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3 Ways to Prepare for Inflation
In case you haven’t heard,inflation is on its way. Unprecedented levels of government debt and deficits will likely weaken the value of the dollar at some point, thus raising the prices of everything it buys.
But, the Federal Reserve says there’s no significant inflation yet. In fact, it recently said there might be too little inflation and will likely keep interest rates low for the foreseeable future, further increasing the money supply. Meanwhile, commodity prices are going through the roof.
The price of copper has more than tripled since the end of 2008, oil is near $90 a barrel (also near the high since the financial crisis) and prices of several food commodities like corn and wheat are near all time highs. These materials are in turn used to make many consumer goods. It’s only a matter of time before higher input prices come out the other end in the form of higher prices for consumer goods.
In fact, inflation has started to Read more…
U.S., Japan told time running out to deal with debt
IMF warns Japan and United States on need to tackle debt
* Politics make reining in U.S., Japan deficits difficult
* S&P downgrades Japan, sees no strategy to handle debt
* Bond markets calm on Friday, Japan vows fiscal discipline (Adds bullet points)
By Tetsushi Kajimoto and Lesley Wroughton
TOKYO/WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (Reuters) – Japan and the United States faced new pressure to confront their swollen budget deficits as the IMF and rating agencies demanded more evidence they can bring their public debts under control.
The International Monetary Fund said the G7’s two biggest economies needed to spell out credible deficit-cutting plans before the markets lose patience and dump their bonds.
On Friday, Japan’s Prime Minister Naoto Kan vowed to push ahead with tax reforms aimed at curbing the country’s debt, but an uncooperative opposition and divisions within his own party on policy make the chances of success slim.
“The important thing is to maintain fiscal discipline and ensure market confidence in Japan’s public finances,” Kan, who took over in June as Japan’s fifth premier since 2006, told parliament’s upper house.
Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s cut Japan’s long-term debt rating on Thursday for the first time since 2002, and hours later Moody’s Investors Service warned the risk of the United States losing its top AAA rating, although small, was rising. Read more…
Treasury Five-Year Notes Advance as Bernanke Predicts Slow Growth in Jobs
Treasury five-year notes had the first back-to-back weekly gains since October as U.S. payrolls grew less than forecast and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said the labor market’s recovery will be gradual.
Yields on the notes touched the lowest level in two weeks yesterday after Labor Department data showed nonfarm payrolls expanded by 103,000 last month, versus a median forecast of 150,000 in a Bloomberg News survey. The Treasury will sell $66 billion in securities next week in the year’s first note and bond auctions.
“The five-year leads the way up, and it leads the way down,” said Brian Edmonds, head of interest-rates at Cantor Fitzgerald LP in New York, one of central bank’s 18 primary dealers. “The Fed chairman is setting expectations back further and making people aware that there aren’t a lot of quick fixes and it’s not going to turn on a dime.”
The yield on the five-year note fell five basis points yesterday, or 0.05 percentage point, to 1.96 percent, from 2.01 percent on Dec. 31, according to BGCantor Market Data. It touched 1.93 percent, the lowest since Dec. 21. The yield hadn’t declined for more than a single week at a time since Oct. 8.
Benchmark 10-year note yields rose three basis points to 3.32 percent, from 3.29 percent at the end of last week. Two- year note yields were little changed at 0.59 percent. Read more…
Wealth Cycle Investments
Wealth cycles are nothing new, however, the potential of this upcoming cycle will be the largest in the history of mankind impacting that of global proportions. When the financial currencies of the world collapse, the transfer of wealth will happen literally overnight. Those who are invested in gold/silver certificates, bank accounts, stock market, checks, bonds, IRA’s, currency (ie Federal Reserve Note, Euro) are prone to loose everything they have worked so hard for. You must recognize what cycle we are in to avoid the pitfalls. It’s the same as common knowledge, if you were watching the weather channel and the meteorologist says that there will be a record blizzard in 24 hours what would you do? The first thing I would do is to make sure that my house has ample food, warm clothing and lots of firewood. If you don’t take these certain precautions surely you will suffer the consequences of hypothermia, starvation or even death. 
Wealth cycles have a long history originating in ancient Greece and Rome. Every time in history upon the birth of a fiat system when a government intervened in free markets, the markets would eventually undergo a correction. You can see that every time a government began devaluing its currency by creating more and more of it, certain events, like inflation or hyperinflation, would follow, every time. In the case of America the same thing is beginning to snowball.
This current cycle that we are in heavily favors gold and silver. You see it on the news everyday and you read it in the newspaper. Question is, have you ever thought about selling your scrap precious metal to one of those gold buyers you just saw on TV a few minutes ago? If you were to sell your precious scrap metal or coins for the inflated quote of dollars they will give you then the following week the monetary system collapses what would you have gained?
Countries such as China have recognized this cycle. It recently was announced that China imported 209.7 metric tons of gold during the first ten months of 2010. That was five times more gold than China imported during the first ten months of 2009. China is even encouraging its citizens to purchase gold and silver! Other nations such as India, Russia, Brazil, even Sri Lanka have been making news by announcing that they all want to build more gold reserves. When you see large international moves like this, you have to know something is up.
Mike Maloney says “I’m not a gold bug or a silver bug. I’m really a cycles guy. Silver, I believe, is the best way to get a whole bunch of cash flow, real estate, high-dividend-yield stocks, or something that is creating income every single month. What you eventually want is cash flow.”
http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2010/12/03/gold-demand-huge-buying-from-china/
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