How can I be sure the dollar is doomed?
*Dow Theory Letters, Richard Russell, August 21, 2006:
"Now I want to say something about gold. I'm almost sick of all the
analysis of every minor move in gold. "It's overbought." "It's
consolidating." "It's topping out." "It's getting too much publicity."
"The Commercials are doing this, or they're doing that."
I'll let you in on a secret. I really don't give a damn about all the
daily comments on gold coming from the experts. Here's what I've done.
When I look at my total assets, I put gold in a separate column. I
don't place it in my asset column at all. I simply keep a total in my
head. The "total" is deal with is ounces of gold that I own, and I
don't calculate the price. I do that because I have no plans ever to
sell my gold, and I don't care whether the gold price drops to 300 or
whether gold rises to 3,000. I consider gold as an asset that I want to
own no matter what.
You see, I believe the dollar is doomed. Just as every fiat currency
ever created by man has been doomed, I believe the dollar is also
doomed. I say this because it's in the nature of politicians to spend a
paper currency into worthlessness. Under the fiat paper system, there's
no restriction on what politicians will spend. After all, spending is
the way the politicians give the electorate what it wants -- spending
is the way politicians get elected.
Thus, the demise of the dollar is not a question of whether, it's a
question of when. When Alan Greenspan took over the Fed the dollar
seemed to be in fair shape and the US was a major creditor. But in the
18 year of the Greenspan reign, the dollar lost roughly 50% of its
purchasing power. And today the US is the world's greatest debtor. On
that basis, I expect the purchasing power of the dollar to decline
considerably faster than it did even under the Greenspan years.
This, then, is why I'm not personally interested in analyzing gold on a
daily, a weekly, or a monthly basis. Frankly, I don't care about the
short or even the intermediate trend of gold. I know that ultimately
gold will possess real purchasing power when the dollar is a worthless
piece of paper.
I'm 82 years old. I've seen what has happened to the purchasing power
of the dollar in my lifetime. That's not going to change, and it
doesn't seem that politicians are going to change. So when it comes to
gold, I'm only interested in one thing -- how many ounces do I own, and
whether I want to add more today or whether I want to wait a while
before adding more."
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