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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs

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To: TimF who wrote (43972)7/1/2010 10:12:49 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
Inflation has practically completely vanished, is ONLY 0.6% right now on a trailing six month smoothed basis and is possibly lower still in current measures.

We are teetering on the edge of national deflation and if DEFLATION emerges with strength and moves us into a DEBT/DEFLATION TRAP then those ridiculously over-priced Treasury Bonds will be the right place to be, not inflationary assets....

See:

"We are much nearer the tipping today. The M3 money supply has contracted by 5.5pc over the last year, and the pace is accelerating: the 'trimmed mean' index is now 0.6pc on a six-month basis, the lowest ever. America is one twist shy of a debt-deflation trap."


RBS tells clients to prepare for 'monster' money-printing by the Federal Reserve

As recovery starts to stall in the US and Europe with echoes of mid-1931, bond experts are once again dusting off a speech by Ben Bernanke given eight years ago as a freshman governor at the Federal Reserve.

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, International Business Editor
Published: 5:11PM BST 27 Jun 2010
telegraph.co.uk
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