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by Catherine Austin Fitts
I try to stay in a higher mind. However, if one more financial or geopolitical guru tells me that the U.S. dollar is about to collapse, I will want to smack them.
The dollar is up sharply this morning, – the dollar index is at 98.36.
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Borrowers around the world have been borrowing cheap dollars. Now with a global slowdown and quantitative easing over, dollars are harder to earn and getting more expensive. If the Fed raises interest rates, many countries and institutions will wake up in a dollar trap.
That means the dollar can go much higher. The one borrower who has no problem is the US government – they can just arrange for the Fed to print more.
For many years we were navigating a falling US dollar. That trend has reversed and so long as it continues, we need to change our mind set and strategies accordingly.
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