USA's Day Of Reckoning - Hidden Secrets Of Money

Interesting video to watch on deflation and hyperinflation.

Mike Maloney Survives Car Crash

Mike Maloney is one of those people I look up to and I just heard about his incredible story about him being in a frontal car crash.

http://goldsilver.com/article/mike-maloney-in-horrible-car-crash-with-tesla/

Luckily, Mike survived this car crash and I'm glad nothing of permanent damage was incurred.

I always say: "you can have all the gold and silver on this world, but health will always come first."

Real Deflation Confirmed by Mike Maloney

In this video, Mike Maloney confirms that deflation has already set in. If we subtract base money (balance sheet fed) from M2, we get a 25% contraction. This has never happened before since the Great Depression and it evidences the fact that quantitative easing doesn't work. It just stays on the balance sheets of the banks.

And we all know what comes after real deflation, hint: it starts with an "H".

Katchum's Economic Intermezzo

Welcome!


If you are reading this article, you will be one of a few privileged people, able to prepare for the tsunami that's coming to us. We live in one of the most exhilarating times of the past few centuries and that's because the future, starting from 2012, will never be the same as before. We are faced with the limits of our existence concerning debt, money supply, commodities, exponential growth, population, energy and war.


If you haven't seen this curve of base money yet, it's time to take notice of it (Chart 1). This chart shows the amount of base money (billion USD) that has been printed by the federal reserve. It was relatively flat in the beginning of the century and started to move upwards in the 1970's when the gold standard was abandoned. But it really started to explode in 2008, during the financial crisis that we all have experienced ourselves. This is the first sign of coming inflation. Our money will diminish more and more in value because money is being printed increasingly by governments around the world.


Chart 1: Base money supply and Ben Bernanke (Federal Reserve)

The following chart shows the federal US external debt:


Chart 2: US federal external debt

U.S. Federal External Debt

If you look closely, the debt is accelerating at a perfectly exponential pace, which is completely unsustainable. Something has to give and ultimately we will see a first sign of hyperinflation.

We are in 2012, the time where additional debt doesn't grow the economy. Which means you need to print an eternal amount of money to grow GDP. This gives us the second sign of hyperinflation. To prove this statement I'll show you this chart 3: "Zero Hour".

Chart 3: Zero Hour

The "Zero Hour" chart shows us the amount of GDP growth (Y-axis) that you will get by adding 1 USD of debt to the government's balance sheet. For decades we could just print money and grow the economy.

In 2012 - 2014 unfortunately our luck is over. Printing money will not grow the economy anymore! That's the reason why debt is going up exponentially (see chart 2). It takes an infinite amount of debt to get us out of trouble. Which means it's over with, we've finally reached the limit.

A third sign of coming hyperinflation is shown in chart 4: "Level of deficits relative to government expenditures." This chart shows the government spending (pensions, medicare, social security) compared to foreign debt. 

=> For every 100 USD the US government spends, 40 USD is borrowed from Asia, Europe, etc...

Historically, once we reach 40%, we start a period of hyperinflation. In 2012, the USA already reached 60%...

Chart 4: Deficits relative to government expenditures (%)

Another sign of the imminent collapse of the USA is shown in Chart 5 where the government is spending too much money, while having less and less revenues.

Chart 5: US Federal Expenditures vs Revenues

A financial collapse will ultimately start happening and we can already see evidence of this in the bond markets in Europe. This is why you shouldn't place your hard earned money in the bank.

Consider that the 1 Year German government bond yields are going under zero (see Chart 6). Would you place your money in a bank with interest less than 0%?

It is amazing that people want to lend money to the German government while paying extra money (0,02% of their investment) a year from now. Thereby losing money with their investment.

I can think of only one reason for this and that is: "Your money is not safe in the bank".

Why would someone not just put their savings in a bank which pays around 1,5 % yield a year. Instead they want to lose money by buying German government bonds. Exactly because your cash is not safe in your bank. At any time your bank will go bankrupt. Germany is a safe haven, so people flee to that country. But there are far better alternatives which I will talk about next on.

Chart 6:

Completely the opposite is the 1 year Greece Government Bond Yield (see Chart 7), which is surging past a record 380 %, which basically means a default on their debt. And a collapse in Greece means a collapse in the banking industry.

Chart 7:

It amazes me that people still buy these government bonds, knowing that the bond bull market is coming to its end.

US government bond yields have run a 30+ year bull market (1980-2012). I think it's time for the market to start moving the money from government bonds to precious metals.

Which takes me to the ultimate safe haven: Gold and Silver!

During hyperinflation, the best way to protect yourself is to buy precious metals like gold and silver. There are many reasons to do so.

The first one is because of a complete depletion of commodities in about 20 years from now (see chart 8). Especially silver (Ag) will become scarce and ultimately will be depleted in about 11 years if we keep growing exponentially. Oil will double in price in about 2 years from now due to production decreases (peak oil theory).

Chart 8: Commodity depletion


In the beginning of 2012 a very interesting event happened in the silver market. The premium over spot price of a certain silver trust (PSLV) surged to 34%. Why would people buy silver at such high premiums? That's because the silver price is about to start surging upwards.

Chart 9: Silver premium/price

Silver premium (%) blue dots, Silver Price (USD) red dots

Much like silver, gold is ultimately the best store of value. If we consider the amount of money the US federal reserve has printed, gold is still very cheap historically, which is the second reason to buy gold. If we calculate the Gold Money Index as:

GMI = Central bank foreign exchange reserves (USD) / Central Bank Gold Reserves (ounces)

                                      

Then the gold price would have to go to 12000 USD. We are at 1600 USD so that's an eightfold increase!

With the problems in the Eurozone I would be very wary about staying in cash. Chart 10 tells us that Belgians would lose 23,9% of their money if they would go back to the Belgian Frank. This is the third reason to buy gold.

Chart 10: Fair value during breakup of Euro

And finally the last reason to buy gold: during the Great Depression everything collapsed (real estate, oil companies, stocks, bonds, cash). The only things that surged were gold and gold mining companies. A similar event happened in Iceland in 2008, the last man standing was gold.

We can already see turmoil in the whole world. USA is starting a war against Iran. China and Japan get out of the US dollar trade. Russia sells out on 70% of their US government bonds. Occupy Wall Street happens. Greece is in chaos...

Conclusion: Enjoy the beauty of life while it lasts and buy gold/silver. 

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