The Gary Null Blog

December 7th, 2011

http://etfdailynews.com/2011/12/07/the-worldwide-depressionrecession-of-2012-tna-tza-sh-ewg-ewj-fxi/

Jeff Harding: In case you haven’t noticed, the rest of the world continues to slow down and the negative data is accelerating. The big powerhouses of the world, the eurozone including Germany (NYSEARCA:EWG), Japan (NYSEARCA:EWJ), and China (NYSEARCA:FXI) are leading this trend and there is no reason to believe that the U.S. will not follow.

I’ve been writing about this theme frequently lately because, while we are seeing some positive numbers here in the U.S., we are also seeing signs of weakness starting to show up, and since we live in a world of international trade, the world’s woes will hit us.

The first thing to note about this phenomenon is that the central banks of the world, including the Fed, have been doing all they can to support their economies with plentiful money. According to a recent Bloomberg article, “Central banks across five continents are undertaking the broadest reduction in borrowing costs since 2009 to avert a global economic slump stemming from Europe’s sovereign-debt turmoil.”