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(Cutler, Maine) Maine will again be full of tourists this summer, and vacation stayers will finally be there after two summers of deprivation. But nothing dooms visitors to elbowing on the beaches in the south of the state. To the east, the coast, much less frequented, still looks wild.

Many tourists will return to Maine this summer. They will reconnect with the fine sandy beaches, but also the endless traffic jams on Route 1. However, with the thousands of kilometers of coast of the State, there is always a way to find a little calm by the sea.

The path has been advancing for almost 2 km in a dense forest on the ground covered with flowers when the air suddenly takes on the salty smell of the sea. A few steps further, the horizon opens. On the left as on the right, large conifers play acrobats, sometimes with a root in the air, at the top of the cliffs. Here and there, small pebble beaches are revealed between the rock walls. There is a fishing boat offshore to break the silence, but no road or house for miles around.

Yes, against all odds, nature has retained its full rights over parts of Maine’s coast, like here in Cutler’s public lands.

Not everything is wild in this part of the country. But driving east on Route 1, the landscape changes once you pass the junction to Bar Harbor. Mini golf courses have disappeared, and motels are rare, some are even abandoned. The opulent mansions, so numerous in Camden, have given way to modest colonial-style residences, with their weathered wooden cladding. Around Lubec and Eastport, the two easternmost (small) towns in the United States, many houses even seem to come straight out of an Edward Hopper canvas, melancholy included.

Eastern Maine, known as the Downeast, is fishing country. Especially lobster. Almost every successive cove on the coast is home to a small port. Cluttered with cages and buoys. And surrounded by a handful of houses. In the bays at low tide, cockle pickers emerge from the mist. And on land, the vast fields of wild blueberries hug the hills for a long time.

Visitors are fewer. Life seems tougher. “The pandemic has been tough in this part of the state,” says Lisa Hanscom, who operates a blueberry farm and rents two small cabins in Roque Bluffs. “A lot of businesses have closed.”

However, the attractions of the Downeast are not lacking for those who love the great outdoors.

You can do countless hikes by the sea, such as Cutler, but also at the foot of the West Quoddy Head lighthouse, and in many reserves or state parks, especially on the shores of the immense Cobscook Bay, where birdwatchers come to observe around 300 species of birds.

“The US economy is already in recession,” said Cassie Wood, CEO of Arc Investment Management, who is called the “money tree sister” in Korea. He appeared on CNBC’s popular program ‘Squawk Box’ on the 28th (local time) and argued that “the inventory increase is serious.”

“The United States underestimated the seriousness and enduring power of inflation,” she admitted. “Inflation was much hotter than expected due to the disruption of the supply chain caused by the coronavirus and geopolitical risks such as the Ukraine crisis,” he said.

Inflation in the US was the biggest increase since December 1981, when the consumer price index (CPI) rose 8.6% in May compared to the previous year. As a result, the consumer sentiment index surveyed by the University of Michigan fell to 50 in June, the lowest level since the University of Michigan began the related survey. 0

People who invest heavily in technology stocks, are having the most difficult time this year as a sell-off in technology stocks has emerged. His flagship fund, the Ark Innovation ETF, has fallen 52% this year and 66% from its 52-week high.

The US dollar dominates the foreign exchange market. Demand for safe assets such as the Swiss franc and the Japanese yen, which is often accompanied by concerns about an economic slowdown and rising uncertainty, has continued to rise, but only the dollar continues to rise. Foreign investors are buying U.S. dollars with the money they sold stocks and bonds amid an unsettling flow.

Foreign dollar holdings, record high The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on the 21st (local time) that the amount of foreign dollar cash holdings is approaching an all-time high. Amid soaring inflation (inflation), central banks around the world are raising interest rates, and fears of a global economic downturn are mounting. Deutsche Bank foreign exchange strategist George Sarabellos pointed out in his analysis note that “the dollar is one of the rare financial assets that provides a return as a hedge against stagflation around the world.” Stagflation is a phenomenon in which both inflation and economic slowdown occur.

An unstable market as central banks around the world fail to control inflation, rapid rate hikes are driving the global economy into recession, while concerns over stagflation that inflation will not be able to catch are driving the financial markets to hell. All financial products, including stocks, bonds, cryptocurrencies, and commodities, are falling. Although it started a strong rebound today, the S&P 500 index, a market condition indicator for the New York Stock Exchange, has fallen more than 20% from its previous high on the 13th, entering an official bear market. Meanwhile, the dollar is attracting investors from all over the world by offering the only stable value.

Swiss Franc, Endo The WSJ Dollar Index, which measures the value of the US dollar against 16 currencies, has risen 3% this month. The dollar has risen about 12% over the past year, although the upward trend slowed last week when the Federal Reserve raised interest rates by 0.75 percentage points. The Swiss franc and Japanese yen, which served as safety valves along with the dollar when the market was unstable, are also failing this time. As the Bank of Japan (BOJ) continued its zero-interest rate policy, the yen lost its attractiveness as a store of value, and the Swiss franc has not received much attention.

There is no alternative Fund managers are acknowledging that the current high dollar value is a bubble, but they continue to buy the dollar because there is no other alternative. As the central bank’s interest rate hikes and the flow of risky assets continue to flow, they believe that the dollar, the key currency, will have no choice but to maintain its highest level in decades.

There is a high pessimism that the US economy will almost certainly fall into recession within next year at the latest, but there is no alternative. “In theory, we can expect the dollar to fall in the long run due to high inflation in real terms,” said Hugo Ranzioni, head of global foreign exchange management at Neuberger Berman. Rancioni predicted that the dollar would depreciate by then when concerns about a global economic slowdown subside and geopolitical tensions such as the Ukraine