10/05: More Risk Than Usual?
Seven Things That Might Go Wrong In the Next Year
1. The US Dollar collapses against European & Asian currencies – US interest rates rise sharply
2. US Home prices fall sharply causing major consumer retrenchment (see #1)
3. Oil prices rise ever higher. Supplies disrupted. Economy suffers
4. Bird Flu causes havoc in the US
5. Conflict in the middle-east spreads encompassing Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Afghanistan, & Pakistan and begins to look like a World War
6. US Constitutional Crisis caused by congressional corruption scandal
7. Terrorist attack in US
Will your investment portfolio thrive if one or more of these turns into reality?
May 19 - Let's add an eighth risk
8. DC politicians enact tariffs on China as punishment for their currency manipulation. Trade war follows. US assets and the US $ collapse.
1. The US Dollar collapses against European & Asian currencies – US interest rates rise sharply
2. US Home prices fall sharply causing major consumer retrenchment (see #1)
3. Oil prices rise ever higher. Supplies disrupted. Economy suffers
4. Bird Flu causes havoc in the US
5. Conflict in the middle-east spreads encompassing Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Afghanistan, & Pakistan and begins to look like a World War
6. US Constitutional Crisis caused by congressional corruption scandal
7. Terrorist attack in US
Will your investment portfolio thrive if one or more of these turns into reality?
May 19 - Let's add an eighth risk
8. DC politicians enact tariffs on China as punishment for their currency manipulation. Trade war follows. US assets and the US $ collapse.
