Salient to Investors: The annual CPI reported figure of 0.1% is a lie and has become a manipulated statistic using academic theories to systematically under-report the true level of inflation – between 4% and 10% – in order to cut annual cost of living adjustments to Social Security and other
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: The shares outstanding in iShares TIPS Bond ETF exceeded those of the FlexShares iBoxx 3-Year Target Duration TIPS Index ETF by the lowest on record, indicating investors are betting the Fed will achieve its price-stability goals. Overall inflows to ETFs tracking US inflation in 2014 are at
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Jim Rogers writes: Inflation is everywhere, including India, China, Norway, and Australia. However, the BLS is lying about inflation in the US. Since 2001, the cost to go to the top of the Empire State Building has risen to $44 from $9, to the Museum of Modern
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Jim Rogers says prices for food, education, insurance, just about everything that we buy are going higher and the government tells us there’s no inflation. Some independent measures say it’s over 6 percent already, and it will go much higher because they keep printing money. Read the full
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Jim Rogers says every major central bank is printing money and you cannot have an efficient and strong economy with artificial money printing. The next economic slowdown will be worse than 2008-2009. Read the full article at http://blogjimrogers.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-world-is-floating-on-very-large.html Click here to receive free and immediate email alerts of the latest
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Jim Rogers is short India on very high debt to GDP and more government controls and regulations. Read the full article at http://blogjimrogers.blogspot.com/2013/08/jim-rogers-short-india-stock-market.html Click here to receive free and immediate email alerts of the latest forecasts.
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Martin Feldstein at Harvard writes: Historically rapid monetary growth fuels high inflation. Germany’s hyperinflation in the 1920s and Latin America’s in the 1980s. More moderate shifts in US monetary growth rates fuel inflation. In the 1970s, money supply grew at an average annual rate of 9.6% and
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Bloomberg Global Poll: International investors are the most bullish on the US and Japanese markets in more than 3.5 years as both economies are seen to be improving. Over 40% will reduce gold exposure over the next 6 months, close to 3 times more than those who
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Tom Tucci at CIBC World Markets said we are range bound, with the lower end at 1.8-to-1.65 percent. Guy LeBas at Janney Montgomery Scott said the most significant long-term indicator has been the drop down in CPI, which on the margin makes Treasuries more attractive. Peter Jolly at National Australia
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: The most important factor in gold’s decline is that global inflation is falling and gold bugs are scrambling to exit their gold positions at any price. The JPMorgan Chase global consumer price index shows global inflation peaked at 4 percent in 2011 and has fallen steadily since. JPMorgan’s main
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