Will the U.S. and western nations be forced into a double-dip deflationary recession?
*Dow Theory Letters, by Richard Russell, June 28, 2010:
''My investment strategy is now being voiced or followed by too many
major hedge funds. The thinking is that as vanishing stimuli and
de-leveraging takes over, the economies of the world pressured by
central bank conservatism will force the US and western nations into a
double-dip deflationary recession. The response will be to keep
rates at zero and open the money spigots wide, wide, wide. This
is where ownership of gold 'was supposed to' come in.
Then, I ask myself, is this scenario too pat? Is it too
popular? There's always a fooler. Where’s the fooler this
time? I think the fooler will be the stock market. The
stock market will be considerably worse than the smart boys are
figuring on. Deflationary pressures will be severe and the need
to re-inflate will be more pressing than ever.
Gold will be needed -- not as a safe haven against inflation, but as a
safe haven against crushing deflation. Deflation will flatten
everything in sight including base metals, commodities, housing, job
creation. The single island of preserving wealth will be
gold. Unlike junk fiat currencies, gold cannot be devalued.
As I look ahead, the area that the experts do not understand is the
stock market. Almost all the current opinions revolve around
stocks remaining in a high-level trading range. This will prove
to be an horrendous miscalculation.''
''My position -- Own gold and gold items and cash. Write this on your
blackboard ten times.''
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