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The world is on a bumpy journey to a new destination and the New Normal.
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Journey
Destination
New Normal
Normal
World
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Most people are under exposed to global assets, including foreign stocks, bonds and currencies.
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Assets
Currency
Exposed
Including
People
Bonds
Global
Stocks
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Investors should invest on what they know. The biggest mistake is to invest on what they don't know.
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Biggest Mistake
Investors
Mistake
Should
Biggest
Invest
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Because in the New Normal you are more worried about the return of your capital, not return on your capital.
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Normal
Return
Worried
Capital
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Today's reports confirm that, unfortunately, post-crisis America is still not back to its good economic self.
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America
Self
Today
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Investors have to ask themselves two questions. How much can we grow our investments? And, can we afford our mistakes?
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Investment
Investors
Mistake
Two
Afford
Mistakes
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Simply put, investors should own less equities, more bonds, more global investments, more cash and more dry ammunition.
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Ammunition
Cash
Dry
Investors
Bonds
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We normally think if you're going to lend someone money, you should get some reward for doing this. In Europe, it's a tax!
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Europe
Rewards
Thinking
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The once-unthinkable loss of the AAA rating will constitute a further hit to already fragile business and consumer confidence.
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Consumer Confidence
Consumers
Loss
Rating
Constitute
Further
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As a whole, investors should welcome attempts to safeguard the integrity of markets. You need very clear rules applied to markets.
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Integrity
Investors
Needs
Welcome
Applied
Attempts
Safeguard
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Falling entry barriers and lower access costs have significantly democratised participation, whether in production or consumption.
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Barriers
Consumption
Entry
Participation
Falling
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There seems to be no limit to the exciting possibilities that come from combining technical innovations, the Internet, and social media.
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Combining
Social Media
Social Media Internet Media
Innovations
Limit
No Limit
Possibilities
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If the Scottish people decide to opt for independence, it would not be a good idea for Scotland to maintain a very rigid link to the pound.
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Independence
Scotland
Good Idea
Link
Maintain
Pound
Rigid
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As we spend more, and as companies are pushed to invest, they say, "Hey wait a minute! There's more demand in the system. Let's invest more."
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Demand
Hey
Waiting
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The global realignment is accelerating the migration of growth and wealth dynamics from the industrial world to the larger emerging economies.
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Accelerate
Dynamics
Emerging
Migration
Wealth
Economies
Industrial
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If you happen to be the only one with negative interest rates, you also weaken your currency, which means you make your exports more competitive.
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Currency
Mean
Negative
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The best and most sustainable love story for markets is one based on a healthy and dynamic real economy that creates jobs and opportunities for many more people.
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Love Story
Love Best People
Creates
Sustainable
Dynamic
More People
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The one instrument that has relative political autonomy is monetary policy. Central banks do not need to go to Congress to get approval for an interest rate hike.
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Approval
Needs
Political
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For the next three years, we're going to see different economies work out different problems. For European economies, especially Greece, it would be through default.
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Default
Greece
Work Out
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After many decades of Disney movies, we have been conditioned to expect princesses to fall in love quickly with their charming princes and 'live happily ever after.'
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Charming
Decades
Ever After
Conditioned
Disney
Happily
Princes
Princesses
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How long can interest rates stay negative? Think about this. Not only are you lending your money to governments, but you're paying them interest for the privilege of doing so.
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Government
Long
Thinking
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Investors should be cautiously positioned as the global economy and markets face major uncertainties. The downgrade will be a further headwind to growth and job creation in the U.S.
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Jobs
Creation
Faces
Global Economy
Growth
Investors
Job Creation
Downgrade
Further
Uncertainties
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Investors have few spare tires left. Think of the image of a car on a bumpy road to an uncertain destination that has already used up its spare tire. The cash reserves of people have been eaten up by the recent market volatility.
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Cash
Destination
Investors
Reserves
Tire
Uncertain
Volatility
Eaten
Image
Recent
Spare
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The theory is that if you take interest rates negative, people are going to say, "That's a silly game! I'm not going to lend my money to governments who want me to pay them. I am going to go into the stock market where I can get positive returns!"
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Government
Games
Silly
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I remember when I was growing up, you would go to a bank to open a deposit, and they'd give you a toaster. A free toaster. These days, if you're a company, and you go to a bank, they could easily turn you away! They don't want your deposits anymore.
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Giving
Growing Up
Toasters
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The world changes! So we're in a situation today where the only policymakers that have flexibility are central banks. But they don't have the instruments! So they've had to experiment, and the more you experiment, the more uncertainty and the higher the risk of collateral damage.
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Risk
Today
World
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America's downgrade may serve as a wakeup call for its policymakers. It is an unambiguous and loud signal of the country's eroding economic strength and global standing. It renders urgent the need to regain the initiative through better economic policymaking and more coherent governance.
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America
Country
Governance
Initiative
Loud
Needs
Standing
Urgent
Coherent
Downgrade
Economic Strength
Policymakers
Regain
Serve
Signal
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[When] the market is trying to get to terms with, first, lower global growth, particularly out of emerging markets and China. And, second, the market is worried the central banks have run out of ammunition. So put these two things together, and then investors are repricing the market lower.
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Running
Growth
Two
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Once you start moving [market] lower, then you trigger of all sorts of things. You trigger people who have to sell because they're over-levered. So they sell their winners and their losers. They're just trying to raise cash. So, what you then get is spreading malaise throughout the global markets.
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Moving
People
Trying
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It is hard to imagine that, having downgraded the US, S & P will not follow suit on at least one of the other members of the dwindling club of sovereign AAAs. If this were to materialise and involve a country like France, for example, it could complicate the already fragile efforts by Europe to rescue countries in its periphery.
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Country
Effort
Europe
Example
Fragile
Members
Periphery
Rescue
Sovereign
At Least One
Club
Complicate
Countries
Efforts
For Example
Involve
Suit
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