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In a letter sent to investors by Hege Fund ELLIOT MANAGEMENT,\u00a0the Florida-headquartered firm told clients that they believe the global economy is in an \u201cextremely challenging\u201d situation which could lead to hyperinflation and “global societal collapse.”<\/p>\n
The firm, led by billionaire Paul Singer and Jonathan Pollock, told its clients that \u201cinvestors should not assume they have \u2018seen everything\u2019\u201d just because they have been through the peaks and troughs of the 1987 crash, the dot-com boom, and the 2008 global financial crisis, or previous bear and bull markets.<\/p>\n
They added that the \u201cextraordinary\u201d period of cheap money is coming to an end and has \u201cmade possible a set of outcomes that would be at or beyond the boundaries of the entire post-WWII period.\u201d<\/p>\n
The letter said the world is \u201con the path to hyperinflation\u201d, which could lead to\u00a0\u201cglobal societal collapse and civil or international strife.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n They estimated that markets have not fallen enough yet and equity markets could drop more than 50% would be \u201cnormal,\u201d adding that they couldn\u2019t predict when that would happen. The S&P 500\u00a0SPX,\u00a0-1.06%<\/a>\u00a0has dropped 19% from its peak at the beginning of the year.<\/p>\n Elliott executives warned clients that the idea that \u201c\u2018we will not panic because we have seen this before\u2019 does not comport with the current facts.\u201d<\/p>\n They blamed central bank policymakers for the current global economic situation, saying they had been \u201cdishonest\u201d about the reason for high inflation. They said lawmakers had shirked responsibility by blaming it on supply chain disruption caused by the pandemic instead of loose monetary policy imposed two years ago during the COVID-19 peak.<\/p>\n The London Financial Times reported that the hedge fund is posting 6.4% returns so far this year and has only lost money during two years of its 45-year history.<\/p>\n