Jim4silver said:
mmissinglink said:
Starring QE herself, Queen Elizabeth!
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Talking about the QEs of the Fed, all of that was foretold by Bernanke in 2002. I posted on this before here so I won't go too much into depth. But he explained in a speech to a bunch of economists what the Fed could do if the US ever has deflation problems. He outlined a handful of actions the Fed could take, and all of them have been done since 2008 (the various QE's) except one technique. That one is a dollar "revaluation". He discussed it briefly with reference the last US dollar "revaluation" back in 1933, which he discussed in fairly glowing terms by my reading.
Funny thing is, at the time of his speech, things were OK in the US. He made it sound like the QE's were something far off down the road, if ever, and they were drastic measures, etc. Lo and behold, they come 6 years or so later. Thus, I have no doubt we will eventually see a dollar revaluation again. We were forewarned in that speech. The full text of the speech is still out there and on the Fed Reserve website.
Just my opinion.
Jim
Helicoptor Ben B backed the US into a corner where only inflation (the creation of new money (as debt)) could keep the US from default and keep a depression at bay by design.. Stimulus is the only remedy to the economy once all other fiscal policy has been exhausted and Ben B quickly slashed Interest rates to an anemic .025 basis points leaving monetary expansion as the only card up the feds sleeve. To give him any credit is to admit his job was to use the fed to plunge the USA into a pool of more debt and more power to the debtors to further their control of the US and by proxy the global economy as the major demand driver and stability arm, Given money expansion a new name "Quantitative Easing" is not reason to praise a regime or person in power to do so. To think it is a good or postiive thing to dilute the money in circulation is necessarily false as its akin to a new share issue diluting the value of all current share holders..
The bluff by the fed about "increasing" interest rates has long been called for what it is by Peter Schiff - a bluff.. he has been saying for the last three years the only option for the fed is QE to affinity and has been laughed at constantly for saying there is no way Yellin will pull the trigger on an interest rate rise in fear of plunging the us into another recession.. he is correct.
The drug addict needs his free government subsidised penicillin else he is going to get very angry.. only inflation will float all boats and keep the markets calm like a meth-addict.
RE: Shares.. the Aussie share market materials sector has been beaten up for years now.. never came back after the GFC really.. in america the social media bubble is pathetic with ludricris PE ratios far more aburd then the tech bubble by far. China is the scape goat yet the world benefits when they can import chinese goods at a discount.. instead we look to blame china for the over consuming under-producing ways of the west in folly like we are still the boss.. lol .. one day you will wake up and the yuan will be strong and all those cheap goods in your house will be far less obtainable..
Aussie dollar weakness is the secret weapon for PM investors in Australia.. its great.. sucks though that a strong gold price in AUD does not help gold stocks that go down on bad news and good news, and when the us market crashes.. seems as though physical gold is the best vessel.. just wish i never got into stocks and stuck with the physical like i intended.. got lured into the ultra low lows... which ended up only being temporary floors and have since gown down down and down.. no longer can be confident gold stocks have floors.