As early as mid-February this year, at a time when almost every analyst predicted an ever-rising dollar, LEAP/E2020 anticipated that the Eurodollar exchange rate would climb above 1.30 before the end of 2006, and envisaged a continued drop of the dollar's value all through the year 2007 (read GEAB N°2 public announcement).

On May 15, 2006, LEAP/E2020 informed its subscribers about the consequences and strategies to adopt when the Eurodollar exchange rate would reach 1.50 in 2007. Now that, as anticipated by LEAP/E2020, the Eurodollar exchange rate climbs above 1.30, our research team wishes to publicise part of the counsels given to the GEAB subscribers in May 2006, and in particular the new specificities of a dollar-collapsing world (read GEAB N°5 Investors Counsels).

In a changing international environment, marked by the global systemic crisis where references and facts inherent to post-WWII world suddenly disappear, it is useful to have access to analyses and recommendations ahead of history.
Less than one year-old, the GlobalEurope Anticipation Bulletin has imposed itself all over the planet as one of the very few instruments capable of anticipating and explaining on-going trends, mixing in a unique manner confidential information (available in three languages) and public announcements (regularly copied in more than sixty languages).

Institutional and private investors, ministries and international organisations, analysts, international media, and mere citizens, from China to the Arab world though the whole of Europe, GEAB subscribers come from more than 40 countries and from all types of professional background; but they all share the longing to anticipate and understand the forces at work in the on-going trends.

They are aware that if 2006 was the year when the crisis began, 2007 will be the year of its impact, carrying along with it great upheavals. Developments in the months to come, in the financial, economic, strategic and political spheres, will be of a width and nature unprecedented since decades.

With such changes ahead, the time of reaction is already a wasted time. It is therefore necessary to anticipate. GEAB subscribers and its announcements' readers are aware of it.

It is for them that each month the European team of LEAP/E2020, whose work I am proud to coordinate, conceives the GEAB, sharing with their readers the added-value of their international network of expertise combined to a unique anticipation methodology.

The future may not be predictable, however the LEAP/E2020 research team have proved that some of its main developments can be properly anticipated many months ahead, such as the dollar collapse, the bursting of the US real-estate bubble, the Democrats' victory in the US mid-term elections, the stumbling of international stock markets in May 2006,… all of them with dates given. Indeed what would anticipation be worth if it were not able to be specific about the time when changes occur? This is another added-value of LEAP/E2020's work, to be able to put a date on the events anticipated.

As the future becomes uncertain, the methods to anticipate it must evolve. With LEAP/E2020, with GEAB, you have access to anticipation methods adapted to the 21st century.

Franck Biancheri
Director of research
LEAP/E2020