{"id":13020,"date":"2011-04-08T08:45:58","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T12:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=13020"},"modified":"2016-09-20T08:35:35","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T12:35:35","slug":"u-s-government-incompetence-great-for-stock-markets-gold-euro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/08\/u-s-government-incompetence-great-for-stock-markets-gold-euro\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Government Incompetence &#8211; Great For Stock Markets, Gold, Euro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Between the inability of Fed Chairman Bernanke to see (or given in to) the fact that there is inflation and Government&#8217;s incompetence, the dollar is being sold with fervor.<\/p>\n<p>While the EuroZone struggles to bailout Portugal, Greece, Italy, Ireland etc., the Euro is strong as<!--more--> compared to the U.S. dollar. That has the risk trade ON and liquidity is flowing into any asset (other than the dollar).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/euro.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13031 aligncenter\" title=\"euro\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/euro-610x370-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"370\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just look at what happened when the meetings over the budget ground to a halt last night. The dollar plunged and markets around the world exploded to the upside. Even after the Nikkei futures pointed to an open off by almost 1%, equities came roaring back on the heels of cheap money getting cheaper by the tick.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/crudespike.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13032 aligncenter\" title=\"crudespike\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/crudespike-610x409-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"409\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not even a debilitating earthquake, sovereign debt crisis or Chines rate hikes matter. All trading starts and stops with the dollar these days.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/spoos.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13030 aligncenter\" title=\"spoos\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/spoos-610x369-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"369\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/gold.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13029 aligncenter\" title=\"gold\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/gold-610x370-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"370\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between the inability of Fed Chairman Bernanke to see (or given in to) the fact that there is inflation and Government&#8217;s incompetence, the dollar is being sold with fervor. While the EuroZone struggles to bailout Portugal, Greece, Italy, Ireland etc., the Euro is strong as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[284,481,483],"class_list":["post-13020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-markets","tag-currency","tag-economy","tag-markets","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}