Is now an opportune time to hedge the dollar with gold?
*Bloomberg, by Garfield Reynolds & Wes Goodman, August 19, 2009:
"China’s central bank renewed its call for a new global currency in
June and said the International Monetary Fund should manage more of
members’ foreign-exchange reserves. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
last month illustrated his call for a supranational currency by
producing a sample coin after a summit of the Group of Eight nations.
Mewbourne joins investor Jim Rogers, who said last year that he was
shifting all his assets out of dollars and buying Chinese yuan because
the Fed eroded the value of the U.S. currency. The dollar is losing its
status as the world’s reserve currency, said Rogers, who is the author
of books on investing including 'Hot Commodities.'
Sovereign Funds
Bill Gross, who runs the $169 billion Pimco Total Return Fund, is also
warning the U.S. currency will fall.
Holders of dollars should diversify before central banks and sovereign
wealth funds do the same because of concern government budget deficits
will deepen, Gross said in June.
Gross’ fund has returned 12 percent in the past year, outperforming 96
percent of its peers, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Billionaire Warren Buffett wrote in a New York Times commentary today
that the dollar is under threat from the 'monetary medicine' that has
been pumped into the financial system.
'Enormous dosages of monetary medicine continue to be administered and,
before long, we will need to deal with their side effects,' Buffett,
78, wrote. The 'greenback emissions' will swell the deficit to 13
percent of gross domestic product this fiscal year, while net debt will
increase to 56 percent of GDP, he said."
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