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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

If the yen goes to seventy (thast "fall" is actually a 'rise' to us in USD), 
yes the world will look like it will stop.  At that point the USD will be on 
the verge of flat-out bust.  Oil will be minimum $500 barrel, because it will 
no longer be deniominated in dollars.

  Oil affects everything.  Yen at seventy, IMO, 'guarantees'  "big' war.  
read that article that woman wrote about the crisis from my other email.  
When it comes right down to it, when things go really south, we will see 
unimagined brute force.  This is not about the stock market.  This is much 
more dangerous.  This is civilization-changing stuff.  ....bobford


--- On Fri, 10/24/08, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Bad day ahead?
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Friday, October 24, 2008, 10:30 AM
> bob ford wrote:
> 
> > In other words, if the yen falls to seventy, I'd
> be worried enough to write an email asking if you wanted
> temporary renters .  You would have to promise "no
> snow" of course, and my dog gets to watch tv in
> whatever chair she prefers (my wife can sit on the floor). 
> >
> Hmm...err...the dome over my property isn't in this
> year's budget, I'm 
> afraid, so I can guarantee lots of snow. And ice. I have a
> picture of my 
> driveway from last year...the entire 200' of it is
> encased in about 2" 
> of ice. It was 3 days before I could get out. But the dogs
> always get 
> the good seats to watch TV.
> 
> If I didn't have kids at home, I'd consider renting
> rooms to people who 
> enthusiastically wanted to farm. I think a small group of
> people could 
> whip this place into a productive farm and share the
> profits. By myself, 
> I can barely keep it standing.
> 
> Honestly, though, it's hard for me to fathom all that
> stuff with the 
> yen. What will happen if the yen goes below 70? The world
> ends? I'm 
> obviously clueless about global finances. The economy in
> this area 
> hasn't been great for years; I keep looking around, but
> don't see 
> anything changing. Some rural areas, far from civilization,
> seem 
> somewhat insulated from world events, or maybe 'it'
> will just take 
> longer to hit here.
> 
> Lynn Wigglesworth
> Tioga County, PA
> 
> 
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