US Dollar Buys You Less In Costa Rica

The US dollar index – DXY – is down about 14% just in the last 60 days…

The US dollar index – DXY – is down about 14% just in the last 60 days and the fall in the US dollar could get much uglier if the dollar index breaks down through last year’s low.

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From William H. Gross about the Fed’s renewed commitment to Quantitative Easing (QE)

Mr. Gross is a founder of PIMCO, managing director and co-CIO in the Newport Beach office. He has been associated with PIMCO for more than 39 years and oversees the management of more than $1 trillion of fixed income securities.

“We are being conned, folks; Democrats and Republicans alike. What have you really heard from either party that addresses America’s future instead of its prurient overnight fascination with scandal? Shame on them and of course, shame on us. We’re getting what we deserve. Vote NO in November — no to both parties. Vote NO to a two-party system that trades promises for dollars and hope for power, and leaves the American people high and dry.

… with growth in doubt, it seems that the Fed has taken Charles Ponzi one step further. Instead of simply paying for maturing debt with receipts from financial sector creditors — banks, insurance companies, surplus reserve nations and investment managers, to name the most significant — the Fed has joined the party itself. Rather than orchestrating the game from on high, it has jumped into the pond with the other swimmers. One and one-half trillion in checks were written in 2009, and trillions more lie ahead. The Fed, in effect, is telling the markets not to worry about our fiscal deficits, it will be the buyer of first and perhaps last resort. There is no need — as with Charles Ponzi — to find an increasing amount of future gullibles, they will just write the check themselves. I ask you: Has there ever been a Ponzi scheme so brazen? There has not. This one is so unique that it requires a new name. I call it a Sammy scheme, in honor of Uncle Sam and the politicians (as well as its citizens) who have brought us to this critical moment in time. It is not a Bernanke scheme, because this is his only alternative and he shares no responsibility for its origin. It is a Sammy scheme — you and I, and the politicians that we elect every two years — deserve all the blame.

… But either way it will likely signify the end of a great 30-year bull market in bonds and the necessity for bond managers and, yes, equity managers to adjust to a new environment.”

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Image above from the Banco Central de Costa Rica.

Andrew Makarik

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