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


To: Paxb2u who wrote (42644)10/11/2011 3:41:45 PM
From: Real Man  Respond to of 71455
 
Uncontrolled? Capital leaving the country due to
serious default/devaluation risk. US is perceived to
be safe, safer than Germany.It may not be safe,
but it seems safer than others. TBTF too -g-



To: Paxb2u who wrote (42644)10/11/2011 5:50:07 PM
From: benwood  Respond to of 71455
 
The catalyst will a currency crisis with the dollar plunging to all time lows. The catalyst for that will be the loss, or partial loss of our reserve currency status; or some black swan event.

Reserve currency status has allowed us to offshore most of the consequences of our monetary profligacy; but the clock is running out on that little game.