This has to be the dumbest shit John Mauldin ever wrote!

John Mauldin writes some pretty dumb shit, but this is by far the dumbest piece he's ever written. He lumps every type of economic system and paradigm together--fixed exchange, currency issuer, currency user, debt in foreign currency, debt in sovereign currency, public debt, private debt, etc and then makes the outrageous claim that we're approaching some kind  of "singularity" as in, point of no return, without making any distinction at all between the risks (or lack thereof) embodied in each system.

You get a sense of what you are about to read when he starts out with this beauty...

"Like a car, an economy has lots of moving parts; everyone thinks they know how to drive it when they're in the back seat; and it crashes too often. But on a more serious note, the analogy of a car works especially well when you think of where large parts of the global economy are."
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Wow! If you are not impressed by that little tad of genius I don't know what will get your juices flowing.

Anyway, read the whole thing if you have the stomach for it. Remember, this guy has a HUGE following, which include hedge fund traders and policy makers.

John Mauldin's taking out a yen loan to pay for his Dallas apartment

John Mauldin writes this weekly commentary, Thoughts From the Frontline, which is always horribly out of paradigm.

Now it looks like he's taking out a loan in yen to pay for his house in Dallas, TX.

This makes me want to go long the yen soooooo bad, I barely can hold myself back.

Look at Mauldin's ridiculous comments:

"The Japanese are in a situation where their only real path out (of a shrinking economy) is to devalue the Yen," Mauldin says in the attached video. "This is a country that is going on sale."

In fact, he's not only predicting the Dollar/Yen will slump to 200 versus the U.S. dollar in the next 5 years, he says he is planning to hedge his entire mortgage to Japan's weakening currency in hopes of paying for his new Dallas apartment.

"The country is dying. People are retiring," he says, adding that by the time "Abenomics" has run its course, "you'll be able to buy a Lexus cheaper than a Kia."

Further complicating their comeback is what he calls the "Demographics of Doom," which highlights the growing ratio of the country's retirees compared to those actively working. "When you're at debt-to-GDP of 245% you're beginning to run up against your limit to borrow money at rational interest rates," he says, defending the country's decision and course, yet he's also certain that "it doesn't end well."

"Run up against your limit to borrow." Haaaa!!!! Japan OWNS the yen. It doesn't borrow it. Same mistake they all make--Mauldin, Bass, Rogers, Schiff...all of these idiots.

What's incredible is that the truth is very much out there now. It's amazing that these guys keep repeating the same, tired, inapplicable story.

By the way, the only real thing weighing on the yen has been Japan's trade deficit, but that has now swung back to surplus, which means that Mauldin might end up paying a lot more for his apartment.