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12 Warning Signs of U.S. Hyperinflation

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12 Warning Signs of U.S. Hyperinflation Empty 12 Warning Signs of U.S. Hyperinflation

Post by ToddS Mon Mar 28, 2011 9:01 pm

March 26, 2011


12 Warning Signs of U.S. Hyperinflation

One of the most frequently asked questions we receive at the National
Inflation Association (NIA) is what warning signs will there be when
hyperinflation is imminent. In our opinion, the majority of the warning
signs that hyperinflation is imminent are already here today, but most
Americans are failing to properly recognize them. NIA believes that
there is a serious risk of hyperinflation breaking out as soon as the
second half of this calendar year and that hyperinflation is almost
guaranteed to occur by the end of this decade.


In our estimation, the most likely time frame for a full-fledged
outbreak of hyperinflation is between the years 2013 and 2015. Americans
who wait until 2013 to prepare, will most likely see the majority of
their purchasing power wiped out. It is essential that all Americans
begin preparing for hyperinflation immediately.


Here are NIA's top 12 warning signs that hyperinflation is about to occur:


1) The Federal Reserve is Buying 70% of U.S. Treasuries. The
Federal Reserve has been buying 70% of all new U.S. treasury debt. Up
until this year, the U.S. has been successful at exporting most of its
inflation to the rest of the world, which is hoarding huge amounts of
U.S. dollar reserves due to the U.S. dollar's status as the world's
reserve currency. In recent months, foreign central bank purchases of
U.S. treasuries have declined from 50% down to 30%, and Federal Reserve
purchases have increased from 10% up to 70%. This means U.S. government
deficit spending is now directly leading to U.S. inflation that will
destroy the standard of living for all Americans.


2) The Private Sector Has Stopped Purchasing U.S. Treasuries. The
U.S. private sector was previously a buyer of 30% of U.S. government
bonds sold. Today, the U.S. private sector has stopped buying U.S.
treasuries and is dumping government debt. The Pimco Total Return Fund
was recently the single largest private sector owner of U.S. government
bonds, but has just reduced its U.S. treasury holdings down to zero.
Although during the financial panic of 2008, investors purchased
government bonds as a safe haven, during all future panics we believe
precious metals will be the new safe haven.


3) China Moving Away from U.S. Dollar as Reserve Currency. The
U.S. dollar became the world's reserve currency because it was backed by
gold and the U.S. had the world's largest manufacturing base. Today,
the U.S. dollar is no longer backed by gold and China has the world's
largest manufacturing base. There is no reason for the world to continue
to transact products and commodities in U.S. dollars, when most of
everything the world consumes is now produced in China. China has been
taking steps to position the yuan to be the world's new reserve
currency.


The People's Bank of China stated earlier this month, in a story that
went largely unreported by the mainstream media, that it would respond
to overseas demand for the yuan to be used as a reserve currency and
allow the yuan to flow back into China more easily. China hopes to allow
all exporters and importers to settle their cross border transactions
in yuan by the end of 2011, as part of their plan to increase the yuan's
international role. NIA believes if China really wants to become the
world's next superpower and see to it that the U.S. simultaneously
becomes the world's next Zimbabwe, all China needs to do is use their
$1.15 trillion in U.S. dollar reserves to accumulate gold and use that
gold to back the yuan.


4) Japan to Begin Dumping U.S. Treasuries. Japan is the second
largest holder of U.S. treasury securities with $885.9 billion in U.S.
dollar reserves. Although China has reduced their U.S. treasury holdings
for three straight months, Japan has increased their U.S. treasury
holdings seven months in a row. Japan is the country that has been the
most consistent at buying our debt for the past year, but that is about
the change. Japan is likely going to have to spend $300 billion over the
next year to rebuild parts of their country that were destroyed by the
recent earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster, and NIA believes their
U.S. dollar reserves will be the most likely source of this funding.
This will come at the worst possible time for the U.S., which needs
Japan to increase their purchases of U.S. treasuries in order to fund
our record budget deficits.


5) The Fed Funds Rate Remains Near Zero. The Federal Reserve has
held the Fed Funds Rate at 0.00-0.25% since December 16th, 2008, a
period of over 27 months. This is unprecedented and NIA believes the
world is now flooded with excess liquidity of U.S. dollars.


When the nuclear reactors in Japan began overheating two weeks ago after
their cooling systems failed due to a lack of electricity, TEPCO was
forced to open relief valves to release radioactive steam into the air
in order to avoid an explosion. The U.S. stock market is currently
acting as a relief valve for all of the excess liquidity of U.S.
dollars. The U.S. economy for all intents and purposes should currently
be in a massive and extremely steep recession, but because of the Fed's
money printing, stock prices are rising because people don't know what
else to do with their dollars.


NIA believes gold, and especially silver, are much better hedges against
inflation than U.S. equities, which is why for the past couple of years
we have been predicting large declines in both the Dow/Gold and
Gold/Silver ratios. These two ratios have been in free fall exactly like
NIA projected.


The Dow/Gold ratio is the single most important chart all investors need
to closely follow, but way too few actually do. The Dow Jones
Industrial Average (DJIA) itself is meaningless because it averages
together the dollar based movements of 30 U.S. stocks. With just the
DJIA, it is impossible to determine whether stocks are rising due to
improving fundamentals and real growing investor demand, or if prices
are rising simply because the money supply is expanding.


The Dow/Gold ratio illustrates the cyclical nature of the battle between
paper assets like stocks and real hard assets like gold. The Dow/Gold
ratio trends upward when an economy sees real economic growth and begins
to trend downward when the growth phase ends and everybody becomes
concerned about preserving wealth. With interest rates at 0%, the U.S.
economy is on life support and wealth preservation is the focus of most
investors. NIA believes the Dow/Gold ratio will decline to 1 before the
hyperinflationary crisis is over and until the Dow/Gold ratio does
decline to 1, investors should keep buying precious metals.


6) Year-Over-Year CPI Growth Has Increased 92% in Three Months.
In November of 2010, the Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS)'s consumer
price index (CPI) grew by 1.1% over November of 2009. In February of
2011, the BLS's CPI grew by 2.11% over February of 2010, above the Fed's
informal inflation target of 1.5% to 2%. An increase in year-over-year
CPI growth from 1.1% in November of last year to 2.11% in February of
this year means that the CPI's growth rate increased by approximately
92% over a period of just three months. Imagine if the year-over-year
CPI growth rate continues to increase by 92% every three months. In 9 to
12 months from now we could be looking at a price inflation rate of
over 15%. Even if the BLS manages to artificially hold the CPI down
around 5% or 6%, NIA believes the real rate of price inflation will
still rise into the double-digits within the next year.


7) Mainstream Media Denying Fed's Target Passed. You would think
that year-over-year CPI growth rising from 1.1% to 2.11% over a period
of three months for an increase of 92% would generate a lot of media
attention, especially considering that it has now surpassed the Fed's
informal inflation target of 1.5% to 2%. Instead of acknowledging that
inflation is beginning to spiral out of control and encouraging
Americans to prepare for hyperinflation like NIA has been doing for
years, the media decided to conveniently change the way it defines the
Fed's informal target.


The media is now claiming that the Fed's informal inflation target of
1.5% to 2% is based off of year-over-year changes in the BLS's core-CPI
figures. Core-CPI, as most of you already know, is a meaningless number
that excludes food and energy prices. Its sole purpose is to be used to
mislead the public in situations like this. We guarantee that if
core-CPI had just surpassed 2% and the normal CPI was still below 2%,
the media would be focusing on the normal CPI number, claiming that it
remains below the Fed's target and therefore inflation is low and not a
problem.


The fact of the matter is, food and energy are the two most important
things Americans need to live and survive. If the BLS was going to
exclude something from the CPI, you would think they would exclude goods
that Americans don't consume on a daily basis. The BLS claims food and
energy prices are excluded because they are most volatile. However, by
excluding food and energy, core-CPI numbers are primarily driven by
rents. Considering that we just came out of the largest Real Estate
bubble in world history, there is a glut of homes available to rent on
the market. NIA has been saying for years that being a landlord will be
the worst business to be in during hyperinflation, because it will be
impossible for landlords to increase rents at the same rate as overall
price inflation. Food and energy prices will always increase at a much
faster rate than rents.


Cool Record U.S. Budget Deficit in February of $222.5 Billion. The
U.S. government just reported a record budget deficit for the month of
February of $222.5 billion. February's budget deficit was more than the
entire fiscal year of 2007. In fact, February's deficit on an annualized
basis was $2.67 trillion. NIA believes this is just a preview of future
annual budget deficits, and we will see annual budget deficits surpass
$2.67 trillion within the next several years.


9) High Budget Deficit as Percentage of Expenditures. The
projected U.S. budget deficit for fiscal year 2011 of $1.645 trillion is
43% of total projected government expenditures in 2011 of $3.819
trillion. That is almost exactly the same level of Brazil's budget
deficit as a percentage of expenditures right before they experienced
hyperinflation in 1993 and it is higher than Bolivia's budget deficit as
a percentage of expenditures right before they experienced
hyperinflation in 1985. The only way a country can survive with such a
large deficit as a percentage of expenditures and not have
hyperinflation, is if foreigners are lending enough money to pay for the
bulk of their deficit spending. Hyperinflation broke out in Brazil and
Bolivia when foreigners stopped lending and central banks began
monetizing the bulk of their deficit spending, and that is exactly what
is taking place today in the U.S.


10) Obama Lies About Foreign Policy. President Obama campaigned
as an anti-war President who would get our troops out of Iraq. NIA
believes that many Libertarian voters actually voted for Obama in 2008
over John McCain because they felt Obama was more likely to end our wars
that are adding greatly to our budget deficits and making the U.S. a
lot less safe as a result. Obama may have reduced troop levels in Iraq,
but he increased troops levels in Afghanistan, and is now sending troops
into Libya for no reason.


The U.S. is now beginning to occupy Libya, when Libya didn't do anything
to the U.S. and they are no threat to the U.S. Obama has increased our
overall overseas troop levels since becoming President and the U.S. is
now spending $1 trillion annually on military expenses, which includes
the costs to maintain over 700 military bases in 135 countries around
the world. There is no way that we can continue on with our overseas
military presence without seeing hyperinflation.


11) Obama Changes Definition of Balanced Budget. In the White
House's budget projections for the next 10 years, they don't project
that the U.S. will ever come close to achieving a real balanced budget.
In fact, after projecting declining budget deficits up until the year
2015 (NIA believes we are unlikely to see any major dip in our budget
deficits due to rising interest payments on our national debt), the
White House projects our budget deficits to begin increasing again up
until the year 2021. Obama recently signed an executive order to create
the "National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform", with a
mission to "propose recommendations designed to balance the budget,
excluding interest payments on the debt, by 2015". Obama is redefining a
balanced budget to exclude interest payments on our national debt,
because he knows interest payments are about to explode and it will be
impossible to trul y balance the budget.


12) U.S. Faces Largest Ever Interest Payment Increases. With U.S.
inflation beginning to spiral out of control, NIA believes it is 100%
guaranteed that we will soon see a large spike in long-term bond yields.
Not only that, but within the next couple of years, NIA believes the
Federal Reserve will be forced to raise the Fed Funds Rate in a
last-ditch effort to prevent hyperinflation. When both short and
long-term interest rates start to rise, so will the interest payments on
our national debt. With the public portion of our national debt now
exceeding $10 trillion, we could see interest payments on our debt reach
$500 billion within the next year or two, and over $1 trillion
somewhere around mid-decade. When interest payments reach $1 trillion,
they will likely be around 30% to 40% of government tax receipts, up
from interest payments being only 9% of tax receipts today. No country
has ever seen interest payments on their debt reach 40% of tax receipts
without hyperinflation occurring in the years to come.




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