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Shorting Treasury Bonds is a way to directly speculate on higher interest rates and inflation. We’ve been discussing asset management in a crazy economy. The last several posts have been about the effects of inflation on bonds and how it affects you. Today, we’ll discuss shorting Treasury Bonds. As we’ve said many times, we believe [...]
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Treasury Bonds are how the US borrows so much money. We’ve been discussing asset management in a crazy economy. In the last post in this series, we’ve shown how inflation and rising interest rates affect Treasury Bonds. Today, we’ll get into an example and see how it affects you.
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The US Treasury issues Treasury Bonds, but if the value of the Dollar drops because of all this borrowing (and printing by the Fed), your Dollar could be worth much less soon. We’ve been discussing asset management in a crazy economy. We last looked at International Investing as well as Blue Chip Investing. We believe [...]
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Asset Management is difficult in a crazy economy. We’ve been talking about the possibilities of deflation and hyperinflation. So if difficult times are ahead, which asset classes are the ones which will best safeguard and grow what you have been giving to steward? We don’t know! Please understand that this blog is meant to help [...]
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As we continue our discussion of hyperinflation from last week, traditional financial advice will be worthless and destructive during hyperinflation.
As a matter of fact, if hyperinflation happens (we’ve been discussing the reasons why it might here), most everyone will be totally starting over financially when we come out of it. We’re going to spend a [...]
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Europe and Greece have a terrible debt crises brewing and recently they supposedly fixed it with an overwhelming $1Trillion Dollar package. As we mentioned Friday, the worldwide economic problems are getting more serious and more intertwined with each new bailouts and could have devastating consequences.
Greece, like almost all Western countries, has too [...]
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Hyperinflation points discussed in today’s economic update as we continue our economic update discussion. We’ll focus on Treasury Bond auctions, bailouts & bond issues in Europe, manufacturing price index numbers, & problems for State budgets.
This economic update is part of a series which follows The Coming Storm that we put out in [...]
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Signs of depression discussed in today’s economic update as we continue our economic update discussion. We’ll look at the issues of depression, jobs, oil, China, the Middle East, and upcoming economic indicators.
This economic update is part of a series which follows The Coming Storm that we put out in November which describes in [...]
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How can Inflation be worse than Deflation? We described deflation Friday which you can read here, and that seems pretty awful! What’s worse? Hyperinflation! Let’s look at what inflation is, how it can affect you, its two causes, and what can push inflation into hyperinflation.
The usual reason for inflation is an increase in the money [...]
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Deflation or Inflation? We mentioned we’re holding an event on Tuesday to prepare you for either. Let’s begin with Deflation. What is a deflationary depression? What does it feel like? How will it affect you? Unless you’re around 90, you and I have never suffered through really difficult times. But our country has seen a [...]
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