Violent short covering in metals, Norcini says, predicting much inflation

GATA 11p ET Thursday, September 13, 2012 Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: Futures market analyst Dan Norcini tonight tells King World News that the short covering in the monetary metals was violent today but that the whole commodity complex was on fire as the dollar broke down after the Fed’s pledge to keep devaluing [...]

Manipulating inflation expectations won’t work for Fed, Turk says

GATA 4:10p ET Monday, September 10, 2012 Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: GoldMoney founder and GATA consultant James Turk today tells King World News that investors may be waiting for a pullback in gold and silver but the “currency cliff” is so close that there’s a big risk that they won’t get one. Turk [...]

Alasdair Macleod: The destruction of savings by inflation

GATA 3:11p ET Sunday, February 19, 2012 Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: Writing for GoldMoney, economist and former banker Alasdair Macleod explains today how interest on savings in the modern fiat money system is more than wiped out by inflation, that the resulting impoverishment of pensioners will impose far greater welfare costs on government [...]

Inflation: The Only Tool Left

By Jim Willie CB, Golden Jackass Subscribe: Hat Trick Letter Any perusal around the world these days features Southern Europe crippled, preparing for the inevitable Greek Govt Bond default. It features a crippled US housing market, a mockery of statistical accounting in the US Gross Domestic Product, the plight of the COMEX with established veterans clearing out [...]

Argentina fines economists who publish unfavorable inflation estimates

GATA In the United States, the Federal Reserve prevents that problem by putting most economists on its own payroll. * * * Fernandez Way Ahead in Argentina Primary By Hugh Bronstein and Simon Gardner Reuters Sunday, August 14, 2011 http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/15/argentina-primary-idUSN1E77D02… BUENOS AIRES, — Argentine President Cristina Fernandez had a very wide lead in Sunday’s primary, [...]

Alasdair Macleod: Inflation is beyond the tipping point

GATA 12:36p ET Sunday, July 10, 2011 Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: Huge government budget deficits are failing to produce economic recovery around the world, economist and former banker Alasdair Macleod writes this week, and Keynesian monetary policies have destroyed across all parts of the economy the stability necessary for growth. Macleod concludes that [...]

Be Bullish On Inflation

By Captain Hook, Treasure Chests Easily the most vaunted question within financial circles at present is the inflation question – will it keep accelerating and will hyperinflation arrive eventually? For some, like Marc Fabre and James Turk, the answer to this question is easy. Inflation all the way baby – with a dollar collapse and hyperinflation in [...]

Niall Ferguson: The great inflation of the 2010s

GATA By Niall Ferguson Newsweek, New York Sunday, May 1, 2011 http://www.newsweek.com/2011/05/01/sticker-shock.html “I can’t eat an iPad.” This could go down in history as the line that launched the great inflation of the 2010s. Back in March, the president of the New York Federal Reserve, William Dudley, was trying to explain to the citizens of [...]

Bank of England playing ‘confidence trick’ on inflation, MPC veteran says

Bank of England Attempting Inflation ‘Confidence Trick,’ Says Former MPC Member Kate Barker By Emma Rowley The Telegraph, London Saturday, February 5, 2011 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/8304054/Bank-of-England-att… Keeping inflation under control is a “confidence trick” that the Bank of England may fail to pull off, Kate Barker, one of its former rate-setters, has warned. Ms. Barker, who served [...]

Inflation is the way the rich tax the poor, Rickards tells King World News

6:14p PT Saturday, January 21, 2011 Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: Inflation is the mechanism by which the rich tax the poor, market intelligence analyst Jim Rickards tells King World News. Rickards expects gold to be revalued well beyond $2,000 per ounce. The interview is 19 minutes long and you can listen to it [...]

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