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Meet the Currency Preppers

22 Tuesday Oct 2013

Posted by HattieBelle in 2013, Bubble, Business, Currency, economy, EFTs, Euro, Indiana, Investing, Money, QE, Quantitative Easing, Stocks, Taper, World Reserve Currency

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You’ve heard of Doomsday Preppers: folks who think cataclysmic events are on the way, and who want to be prepared by stockpiling resources.

Now meet the Currency Preppers.

With government dysfunction on full display in Washington, and the Federal Reserve continuing its policy of bond buying known as quantitative easing, some investors are feeling highly unsettled about the future of the U.S. dollar, which hit eight-and-a-half month lows on Friday against the euro  and a basket of foreign currencies. So much so, they have decided to hold some cash in foreign currencies.

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Investors like Bernie Koerselman. The 78-year-old from Surprise, Arizona has an Australian dollar deposit account with Jacksonville, Florida-based EverBank, and in the past has owned currencies like the Brazilian real and the Canadian dollar.

“I think it’s inevitable the U.S. dollar is going to depreciate significantly in value,” Koerselman says. “We’re printing money like there’s no…

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