Archive for the Tag 'hyperinflation'

A Smart Money Manager, Paul Singer’s, Greatest Fear, Inflation

A smart money managers greatest fear, inflation. See article here.

Belarus – Moving Along The Hyperinflation Curve

Belarus continues to move along the road to hyperinflation, or should I say more extreme hyperinflation. The National Bank of Belarus is raising their refinance rate from 22% to 27%, the 8th increase this year. At the beginning of the year it was at 10.5%. ( See full article ). Also with the devaluations that [...]

John Williams of Shadowstats Say We Have Till 2014

John Williams Interview Highlights (July 9 ,2011) $4-5 trillion deficit with all future liabilities included on a NPV the $4 trillion being discussed for cuts over 10 years is only a token gesture no will to control social programs taxes could be 100% and still not balance the books the government will be forced to [...]

A Great James Turk interview

James Turk interview Highlights (from June 6th, 2011) Part #1 he expects a decent chance of a gold run up this summer he reminds everyone gold isn’t an investment but money and at some point gold will achieve it’s maximum buying power at which point people will move into other investments. Turk uses the 1982 [...]

Belarus – a hyperinflation experiment

The latest hyperinflation experiment, Belarus, moves to the next level, price controls on food items. In my article back on April 15th, see here, I talked about the advantages the people of Belarus have over American’s given most are on or have access to a farm, assumption on my part, and the fact that they [...]

Belarus Falls off the Cliff in 40 Days

Well it would seem that since my last post on Belarus, see here, Belarus has finally fallen off the proverbial cliff and was forced to devalue the currency monday by 56%. This is a great case study in what will likely happen in Greece and ultimately North America. As noted in the above referenced article [...]

John Willams Update on Hyperinflation

John Williams see’s the US dollar debasement as a major factor in inflation and says inflation will get a lot worse doesn’t see the US dollar surviving and a new currency being setup, possibly partially gold backed dollar collapse could happen quickly but Fed will try and slow the decline  Williams doesn’t think hyperinflation can [...]

John Embry Interview

A great interview by James Turk of John Embry. They cover all topics from silver, the banks, US dollar, hyperinflation, the precious metals miners, Canadian markets and economy. He concludes with the comment that all these pullbacks should be considered a buying opportunity.