Bill Gates, whose net worth of $46.6 billion makes him the world's
richest person, is betting against the U.S. dollar.
"I'm short the dollar," Gates, chairman of Microsoft Corp., told Charlie
Rose in an interview late yesterday at the World Economic Forum in
Davos, Switzerland. "The ol' dollar, it's gonna go down."
Gates's concern that widening U.S. budget and trade deficits are
undermining the dollar was echoed in Davos by policymakers including
European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet and German
Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.
The dollar fell 21 percent against a basket of six major currencies from
the start of 2002 to the end of last year. The trade deficit swelled to
a record $609.3 billion last year and total U.S. government debt rose
8.7 percent to $7.62 trillion in the past 12 months.
"It is a bit scary," Gates said. "We're in uncharted territory when the
world's reserve currency has so much outstanding debt."
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Thorkild - er det ikke bare døduretfærdigt, at med alt det rigtige, som
AFS gør, at det så går så elendigt? Hvorfor vil virkeligheden dog ikke
indrette sig efter, at AFSs hypermoderne og geniale strategi for sit
samfund er øh ... genial?
Jeg synes, vi skal give virkeligheden det røde kort. Jeg ved ikke, hvad
vi ellers skal gøre, for at få den til at forstå, at AFS er numero uno
på alle punkter. Eller bare på de fleste.