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Start of a Global Currency Crisis?

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I also expected a slowdown in China, a plunge in the Yen, and a currency crisis not related to a sinking US dollar (See March 12 2012 article Japan''s Debt Disaster and China’s Non-Rebalancing Act: Economic Toxic Brew Portends Currency Crisis ). Here we are, with still other currencies in the problem mix.

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Reflections on 2013; What's Important, What's Not? What's Ahead?

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Had I suggested in 2007 that the Fed balance sheet expansion of $75 billion a month would have been considered "tightening" people would have thought I was nuts. The most important event for me in 2012, was the death of my wife Joanne, following 27 years of marriage. In 2012, I was also diagnosed with prostate cancer.