He also recommends ways to "play" this debacle:
  • Buy a six-month put option on the Euro versus the Swiss Franc, thus betting the Euro will drop against the Franc (the Franc being the currency that an official Goldman report recently referred to as the most overvalued in the world)
  • Buy a five-year credit default swap on an index of European corporate debt--the iTraxx 9. This is a bet that some of these companies will default, and your insurance policy, the CDS, will pay off
Unfortunately, lest you think your knowledge of this semi-secret report will finally allow you to out-trade hedge funds, it won't.
The hedge funds got the report on August 16th.
As usual, you're the last to know.