Awakening News 20120820 Lord Rothschild Takes $204M Bet – Against the Euro

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Lord Rothschild has led RIT since 1988 Photo: AP

Posted by Stephen Cook

Stephen: In the same way as his predecessor Nathan Mayer Rothschild made his fortune by using his early knowledge of the British victory at the Battle of Waterloo to speculate on the Stock Exchange and make a vast, vast fortune, it now seems Lord Jacob Rothschild is revealing his similar insider knowledge on what’s going on with the world’s soon-to-be replaced financial system.

He is betting a whopping $204.09 million (£130 million) on the Euro crashing and the Eurozone being broken up. He also seems to think he’s going to win in a big way when it does.  Well, he thinks he is – but we all know he won’t. Mostly because the new financial system is going to be totally equitable and NESARA isn’t too far away now…

What is fascinating is that this bet is being reported in London’s independent but nevertheless mainstream newspaper, The Guardian. So lots of people are going to be reading about this…

Separately, I have been talking to a couple of sources today who agree with my intuition that something very ‘big’ is going to happen this week. I feel August 20 (which is tomorrow), is a watershed day or a tipping point day…but exactly why I don’t know – yet.

In case you don’t remember who Lord Rothschild is, here he is filmed at the Bilderberger meetings in Chantilly, Virginia, USA from May 31-June 3, 2012:http://the2012scenario.com/2012/06/lord-rothschild-henry-kissinger-and-others-confronted-on-camera/

Lord Rothschild Takes £130m Bet Against the Euro

By James Quinn, The Guardian – August 19, 2012

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/9484435/Lord-Rothschild-takes-130m-bet-against-the-euro.html

Lord Rothschild has taken a near-£130m bet against the euro as fears continue to grow that the single currency will break up.

The member of the banking dynasty has taken the position through RIT Capital Partners, the £1.9bn investment trust of which he is executive chairman.

The fact that the former investment banker, a senior member of the Rothschild family, has taken such a view will be seen as a further negative for the currency.

The latest omen follows news in The Daily Telegraph late last week that the government of Finland is already preparing for the euro’s break-up. (see link to this story below)

RIT, which Lord Rothschild has led since 1988, had a -7pc net short position in terms of principal currency exposures on the euro at the end of July, up from -3pc at the end of January. Given a net asset value of £1.836bn at the end of July, the position is worth £128m.

Sources close to RIT suggested that the position was not a dogmatic negative view on the euro as a currency, but rather a realistic approach on a currency that remains relatively weak.

It is not the first time Lord Rothschild has used currency positions as a form of hedge. RIT significantly increased its exposure in sterling after the currency’s decline in 2008, but then scaled back on both the sterling and the euro, anticipating the ensuing recessions in both regions.

Some 53pc of RIT’s assets were in US dollars at the end of July, in part a reflection of its deal to buy a 37pc stake in Rockefeller Financial Services at the end of May.

Lord Rothschild is not alone in seeing value in shorting – or selling down – the euro. At a conference organised by business news channel CNBC in July, Mary Callahan Erdoes, head of JPMorgan Asset Management, said “shorting the euro” when asked for her single best investment idea.

In June, George Soros – the billionaire investor best known in the UK for helping to force sterling out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism in 1992 by betting against the British currency – said that European leaders at that point had a “three-month window” to save the euro.

For the Finland/Euro story go here:

http://the2012scenario.com/2012/08/is-finland-preparing-for-break-up-of-eurozone-or-not/

 

 

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