Question: Move My Stocks OUT Of The Dollar? Fed Prints 1 TRILLION Dollars.

The One Thing: 3/19 ^ | Mar 19, 2009 | Glenn Beck

[Yosemitest]

Glenn Beck: The One Thing: 3/19 (video)
and Fed to Pump Another $1.2 Trillion Into U.S. Economy are my source material for this question.

Other sources are:

Fed Prints a Trillion Dollars, By Chris Martenson, March 21, 2009

A Recent Alert - Fed Prints a Trillion, Friday, March 20, 2009, 8:55 pm, by cmartenson

[Yosemitest]

Should I move my Thrift Saving Program into the "I" Fund? Other choices are here.

This is the only move that will take me out of the U.S. Dollar.

[2001convSVT]

I have moved 1/3 of my funds into realestate, and plan on moving another 1/3 into commidities (gold, silver, oil and natural gas).

[netmilsmom]

That’s what we are doing.
Buying our own little “campground” in Ohio. Camp close to the family in the summer, hunt in the fall.

We have lost big time in our 401K. We are not going to lose our savings too.

[theBuckwheat]

For the average investor, good mutual funds or actively managed ETFs are the best choice. But always review the “top holdings” section. You many find that you like two funds, but upon review find that both may hold a lot of GSK, or Vodaphone, or ABB.

If you really want to trade non-US stocks, a lot of non-US brokers no longer accept accounts from US Persons. You can than the Land of the Free rules for that. But it appears that SwissQuote.ch still takes US Persons. The downside to a do-it-yourself account is you really really need to do careful research and when you get to the smaller European stocks, there is no research available.

[blackie]

Buy gold and ammo!

Be Ever Vigilant!

[rgr]

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[plain talk]

I echo old Buckewheat’s point. A portion in a ETF or mutual fund with broad international exposure or focused on a growth area like China is good if you have a long investment time horizon. Over the next year starting now is an excellent time to buy if you can stand some turbullence.

[seowulf]

Unfortunately there’s not a whole lot of good choices if you’re in the TSP.

I suppose the only “good” choice is to pull it out entirely and then invest in foreign denominated oil and natural gas ETF’s. Of course if you are still working for the feds, you can’t pull it out.

I don’t think the I will be in any better shape since other currencies will fall faster than the dollar.

There are no really good options. I have moved most of mine into the G and cut my contribution to what I need to get all of the matching.

I think the TSP will eventually be too irresistible for it not to be raided sometime in the future. I have moved my saving to accounts that I control directly and that have many more options available.

[Darth Gill]

I moved to “G” fun 100% early last year when I saw all this coming... I didn’t lose. I also stopped all contributions and am now kicking myself I put ANY money into the TSP (it was my primary form of savings). I’ll probably never get any of it back.

[God luvs America]

I moved 10,000’s of my $$, my wifes and daughters into natural resource funds in January- up big thus far...

[Who is John Galt?]

For the average investor, good mutual funds or actively managed ETFs are the best choice...

You're missing the point. He's a federal employee - his ONLY choices are in the handful of TSP funds...

[Secret Agent Man]

Cashed mine in early and and buyig commodities while inflation is still low.

[Yosemitest]

Right-mouse click this link and select "open in a new window",
and use a small window for both to watch and read it at the same time., and watch it again.

Listen and watch it, now.

Automatically Generated Transcript (may not be 100% accurate)

Don't be distracted by the 'big news' of the day;
it's usually just a smokescreen

... left but.
Here's the one thing.
I actually miss something yesterday.
And as somebody called me
-- a radio program yesterday.
During noon, you know around lunchtime and they said
Glenn -- Why is -- you always say
look at the other hand
what's the other hand doing
everybody's talking about AIG.
You know what
I didn't know at the time
I didn't know until about 3 or 4 o'clock in the afternoon yesterday.


Then I figured it out
I've been telling you for weeks
don't be distracted by the big news of the day
because I think a lot of it is a smoke screen.
The Citibank offices, the AIG.
Yesterday I fell for it myself
while everybody including me was taken sides on the AIG bonuses

Something so much more important
History happened yesterday.
The Fed announced
that it is going to pump a trillion dollars into the system
by buying debt from our treasury.
What does that mean?
You know I asked my producers today
so why is nobody covering this
and they said it's too compact, too complex politically,
-- nobody really understands this
it's hard to explain
please America.
Please stay with me on this.
They have lowered interest rates as far as they can.
What happened yesterday is a last ditch effort
you know
it's ... it's like
you put our entire economy up on the roulette wheel and said
yeah, You know what
let's let her roll
-- keep it on black seventeen.
To put this into perspective.
Think of America this way
she's like a sick patient,
and she's got one of those nasty staff infections you know
and the doctors
-- oh, just give her a little Penicillin , and every thing'll clear up
--and it doesn't
and then they try something else
and try something else
and pretty soon you're not
(Glenn takes a deep breath).
And that's when you open up your eyes
and you see everybody
you're now in an isolation room there in the hospital
they've all got masks
and they're hanging a little bag of "IV"
and they're like
Oh, I'm so sorry, everything's gonna be okay ...
Oh dear God -- he's going to die.
They usually, you know the
the last line of defense for antibiotics, is Vankgo, that's it.
If it doesn't work, you're dead.
Yesterday, about 3 o'clock eastern
the last line of defense was hung ... over the patient ... called America.
But, we were all
including me
too focused on AIG thing
all that's scandal.

Here's what all of this means.
What they did yesterday afternoon was
they started borrowing money from ourselves.
To pay ourselves
for programs we can't afford.
You know
it's like I said
Uh, you know what,
Glenn, I just like a thousand dollars for M n Ms. Well, uhh Glenn,
I don't think you should be spending that thousand dollars.
but I really want some M n M's, Glenn
okay
--I tell you what.
I've got the money right here
well it's not actually money
what it is, you know
its an "I owe me".
So Glenn, I'll give it to you
oh my goodness, Glenn
-- thank you so much
I'm good for it
really I am.
They're moving money from one pocket to another
it doesn't work."

"I'll show you why the situation is deathly serious
in just a minute
but first
I want to show you.
I want to show you something over here.
I asked the art department, and they are so good.
I asked them to show ... how much is a trillion dollars
because that's what we PRINTED, yesterday
A trillion dollars.
I think we have lost sight on how much a trillion dollars is
so here's a hundred dollars
we all know
a hundred dollars.
There it is. 100 dollar bill.
next 10,000 dollars
what does that look like stacked up in 100 dollar bills.
There it is.
Now a hundred, oh I'm sorry. Now a million dollars.
Stacked up in hundred dollar bills
it's actually would fit in a big suitcase.

Now a hundred million dollars.
I don't know why they insist on keeping me so fat
but there I am.
okay so there's a hundred million dollars.
Now let me show you a billion dollars.
If it was all stacked up
that's how big it'd be
about the size of your car.

This is gonna get ugly
this is what one trillion dollars looks like.
That's fat Glenn right here.
That's a trillion dollars
that's how much money, yesterday the Fed created
out of thin air
when they said
Oh, let me take it out of this pocket
in an "I-O-U"
you print the money
and we'll put it in this pocket.
This is why yesterday.
In the time that I was on the air
gold shot up fifty dollars
the price of gold is up 75 dollars in eighteen hours.
After they announce this.

Investors of people with money
the people that know what this means
they're not stupid.
They're getting out of the dollar
the dollar deflated and,
and then went down in biggest drop
I think it's a third lowest since 1970.
Look, Let me explain what this means here
let me play doctor for you
but I'm not gonna talk to like you're a third grader.
Alright, I'm sick and tired of people not giving you the benefit of the doubt. And
and just thinking that you can't handle anything except a partisan argument.
Here's what it is.
The argued ... the uh, antibiotic that we've just been .. just gave ourselves, a trillion dollars of money that we just manufactured,
This ... it's been tried before.
But it has never ... ever ... worked in the history of the civilized world.
NEVER.
It ends in Zimbabwe.
It ends in the Vimar Republic
it ends with wheelbarrows full of money for bread.
Can this time be different?
I don't know
maybe
we sure hope so now
don't we.
But we've got to have the guts to make some life changing decisions here
we have got to have our government STOP spending so much money
it is time, America, to you, go up peacefully and surround the capital, and say
Hey guys, STOP spending money!
You're destroying the value of our dollar!"


" Unthinkable pain ... is coming in the short term
but I would much rather have that
I'd much rather have a depression.
than a depression AND a complete collapse of our monetary system and our dollar.
That's what's happening.
We're printing dollars at an alarming rate."

[TexasTransplant]

For me it’s 5 acres and then we are building a 50 x 100 Steel Building... soon while the dollar is worth something.

[2001convSVT]

For me, I would love to have my own one hundred acre woods. As of now my property is only about 1-1/2 acre.

[Yosemitest]

The raiding of the TSP, is a real concern for me.

As for the "G" fund or the "F" fund, they're both still tied to the U.S. Dollar,
and I think that's about to crash.

[Yosemitest]

I might lose it all, with a move the "I" Fund, but after thinking some more,
It's probably the best move, until I can roll over my TSP into a Scottrade retirement account.

[zeugma]

The follwing website needs to be passed around to everyone.

What does one TRILLION dollars look like?

It puts all these whacky numbers being tossed around into perspective.

[Yosemitest]

That link you posted is about the same as Glenn Beck's video.

[lentulusgracchus]

Guys,

Here's the bad news ..... Ben Bernanke and Hank the Shank killed all the dollar-hedgers, including me, last year. Didn't you get the memo?

In July, they moved against the commodities group and engineered a "long squeeze", i.e. manipulating the dollar to start a selling avalanche among the hedgers, which snowballed and just about took out the entire equity market along with the commodities.

It was same thing the Fed and CFTC did in 1980 to bankrupt the Hunt brothers and crater the precious-metals bull market: the Hunts were fronting for the Saudis, piling up silver as a reserve against which the Saudis wanted to float a new international currency, because the OPEC countries were tired of Jimmy Carter and Fed chairman Arthur Burns screwing them by inflating the dollar. (Remember U.S. GI's going on German welfare, to help feed their families in Germany? Remember that one? Remember the U.S. dollar going through the floor, and European and Japanese car prices blowing up like balloons, and U.S. carmakers like GM cynically raising their own prices to get early money rather than reclaim market share?) That was all part of Jimmuh's high-mindedness, as he took us to the cleaners in order to "save" the "Third World economy". It was morally impermissible for people in ThirdWorldia to go hungry, you see -- so he and Burns engineered a swan-dive for the dollar, and our savings, and we paid a tremendous price for Jimmuh's moral posturing.

If Barnacle Ben decides too many of us are hedging his inflation of the dollar and fading his favorite product (printed paper), he'll pull out his knife again and go around the room stabbing people, just like he and Hank the Shank and the "Plunge Protection Team" (a.k.a. "the President's Working Group on Capital Markets) did last July.

Don't believe me?

Read up on it on Minyanville.com and FinancialSense.com. Go there, get into their links, search their archives, and start reading and learning as fast as you can. Your future diet depends on it.

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