Белият дом е заключил, че няма да изпълни целите си в Афганистан, поставени за тази година. Това писа в. "Вашингтон пост", като се позова на източници от администрацията на президента Джордж Буш.
Целите са посочени в документ на Съвета за национална сигурност към Белия дом. Той предвиждаше през 2007 г. в Афганистан да се постигне напредък в областта на сигурността и да се установи механизъм за управление на страната и икономиката й. През настоящата година тези цели не са постигнати. Успешна е единствено борбата срещу талибаните, които обаче не срещат трудности при набирането на нови бойци в редиците си. Афганистанците вече не си правят илюзии, че правителството на президента Хамид Карзай може да се справи със ситуацията в страната, твърдят източниците от Белия дом.
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U.S. Dollar Could Plunge 90 Percent
November 19, 2007
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RHINEBECK, N.Y. -- A financial crisis will likely send the U.S. dollar into a free fall of as much as 90 percent and gold soaring to $2, 000 an ounce, a trends researcher said.
"We are going to see economic times the likes of which no living person has seen," Trends Research Institute Director Gerald Celente said, forecasting a "Panic of 2008."
"The bigger they are, the harder they'll fall," he said in an interview with New York's Hudson Valley Business Journal.
Celente -- who forecast the subprime mortgage financial crisis and the dollar's decline a year ago and gold's current rise in May -- told the newspaper the subprime mortgage meltdown was just the first "small, high-risk segment of the market" to collapse.
Derivative dealers, hedge funds, buyout firms and other market players will also unravel, he said.
Massive corporate losses, such as those recently posted by Citigroup Inc. and General Motors Corp., will also be fairly common "for some time to come," he said.
He said he would not "be surprised if giants tumble to their deaths," Celente said.
The Panic of 2008 will lead to a lower U.S. standard of living, he said.
A result will be a drop in holiday spending a year from now, followed by a permanent end of the "retail holiday frenzy" that has driven the U.S. economy since the 1940s, he said.
http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/news/news byid.asp?id=82693&cat=Markets&more=%2Ffin ance%2Fmarket%2F
November 19, 2007
Advertisement
RHINEBECK, N.Y. -- A financial crisis will likely send the U.S. dollar into a free fall of as much as 90 percent and gold soaring to $2, 000 an ounce, a trends researcher said.
"We are going to see economic times the likes of which no living person has seen," Trends Research Institute Director Gerald Celente said, forecasting a "Panic of 2008."
"The bigger they are, the harder they'll fall," he said in an interview with New York's Hudson Valley Business Journal.
Celente -- who forecast the subprime mortgage financial crisis and the dollar's decline a year ago and gold's current rise in May -- told the newspaper the subprime mortgage meltdown was just the first "small, high-risk segment of the market" to collapse.
Derivative dealers, hedge funds, buyout firms and other market players will also unravel, he said.
Massive corporate losses, such as those recently posted by Citigroup Inc. and General Motors Corp., will also be fairly common "for some time to come," he said.
He said he would not "be surprised if giants tumble to their deaths," Celente said.
The Panic of 2008 will lead to a lower U.S. standard of living, he said.
A result will be a drop in holiday spending a year from now, followed by a permanent end of the "retail holiday frenzy" that has driven the U.S. economy since the 1940s, he said.
http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/news/news byid.asp?id=82693&cat=Markets&more=%2Ffin ance%2Fmarket%2F