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ITS CURTAINS FORTHE EURO
UNDERSTANDING THE CRISIS AND WHAT IT MEANS TO YOU
Bryan Rich
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ITS CURTAINS FOR THE EUROUNDERSTANDING THE CRISIS AND WHAT IT MEANS TO YOU
By Bryan Rich
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Table of Contents
About the Author.. 4
Welcome and Introduction.. 5
Sovereign Debt Crisis Just Getting Started 7
The Euro: Flawed for the Beginning .. 11
The REAL Risk in Europe. 16The music stops ONLYwhen the people say no more . 20
The End Game for the Euro . 22
How to Protect and Profit .. 22
Learn more .. 23
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Bryan Rich is an entrepreneur and an
accomplished currency specialist with more
than 14-years of experience in trading,
research, and consulting in the global foreign
exchange markets. He is President of Logic
Fund Management, a currency and macro
advisory and consulting firm.
Bryan began his career as a trader for a $600
million family office hedge fund in London.
The macro-oriented fund managed assets for
a prominent European family. Later, he was a
senior trader for a $750 million leading global
macro hedge fund located in South Florida.There, he helped manage and trade a multi-
billion dollar foreign exchange options
portfolio.
His consulting resume includes work for a
boutique currency fund in New York, where
he developed trading models and strategy for
the core investment program of the company.He later joined the company as a partner,
based in their Wall Street office.
He has a BA from the University of North
Florida and an MBA from Rollins College.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Welcome and Introduction
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Over the past three and a half years, Ive
written extensively about the global financial
crisis, the global recession the ongoing
sovereign debt crisis, currency wars and the
impending fall of the euro.
Back in January of 2009, I wrote a widely
published piece titled, Why It Could Be
Curtains for the Euro. In that piece, I pointed
to the many flaws that had been exposed in
Europes single currency concept, following the
eruption of the global economic crisis.
It was clear that when economies in Europewere put under stress, when the global
economic crisis unfolded, and global investors
started scrutinizing the balance sheets and
fiscal position of countries, the weak countries
in Europe were in trouble. And it was clear
that it was going to be very bad news for the
euro currency.
Indeed, when the skirt was lifted in Europe, it
was found that many countries within the euro
zone had structurally unsustainable
economies, designed to take advantage of a
stable currency and stable, low interest rates
that had been anchored by their strongest
Why It Could Be
Curtains for the
Euro
by Bryan Rich | Saturday, March7, 2009 at 7:30am
Will the Euro
Become the Most
Hated Currency for2010?by Bryan Rich | Saturday,
January 2, 2010 at 7:30am
The Future of the
Euro in Questionby Bryan Rich | Saturday,
February 20, 2010 at 7:30am
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partners in the euro zone, Germany and France.
When the markets finally began demanding
interest rates to compensate them for the risk of
holding debt in a country with uber-high
debt levels and massive budget deficits thats
when the euros demise was set into motion.
I warned of this very early on, and warned of
the threats the euro represented to the global
economy. As the worlds second most widely
held currency, which is tied to the largest
aggregate economy in the world -- the euro zone
clearly, the reverberations of a euro demise
would be very bad news for the global economy.
But all along, the politicians, influential
economists, Wall Street figure heads and
government leaders, not only didnt see it
coming, but actually touted the euro as the
candidate to replace the dollar as the worlds
reserve currency.
With that in mind, given the poor advice
thats been distributed to investors in such a
critical time in history, its never been more
Important to educate yourself on the challenges
facing the world. And a big one is the euro.
Welcome and
Introduction
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The End Game for
the Euroby Bryan Rich | Saturday,
December 11, 2010 at 7:30am
Portugal is big
warning flag for
ALL investors!by Bryan Rich | Saturday, March
26, 2011 at 7:30am
Rolling Sovereign
Debt Defaults and
Euro Break-Up
Aheadby Bryan Rich | Monday,September 19, 2011 at 8:00am
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Sovereign Debt Crisis is Just
Getting StartedWho says? History!
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Europes
Common
Market
exemplifies a
situation
that is
unfavora
ble to acommon
currency.
-Milton
Friedman
Its easy to lose perspective on where the global economy
stands, to be confused by the daily deluge of information.
So I want to give you some perspective on the big-picture,
and where we are today. Because as an investor the big-
picture is critical for you. It can mean the difference
between making and losing a lot of money.
First, during this economic crisis, we endured the sharpest
fall in global economic activity since the Great Depression,
and one of the most threatening financial crises. Yet allalong the way, markets, politicians and policymakers were
expecting, or rather hoping, for a quick return to
normalcy. But its all been based false hope and naive
expectations.
Heres why
The IMF has done what is perhaps one of the most
thorough studies on recessions that share the
combination of a global recession and financial crisis like
the one weve experienced.
And the IMFs study shows that the recoveries of past
recessions with these dualities (global recession and
financial crisis) tend to be longer and slower than normal
recoveries.
Moreover, theres a very important study that has been
done on historical financial crises. It was done by aHarvard economist, Kenneth Rogoff and a Maryland
economist, Carmen Reinhart. These two compiled the
most extensive database of this type of crisis and they
found striking commonalities in the aftermath.
First, they found in studying over eight centuries of
financial crises, that they tend to be followed by
A Study of
Eight
Centuries ofFinancial
Crises shows
Financial
Crises tend
to lead to
Sovereign
Debt Crises
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sovereign debt crises. And sovereign debt
crises tend to be contagious.
Given this analysis, we should expect a
sovereign debt contagion. And we should
expect defaults.
Rogoff and Reinhart presented this analysis as
early as 2008. And its been nothing less than
a playbook for the way this global crisis has
played out.
Reinhart went on to look at the 15 severe
financial crises since World War II and found
that they were typically driven by credit
bubbles. And the credit buildup typically took
as long to de-lever as it took to build.
Credit Buildups and Deleveraging of Debt
Are Long Cycles
In the current case, the credit build was about
a decade. If you mark the start of the crisis as
2007, that means were just half way through
the deleveraging phase. And deleveraging
tends to mean ultra-slow economic activity as
consumers, businesses and governments are
paying down debt, not spending.
So those that have been looking for recoveryat every corner, are not in touch with the
magnitude of this global economic crisis.
Reinharts research also suggested that
throughout this 10-year deleveraging period:
1) Economic growth will trend at lower levels
than pre-crisis growth, 2) Housing prices will
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Next Stage: Defaults
remain anywhere from 20 percent to 50
percent below peak levels, and 3)
unemployment will hover around 5 percent
higher than pre-crisis levels.
While this might be news to you, its not news
to policymakers. After fumbling through the
first two years of the crisis, global central
bankers took notice of this analysis back in
2010. Thats why Bernanke rolled out a
second round of quantitative easing, despitethe intense scrutiny and claims that a massive
wave of inflation was coming. It didnt
happen. In fact deflation remains the bigger
threat for all the reasons Rogoff and
Reinhart discovered in their research.
Thats why we should all expect more
economic shocks to come. And the sovereign
debt crisis will end in defaults. And history
shows it will be contagious.
The Four Stages of Sovereign Debt Crises
Stage #1: Burgeoning Deficits
In a financial crisis government spending
increases dramatically in attempts to stabilize
the financial system and stimulate economic
activity. Tax revenues fall. Fiscal surplusesturn into deficits and economies with
existing deficits keep piling it on.
How its playing out
All of the Emus members were (many still
are) guilty of runaway spending.
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Sovereign Debt Crisis is Just Getting Started
Next Stage: DefaultsAll sixteen members of the European
monetary union have violated treaty limits on
allowable budget deficits some to the tuneof more than four times as much! Moreover,
the leading economies of the world have all
seen their deficits shoot higher, some to
record levels.
In fact, the deficit spending thats gone on in
recent years can be summed up as follows:
Over 40 percent of world GDP comes from
countries that are running deficits in excess of10 percent.
Stage #2: Ballooning Debt
When economies are contracting or even
growing slowly, bringing these deficits back
down to earth becomes an unenviable
challenge. Governments have to make ends
meet by turning to the markets. Then those
burgeoned deficits turn into growing debt
loads.
How its playing out
When debt reaches 80 percent of GDP
When debt reaches 80 percent of
GDP threshold, the borrowing costs for
governments starts ticking higher and so does
the market scrutiny. The IMF says five of thetop seven developed countries in the world
will have debt levels exceeding 100 percent of
GDP in the next few years.
Stage #3: Downgrades
When deficits and debts rise and economic
activity appears unlikely to curtail fiscal
problems, the credit worthiness of the
government falls under intense scrutiny. Andthats when we see downgrades.
How its playing out
Both Greece and Portugals sovereign debt
rating has been downgraded to junk status.
The US has lost its AAA status. France has
lost its AAA status. Spain has lost its AAA
rating and Germanys top rating has beenthreatened.
Stage #4: Defaults
This is the final and most deadly stage.
Thats because downgrades only make the
vicious cycle of weak economic activity and
growing dependence on debt worse.
When investors see more risk, they require
more return. Therefore, the borrowing costs
for these troubled countries rise. Then it
becomes harder to finance spending needs
and harder to finance existing debt. And
thats when we see defaults.
How its playing out
Greece is on its second round of life supportfor the EU/IMF. And its debt holders are
getting less than 30 cents on the dollar back
on their investments the same debt that
was stamped as A-rated just three years ago!
And while many are waiting to wave the all-
clear signal for Europe, it doesnt stop with
Greece. Expect Portugal and Ireland to
come calling for debt relief next.
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The euro:
Flawed from the Beginning
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Famed Economist Milton Friedman predicted, shortly
before 2000, that the euro-member countries would
succumb to systematic flaws and fail within ten years.
He might not have been too far off.
He said:
A one size fits all monetary policy doesnt give the
member countries the flexibility needed to stimulatetheir economies.
A fractured fiscal policy forced to adhere to rigid EU
rules doesnt enable member governments to navigate
their country-specific problems, such as deficit spending
and public works projects.
Nationalism will emerge. Healthier countries will not
see fit to spend their hard earned money to bail out
their less responsible neighbors.
A common currency can act as handcuffs in perilous
times. Exchange rates can be used as a tool to revalue
debt and improve competitiveness of ones economy.
I want to focus on these four bullets. What did
Friedman mean?
Bullet #1
What did Friedman mean when he called the euro zone
monetary policy one size fits all? Put simply, the
member countries in the EMU cant cool down their
economy, nor stimulate it as needed when they have
no direct power over monetary policy.
Milton
Friedman
Famed
Economist
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This is a key fundamental problem for European Monetary
Union members. The fact is, their economies may be, and will
likely be, operating at different speeds from one another.
Therefore, whats good monetary policy for Germany, could be
bad monetary policy for Spain. Yet, through the European
Central Bank, there is one central power over interest rate
setting policy. And they will tend to set that policy based on
how the bigger, stronger economies are behaving.
What tends to happen, in this case, is that countries that are
performing poorly, without the luxury of cutting interest rates,
will find other ways to stimulate their economies. And they do
so through fiscal policies, like cutting taxes and increasing
government spending.
Typically, there is a natural economic mechanism that keepsthese fiscal policies in check: Its called the financial markets.
When countries cut too much and spend too much,
threatening their solvency or financial position, global investors
penalize them by selling their currency and selling their
government bonds. After all, who wants to invest in a country
that may not be able to generate enough revenue to pay their
bills and pay you back.
With that, when the currency falls and government interest
rates rise, it makes it more expensive to trade and more
expensive to borrow.
In the case of the EMU members, they never had that penalty,
until recently.
They found that they could keep pushing their economies
along through very liberal fiscal policies, and never suffer
consequences. Because the markets continually valued the
euro currency and euro zone interest rates based on the
strongest euro zone countries: France and Germany.
Bullet #2
So given the discussion above on the incentive for countries to
use (possibly abuse) fiscal policies to stimulate economic
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activity, the European
officials that conceived the
monetary union built in
limits on the extent to which
countries could spend or
carry debt. They limited
budget deficits to 3% of GDP.
And they set a ceiling on how
much debt a member
country could have at 60% of
GDP.
That may sound good
policing procedures on
paper, but in fact, it creates
more problems. It further
handcuffs these membercountries.
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When a country is in recession, deficit spending and government spending can be an
effective way to achieve economic recovery. And they may need to run a bigger deficit
for a period of time to bridge the downturn in their economic cycle i.e. until the
economy naturally returns to organic growth.
These limits set in the EMU rule book, the Maastricht Treaty, in theory, restricted a
countries ability to work through these economic downturns using fiscal policy. That
creates more problems, as Friedman forecasted.
Bullet #3
Given bullets one and two countries within the monetary union are bound to run into
economic problems. And Friedman argued that the citizens of stronger countries would
have a hard time parting with spending their money to bailout weaker member
countries.
Bullet #4
Finally, the easiest way to solve indebtedness and a weak economy is through currency
devaluation. It inflates away the debt and makes exporting easier typically a key driver
in emerging from recession. But members of the euro dont have that tool. The
common currency is, like monetary policy, out of the control of country governments.
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The Culprit? The euro
The Problems in
the Euro Zone AreAll Rooted in the
Single Currency:
The Euro!
The euro-member countries are in trouble for
all of the reasons Milton Friedman, one of the
most influential economists of the 20th century,
cited prior to that currencys inception over
twelve years ago.
The global recession and financial crisis has
resulted in ballooning debt levels and growing
budget deficits for nearly all major economies.
And typically, when countries find they cant
pay, they have two options: Either a currency
devaluation to reduce the value of debt OR an
outright default.
Neither will work with weak EMU countries
after all, they share a currency with 15other countries (now 16). So currency
devaluation is not a tool at their disposal. That
makes an outright default by a troubled euro-
member the most practical option. But its NOT
an option, at least not an option the euro zone
members can consider for reasons Ill cover a
bit later.
For now, the euro zone officials have createdoption #3: pour money into these weak
countries to keep them breathing and then
attempt to force all member countries into a
fiscal union where fiscal policy is managed at
a central level.
But fiscal union is an unimaginable step. It
would entail all members to give up their
sovereignty, their history, their rich cultures and
heritage. The result would be a United States of
Europe, where government, monetary and fiscal
policy would all be made in Brussels and likely
led by the strongest countries Germany and
France.
And it would mean transferring wealth from
the stronger euro zone countries to the weaker
ones.
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Its Not About Greece; Its
All About the Banks
Dont think for a minute that European officials have been
going to such extreme measures as they have in the pasttwo years because they care about Greece. They dont.
They first responded because they cared deeply about
defending the euro. They arrogantly thought they could
convince the markets that they would plow some money
into Greece and scare the bond market vigilantes away,
those investors that were dumping bonds in the weak euro
zone countries and driving up the yields on government
bonds to dangerous levels. By promising to give Greecemoney they hoped the bond sellers would go away, and
therefore the threat to the euros existence would go
away. But it didnt work.
And in May 2010, we got a clear message from Europe just
how desperate the situation was there. Thats when the
powers of Europe gathered to determine a game-plan for
dealing with Greece. The European Union, the IMF and the
ECB could have backed away and let the country pull-out
of the monetary union and go on with its business of
mending itself through currency and debt devaluation.
But they didnt do that!
Instead, in perhaps the most shocking development in the
entire global financial crisis, they vowed to rip up the
rulebook that the European monetary union was built
upon. They vowed to use taxpayer money of the stronger
countries to support the fiscally irresponsible weaker
countries to the tune of 750 billion euros.
That was a jaw-dropping move that completely
contradicted the guiding principles of the European
Monetary Union. When they made the decision to take
tax payer money from the likes of Germany and give it to
Greece, the politicians effectively tore up the Constitution
right then, right there.
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If you owe
the bank
$1,000, you
have aproblem. If
you owe the
bank $100
million, the
bank has a
problem.
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Moreover, the ECB got involved breaking the rules
of the central bank by buying sovereign debt in
these insolvent countries, in turn putting their own
solvency at risk.
They didnt go to such extreme measures because
they really cared about saving the likes of Greece,
Portugal and Ireland (and even Spain). They did so
because they had to!
You see, when the world was in the depths of the
financial crisis, global central banks were doing
anything and everything they could to stimulate.
The ECB, for its part, was offering up unlimited
funds to its European banks for a paltry 1 percent
nterest. The stated purpose was to keep credit
flowing in its economy. However, the banks werent
ending to consumers and businesses; they were
ending to the PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece
and Spain), to push down the borrowing rates in
those insolvent countries.
The struggling countries were happy. They were
able to borrow at reasonable rates, even though
they were maintaining massive budget deficits and
burgeoning debt loads
The banks were happy. They were borrowing at 1
percent and lending at juicy yields
And the ECB was happy, because it was aiding the
struggling countries through the back-door
maintaining adherence to its guiding principles and
keeping its appearance as staunchly independent.
But finally, market participants took notice and went
on attack, selling the government bonds of the
weak euro members. Consequently sending
borrowing rates for these countries soaring.
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The REAL Risk in EuropeSystemic Fallout
That exposed their spiraling deficits, AND
as it turns out, the flaws of the greater
European monetary union.
So when the decision had to be made by
European officials and the IMF, back in
May 2010, to let Greece go or go all-in
the choice was obvious.
They had to go all-in, because the
European banks were loaded with Greek
debt. If Greece had fallen, the other weak
countries would have fallen, putting $2trillion worth of European bank exposure
to the PIGS countries on course for
massive write downs and triggering
another financial crisis.
With that, the European sovereign debt
crisis isnt a Europe problem, its a global
problem.
The failure of the PIIGS countries, indeed,
would create another wave of global
financial crisis.
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Take a look at the map below from the BIS report. If
youve forgotten how systemic the fallout
surrounding the failure of Lehman Brothers in 2008
was, this will give you a quick reminder of just howinterconnected the financial system is globally.
The size of the circles represents each bank
nationalitys share of the total global banking
system, in terms of bank to bank claims. The
thickness of the arrows represents the size of those
claims with foreign banks.
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The REAL Risk in EuropeSystemic Fallout
Ultimately the chart shows that all banks
around the world are heavily exposed to
failing foreign banking institutions.
Its the ECB Too
Its not just European banks, but the
European Central Bank is also at risk of
failing.
A European think-tank, Open Europe,
estimate the ECB is 23 to 24 times
leveraged.
When Lehman
Brothers failed it was
30 times leveraged.
If a contagion of
defaults or
restructurings does
take place, and the
ECB is forced to take
losses on the
sovereign debt of the
weak euro zone
countries, the ECB
could become
insolvent itself.
If that happens expect
another wave ofglobal financial crisis,
bigger than the first,
where markets trade
in two tiers: Risky and
safe.
Source: BIS
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Social Uprising:
The music stops ONLY when
the people say no more
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Europe is
composed of
separate nations,
whose residents
speak differentlanguages, have
different customs,
and have far
greater loyalty to
their own countrythan to the
common market
or the idea of
Europe
-Milton Friedman
Every step of the way through this global economic
crisis the shocks have been thought to be contained.
But theyve proven time after time to be just the
opposite: Contagious!
Thats been the case with sovereign debt problems
in Europe once said to be contained and now
known to be systemic. And its proving to be thecase with public uprisings, too. It started in the
Middle East, and nowits finally spreading through
Europe.
Weve seen these uprisings across Europe to fight
the tough austerity measures that have been
imposed, in many cases, by politicians from other
countries or global organizations, like the IMF.
The people are finally standing up against what
promises to be a long road of economic depression
especially those in Greece, Ireland and Portugal,
all of which have taken direct bailout money and are
now dealing with the massive job losses,
government spending cuts and tax hikes associated
with taking money from its EU neighbors and the
IMF.
To be sure, the politicians will keep this game goingof floating these insolvent countries as long as
possible. And they will continue to use their power
over these countries to attempt to force them into a
fiscal union unifying Europe into a United States.
But at some point, the people will say enough is
enough keep your money and keep your euro.
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Systemic:
Social and Political Unrest
Europe is
composed of
separate nations,
whose residents
speak differentlanguages, have
different customs,
and have far
greater loyalty to
their own countrythan to the
common market
or the idea of
Europe
-Milton Friedman
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Friedman said, Nationalism will emerge. Healthier
countries will not see fit to spend their hard-earned
money to bail out their less responsible neighbors.
And weaker countries will not see fit to give up their
sovereignty to help save vulnerable European banks
and a single currency that has left them handcuffed.
The Euro is at the core of all the sovereign debt
problems in Europe. The easiest way to address a
government debt problem is with the currency.
Devalue the currency, inflate away the debt and geton the road to recovery.
The most palatable option for the likes of Greece,
Portugal and Ireland: outright default. Defaulting,
leaving the euro and re-adopting their own currency
would allow them to devalue their debt and start
rebuilding.
The alternative is giving up their sovereignty and
fighting through years if not decades of economicdepression.
I think the people will vote for the former. And they
will likely express their vote by overthrowing their
governments and then kicking the IMF and EU
officials out.
Thats when the game of kick the can down the road
in Europe will come to an end. And that will likelymean the end of the euro or at least in the form
that we know it.
And while its true that European banks are on the
hook for the lions share of the risk from a default of
a country in Europe, the Lehman crisis made it
abundantly clear that a major bank failure has acute
global consequences.
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Defaults, Departures, Devaluations
The end game for the euro
How can you be prepared
to weather another global
financial storm?
Raise cash: When global fear
elevates global capital flees to
the relative safety of USTreasuries and the dollar. In
these types of crises CASH is
king.
Hedge: Buying puts on the S&P
500, the euro or global stock
indicies can reduce your risk
to global market turmoil OR
an inverse ETF, like the
ProShares Short S&P 500 ETF
(SH) can serve a similar
function.
Exploit opportunities: Buying the
ProShares UltraShort Euro
(EUO) can give you twopercent profit for every one
percent fall in the value of the
euro.
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Dear Investor,
If there is one thing thats been clear throughout the duration of this global
economic crisis, its that average investors have been given bad information and bad
advice all along the way.
In short, its exposed the Wall Street machine for what it is a mechanism to soak
money from the masses, for the enrichment of few.
Its exposed the financial media as tabloid-like operations, more concerned withcreating great headlines than they are about communicating facts.
And its exposed government leadership as ill-prepared, inexperienced and nave, in
handling the worst economic period of our lifetimes.
The net effect of those three sources of poor guidance and mis-information has been
wealth destruction for average investors. For the many investors that lost in the
stock market collapse, its meant insult to injury.
Ive always thought to myself, there has to be a better way. Thats led me to create
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