People will be speculating about how dysfunctional the U.S. political process has become and whether it is broken beyond repair (if they are not asking that then they should be).

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Most presidential candidates don't think it appropriate to bet that the U.S. dollar will lose value by speculating in Swiss Francs, which is basically the rationale offered by the trustee of Romney's "blind" trust for opening this account.

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But it also comes from increased investor appetite for hedging and speculating on the movements of everything from rates on U.S. Treasuries to foreign currencies and energy prices.

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