Posts Tagged ‘ hyperinflation ’
The United States is not going to get hyperinflation unless Congress nationalizes the Federal Reserve System.
It will get mass inflation at some point: anywhere from 15% per annum to 30%. But it is not going to get 50% or 100% or more.
Why not?
1. The temporary nature of the payoff
2. The ...read more
How to End the Fed
Mar 9th, 2011 | By Gary North | Category: Economics, Featured, Politics
Things are not always as complicated as they seem. With respect to the Federal Reserve System, it is a deliberate mystery. It was deliberately designed in 1910 to deceive the public, who were opposed the idea of a central bank. The conspirators who met on Jekyll Island in November 1910 ...read more
They Are Printing Too Much Money
Sep 22nd, 2010 | By James Turk | Category: Featured, Gold
There is too much money being printed. No rocket science is needed to reach that conclusion. The markets are giving us a clear message.
For example, gold is trading at a record high, while silver has reached a 30-year high. Those new high prices are happening for a reason. The precious ...read more
Hyperinflation Guaranteed
May 24th, 2010 | By Egon von Greyerz | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
Yes this is it! We have crossed the Rubicon and events in the world economy are now likely to unfold in a totally uncontrollable fashion. Clueless governments still don’t understand that it is their ruinous actions that have created a credit infested and bankrupt world. They will continue to prescribe ...read more
The Big Dead Cat Bounce
Mar 17th, 2010 | By Doug Hornig | Category: Economics, Featured
It’s now been a year since the dark days of early March 2009, when, although no one knew it at the time, the stock market hit rock bottom. From there, all of the indexes went on a tear through the rest of the year, moving higher almost without interruption before ...read more
Hyperinflation and Our Bankrupt Babushka Future
Oct 12th, 2009 | By Paul Tustain | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
Those people who have saved for the future could soon form our own generation of bankrupted, Babushka pensioners...
Twenty-five years ago the Russians found themselves in a hole.
They had an official price for petrol (gasoline) of 1 ruble. But the cost of providing it, for example by buying it on world ...read more
Faber and Greenspan: Shills for Fed Snake Oil
Jul 6th, 2009 | By Adrian Ash | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
"Just how can the Fed credibly promise to be irresponsible...?"
Here’s a thought—that tiny handful of investors and analysts warning how Fed policy risks hyper-inflation are in fact doing the central bank's work.
The Fed wants you to believe hyperinflation is looming. Or at least, it should want that, if doubling its ...read more
Hoover and FDR
Apr 13th, 2009 | By Don Stott | Category: Featured, Gold, Macro Economics
It seems as though history continues to repeat itself. During the first 'great depression,' Herbert Hoover was President at the outset. He instigated the things FDR would later enlarge upon, none of which worked. Now we are in the beginning of the second 'great depression,' and it's almost exactly the ...read more
Absurdities of Socialism and Hyperinflation
Mar 26th, 2009 | By Don Stott | Category: Featured, Gold, Macro Economics
It really isn't difficult to find things to write about! Especially when the economics of a once great nation have been emaciated, plundered, and bankrupted. Do you realize that every man, woman, and child in America, as of today, has as a personal part of the national debt close to ...read more
The Joys of Hyperinflation
Feb 17th, 2009 | By Gary Gibson | Category: Featured, Gold, Macro Economics, Politics
Credit isn’t wealth. A lot of people are discovering that the hard way. Welcome to the credit deflation prelude to hyperinflation.
During a credit deflation, things get cheaper. Without lines of credit, people can’t bid things up and prices fall to their “cash on hand” level. Given a long enough time, ...read more

