Discussed in this interview:02:07 Fed unwinding balance sheet to pre-QE levels is a pipe dream06:19 Ridiculous that the US has never had a failed bond auction10:15 US shale oil industry could be soaking up unwanted dollars12:48 De-dollarization: Foreigners do not want dollars20:31 Energy independence? US still needs Saudi oil22:18 Oil is the main sustenance for the US dollar22:45 The ridiculous paper gold market26:21 World does not want dollar-denominated debt
Rob Kirby is a financial commentator and former broker who worked on an institutional trading desk for most of the 1980s and right up until 1996. He also worked for 11 years at Prebon Yamane, an international inter-dealer broker of foreign exchange and interest rate products. He spent an additional year at another money/bond broker called Freedom Bond Brokers, then spent two years at Garban Inc., another inter dealer bond brokerage in Toronto - and left the industry in 1996. He started writing in 1997, and was involved in a number of entrepreneurial pursuits from marketing Buffalo meat to a part time stint in the giftware business. In 2002, he went to work for Investor's Group, the largest Mutual Fund Company in Canada. He worked there up until September '04 when he resigned to write about the markets - and his book - from a "gold bug's" point of view. His website is called Kirby Analytics.