Like Blackrock’s Larry Fink, Duquesne Capital’s Stanley Druckenmiller thinks society is borrowing from its future and “is in a short term bubble.” Speaking at the Dealbook Conference in New York City Tuesday, the former hedge fund manager, who stopped managing outside money in 2010 and now operates as a family office, was critical of U.S. Federal Reserve quantitative easing policies, which he thinks “will end badly” as he touched on a seldom discussed issue that pegs the actual U.S. government debt obligations at over $200 trillion, not $19 trillion.
Stanley Druckenmiller Admonishes Short Term Thinking, Warns On Debt
Mark Melin
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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.

