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Is this: Inflation or Deflation?
Be prepared for the next great transfer of wealth. Buy physical silver and storable food.
dailyreckoning.com.au / By Nick Hubble / April 27, 2013
The biggest question facing investors in this new age of centrally planned economies is this: inflation or deflation?
That sounds like a mind numbingly boring idea. So let’s put it another way.
Right now, the world’s policy makers are walking a tightrope. On the one side is a plunge into inflation. On the other deflation. The dramatic part about this tightrope is that it isn’t flat. It’s leading higher and higher. The further we go along the wire, the more dangerous a fall becomes.
If we get severe deflation, the entire monetary system of the world could collapse. Stock markets will crash, banks will fail, and paper and electronic wealth will disappear. It only gets worse. Without banks, supermarkets wouldn’t be able to restock inventory, petrol won’t be trucked to petrol stations and Tasmania would become a desirable place to live.
‘Inflation’ means a world just as chaotic, but in a different way. Prices would rise so fast that restaurateurs have to reprint new menus each week. Your spouse would rush down to the supermarket as soon as you’re paid to try and buy things at reasonable prices. Your entire investment portfolio would double, but only be worth half.
Now the question of inflation or deflation really means something, right?
But could things really get that bad? The answer to that question is yes, depending on how far we let central bankers and governments go along the tightrope. Back when your editor used to teach tightrope walking, we never got very far at all. In fact falling off elegantly was our speciality.
So in that spirit, how do you fall off a monetary tightrope without wiping out your wealth? How do you secure yourself from both an inflationary and a deflationary drop?
Thanks to BrotherJohnF
2013-04-27 04:32:18
Source: http://silveristhenew.com/2013/04/27/is-this-inflation-or-deflation/
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