Shipping Indexes Falling Dramatically – What Does That Mean?

So writes Katchum in edited excerpts from a recent post* on his blog (http://katchum.blogspot.ca) entitled Baltic Dry drops.

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*http://katchum.blogspot.be/2012/01/baltic-dry-drops.html (Written by Albert Sung; Subscribe to Katchum’s macro-economic blog; Sung is also an accomplish pianist and composer as well as financial analyst. Listen to an assortment (24) of his classical compostions here.)

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