Current Themes in Crescat Portfolios

Global Fiat Currency Debasement: With historically high and unsustainable global debt to GDP levels across the world, we believe central banks will continue their attempts to forestall sovereign debt and banking crises, stimulate the economy, and fight deflation by engineering negative real interest rates, monetizing debts, and working in cahoots with sovereigns to understate true [...]

US Government Deficit Already $5 Trillion Annually based on GAAP

Per Shadow Government Statistics: “Continuing $5 Trillion GAAP-Based Federal Deficit Remains Unsustainable, Uncontainable and Unstable.  Against a headline, official quasi-cash-basis and gimmicked reporting of a $1.3 trillion federal budget deficit in 2011, GAAP-based accounting (using generally accepted accounting principles) indicates that the actual 2011 deficit ran somewhat in excess of $5 trillion for the year.  [...]

Crescat Macroeconomic Update

Please check out Crescat’s latest macroeconomic research letter.  We discuss the implications of record high global debt levels, China’s unsustainable fixed asset investment binge, the European debt crisis, declinging real household income in the U.S., understated CPI, gargantuan off balance sheet derivatives.  Central banks have been behind an upward spiraling series of bubbles, busts, and bailouts.   The biggest busts and bailouts are likely still ahead of us, possibly the end game [...]

Richard Russell predicts money printing by the Fed to address the U.S.’s growing debt position

We have oft voiced our view that the growing U.S. debt position is unsustainable, including significant debt on the books ($13T) and unfunded liabilities ($56T and counting). Respected investment commentator Richard Russell espoused on the issue in his Friday commentary. We post some pertinent quotes from Russell’s newsletter below. He also describes his view of investment implications, which [...]

Jim Rogers Interview

Jim Rogers warns about inflation, money printing, highlights strong value in silver at today’s prices. http://www.heraresearch.com/images/HRN_20100603_Part_03_Interview.pdf

Recent Marc Faber Macro Presentation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0sS6a9RW2E It’s an hour long but a must view in my opinion.   Almost all Crescat themes reinforced with some important new angles.  Faber really seems to pull it all together this time.

Hedge fund manager David Einhorn’s recent New York Times op ed piece reinforces several Crescat themes

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/27/opinion/27einhorn.html?pagewanted=1&th&emc=th

Julian Robertson warns of 15-20% interest rates and high inflation

Well respected investor Julian Robertson, Founder and Chairman of Tiger Management, asserted today that the US faces “Armageddon if the Japanese and Chinese don’t buy our debt.” Readers of our commentary know that we couldn’t agree more. U.S. government debt is expected to top $12 ½ trillion this year, over 90% of GDP. Our unfunded [...]