil & gas sector workers today as much as the North American manufacturing workers were when the absolute 'need' for free trade became the politician's greatest concern back in the 1990's.

They don't care what happens to us. They never did. They never will. And that's why I'm probably never going to vote again because I simply have no desire left at all to participate in an illusion. Speaking from a viewpoint of sheer selfishness (which I might as well start doing because I have pretty much nothing left to lose), I would be better off and would have better assistance from my own government if I lived under a hyper-nationalist tyrant like Adolph Hitler, who put the national economic well-being ahead of all other interests, than I ever will be under any politician from any party in our wonderful democracy.

[martin14]

Regina Regina:

Gas and oil. Maybe just a conspiracy theory though.........but one that makes sense.

Ahh OK now I see what you are on about.

Nice, eh ?
I can still hear the shills in 2008, oh yes Barry is a good guy, he will be a good friend to Canada.

Some friend.

Anyone who thought that for one second should be too ashamed of themselves to
ever say anything else.

Oil is 1% of the US economy;
it's about 7 - 8% of ours.

If it isn't a conspiracy, if this is all just the Saudis doing it to shut down
non Saudi oil production; we shouldn't be bombing ISIS in Iraq,
we should be bombing the Saudis.

If it is being led by Obama, to punish Russia and Iran and Venezuela,
with apologies to Bart, we should be bombing a specific building south of us,
one that was burned down a number of years ago.

[Thanos]

We should have been bombing the Saudis on Sept 12, 2001, instead of the Bush Adminstration making sure that they all safely got out of the US before any of them could be questioned about their citizens that were crashing the jetliners into the WTC and the Pentagon the day before.

The question for now should be why Persian Gulf oil is being allowed into North America at all when our own domestic production is now capable of sustaining our own needs. The Saudis doing this to recapture their market share should have been met with "oh, not happy with a 20% share instead of the old 30% (or whatever it was)? then enjoy a 0% share because there's now a total import ban on your entire product". But that would require a sense of actual patriotism on the part of the politicians. Not gonna get that from Barack Obama. Or Stephen Harper. Or any of the Canadian leftists who are genuinely glad this is happening because they actively and so truly hate Alberta so much. And especially not from anyone in the Republican Party because they don't even bother to disguise anymore who they're all owned by.

Acceptable collateral damage. It applies to every one of us back home as much as it applied to every American soldier that got sent to die in Iraq for the sake of those evil sons of bitches in Riyadh (and the ones in Tel Aviv too). As soon as more people accept that is exactly what all of us are in the eyes of our leaders the sooner we can move out of the realm of delusion and lies into honesty about our system, about the ones we let control it, and especially about ourselves.

[martin14]

Thanos Thanos:

We should have been bombing the Saudis on Sept 12, 2001, instead of the Bush Adminstration making sure that they all safely got out of the US before any of them could be questioned about their citizens that were crashing the jetliners into the WTC and the Pentagon the day before.

Sorry, but if you think it would have been any different under Gore....... nope.

$1:

The question for now should be why Persian Gulf oil is being allowed into North America at all when our own domestic production is now capable of sustaining our own needs. The Saudis doing this to recapture their market share should have been met with "oh, not happy with a 20% share instead of the old 30% (or whatever it was)? then enjoy a 0% share because there's now a total import ban on your entire product". But that would require a sense of actual patriotism on the part of the politicians. Not gonna get that from Barack Obama. Or Stephen Harper. Or any of the Canadian leftists who are genuinely glad this is happening because they genuinely hate Alberta so much. And especially not from anyone in the Republican Party because they don't even bother to disguise anymore who they're all owned by.

I'm not sure that much Saudi oil comes to N.A. anymore.
Some to the East Coast, yes, because those same leftists will spend a lifetime blocking
pipelines east and West from Alberta, and Barry keeps blocking a new pipeline to the U.S.
Not the Republicans.

$1:

Acceptable collateral damage. It applies to every one of us back home as much as it applied to every American soldier that got sent to die in Iraq for the sake of those evil sons of bitches in Riyadh (and the ones in Tel Aviv too). As soon as more people accept that is exactly what all of us are in the eyes of our leaders the sooner we can move out of the realm of delusion and lies into honesty about our system, about the ones we let control it, and especially about ourselves.

Yes, Canada is going to be collateral damage.
Barry returning the bust of Winston Churchill is still the clearest sign for me that he
was going to screw every traditional friend the U.S. ever had.
And he has done it, especially us.

[Thanos]

I accept that no politician is ever going to do anything to help me. Not. One. Of. Them.

I'm out of the this-party vs that-party game altogether. NONE of them have my support or trust anymore. Come the election threads I won't be posting at all because I won't be participating in any way, shape, or form in the overall fraud anymore. I quit. I surrender. I willingly join the line-up of the convincingly beaten marching into the camp.

I lost. They won. I accept my fate and have to move on to something else. There is no other choice available anymore.