Posts Tagged ‘ hyperinflation ’

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Dwindling Resources Meet Vanishing Wealth

Oct 16th, 2008 | By James Howard Kunstler | Category: International, Macro Economics, Oil
The G-7 world, the club of “developed” western nations plus Japan, has commenced an ordeal of suddenly waking up much poorer. All the desperate work-arounds being engineered by governments and central banks on an al fresco basis are intended to overcome this stunning basic fact, and none of them will. ...read more

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Is Real Estate a Good Hedge Against Hyperinflation?

Jan 24th, 2008 | By Whiskey Contributor | Category: Macro Economics
AS THE MARKETS CONTINUE BUCKING WILDLY, and the fed slashing rates with more cuts to come, we can expect more volatility with our currency. The U.S. will likely spin into a long era of high inflation. The coming years will look like the 1970s. There is also a good risk ...read more

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