Thursday, October 07, 2010

Goldman Sachs: The Dollar will decline sharply in the coming year

The dollar will embark on a sharp decline over the next 12 months, Goldman Sachs forecast on Wednesday, as policy makers in Washington look poised to press the trigger on another round of printing money.

The investment bank expects the dollar to drop to $1.79 against the pound in six months and $1.85 in 12 months. Sterling closed at $1.5891 in London yesterday. The euro won’t be spared either, with the dollar’s slump forcing it to $1.50 six months from now and $1.55 in a year’s time.

Powered by President Obama’s stimulus package and a rebound in inventories, the US recovery peaked in the final three months of last year and has been slowing ever since. As the summer delivered a diet of weak economic data, the conviction has strengthened among a growing number of officials at the Federal Reserve that it should risk another bout of quantitative easing - printing money to inject into the economy.

“More QE is seen as a co-ordinated effort to get the dollar lower,” said Thomas Stolper of Goldman Sachs. “It makes sense for the US.”

Separately, Goldman’s chief economist, Jan Hatzius, warned that the world’s biggest economy faces a “fairly bad” or a “very bad" scenario over the next six to nine months.
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2 comments:

John (Ad Orientem) said...

David,
Many people who invest in silver buy bags of so called junk silver, mostly old coins minted when silver was still present in our coinage.

David Wozney said...

In a barter situation, because a cupronickel nickel has a lower intrinsic metal value than a silver dime, a cupronickel nickel provides the ability to make a more precise value for change, than a silver dime does, in a barter transaction. Also, people who invest in cupronickel alloy obtain nickels at a local bank without paying a markup, commission, fee, or shipping/handling cost, such as people posting in this forum.