DEUTSCHE BANK: Western Economies Are Screwed, And Investors Face A ‘Disturbing Paradox’

Thursday, September 20, 2012
By Paul Martin

Matthew Boesler
BusinessInsider.com
Sept. 12, 21012

In a new report entitled Gold: Adjusting For Zero, Deutsche Bank analysts Daniel Brebner and Xiao Fu paint an incredibly dark picture of the bind the global economy is in right now.

Brebner and Xiao are pretty frank about how levered up the financial system is at the moment, and they warn that the next shock will be totally involuntary and unexpected.

Here is what the analysts have to say about how upside down the world is right now and the risks looming on the horizon:

We believe the balance of 2012 could remain challenging for investors, given the many negative indicators and warning signs. Certainly extremes in leverage in the Western economies and questions regarding growth in China present investors with a worrying post-2012 future. However, in our view there are nearly zero real choices available to global policy makers. The world needs growth and it is willing to go to extraordinary lengths to get it. This is creating distortions where old rules don’t seem to apply and where investors face a disturbing paradox:

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