Quote from bhardy307:
Beau, the EU is larger economy than the USA. The result of letting the EU collapse is just as severe as letting the USA collapse. Neither one will collapse. They will support each other. They have no choice.
It is much easier to find a new source to buy your goods than it is to find a new place to sell your goods. The USA can let China fail; they can't let the EU fail. China can't let the EU fail either. China can't let the USA fail. Too much interdependancy in this world for any one large nation or block to fail. They will support each other. They have no choice.
Or we see nukes go off when Iran gets the bomb. It will happen eventually, and I just hope the missile defense shield really can hold the now 99% hit rate at expectations.
This is the only geopolitical risk.
Why is currency depreciation failure, though?
Our dollar was at 122 and I want to see it get back there. There's no reason it shouldn't be 100 or higher, and that means all of these nations printing money faster than we are will see their currencies depreciate, hyperinflation hits the rest of the world before us, and in the event of another default the next president will face an even more precarious economy than Bush or Obama had.
I say the dollars had it with going down, and the notion that the dollar is fairly valued is laughable. It's not fairly valued unless it's at 100. It's a crisis to see it this low, because we all favor a strong dollar, and sooner or later, the dollar's going for a ride. All of these nations will see food shortages and raw materials sky rocket while dollar based commodities fight to find a price that will rally the dollar, keep gold in check, possibly leave interest rates negative, and the Euro collapses.
It is a fallacy that printed money will ever improve a nations foreign exchange rate. Fallacy. Pure Fallacy.
Every other country is printing money faster than us, so it is their currencies that will depreciate, but our dollar will not fail. It will rally to its fair value much higher from here, and even if we cannot prevent hyperinflation in other countries from spreading it will spark last in domestic markets, after every other economy sees their nation lose value and even more dollars go into treasuries, there will be nothing left but the trillions in US debt supported by $60 trillion of private citizen wealth. And you can take it to the bank that we will always be more than 20% of the World's Economy. Definitely. There is no way to do business without dollars, and Euro falling is to be expected. It was always supported falsely by mistaken beliefs in the treaties that were signed to support the union, and the failure in greece is just the tip of the iceberg. They all go down with it except the smart, intelligent Brits who had enough sense not to give so much of their sovereignty to socialist bureaucrats.
No, currencies never appreciate when money is printed at a faster rate than the rest of the world. The glut is guaranteed to devalue currencies in every case. There is no macroeconomic perspective that ever says otherwise. The end shall come, but it will only be to a more valuable dollar, and growing stable economy and that political party who gets the White House will be able to keep their seats in power for at least the next 4 presidential terms.