Imagine Prices At The Food Store And Gas Pump Doubling In Days: Quantitative Easing Has Been Devastating For American Households And Now Many Of The Ingredients For Hyperinflation Are Brewing!!
Investmentwatchblog.com
October 16th, 2012
We’re Certainly At A Flashing Yellow Alert On Hyperinflation
David Zeiler: Too few understand just how disruptive hyperinflation in America would be. Truth is, it would be a nightmare.
In an episode of hyperinflation, money loses value so rapidly that people spend it as quickly as possible, which only feeds the cycle of pushing prices higher and higher at a faster and faster rate.
Imagine prices at the food store and gas pump not just going up a few cents at a time, but doubling in a matter of months, weeks, or even days.
And now some economists and market experts think many of the ingredients for hyperinflation are brewing in America.
That’s because years of profligate U.S. government borrowing and spending have created trillions of dollars that lurk in the reserves of foreign countries and major financial institutions. The situation escalated after the 2008 financial crisis, with the U.S. Federal Reserve‘s policies of “quantitative easing” creating even more money.
“The U.S. government and the Federal Reserve have committed the system to its ultimate insolvency, through the easy politics of a bottomless pocketbook, the servicing of big-moneyed special interests, gross mismanagement, and a deliberate and ongoing effort to debase the U.S. currency,” said John Williams of Shadow Government Statistics in his annual report on hyperinflation.
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