Gli orsi del dollaro saranno sconfitti - gz
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By: GZ on Martedì 15 Marzo 2005 16:35
Usemlab è l'equivalente italiano come analisi di Doug Nolan, lo strategista di ^PrudentBear.com#www.PrudentBear.com^ , tre anni fa la loro tesi della Bolla del Credito era minoritaria e poi come sempre succede con un certo ritardo ora ha preso piede sia come riflesso del crollo del nasdaq del 2000-2003 che come spiegazione del cedimento cronico e inarrestabile del dollaro
Ad esempio il commento settimanale sui mercati free più letto al mondo credo sia ^quello di John Mauldin#http://www.2000wave.com/^ (uno che si occupa di allocare a fondi hedge e scrive libri e articoli molto apprezzati) e se leggi quello di sabato sembra Usemlab
cioè:
Crollo del Dollaro inevitabile
==> di conseguenza rialzo dei tassi di interesse per fermarlo e attrarre capitali in USA
==> recessione (con possibili crac finanziari di contorno per i derivati accumulati da isituzioni come JP Morgan o Citigroup...)
Il fatto che ^Usemlab ora smetta di pubblicare#http://www.usemlab.com/html/commenti/archivio_commenti/varie/VA_05_03_09.htm^ per un poco, che Newsweek metta in copertina il crollo del dollaro come notava acutamente Delta618 e che John Mauldin pure martelli questa tesi cosa indica ?
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....This year the trade deficit will be well over $700 billion, up almost $100 billion from last year. Our government is running a deficit of some $400 billion. If we were running a balanced budget, we would be able to take that money, and more or less apply it towards the trade deficit. However, since we have a low savings rate and a huge government deficit, it is necessary that we look outside the United States for someone to fund our trade deficit. In essence, we are expecting the Asians to pony up $100 billion more than they did last year.
What happens if they don't? Interest rates will have to begin to rise in order to attract more money. It is simple as that. Interestingly, we watched rates rise in the past few weeks. The interest rate on the 10-year bond has risen to over 4.5%, after being in the 4% range for a very long time. This has also sent mortgages back to one-year highs, and the stocks of home construction companies tumbling.
Is there any evidence that foreign central banks might not be stepping up to the plate? There in fact may be. Dennis Gartman gives us the following comment:
"In this regard we are a bit dismayed by the results of yesterday's 10 year note auction. The bid/coverage and other aspects of the auction were fine, but we did find it a bit disconcerting that the so-called 'Indirect Bidders,' amongst which are the world's foreign central banks, bought only 11% of the total $9 billion at auction. This is down from last month's 29% foreign 'take.' It does, however, compared passably with the last 're-opened' auction went 10% to the 'indirect bidders.' In an untroubled time, this might have been passed off lightly; in the current rather troubled time for the US dollar it cannot be."
I repeat, all that has to happen for the dollar to begin a serious bear market against Asian currencies is for Asian countries simply to stop or to limit their buying. This will also have the effect of driving the dollar down against almost every other currency including the euro. When this happens, we'll be at the beginning of the heavy lifting of rebalancing global trade and currency valuations. This heavy lifting is going to strain more than a few backs. It will take more than a few Advil to deal with the pain.
The process means that interest rates will go up, which will slow the economy and hit the housing markets. Prices of goods from foreign nations will go up, thus creating inflation pressures and limit the ability of the Fed to fight rate increases or to stimulate the economy. I really don't see how the end result can be anything other than a recession
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