Spotlight on Eastern European Currencies and Gold ~ MISH SHEDLOCK 10/30
 

Spotlight on Eastern European Currencies and Gold

Friday, October 30, 2009

In Gold And The Watched Pot Theory I versed the following opinions on currency fluctuations:

Might the US dollar blow up? Yes it might. But so could the RMB if China floated it, and so could the British pound. No one seems to see the crisis brewing in Japan with a huge demographic problem, a shrinking population, falling exports, and no way to pay back its national debt.

There is seldom a mention of the problems in European banks who foolishly lent money to the Baltic States in Euros or Swiss Francs and now those Baltic country currencies have collapsed and the loans cannot be paid back. European banks also lent to Latin America and those loans are also suspect. Arguably, European banks are in worse shape than US banks, but no one talks about it, at least in the US.

Continues: http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogsp...-european.html