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Precious Metals & Inflation
August 9, 2023

What will be the ultimate result of QE2?

Texas Straight Talk, by Congressman Ron Paul in
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”Whether we consider food, gasoline, or clothing, the cost of living is increasing significantly.  True inflation is defined as an increase in the money supply.  All other things being equal, an increase in the money supply leads to a rise in prices.  Inflation’s destructive effects have ruined societies from the Roman Empire to Weimar Germany to modern-day Zimbabwe.

Blame for the most recent round of price increases has been laid at the feet of the Federal Reserve’s program of credit expansion for the past three years.  The current program, known as QE2, sought to purchase a total of $900 billion in US Treasury debt over a period of 8 months.  Roughly $110 billion of newly created money is flooding into commodity markets each month.

The price of cotton is up more than 170% over the past year, oil is up over 40%, and many categories of food staples are seeing double-digit price growth.  This means that food, clothing, and gasoline will become increasingly expensive over the coming year.  American families, many of whom already live paycheck to paycheck, increasingly will be forced by these rising prices into unwilling tradeoffs: purchasing ground beef rather than steak, drinking water rather than milk, and choosing canned vegetables over fresh in order to keep food on the table and pay the heating bill.  Frugality can be a good thing, but only when it is by choice and not forced upon the citizenry by the Fed’s ruinous monetary policy.

While the Fed takes credit for the increase in the stock markets, it claims no responsibility for the increases in food and commodity prices.  Most economists fail to understand that inflation is at its root a monetary phenomenon.  There may be other factors that contribute to price increases, such as famine, flooding, or global unrest, but those effects are transient.  Consistently citing only these factors, while never acknowledging the effects of monetary policy, is a cop-out.”

*This information is solely an excerpt of a third-party publication and is incomplete. Please subscribe to the referenced publication for the full article. This is not an offer to buy or sell precious metals. Investors should obtain advice based on their own individual circumstances and understand the risk before making any investment decision.

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