All Posts Tagged With: "Global Inflation"
Peter Schiff Says the World Should Stop Lending to the U.S.
Peter Schiff, economic adviser to the recent presidential campaign of Ron Paul, says conventional wisdom is wrong on the global slowdown.
Global economies are cooling off not because American consumers spending has slowed but because U.S. homeowners are defaulting on hundreds of billions of dollars of existing loans underwritten by lenders around the world.
This means, although foreign banks are suffering due to lending to the U.S., they can avoid future pain by refusing to lend to America anymore. This will torpedo the dollar. But Peter says this is precisely what must happen…
Why You Should Beware Paper Gold and Silver
The practice of naked short selling isn’t just for stocks, says the Mogambo Guru. It’s everywhere.
The recent plunge in gold prices and silver prices has little to do with supply and demand of the shiny metals.
Both markets are dominated by paper trades - promises to sell gold or silver - where no metals change hands.
In fact, more ‘paper silver’ has been sold than the amount of real silver that exists in the world.
FOOD FIGHT! Emerging Markets Clash With U.S. to Curb Inflation
The biggest rap about investing in emerging markets has been that they suffer from out-of-control inflation. The high prices of food and fuel undermined otherwise strong economic progress in emerging nations. On a conservative estimate, food-price rises may reduce the spending power of the urban poor and country people who buy their own food by 20%, according to the Economist.
Unchanged Fundamentals Make Gold a Great Bargain Now
Investors have turned against gold in the last month, sending the price of the shiny metal tumbling over 20%. But Adrian Ash in the Rude Awakening says the market fundamentals have not changed. Too much debt and inflation threaten to destroy the value of paper wealth. But gold bars are a tangible asset, and cannot be created at will.
Why the Credit Crunch Is Good News for Game Birds
An important date in the City’s social calendar went almost unmarked this week. Tuesday, the Twelfth of August, marked the official start of the grouse shooting season. It’s easy to see why amid the war in Georgia, and fear of recession in Europe, people might have had other things on their minds.
A Value Investor Looks at China
China is all the rage for the next few weeks as the Olympics are going on. Many are calling this China’s time to showcase itself to the world. I have a lot of friends and analysts who are big China bulls, believing that the next few years will see continued high growth in China, although less than the above 10% of the past few years.
Pound Sterling Plummets as the Chance for a BOE Rate Cut Improves
The British pound fell to a 22-month low, after the Bank of England (BOE) offered a gloomy outlook for the U.K. economy and the chance of an interest rate cut increased.
Eurozone Inflation Fears Grow
After boosting its benchmark interest rate by a quarter point on July 3, the European Central Bank (ECB) may be forced to reverse course and cut rates sooner than it planned, as slow growth is beginning to trump concerns about inflation.
Government Bailouts Mean More Inflation and Worthless Dollar
Existing and future generations will pay a hefty price for the government’s financial bailouts, says Eric Roseman, investment director at The Sovereign Society.
Yes, the rescue of Bear Stearns (NYSE:BSC) in March, and Fannie Mae (NYSE:FNM) and Freddie Mac (NYSE:FRE) in July, averted a major short-term crisis. But the long-term costs of inflation and a worthless dollar will be more painful.
Eric says the value of paper currency will be worth nothing when the inflationary storm hits…
How the Global Monetary System Could ‘Blow Up’
The housing bill is a drastic act to cover up the economic mistakes of the last five years, says Bill Bonner in The Daily Reckoning.
Bill has previously said that the U.S. government’s over-active dollar printing press is the cause of today’s market woes. Now this $300 billion ‘miracle’ bail out will require the Fed to inflate the money supply further.
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