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

To: Amelia Carhartt who wrote (18475)	3/11/2009 9:40:28 AM
From: Real Man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71456

We just have to see. Things will get fixed gradually, and I will be the first one to applaud for taking the right steps. A few of those have been taken already. My optimistic scenario remains the same - a weak recovery this year, followed by another dump into 2011-12, when the dollar bear ends. Then the mess will get fixed for good. Which is why... I am bearish on gold near term. Getting spared of a couple of "lost decades" would be very nice at this point. The DOW/gold ratio is a very useful guide long term, and it is telling us this is the end of the crisis, rather than the beginning... The secular bear market is scheduled to end some time soon. Of course, "soon" could really mean "years", since we are 10 years into it, and counting ...