Dollar rebounds as the Euro Falls , sell Euros and buy Dollars says Gary shilling

Reports of a rescue for Greece is giving the Euro a bounce today versus the dollar. However, Shilling is not about to buy Euros; believing in tough times, investors will continue to flee to the greenback, simply because it's "the best of a bad lot."

With that in mind, Shilling is short the euro and long the dollar. As he tells Henry in this clip, dollar - euro parity is in the offing. "It will go down to one to one," he declares.

Russian Lukoil eyes profit in Iraq

Published 09 February, 2010,
Russia's largest private oil company, Lukoil, has told RT it can make a profit from its huge investment in Iraq.
The head of the firm's overseas operations, Andrey Kuzyaev, admitted that these days they must take risks to make a profit. West Qurna contains the world's second largest known oil reserves. In December Lukoil and Norway's Statoil won the right to develop stage 2 of the project. The companies will earn only $1.15 a barrel under their contract with Iraq's oil ministry, but Kuzyaev says the $30 billion investment is worth it.

Deposits in Iraq are incomparable with those in any part of the glove. Developing the worlds largest hydrocarbon fields stimulates technology and supports contractors with Russian companies among them.

The Whole System is coming Down says Bob Chapman

The Dow is below 10000 , gold is rising up again , The PIIGs are dring the Euro zone and the Euro down the tube , The US Dollar is not in a better shape , The German surplus is diluted in the wider Eurozone area , The European union is in danger

Mr. Chapman also known as The International Forecaster is a 74 years old. He was born in Boston, MA and attended Northeastern University majoring in business management. He spent three years in the U. S. Army Counterintelligence, mostly in Europe. He speaks German and French and is conversant in Spanish. He lived in Europe for six years, off and on, three years in Africa, a year in Canada and a year in the Bahamas.

Mr. Chapman became a stockbroker in 1960 and retired in 1988. For 18 of those years he owned his own brokerage firm. He was probably the largest gold and silver stockbroker in the world during that period. When he retired he had over 6,000 clients.

Starting in 1967 Mr. Chapman began writing articles on business, finance, economics and politics having been printed and reprinted over the years in over 200 publications. He owned and wrote the Gary Allen Report, which had 30,000 subscribers. He currently is owner and editor of The International Forecaster, a compendium of information on business, finance, economics and social and political issues worldwide, which reaches 10,000 investors and brokers monthly directly, and parts of his publication are picked up by 60 different websites weekly exposing his ideas to over 10 million investors a week.

In June of 1991, at the request of business associates, and due to retirement boredom, he began writing the International Forecaster..