#StrongDollar Truths

05/15/13 07:16AM EDT

“This means that truth is not a constant but is actually created.”

-George F. Kennan

The aforementioned quote comes Kennan’s 1947 State Department memo titled “Psychological Background.” He was writing about Stalin’s Russia, but he could have very well been writing about Putin’s Russia and/or Bernanke’s US monetary policy today.

The leadership is at liberty to put forward for tactical purposes any particular thesis which finds it useful to the cause at any particular moment and to require the faithful and unquestioning acceptance of that thesis by members of the movement.” (George F. Kennan, pg 260)

Who are the members of the US Dollar Devaluation Movement? Don’t blame the bureaucrat at the printing press for all of this. There’s no fair share in that. You have to lop together the entire Bush and Obama Administrations alongside Bernanke and his pandering press. Weak US Dollar policy created the weakest America you have seen since the 1970s. #StrongDollar is the only way out.

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This is why Kennan is so very relevant to US history. Truman’s paper pushers in Washington needed someone who not only lived the game (Kennan lived in Russia), but had a completely different perspective on how to play it going forward. Evolving as time and facts do is as American as most Americans want to believe they are. The American collective eventually sniffs out the truth.

One of my investing heroes, Ray Dalio, always asks: “What is the truth?” And I suspect that if you are held accountable to the returns in your accounts every day, that’s an important question for you to answer too. But do central planners trying to uphold their academic dogmas and/or the conflicted media who fawns over them want the truth? Or do they want to save face and access?

Sadly, those are rhetorical questions at this point. When it comes to Fed front-running, policy leaks, selective disclosures, IRS preference checks, spending scandals, etc etc. at this point, The People actually expect the government to be lying. That’s not good. Until it is. And I think, with CNBC ratings hitting all-time lows as markets hit all-time highs, conflicted and compromised sources are getting the message.

Americans may not be as smart as a TV pundit, but they generally know the truth when they see it.

If you have studied the last 40 to 100 years of US Federal Reserve Policy and the US Dollar history born out of its causal maneuverings, you’ll come to a very different definition of the truth about what Americans trust and respect. The highest confidence, hiring, and consumption periods in post WWII history were 1 (Reagan) and 1 (Clinton). They were also the strongest periods for the US Dollar.

If you need a Canadian to explain that to your elected Congressman and/or wanna be financial market TV star who has never actually played the game, fine – it will take some time though – take it from someone who spent the last 3 years at CNBC trying to explain this to them. In the meantime, the market is doing a really good job explaining it to everyone else who gets paid to listen.

What is the truth? Forget about what I think – let’s look at the scoreboard:

  1. US Dollar up another +0.4% yesterday to a fresh YTD high of $83.79 = +5.0% YTD
  2. #CommodityDeflation (CRB Index – 19 Commodities) -0.4% yesterday to 287 = -2.4% YTD
  3. US Stocks (SPY) up another +1% yesterday to a fresh new all-time closing high of 1650 = +15.7% YTD

Indeed fellow Americans (and Canadian green card holders), a #StrongDollar sponsored US #TaxCut!

And yeah, I heard the loser whining about how Bernanke’s Friday night whispers to the WSJ about tapering QE was going to create a swoon in stocks. It didn’t though. It ripped my Dollars and rates of return (on my hard earned savings account) higher. The swoon came in the end of the world #EOW trade instead.

If you want #EOW, get out there and beg for more of what Gold and Treasury bulls really want – Bernanke to debauch the hard earned currency of the American People and our credibility as a creditor nation while they’re at it.

If you want your economic liberties and freedoms back, get out there and start yelling like this crazy Canuck is about #StrongDollar.

If you want real (inflation adjusted) US Consumption Growth (ie 71% of US GDP), you want what I want. If you want to spend the rest of your years trying to sell fear to goose your ad revs or ratings, you want crisis. That’s un-American.

I may not be able to love this country as much as those of you who were born here. But my wife, kids, and Made In America company can.

If my speaking the truth needs to come across as aggressively as a Patriot ripping across British lines did, so be it.  I care more about results than political style, in case you couldn’t tell.

The truth about #StrongDollar, Strong America that I speak of doesn’t need to be created. It’s always been there – it’s a constant. This isn’t Russia.

Our immediate-term Risk Ranges for Gold, Oil (Brent), US Dollar, USD/YEN, UST 10yr Yield, VIX, and the SP500 are $1, $100.39-103.89, $82.63-83.94, 100.06-103.09, 1.82-1.99%, 12.12-13.49, and 1, respectively.

Best of luck out there today and God Bless America,

KM

Keith R. McCullough
Chief Executive Officer

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