Sunday, October 16, 2011

Our Top 20 Fastest Growing Exports


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First they came for our jobs, but I did not complain because...

Source Data:
U.S. Census: Foreign Trade
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6 comments:

  1. AudreyOctober 16, 2011 at 5:51 PM

    Somebody somewhere is eating a whole lot of bread...

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  2. JazzbumpaOctober 16, 2011 at 7:49 PM

    I'm very surprised to see:

    2) Coal and Fuels, other
    4) Petroleum Products, other
    6) Fuel oil
    7)Metallurgical grade coal

    That's a lot of energy going out the door.

    JzB

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  3. Stagflationary MarkOctober 17, 2011 at 2:41 PM

    Audrey,

    Bread is a highly complex product. ;)

    October 5, 2011
    The Case Against Commodities

    Institutional investors have plowed tens of billions more into structured investment products, such as swaps tied to commodity indexes, according to Barclays.

    Structured product

    On the other hand the goal for the investment banks was to increase profit margins since the newer products with added features were harder to value, so that it was harder for the banks' clients to see how much profit the bank was making from it.

    highly complex - the complexity of the return calculations means few truly understand how the structured product will perform relative to simply owning the underlying asset

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  4. Stagflationary MarkOctober 17, 2011 at 2:47 PM

    Jazzbumpa,

    Perhaps we'll make it up on semiconductors. NOT!

    Semiconductor exports actually fell 5.9% from $31.654 billion to $29.801 billion. Oops.

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  5. purpleNovember 17, 2011 at 8:05 PM

    this is standard fare for less developed countries

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  6. Stagflationary MarkNovember 17, 2011 at 8:49 PM

    purple,

    I have often joked that I am neither a Republican nor a Democrat.

    I'm a Banana Republican. Sigh.

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