US pensions go bust, gold crashes, China flops, Bunds soar, predicts Saxo (in 2010?)

US pensions go bust, gold crashes, China flops, Bunds soar, predicts Saxo America’s Social Security Trust Fund will go bankrupt; both gold and the Japanese yen will crash; and China’s currency will devalue as bad loans catch up with the over-stretched banking system -- all in the course of 2010. By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Published: 3:28PM GMT 17 Dec 2009 The annual “Outrageous Predictions” of Denmark’s Saxo Bank are not for the faint-hearted, though there is good news for some. Chief economist David Karsboel thinks the US trade balance may go into surplus for the first time since the mid-1970s, benefiting...

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