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Legendary Investor: America is a Banana Republic W/No banana
Legendary Investor Jeremy Grantham: America is a Banana Republic
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Legendary investor Jeremy Grantham (co-founder and chief investment strategist of Grantham Mayo Van Otterloo - one of the largest fund managers in the world, having more than US $107 billion in assets under management as of December 2010) writes: http://bit.ly/pjJvWu%20
So now (July 30), the U.S. – with a dysfunctional Congress – has to decide between two of the ugliest choices seen in a long time. Should they cut government expenditures and therefore cut aggregate demand at a time of a critically weak economy on the cusp, perhaps, of a double dip? Or should they do nothing and allow a technical default, compromising the integrity of the dollar and sending a powerful signal to the world that the U.S., at least for now, is not a serious country and is probably past its prime. Ouch! Nobly trying to resolve this impasse, a small chunk of Republicans has seized the mantle of blackmailers and turned out to be very good at it. Certainly too good for President No-Show. Come to think of it, the choice was between technical default and looking like a Banana Republic and technical blackmail and looking like a Banana Republic! Just different bananas perhaps?
He's right ... the U.S. has become a banana republic with no bananas. http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/04/ ... nanas.html
Previous Grantham quotes:
• "The Fed Has Spent Most of the Last 15, 20 Years Manipulating the Stock Market, Whenever They Feel the Economy Needs a Bit of a Kick" http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/11/ ... st-of.html
• "All In All It Appears That Eisenhower’s Worst Fears Have Been Realized And His Remarkable And Unique Warnings Given For Naught" http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/01/ ... pears.html
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