Richard Duncan on China, Europe, & QE3

Richard Duncan, author of "The Dollar Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Cures", a book that was spot-on with the crisis of 2007-2009 (ongoing actually) brings some good simple arguments about the current economic outlook.

This material was taken from his website which has some great articles on a variety of topics, including China. I believe he sides with me on a short CNY trade.

I like these special parts below:

RD: When QE2 stops, the US economy will weaken again, the global economy will weaken, stock and bond prices will drop. So, interest rates will go up, commodity prices will drop. The US economy will start moving back towards a recession and, around the end of the year, we’ll have QE3 or another round of quantitative easing, and then everything will spike up again — equities, bonds, commodities, all sorts of assets.

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I believe that the global economy is a very sick patient that is being kept alive by life support primarily in the form of budget deficits. The US deficit has reached 10% of GDP, or US$1.4 trillion ($1.7 trillion). It looks like the US economy might still grow more than 2% this year, but if it weren’t for the 10% budget deficit, the growth rate might actually be minus 8% or far slower.

2011 06 01 - Richard Duncan on China, Europe & QE3

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