August 23, 2010 Reading Time: < 1 minute

“A week ago, the Federal Reserve initiated a new program of “quantitative easing” (QE), with the Fed purchasing U.S. Treasury securities and paying for those securities by creating billions of dollars in new monetary base. Treasury bond prices surged on the action. With the U.S. economy predictably weakening, this second round of quantitative easing appears likely to continue. Unfortunately, the unintended side effect of this policy shift is likely to be an abrupt collapse in the foreign exchange value of the U.S. dollar.” Read more.

 Why QE Could Trigger a Collapse of the Dollar
John Hussman
Seeking Alpha Blog, August 23, 2010.
 
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