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Europe: Banking on US Dollar Depreciation

Europe needs to have the spotlight taken off of it, claims Philip Manduca. we couldn’t agree more here. Frankly we believe that help is on the way, in the form of a U.S. dollar devaluation. we don’t know when, but are 99.9% sure it has to happen. Philip Manduca, Head of Investment of the ECU Group, discusses Greece and the very severe implications of what the final outcome will look like. “Trichet said the Greeks are crooks, and they’ve been lying about the numbers. There is a deeply embedded corruption within the Eurozone. Combined with the endemic European socialism and...