Things are upside down at the moment. Since ECB governs all European states, the Euro is less subject to government control and thus QE than individual currencies. As a result, we see a few countries mini-blowups in Europe - Ireland, Greece, now Spain. These are not emerging markets.
We are more broke than all of them, but less subject to immediate risk of default, thanks to megaprinting effort. So, the clownbuck bounces again on this and stocks/gold go down.
That said, the biggest risk to the globe is... US! It is quite surprising that so far Spain is unable to bounce the clownbuck, and very telling. Dubai, Greece, Spain all cut, and the dollar is where it was. It was supposed to bounce harder on all this. We keep cutting our creditors like we did in 2008, but now it has no effect. Chit is flying toward da proverbial fan, imho.
Oh, and Japan already went.
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The rating agencies are cutting our creditors. Don't you think they get pissed and quit lending us money? <GGG> |