Economic Collapse

Duck Tales explains the dangers of loose monetary policy and hyperinflation. Very close to whats going on now in the world today.

As many of you know Peter Schiff is now running for Senator in the State of Connecticut. Schiff is an American economist of the Austrian School, author, commentator and popular video blogger who regularly appears in the role of a bearish pundit on numerous financial news networks. He predicted the Dotcom crash of 2000 and the Housing crisis of 2007/2008 and like the author of this blog he belives that the US Dollar is heading for hyperinflation. He is a licensed stock broker, the president of Euro Pacific Capital with a 100 employees who successfully protect their clients wealth by moving out of the US dollar and into real money such as gold etc.

If you want a crash course in the problems with the US economy, watch this. A good hour well spent with a lot of information and humor. Enjoy.

Disclosure: I have no vested interest in Euro Pacific Capital nor do I receive any payment for writing this.

Cutting the federal deficit is the only way back to a sound economic recovery and job creation. You can’t keep spending money you do not have forever. The fact is that the US is broke. Until the federal deficit is turned back to a surplus the Fed will keep printing money through “quantitative easing” which should more appropriately be called “massive worsening” leading to hyperinflation and the death of the US Dollar. Obama plans to “cut spending” with a total of 250 billion US Dollars over 10 years. Yes, 10 years. Thats 25 billion each year at the same time the official expected federal deficit is 1.35 trillion. Thats 1 350 billion. Obama just announced “savings” of less than 2%. I guess its a start…

One of the best reads on Keynesianism vs The Austrian School of Economics, Slavery vs Liberty, Fiat paper vs Real Money, that I’ve come across in a long time: http://www.goldensextant.com/RKLSage.html#anchor1404
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On the 14:th I wrote in response to a BBC report on Putins visit to Beijing, China:

“Yes, Medvedev and Jintao is moving away from the US dollar and will settle this 20-year-deal in their own currencies. You should also move away from fiat paper of the west and move into your own currency: gold. Be your own banker, as a friend of mine says.”

On the same day the Russian news outlet “RIA Novosti” quoted Putin on the topic:

“Yesterday, energy companies, in particular Gazprom, raised the question of using the national currency. We are ready to examine the possibility of selling energy resources for rubles, but our Chinese partners need rubles for that. We are also ready to sell for yuans,” Putin said.

Now that the Fed is buying almost all the Treasury bills since the demand from foreign buyers is almost gone, the only thing that keeps the US dollar from going down the tube is the petrodollar: Currently buyers of oil, natural gas and other commodities have to first buy US dollars to make their purchases. When these commodities are available in other currencies, the End of the Dollar is here.

This video post is almost a month old by now, but the content is timeless. Canadian economist professor Michel Chossudovsky is the author of “The Globalization of Poverty” and “America’s ‘War on Terrorism’”. He is also the Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization. In this video he sits down with The Corbett Report to discuss the real meaning of the “bank bailouts”. A very well summarized overview in just under 8 minutes.

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This made me laugh. In a crisis, your ability to laugh is perhaps one of your most valuable assets.

This is Rep. Alan Grayson asking Federal Reserve General Counsel Scott Alvarez about the Fed’s independence.

Now some “good news”:
Ron Paul wins huge support in House for bill to audit Fed
Fox News re-published by GATA…

A friend of mine just sent me this article. I’m glad he did. This is a very to-the-point no-bullshit kind of article of the Austrian School from Asia Times Online. My only wish is that journalism i Sweden and the rest of “the west” would be as up front as this…

Dollar’s fate written in history, by John Lee
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/KF04Dj03.html

Debt-based monetary systems are inherently unstable. Money is created out of thin air by the banks and lent to government, consumers and businesses. In order to service and repay those debts, the borrowers take on more debts. Asset prices are inflated, and the vicious cycle continues until the debtors are unable to borrow or the banks are unwilling to lend.

At that point the system snaps, everything is sold off, and we have a financial crisis at hand. Here, we examine what happens to equity and currency markets in the aftermath of financial crisis and deduce what will be the likely outcome for the United States as it emerges from the present crisis.

Dear readers. Here’s an interesting, though very technical, article on the USD collapse and it’s implication for commodities as well as the panic based temporary USD climb since the collapse of -08. Some interesting observations… The key one being that the 200 day moving averages of both the US Dollar Index (USDX) and the Continuous Commodity Index (CCI) have now reached its daily trading level - this should mean that the trend will be reversed during the summer and later this autumn. However(!) another stock market panic could again temporarily give the USD fuel even though the Fed have increased the monetary base by (at least) 111% during the last year!

…So, this article is interesting, even though I don’t agree with everything… The author believes the US stock indices will continue climbing for the rest of this year… Maybe in nominal terms, not likely in real terms… We’ll see…

Dollar’s Commodity Impact
Adam Hamilton, May 22, 2009
http://www.zealllc.com/2009/usdxcci.htm