It Doesn’t Have to Be ‘Inflation vs. Deflation’

By Rick Ackerman, Rick’s Picks [Many readers have pointed out that our long-running discussion of deflation has tended to overlook the impact of price increases, or at least price stability, on essential goods and services. In the essay below, Robert Moore, a frequent contributor to the Rick’s Picks forum, explains how both type of “flations” can co-exist. [...]

Alen Mattich: Inflation via competitive devaluations may be only way out

Getting Ready for a Dollar Collapse? By Alen Mattich The Wall Street Journal, Europe Monday, August 23, 2010 http://blogs.wsj.com/source/2010/08/23/getting-ready-for-a-dollar-collap… Could the Federal Reserve’s decision to restart its quantitative easing program trigger a dollar collapse? That’s what John Hussman, a fund manager, argues in his latest weekly note to investors. And the case he makes is [...]

Ah, for Those Affordable Fifties!

By Rick Ackerman, Rick’s Picks Stirred into this week’s lively discussion of inflation/deflation was the notion that although Americans seem to live better now than they did fifty or sixty years ago, our parents and grandparents would be appalled to see how deeply in hock we’ve gone to enjoy the supposed good life. And if the standard [...]

Inflation vs. Deflation: Elevating the Debate

By Rick Ackerman, Rick’s Picks Chiding the inflationistas here yesterday, we elicited a torrent of informative responses, including the 5000th post to the Rick’s Picks forum (worth a free 30-day subscription to the lucky lady!).  We’re going to stick with this provocative topic for now, since we think it’s crucial that readers understand why deflation will be with us [...]

James Turk: Inflation, not deflation, is the threat to the dollar

5:30p ET Thursday, July 6, 2010 Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: Writing for King World News, GoldMoney founder and GATA consultant James Turk argues that the U.S. dollar has reached its “Havenstein moment,” named for the president of Weimar Germany’s Reichsbank who printed the mark into oblivion. Inflation, Turk writes, is already raging as [...]

On the Verge of an Inflation Surge

By Toby Connor, GoldScents I’m going to start off by stating that I don’t think Bernanke is going to ”get away” with the insane monetary policy he’s chosen. Printing trillions of dollars, cutting rates to zero, trying to manipulate the bond market and generally tampering with the natural market forces is going to have consequences. There is [...]

Inflation Scorecard: Gold Still Making Records

Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler Real-time Monetary Inflation (last 12-months): 1.5% Gold set two more records this week against the Japanese yen and the Swiss franc. Meanwhile, the U.S. dollar slipped against the euro in a reversal from last week’s course. The latest government figures showed consumer prices rising 0.1 percent in March [...]

CBO Budget Projections and the Horrors of Inflation

By Richard Daughty, GoldSeek The pills that I thought were tranquilizers turned out to be vitamins, and although I am on the verge of some kind of mental breakdown because of the mix-up, I feel great! Turning to the old tried and true, I soon learned that I had started too late, and I was [...]

America’s Real Estate Burden Ensures Inflation

By Dr. Jeffrey Lewis, GoldSeek The Obama administration and the US Congress have together made inflation the real monetary policy of the United States.  While pundits and talking heads focus on the bailouts and loan packages, they’re missing the bigger picture.  It isn’t what the US government outright purchased (stock, debt, and real estate paper), but it’s what the US government is [...]

Inflation: The Economic Factor that Never Stops

By Richard Daughty, GoldSeek I am a guy who thinks that such huge explosions in money supplies around the world and the explosions in government deficit-spending around the world will lead to catastrophic explosions in inflation in prices, probably around the world. I am also a guy who thinks that inflation in prices is the [...]

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