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    04-23-2012, 11:38 PM #1

    Hyperinflation

    Peter Schiff is Wrong __ James Turk is Wrong


    Peter Schiff's Euro Pacific Capital newsletter from April of 2009 stands out as especially revealing. That newsletter clearly demonstrates just how far off the proponents of the Austrian school are on understanding inflation and hyperinflation. The newsletter featured a guest article written a month earlier by James Turk entitled "On the Cusp of Hyperinflation". [James Turk is the author of The Collapse of the Dollar and the founder of goldmoney.com.] In this March 2009 article, James Turk enumerated 6 reasons for his predicting that "hyperinflation of the US dollar is imminent" and also said "[the US dollar] is on the cusp of hyperinflation. I expect this to become increasingly clear within twelve months." Of course this hyperinflation prediction has proven to be wildly off the mark. Average consumer price inflation by any measure has registered in the low to mid single digits in the 2½ years since. Nevertheless, in September of 2010, eighteen months after his 'hyperinflation within a year' prediction, Turk unapologetically published another such prediction, in which he hyperlinked to his original prediction. Though no doubt he is sincere, James Turk is dead wrong. It will be interesting to see for how many more years James Turk and Peter Schiff, et al, will continue to reiterate these runaway inflation predictions that will completely fail to materialize.



    Austrian Economics is Wrong


    This, folks, is your fair warning: Peter Schiff, James Turk, John Williams, Marc Faber, Charles Goyette and others will surely continue ad nauseum with their predictions of runaway inflation in the dollar but consumer prices simply aren't going to cooperate with them. Sooner or later these pundits will have to face the reality of radically lower consumer price inflation than they predict. Eventually their predictions will lose all credibility. These guys really don't understand economics holistically—especially the factors affecting why people raise prices. Yes, I say factors (plural), as Milton Friedman's famous quote, "Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon" is simply wrong. And I say people, as the Austrian school simply views consumer prices as inextricably linked to the money supply, as if little else matters, such as people's perceptions, and people's propensities for taking pricing action (or no action). You just can't have a viable price inflation model that completely removes human behavior from the equation. Sorry Milton.


    Keep on reading for an education about the theories mr. siriuslywrong holds dear to his heart.


    http://www.hyperinflation-us.com/

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    04-23-2012, 11:54 PM #2
    Although Peter Schiff and certain Austrian economists talk a very convincing talk, they are dead wrong on several fronts. Their key tenets stem from faulty premises which they stubbornly refuse to reconsider. Their conclusions follow from simplistic and unrealistic half-truths. For example, consider the catchphrase, "You can't spend your way to prosperity." It is half-true, because for an individual, spending will indeed reduce rather than increase his/her own wealth. But for a whole economy it's a very different story. One consumer's spending is a zero-sum wealth transfer in terms of the whole (since the spending of one party is always revenue to another party). It’s a wash. Total spending equals total revenue (ignoring taxes & entitlements), and so as total spending goes up, total revenues go up in lockstep. Spending and revenues are really like two sides of the same coin.

    Consider that if all spending were to cease, then all revenues would also cease. No spending by anyone would mean no income for anyone, and then there would be no economy. Prosperity would of course be impossible. For the whole, then, consumer spending acts as essential to prosperity by enabling its flip side—income. And spending is also what entices further production. For example, a retailer may initially stock a certain amount of a product, but will not order any more of it until the product has been selling. Consumer buying is thus essential to support jobs in goods manufacturing. There is no question that consumer spending's flip side is revenue (income) and that consumer spending also boosts both production and employment. So why does a guy like Peter Schiff keep saying that consumer spending is bad for the economy and that investing/saving is good?

    Saving rather than spending is good for the individual, yes, but people parking money in savings is detrimental stagnation for the economy as a whole. (These pundits fail to see such distinctions.) It's no coincidence that since the 2008 crises, just as we've had the weakest economy in generations, record amounts of cash have been idly 'sitting on the sidelines' on corporate balance sheets, in bank reserves, and in Americans' portfolios.

    Austrian economics is enjoying so much resurgence these days that Mises and Hayek are actually now on the lips of several candidates in the 2012 election cycle. But don't be fooled. Austrian economics misleads because it is based upon plausible-sounding half-truths. Bottom line: the overwhelmingly likely future inflation scenario is that average consumer prices will continue to rise only in the single digits for many years to come. This is despite trillions of 'money printing' by the Fed being quite likely. I personally think it's even highly probable that consumer prices will average low single digit inflation, i.e. below 5.5%, over the next 5 years and beyond. That would mean, on average, goods and services will cost at the most about one third more than they do today by November of 2016. Copy the URL for my website into your google calendar a year or two out as a reminder to check back for new articles and updates—I'll see you then!

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    04-24-2012, 09:42 AM #3
    I feel like history is repeating itself. There was a lot of discussion probably a year ago on this topic.

    Exporting Inflation

    For years, Michael Maloney has been talking about the “exorbitant privilege” granted to the U.S. dollar with its role as the premier international reserve currency. Over the years, the United States has abused its role as issuer of the world’s reserve currency—silently stealing wealth from the world through currency creation.

    Behind the machinery of the world’s financial systems, dollars are the medium of exchange the world transacts in. So every time the Federal Reserve creates a new dollar, the rest of the dollars in the world get devalued—whether they are in the United States or the United Kingdom.

    The “exorbitant privilege” comes from the United States’ ability to essentially dictate monetary policy to the central banks of the world.

    Here’s what we mean: If the Fed engineered a drop in the value of the dollar, foreign central banks would have two choices: a.) allow the dollar to fall and the allow resulting rise in the local currency, or b.) force the local currency to fall alongside the dollar.
    If the dollar fell, it would take more dollars to buy other currencies. For example, say today one dollar would buy you 82 yen. If the dollar were to fall tomorrow, then tomorrow one dollar might only buy 80 or 81 yen. Conversely, if the dollar fell, it would take fewer yen to purchase one dollar; therefore, each yen would have a higher value against the dollar.


    Option A, a falling dollar, would result in bad things for exporters. If the local currency rose, exporters that depend on the U.S. consumer would see painful rises in the prices of their goods. If the Japanese yen rose, the prices of yen-based goods (think Sony PlayStations, Toyota Tacomas, and Nintendo Wii’s) would rise. Fewer yen-based goods would be sold because of those rising prices. This would bring massive pain to export-dependent countries, which would now be priced out of the markets of the all-powerful U.S. consumer. This scenario is the road less taken.

    Option B, forcing the local currency to fall as the dollar fell, would result in inflation of the local currency. Just as the Fed would print currency, the Bank of Japan (hypothetically) would create more currency in an attempt to maintain the former exchange rate. Currency creation equals inflation because the more units of currency there are in existence, the less each unit of currency is worth—in other words, the value of the currency would be less. When the value of currency decreases, prices go up. Inflation of a currency results in price inflation.

    Here's the rest of the article: http://wealthcycles.com/blog/2011/01...port-inflation

    And here are 100's of other references on the subject of Exporting Inflation: http://search.yahoo.com/search?type=...ting+inflation

    I don't know why I waste my time. Hava-gafa-kasha will pretend all of those references linked don't exist. Very Malthusian of him.

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    04-24-2012, 12:03 PM #4
    Notice NO comment by SL about my postings. Does he have a brain that is able to express an individual opinion?

    Schiff was completely wrong in predictions of hyperinflation. Lets see if SeriouslyWrong can even admit something as small as that.

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    04-24-2012, 12:21 PM #5
    Quote Originally Posted by Havakasha View Post
    Notice NO comment by SL about my postings. Does he have a brain that is able to express an individual opinion?

    Schiff was completely wrong in predictions of hyperinflation. Lets see if SeriouslyWrong can even admit something as small as that.
    Yes Lloydie, Schiff has been wrong on hyperinflation coming to the USA in 2011. Once again, I will try to get you to understand the basis behind the prediction so you can fully understand the context of the "prediction" (if you would want to, that is). As always, when politically convenient, you take your oppostions comments at face value and try to make some disparaging point. That's fine for politics, but ignorant in terms of learning. Given your background, I understand.

    Now go back and enlighten yourself on exporting inflation, and the ramifications of ever increasing national debt.

    "Everyone" knows that ever increasing national debt is unsustainable. YOU said so yourself, but suddenly shut up when asked "why?".

    Is it that you cannot answer?

    Is it that you don't want to answer?

    Do you want to take back your "belief" that ever increasing debt is unsustainable?

    Do you want to say it is now SUSTAINABLE without reprocussion?

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    04-24-2012, 12:37 PM #6
    Tick tock tick tock lol.

    Now the unemployed cameraman doesn't seem to have any answers. Good policy though. If you have no answer, then don't.

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    04-24-2012, 12:38 PM #7
    Does anyone think Hava- get a freakin' accountant - kasha caught the "Malthusian" reference?

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    04-24-2012, 02:37 PM #8
    "the unemployed cameraman". Lol.
    When he cant deal with the facts of Schiff and the Austrian economic model being proven wrong , he is prone to lash out with all kinds of invented personal insults. The kid obviously needs someone's love and affirmation.

    Good. Now we have him admitting Schiff got it wrong on hyperinflation in 2011. Now we just have to get him to own up to all Mr. Schiff's wrong projections from at 2000 to 2012. I know it aint going to be easy.

    So please tell us where the U.S. has exported inflation? Tell us where, when and in what %'s. The only problem is, YOUR Austrian model, YOUR favoritie economic theorists GOT IT COMPLETELY WRONG IN CALLING FOR HYPERINLATION IN THE U.S for the past 4 years at least. THE UNITED STATES OF AMRICA. And you of course cant possibly find it in you to actually address that major failure of theirs.
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    04-24-2012, 03:24 PM #9
    Quote Originally Posted by Havakasha View Post
    "the unemployed cameraman". Lol.
    When he cant deal with the facts of Schiff and the Austrian economic model being proven wrong , he is prone to lash out with all kinds of invented personal insults. The kid obviously needs someone's love and affirmation.

    Good. Now we have him admitting Schiff got it wrong on hyperinflation in 2011. Now we just have to get him to own up to all Mr. Schiff's wrong projections from at 2000 to 2012. I know it aint going to be easy.

    So please tell us where the U.S. has exported inflation? Tell us where, when and in what %'s. The only problem is, YOUR Austrian model, YOUR favoritie economic theorists GOT IT COMPLETELY WRONG IN CALLING FOR HYPERINLATION IN THE U.S for the past 4 years at least. THE UNITED STATES OF AMRICA. And you of course cant possibly find it in you to actually address that major failure of theirs.
    Why don't you own up to this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I0QN-FYkpw The Austrian Model seems to work DAMN WELL here. Unbelievable. Seemed to work damn well on GOLD too.

    You won't. You still pretend it doesn't exist because if do, you'll have to address it and it will make you look genuinely foolish.

    So you want me to tell you where US has exported inflation. Seriously? Pages of links and you are too lazy to click one and read it for yourself? Too lazy or is it an avoidance technique - like the video. Pretend it isn't there? Sadly, this was already discussed. Retention of anything not published by the Huffington Post, Daily Kos, Mother Jones isn't part of Hava-gafa-kasha's core beliefs LOL.

    Still struggling with Malthusian I see LMFAO.

    Do you want me to explain? It all fits believe it or not.

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    04-24-2012, 03:29 PM #10
    I was serious. I wanted to hear it from your own mouth about the countries (as well as how much and when) we have exported inflation to. Thanks.

    I also understand that you arent too willing to discuss how the Austrian model and mr. Schiff got their predictions of inflation so WROMG.

    Remember I started this thread. I asked some questions and for some strange reason (lmfao) i cant get an answer.

    Have you have been able to research these facts?
    Please explain. Thanks.

    I post this because this an example of the kind of economic theories
    that Mr. SeriouslyWrong believes in and clearly they arent as successful
    as he has been pretending.


    "In other words, Peter Schiff may be a classic case of a stopped clock: he's been predicting a market decline FOREVER and when the market has declined he's hailed as a genius by his cult fans."

    http://seekingalpha.com/article/1068...hiff-right-now

    Now, had you listened to Peter in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 or even 3/4 of 2007, you lost your shirt. Had you placed bets based on Schiff's market calls, you lost everything you wagered.

    The S&P (.INX) went from 1054 in May of 2002 (the date of the interview) to 1561 in Oct. 2007, a 48% gain and the Dow (.DJI) rose 40%.

    Banking stocks, the primary victim of the housing bust, went up (JP Morgan (JPM) 36%, Bank of America (BAC) 41%, Wells Fargo (WFC) 39% , Wachovia (WB) 31% and American Express (AXP) 51%) during that time frame (dividends excluded which would dramatically add to results).

    Bottom line? Had you listened to Mr. Schiff at anytime before Oct. 2007, you lost...big. To those who did, there is little consolation in the praise being heaped on him today.

    Milton Freidman said, "markets can stay dislocated longer than you can stay solvent." For those who bet with Schiff between 2002-2007, they know the statement well.

    Why is it a big deal? After all, Berkshire's (BRK.A) Warren Buffett claims he cannot time the market and often watches share prices decline in investments (like recent investments in Goldman Sachs (GS) and GE) before a rebound. How is this any different?

    For one, Warren's loss is limited to his investment. He buys 1 share of stock "a" at $25. $25 is the most he can lose.

    Now, if we listen to Peter and "short" stock "a" at 25, our loss has no limit. If it goes to $100, we lose $75. In shorting, we are only limited in our upside. If "a" goes to zero, "Schiffers" profit $25.

    Buffett's strategy is an investing one and Schiff's is a trading and timing one.

    Buffett followers can hold their shares, collect their dividend and wait for the rebound. Schiff followers collect no dividend and watched for over 5 years as their bet went wrong. How many stuck around? How many shorted into every market drop or "presumed" top over 5 years, only repeatedly losing money as the market kept rising and Schiff kept pounding his message home?

    Schiff should not be getting the praise he is getting today for being "so right" after saying the same thing and being "so wrong" for the previous 5 years.

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