Will all nations devalue their currencies, which favors gold and silver?
*The Wall Street Journal, by Richard Barley, September 7, 2011:
"The Swiss National Bank has set out to halt the franc's relentless
appreciation by pledging to buy unlimited amounts of foreign
currency. After seeing the euro move close to one Swiss franc in
August from 1.25 franc at the start of the year, the SNB has drawn a
line in the sand at 1.20 franc. The euro zoomed 8.8% higher
against the franc Tuesday, and the 1.20-franc level held. But
this is a big gamble.
The Swiss central bank has been here before. At times of market
stress, the franc becomes a magnet for safe-haven flows. But the
appreciation of the currency threatens to hurt the economy. The
SNB already intervened in 2009 and 2010, but in a limited way and when
the euro was far stronger. That just piled up losses for the SNB
as risk-averse investors flocked to the franc. Encouragingly, the
SNB did succeed in the late 1970s in putting a floor under the Deutsche
mark-franc rate, albeit at the cost of surging inflation.''
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