The US Federal Reserve in in the process of debasing the US Dollar as the reserve currency.
The process of printing untold amounts of US dollars is well under way and shows no real signs of abatement. The UK and Eurozone are not far behind.
I believe the market will move toward commodity baskets as the next reserve currency. Given the steep contango for many physical commodities, The cheapest way to obtain meaningful exposure would seem to lie in holding asset rich economies (Canada,Norway,Brazil,Australia). My guess is that Canada has the most solvent banking system of the four.
The artificial strength in the dollar post Lehman Brothers was not caused by demand for the safehaven currency (as many media pundants speculate) but rather the call on capital called by the deleveraging banking system on hedgefunds and others who borrowed for carry trades ( the Icelandic trap).
While I'm not certain of the timing of a dollar crisis, the combination of demand destruction in the means of extracting many of the worlds commodities, combined with the inflationary monitary policies of western nations, desparate to "fix" the banking crisis, set the stage for a perfect storm for the US dollar.
Stay Tuned.
May 24, 2009
May 20, 2009
Bradley Ruderman: What's wrong with this picture?
Beverly Hills hedge fund manager Bradley L. Ruderman surrendered to FBI agents.
That is the tag line of most every wire house that has put out a release.
Bradley L. Ruderman was a con artist. It seems from the civil suit filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission, he convinced people that he had an investment strategy and proceeded to take their money and spend it on himself. This makes him a con artist.
Cynical jokes aside, this does not make him a hedge fund manager. It seems the press is hell bent on implying that he was a crooked hedge fund manager. If he posed as a prominent Surgeon and proceeded to murder people, would the press print that " a prominent Surgeon was arrested for murder"? Should we then be led to think that Surgeons are evil?
Bradley L. Ruderman was a con artist. He convinced some people he was a hedge fund manager. But more fundamentally, he convinced the entire media outlet that he was a hedge fund manager.
That is the tag line of most every wire house that has put out a release.
Bradley L. Ruderman was a con artist. It seems from the civil suit filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission, he convinced people that he had an investment strategy and proceeded to take their money and spend it on himself. This makes him a con artist.
Cynical jokes aside, this does not make him a hedge fund manager. It seems the press is hell bent on implying that he was a crooked hedge fund manager. If he posed as a prominent Surgeon and proceeded to murder people, would the press print that " a prominent Surgeon was arrested for murder"? Should we then be led to think that Surgeons are evil?
Bradley L. Ruderman was a con artist. He convinced some people he was a hedge fund manager. But more fundamentally, he convinced the entire media outlet that he was a hedge fund manager.
May 17, 2009
New Paper
The first draft of The Four Agreements of Terms and Conditions is now available to view. Comments are welcome.
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