China has quietly bought stakes in America’s leading companies…and in various businesses all over the world. But the only way large amounts of US dollar cash can be readily and safely deployed is in US bonds.
March 12th, 2010 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "U.S. dollar"
Shadow Banking System: A Murky World of Credit, Securitisation and Derivatives
Most of these are interest rate and credit derivatives. As we learned in the last two years, the big risk here is to institutions which owe and own these obligations amongst one another. In our view, the degree of interconnectedness among these obligations (they still aren’t unwound) still makes the entire global financial system vulnerable…
March 10th, 2010 | Dan Denning | 14 comments | Continued
Chinese Government Trying to Put Brakes on Economy
To understand what’s taking place in China today, we need to rewind the clock about a decade. At that time the Chinese government chose a policy of growth at any cost.
March 2nd, 2010 | Vitaliy N. Katsenelson | 10 comments | Continued
The U.S. Dollar is Not the Euro
As the main rival (amongst paper currencies) to the dollar as a global reserve currency, the euro’s coming collapse has to, almost by definition, equal dollar strength. There just aren’t that many more liquid alternatives for large institutions and central banks.
February 19th, 2010 | Dan Denning | 4 comments | Continued
Is the American Government the Place to Park Your Money During Dangerous Times?
Whenever markets tank, the American dollar and its government’s bonds seem to surge. Daily Reckoning readers know we consider this to be absurd.
February 13th, 2010 | Nickolai Hubble | 1 comment | Continued
Don’t Pin Your Hopes on the U.S. Dollar
Here in the States, we can say that the U.S. dollar is cheap. Everything in America seems cheap compared to Australia. Food, beer, movie tickets, petrol, and of course, houses. The cost of living is definitely lower here, at least in this part of the country. But even though it’s had its first monthly rally since June, don’t go pinning your hopes on the U.S. dollar.
December 23rd, 2009 | Dan Denning | 17 comments | Continued
A Sovereign Debt Crisis Bullish for U.S. Dollar and Bearish for Gold
In fact you don’t have to imagine it all. Or be insane. Bloomberg reports that, “Dollar Rises as Stocks, Commodities Fall in Flight From Risk.”
February gold futures fell below $1,100, down 2.5%. The Dow Jones Industrials fell 1.27%. The S&P 500 shed just over 1%. And the U.S. dollar rallied against all 16 currencies in the dollar index. What gives?
December 18th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 0 comments | Continued
Sustainability of U.S. Deficits Reason Why Investors Own Some Gold
“If the world goes to hell like you say, you can’t eat gold. You can’t sleep on it, although you could sleep with it I suppose. How useful is it really going to be as a medium of exchange or a store of value if economic activity grinds to a halt?”
“I don’t know. I’m not Nostradamus…
December 17th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 38 comments | Continued
The US Dollar Showing Signs of Life
We have been saying for a while now that the US Dollar is overdue for a bounce and the price action of the past week or so is starting to shape up as a possible launching pad for a more sustained rally.
December 16th, 2009 | Murray Dawes | 1 comment | Continued
Michael Pascoe and the Snarky Disinformation About Gold
Speaking of value, let us now return to the question of element number 79 on the periodic table. The snarky article we mentioned at the top is this one from Michael Pascoe at the age, titled “There’s more gold where that came from.”
In the article Pascoe takes on the issue of “peak gold.” But how well has he done in accurately stating the argument for gold?
December 16th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 28 comments | Continued
Congress Slams Ben Bernanke and Fed Reserve
Because the mainstream press wouldn’t want people thinking bad things about the Fed Reserve. They are here to save us. They are the cavalry riding over the hilltops to our rescue.
The myth of the purity of the Federal Reserve’s motives is jealously guarded by the mainstream press. Any dissenting voices are quickly dismissed as cranks and extremists.
December 8th, 2009 | Murray Dawes | 16 comments | Continued
Short-selling of Financial Stocks
“Unbridled short selling is contributing to the recent, sudden price declines in the securities of financial institutions, unrelated to true price valuation,” said SEC chairman Christopher Cox…
November 27th, 2009 | Adrian Ash | 0 comments | Continued
Bond Scam Perpetrated by Money-grubbing Government
So how does a government fund its spending programs if global creditors begin to turn to other assets? Well, it can have its own central bank “monetise the debt.” But having the central bank buy government bonds with new money is a sure-fire path to currency depreciation and higher interest rates.
November 23rd, 2009 | Dan Denning | 2 comments | Continued
Speculators and Chinese Firms Accumulating Australian Resource Companies and Commodities
And while China and America bicker over currencies, Chinese firms are scrambling to buy real assets. And while Aussie banks source foreign borrowing to lend in local real estate, Aussie mining firms go begging for bits of capital that would bring world-class ore bodies (and key strategic resources) into production…by local producers and owners.
November 19th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 1 comment | Continued
Everyone is Busily Debasing Their Currency
There is a risk in holding cash in an environment of asset price inflation – a condition that usually occurs when governments create large fiscal deficits and inflate the money supply.
November 12th, 2009 | Dr. Marc Faber | 2 comments | Continued
