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Going Long on the Dollar? Go Longer on Gold!
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Posted by lucretius 131 days ago (contrarianprofits.com). Views: 6
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Taipan Daily’s Justice Litle review the current trends of gold, the U.S. Dollar and small caps. Finding suprising strength in the dollar in the short term, he finds greater strength in gold and gold stocks for the long term.
Justice Litle, Editorial Director, Taipan Publishing Group
Gold, small caps and the U.S. dollar have had a stable three-way relationship for the better part of the 2009 rally. Now the three could be parting ways.
Dr. Marc Faber is one of the few market wise men whose thoughts are worth pondering. His monthly “Gloom, Boom & Doom Report” is always a good read. He is an active, Asia-based investor with decades of experience, hundreds of millions under management, and many prescient calls under his belt.
Faber has stated firmly and clearly what he thinks of the U.S. dollar. As you might expect, his opinion is not too flattering.
In the long run, Faber assigns the buck a value of “zero.” In the manner of all fiat currencies, America’s scrip is slowly being turned into toilet paper. The present cast of clowns in Washington seems bound and determined to accelerate this process as Wall Street cheers them on.
But that’s the long term, mind you. In the shorter term – i.e. for at least the next quarter or so – Faber is bullish on the buck. So bullish, in fact, that he is now on record as a buyer of $USD.
“As of today, I will be long in dollars,” Faber told Bloomberg last week. (Perhaps he is buying from my colleague Adam Lass, who professed on Thursday his intent to remain short.)
Continue reading Justice Litle on Taipan Daily.
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