Pento: Rampant Inflation Tomorrow Necessary to Avoid Deflationary Depression Today! Got Gold?
Lorimer Wilson
Munknee.com
Tuesday, February 28th, 2012
There is an all out assault on the part of global central banks to destroy their currencies in an effort to allow their respective governments to continue the practice of running humongous deficits. In fact, the developed world’s central bankers are faced with the choice of either massively monetizing Sovereign debt or to sit back and watch a deflationary depression crush global growth. Since they have so blatantly chosen to ignite inflation, it would be wise to own the correct hedges against your burning paper currencies.
So says Michael Pento (www.PentoPort.com) in edited excerpts from an article* which Lorimer Wilson, editor of www.munKNEE.com (Your Key to Making Money!), has further edited below for length and clarity – see Editor’s Note at the bottom of the page. (This paragraph must be included in any article re-posting to avoid copyright infringement.)
Pento goes on to say, in part:
It is a sad situation when everything the man in charge of our central bank professes to understand about inflation is wrong. Mr. Bernanke does not know what causes inflation, how to accurately measure inflation or the real damage inflation does to an economy. He, like most central bankers around the globe, persists in…[confusing] inflation with growth. The sad truth is that our Federal Reserve believes growth can be engendered from creating more inflation.
In reality, however, economic growth comes from productivity enhancements and a growing labor force. Those two factors are the only way an economy can expand its output. Historically speaking, the total of labor force and productivity growth has averaged about a 3% increase per annum in the U.S. Therefore, any increase in money supply growth that is greater than 3% leads to rising aggregate prices. That’s why money supply growth should never be greater than the sum of labor force growth + productivity growth. Any increase greater than that only serves to limit labor force growth and productivity.Since Bernanke doesn’t understand that simply economic maxim, he persists in his quest to destroy the value of the dollar. Perhaps that’s why the Fed Head has decided to keep interest rates at zero percent for at least six years, despite the fact that the growth in the money supply is alreadynorth of 10%.
Maybe Bernanke believes that a replay of the entire productivity gains from the industrial and technology revolutions will both simultaneously occur in 2012. Or perhaps he feels that the millions of unemployed individuals laid off after the collapse of the credit bubble will all be re-hired this year. What he also fails to understand is that consumers are in a deleveraging mode because their debt as a percentage of income is, historically speaking, extremely high. So regardless of how much money Bernanke counterfeits into existence, it won’t lead to more job growth or capital creation…just more inflation.
The Rest…HERE
