Kilns & Insurance

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Stained glass is now less then 25% of the art glass industry. You
might not like to hear that, but what you like is irrelevant.

Adapt or die!

In Canada everything is devalued, from the dollar on down, eh?

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Stained glass is now less then 25% of the art glass industry. You
might not like to hear that, but what you like is irrelevant.

Adapt or die!


I suppose you have some facts to prove that 25% statistic? From a source
other than your rectum?

And, Dennis? You've been trumpeting this gloom and doom for years, and
yet folks just keep on making a nice living and growing their businesses.
It's YOU that is irrelevant.

They name streets after business models like yours.......

"Dead End" and "Wrong Way"

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Stained glass is now less then 25% of the art glass industry.

Document where these numbers are coming from, or is it true just because you
say so?
Anyone can run off at the mouth with numbers, back them up with something
factual.

The US dollar has devalued by 40% in the past 2 years.

When was the last time you talked with a wholesale distributor?
Do you accept collect calls from earth?

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The US dollar has devalued by 40% in the past 2 years.

More of your anally generated statistics, eh?

Devalued against WHAT other monetary system? The Canadian dollar?
Bwahahahaah!

That would mean the street price of an item, say, a Chevrolet or a
refrigerator or a BigMac would have nearly doubled in the last 24 months to
a US consumer. It ain't so.

Funny thing, the exchange rate between the USD and the GBP hasn't changed
but a few cents over the last 5 years.

The more you post about business and economics, the more convinced I become
that you need to be spoon-fed Thorazine. You are a blithering idiot.

Enjoy your fantasy.
The US dollar will drop an additional 10% this coming year.

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Enjoy your fantasy.
The US dollar will drop an additional 10% this coming year.

Right.

BTW, how long have you been off your meds this time?

Moonraker wrote:

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The US dollar has devalued by 40% in the past 2 years.


More of your anally generated statistics, eh?

Devalued against WHAT other monetary system? The Canadian dollar?
Bwahahahaah!

That would mean the street price of an item, say, a Chevrolet or a
refrigerator or a BigMac would have nearly doubled in the last 24 months to
a US consumer. It ain't so.

Funny thing, the exchange rate between the USD and the GBP hasn't changed
but a few cents over the last 5 years.

You haven't followed the exchange rate much then have you. Have a look
at http://www.x-rates.com/cgi-bin/hlookup.cgi

4 years ago the GBP was about $1.45 it has gone as high as $1.90 or more
in the intervening period so the USD has devalued in the time against
most world currencies. The GBP against the Euro has been reasonably steady.

Great for us in the UK wanting to buy from the states but US people
going abroad complain about the expense when it used to be much cheaper
for them.



The more you post about business and economics, the more convinced I become
that you need to be spoon-fed Thorazine. You are a blithering idiot.

"David Billington" wrote in message
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You haven't followed the exchange rate much then have you. Have a look
at http://www.x-rates.com/cgi-bin/hlookup.cgi

4 years ago the GBP was about $1.45 it has gone as high as $1.90 or more
in the intervening period so the USD has devalued in the time against
most world currencies. The GBP against the Euro has been reasonably
steady.

Great for us in the UK wanting to buy from the states but US people
going abroad complain about the expense when it used to be much cheaper
for them.

Well, even assuming, for the moment, that the GBP was the "standard"
against which all other currencies were measured.... (and despite all the
false gloom and doom, the Yankee dollar is STILL the most stable and
desirable currency in the world).

Take March of 98. The x-rate then was $1.66. In March, 2006, the x-rate
was $1.74. The fluctuation of $0.08 in 8 years is hardly a 40%
"devaluation". March, 2005 did have an x-rate of $1.91, which was .17
higher than the same time this year. Again, hardly a 40% decline, in fact,
it's a strengthening, from last year to this year, of 9.7%.

This exercise is only a indication of the supply and demand for currency,
not a singular indication of the overall health of an economy. The DowJones
is
11,000, the US economy has had more than 20 consecutive quarters of GNP
growth, unemployment is below 5% (even with 12 million illegals in the
economy, draining our educational and social services).

Are there problems? Certainly. And unfortunately, nothing that can't be
made worse by a bunch of Senators like Kennedy, Kerry, Clinton, Schumer,
Boxer, Feinstein, Durbin and their ilk.

****-ant trolls like Dennis Brady occasionally rear their ugly heads,
spewing their jealous anti-American hate.