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The Secret to Success: Being Ridiculed on Social Media; Hedge Fund Analyst Quiz; The End

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Jesse Felder, a Contrarian Trader   Listen to the podcast and explore The Felder Report

Hedge Fund Quiz

The only way to win a date is to become a hedge fund analyst.  Your interview process requires you to analyze a real estate/mining company.

You look first at the balance sheet (Thanks Mr. Graham).   You notice that this mining company bought claims under a ski resort (Park City, Utah) where it bought acres in 1907 at five dollars an acre.

Then you notice that the company issued 20-year corporate bonds when interest rates were 9% for AA corporates about fifteen years ago.  Now similar companies can issue bonds at 5%.

How would you conduct your analysis? Good luck.

Interest rate decline

The End

So how will it all end? Dollars are created by computer key stroke when the Fed buys bonds, but the dollar is backed only by bonds (and a tiny bit of gold) and the bonds are payable in Federal Reserves Notes (the dollar) or just another form of debt. So debt is created to buy debt which, in turn, is payable in debt. Whoa?! No way this could ever be a problem. It’s magic. One thing bothers me, though, why do we need legal tender laws TO FORCE people to use dollars? I got a bad feelin’ on this.

But WHAT if more and more debt creates less and less “GDP” (let’s pretend it means something–govt spending creates economic growth, Ha Ha.) until each dollar of debt creates 0 or negative GDP growth. The Fed has to print to pay interest on the debt or the tail consumes the tiger.

Hemingway: We go broke slowly, then suddenly!

Anyone using CPI to gauge reality needs a reality check. You are a fool to buy gold as an “investment against “CPI inflation.” You own gold as a form of money to store wealth IF you lack confidence in central planning. So when it all comes down is when gold goes into permanent BACKWARDATION in gold. Holders of gold go NO BID on dollars. But don’t worry, the dollar derivatives like the Yen and the Euro will be earlier casualties. Meanwhile hope that the dollar rises against in order to buy more ounces. For others, Pray.
Now those who read the above my disagree, but know exactly fiat currencies do NOT go to 0 (or NO BID).