At first glance I thot that was crazy --I mean, taxes raise prices & that's inflation --and sometimes it is, but these days the taxes are making folks not buy and it's depressing the economy. These days the broadest measure of the money supply is at an all time high, but the money velocity is dead and that's why there's no inflation.
OK, so the fed can issue money and buy back T-bills from the public, but until people actually use that money we're not going anywhere.
I'm at a loss to see how the economy can respond as long as we have such high taxes. If the government changes and lowers taxes, inflation will take off like a rocket.
Right now cash is a very wonderful thing to have but once the dam breaks it will become worth only a fraction of what it is now.
As I tell everyone, you must protect your wealth with commodities. You must have precious metals or ownership in companies that produce comodities like oil and gas. Real estate is ok as long as you are prepared to hold it. Once inflation hits the prices of realestate will drop like a rock. No body will have enough money to purchase realestate when they are paying 4 or 5 times as much for food, clothing and fuel. People on fixed incomes will go bankrupt. They won't be able to pay for their property, their taxes and necessities. They might be able to live in a room and eat dog food and survive but that will be it.
People probably think I'm nuts but economics was my major in college and I see no way out of this mess. There was a chance until Obama care and quantative easing, but that takes a huge chunk of money out of the economy.
I'm prepared as well as can be expected and I'm still VERY worried.
Obama has put tons of money in the hands of the banks and other financial institutions of his friends, when inflation hits, and it has to, and when realestate drops like a rock, these same institutions will buy up property for pennies on the dollar. If you own comodities then you may be able to participate in the buy up. I highly recommend you store a lot, a whole lot, of commodity storage. Wouldn't it be nice if you only had to purchase very little for a year or two.
Very interesting times we live in. Mr Obama is doing all he can to crash the economy so that he can take it over and “save” everyone. There will be a lot of people clamoring for this saving, just like there was when Hitler took over.