Watch the dollar

Excerpts from Bloomberg.

The combination of spending $700 billion on soured mortgage-related assets and providing $400 billion to guarantee money-market mutual funds will boost U.S. borrowing as much as $1 trillion, according to Barclays Capital interest-rate strategist Michael Pond in New York.

``As we get to the other side of this, the dollar will get crushed,'' said John Taylor, chairman of New York-based International Foreign Exchange Concepts Inc., the world's biggest currency hedge-fund firm, which manages about $15 billion.

If these experts are right, gold and hard assets should remain part of your portfolio.

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George Dagnino, PhD
Editor, The Peter Dag Portfolio
Since 1977