Why does the debt crisis mean more inflation, and why hold gold and silver now?
*Dow Theory Letters, Richard Russell, August 2, 2006:
"Flash! As housing softened and as the stock market weakened ten
weeks ago, Bernanke made his move. Over the last ten weeks the M-2
money supply increased at a 10% rate. Bernanke isn't taking any
chances, he'll expand the money supply at the first sign of a weakening
economy -- and that's just what he did! Russell advice -- Hold on to
your gold and silver.
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I've been emphasizing the massive debts that have been built into the
US economy. They run into the multi-trillions of dollars. Mortgage debt
alone towers above $10 trillion. State and city debt at $1.6 trillion.
Government debt off into space. Corporate debt massive. Total US debt
has been calculated to be $44 trillion. All this debt must be carried,
and as you are well aware, it takes money to carry debt. To the extent
that debt sucks up money, debt is deflationary. If you're making say
$80 thousand a year and you're carrying a huge load of debt, and the
cost of carrying that debt is $20 thousand -- then it becomes a brutal
job carrying your debt. So what do you do? You cut back on your
spending and try to scrape through. In other words, the cost of
carrying your debt forces you to curb your consuming and spending --
and that's deflationary.
But our government has another way of handling its massive debt. It
reduces the power of that debt via inflation. Year after year the power
of the debt is reduced. Since the debt is expressed in a fixed number
of dollars, and as inflation continues, the power of those dollars,
thanks to inflation, diminishes. That difficult $5,000 that you owed in
1990 seems like "small potatoes" today -- thank you Mr. Inflation."
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