Posted on 08/02/2011 5:47:40 PM PDT by NoLibZone
Europe is a "train wreck" and on the "brink of a major financial crisis," Scott Minerd, CIO of the fixed-income firm Guggenheim Partners, told CNBC Tuesday.
"The way Europe is operating right now, it's what I called recently 'cognitive dissonance,'" Minerd said, or "basically doing the same thing thinking they're going to get a different outcome."
"They keep throwing more and more liquidity at it thinking it's going to get better and it's not," he added. Europe fails to recognize that it has a "structural problem, not a liquidity problem."
People will "flee the euro" unless they find a way to bifurcate the euro in some way where strong countries are in the euro only and the weak countries are out, Minerd explained, adding, "To be honest with you, I don't see the mechanism to do that."
"As the capital is flooding out of Europe, which we're starting to see now, the first place it's going to go is to the safe havens—[U.S.] Treasurys, which [the market] perceives to be safe, and it'll chase gold," he added.
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“Germany was in the tank prior to WWII.”
They had it rough during the 20s but actually did quite well during the Depression of the 30s, in some measure due to the efforts of Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht.
And we're doing exactly the same thing...
While the morons in Washington swear it will be a different outcome... Their lust for power blinds them to reality.
Ah hell - just borrow more, spend more, and call it a win.
Socialism 3.0 in the works .
Which is a better bet ,, Swiss Fancs or Ball Park Franks ???
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