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Strategies & Market Trends : The coming US dollar crisis -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Paxb2u who wrote (16089)	1/6/2009 12:04:43 AM
From: Real Man	1 Recommendation Respond to of 71456

Yes, it's the time frame issue. I really don't see it hitting right now and all at once, more like dragged on over years, with the bulk of the hit coming on the next big depression dip around 2010-11. I see a US recovery taking place this year. I see gold going to several thousand over 5 year time horizon, but still struggling with the interim bear market near term. I may be wrong, and if gold starts breaking out here, it will prove me wrong. The US currency crisis probably can't happen the way currency crises happen in pegged currencies (they crash). More likely, USD will fade away as the global reserve currency like the British Pound did in early 20-th century. It may happen this year, and it may indeed crash, I don't know. This is more of a TA stuff than fundamentals, which remain pretty rotten. Gold 9 year cycle is in interim bear mode, gold 1 year cycle will be topping in February-March. However, the 9-year cycle turns later this year. It may be cut short by the fundamentals, who knows. Also, gold sometimes runs into May. This is just the natural breathing of the gold market, and according to it new lows for the interim bear are still to come. I am just careful around 200 MA with gold still in a bear mode. telegraph.co.uk

To: Paxb2u who wrote (16089)	1/6/2009 10:55:26 AM
From: Real Man	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71456

We shall see, the USD/bond crisis can happen any time now, right smack in the middle of 2009, it might not wait for the technical cycles. The fundamentals will just push the stuff over the cliff like they did with subprime, the corporate bonds, and the stock market. However, a technical confirmation would be nice to have. Overall, technicals did not work very well as we were crashing, and one should always allow for a large "tail", especially now. The cycles assume the world will not start fleeing the dollar en masse. It might. There is no fundamental reason to hold UST or the dollar in reserves now, unless you want to lose it all. Short term liquidity CAN fix derivative Ponzi scheme, but it will only make it larger, and then rate cuts in Europe will propel the dollar higher. Over the long run derivatives will RIP in the most ugly and sharp way, taking JPM, Citi, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and the Fed itself down with the bubble. minyanville.com Conventional Wisdom Mr Practical Jan 05, 2009 11:00 am Conventional wisdom holds that the way out of the “recession” is to spend our way out of it. A trillion dollar stimulus package is being touted by the pundits as the right way to "shock the economy" (I suppose the economy is just in a coma, and merely needs awakening) into growth again. Interest rates on savings at banks are 0.15%, or basically zero. When you ask a banker why they're so low, he'll tell you it's because our lending rates are so low. Lending rates are so low because the Federal Reserve has made them that way. The Federal Reserve wants no incentive to save money. This isn't a normal “recession”; this is the end of a massive credit bubble rooted in the culmination of many years of faulty monetary policy in an attempt to avoid small, corrective recessions. Conventional wisdom has been dead wrong about what's been happening for the last 20 years, let alone the last 20 weeks. It's sadly predictable that economists and government officials who clearly don't understand the root of the problem (too much debt) are promoting more debt as the solution. We'll be adding another $2 trillion to the national debt this year, to be borrowed from our children. The bigger the national debt, the bigger the government will be. The bigger government is, the more authoritative it will be. Conventional wisdom is putting us on a path to total destruction of our currency. For those who don’t understand that, understand this: Economically, a currency holds a nation together. Without currency, the economy and perhaps society are at great risk of breaking down. Creating jobs for the masses does nothing but put some cash in people’s pockets - cash that is worth less and less as the government borrows more and more. What jobs created by the government do in reality is promote inefficiency and waste. The federal government is completely out of control at this point: Bureaucrats are simply not qualified to make these decisions, even though they insist on making them. Therefore, any real solution requires decentralization and overall reduction of governmental power. The real problem is that we have no savings pool to support sound lending, due to years of misguided Federal Reserve policy. In its desperation to “fix” the problem, the Fed is now creating more imbalances than it's reducing. The banking system is broken from years of cumulative abuse. All the Fed is doing now is changing private debt into public debt by accepting the risks itself. But, even here, it's not really accepting risk for any losses it sustains in the process, as they'll be made up by directly printing money. A balanced economy needs a savings pool commensurate with its debt pool...period. Any solution that deviates from that is going to make things worse, in the long run, for our children. It took years to deplete it, and it will take years of saving (in conjunction with debt reduction) to balance it. Notice that the government’s solution directly opposes this: They want zero interest rates so that people can borrow even more “money,” save nothing, and spend everything. This is ludicrous on its face. We as a people must return to logic and sound thinking. We must immediately do 2 things: Start encouraging people to save their money (zero interest rates don't do that), and promote productivity (the government cannot do that; only the private market can). We need to allow interest rates to rise so people can save. We need to cut government spending by 95%. We need to eventually cut taxes by 95%. We need to decentralize government’s power. In the short run this will hurt - but in the long run our children and this country will be much, much better off. Unfortunately, we will never see if this works. We know there will be a large “stimulus” plan from the government. I can only urge the new President to use the bulk of it in the best way possible: for education. If we're going to borrow against our children’s standard of living, we should use it to arm them with the best education possible. Regardless, it seems we'll see what it's like to have our currency completely destroyed by the pompous few we have given power to. Risk is getting higher

To: Paxb2u who wrote (16089)	1/6/2009 11:12:43 AM
From: Real Man	6 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71456

Note that when I talk about derivatives, I talk about interest rates swaps, directly tied into the treasury bubble. When you see that one collapse, the CDS trouble will seem like a walk in the park. Housing will take a dive to 1/3 or 1/4 of current value. Citi will go bankrupt first, bringing down ALL large derivative players around the globe, a cascade of failures. JPM, BAC, Wells will all collapse. Interest rates will soar to hights unimaginable. Spoos will dive to 200. Currencies will go bonkers. That's the event that's next. Timing uncertain. Right now the Fed tried to fix things the usual way, by blowing that bubble right back up, providing tons of liquidity to Citi, BAC, JPM, and WFC, to fix this derivative thing, while undermining US credit rating in the process and creating a setup for the meltdown. -g-