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by Ashraf Laidi
Posted: Feb 20, 2010 5:00
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Posted: Feb 20, 2010 5:00
Comments: 30765
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EUR
Discuss EUR in this thread
I would go long EUR/USD
any comment?
Ashraf
What would happen if EUR strengthens after a Gr bailout by whatever workaround of EURO treaties?
Then we have more than a pair of shoes to drop. First Portugal and Spain next all of those Eastern Europe economies whose lifeline is borrowing from IMF and EU at politically unsustainable terms.
Thus any recovery of the EUR is a step towards its end.
dollar is not currently thought to be replaced as a reserve currency as it was 2009. euro was the contender within the few that have a chance.
fed has warned it may hike rates at any time (immediate term)
no signs of hike for ECB/BoE
inflation is very low in the US. Higher real interest rate for US bond holders.
euro has failed as a credible monetary system due to smaller/weaker members
political uncertainty in uk
high uk debts:GDP
risk of euro breaking up in future
peaking in equity markets/gold
dollar in a mutli year bull (debatable, ashraf)
2010 article in the Kremlin-controlled RIA Novosti. Polish President Lech Kaczynski and central bank Governor Slawomir Skrzypek were killed today along with several key members of the countrys political elite when their plane crashed in western Russia.
Here is the excerpt from RIA Novosti April 7. :
"Regrettably, new myths are cropping up in today's Poland. The biggest myth has to do with "the threat from the East." The Kaczynski brothers - the president and former prime minister - have spoken freely about this danger, and until recently, Poland was under their sway.
One of the brothers, Lech, is still the president. In the last few weeks, he openly expressed his jealousy of Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who was invited by Putin to visit Katyn. Until this year, memorial ceremonies at the graves of the Polish officers at Katyn were a strictly Polish affair. Polish presidents and ministers visited the site but unofficially. These were almost family events with the officers' relatives in attendance.
This is the first ceremony attended by Russian leaders but not the Polish president. Kaczynski's stated intention to visit Katyn three days later with the relatives of the dead and a propaganda landing party is a political gesture motivated more by discontent and envy than respect for the memory of the victims.
Kaczynski got the hint, and he will have to bear responsibility for his speech at a square in Tbilisi next to the war criminal Mikheil Saakashvili several days after the attack on Tskhinval - a speech filled with irresponsible anti-Russian rhetoric. Kaczynski may only be judged by history for his actions, but one thing is certain: he will not be remembered as a political leader ..."