I.C. Angles Investment Post…

“There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know.” — Donald Rumsfeld, Former U.S. Secretary of Defense

Greece and China have both been in business headlines in June, reminding me of Donald Rumsefeld’s famous quote about known unknowns. It is widely known that Greece may exit the Euro, and as I write this column news has broken that Greek banks will be closed on Monday and capital controls imposed in the country in response to the deepening crisis. It is also known that in response to a slowing economy and recent two week selloff in its stock market, the Chinese government has cut its benchmark lending rate to a record low and is pursuing increasingly accommodative policies. Those are the known knowns.

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