John Mauldin says Germany has surrendered to inflating the currency.
It's not too surprising. Germany has to choose euro inflation or a quick, possibly unilateral departure from the EMU and the euro. I suppose the Germans could go along with the EU version of quantitative easing and, once things stabilize a little, dump the euro and return to the mark.
And by "stabilize" I mean that the various government debts are maintained temporarily with increasingly worthless euros.
Theoretically, this should be a boon to the dollar. More likely, it will be a good excuse for Bernanke and Co. to do the same thing -- print and buy federal and state debt -- here.
Someone on the Market Ticker compared the dollar-euro dance to the bow and stern of the Titanic. When the bow went under, the stern looked much safer.
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