Posted on 01/17/2018 4:05:22 PM PST by blam
The impending economic collapse is hidden from most. People only see a rising stock market, not the negative underlying factors that will cause the whole system to crash.
The weakening of the U.S. dollar is just getting started, warned veteran market forecaster Peter Schiff, CEO of Euro Pacific Capital. “We have just begun a major, long-term bear market in the dollar,” he said, which should cause a spike in oil prices. He thinks oil will reach $80-$100 a barrel in 2018. The commodity currently trades at roughly $63 a barrel. Shiff focuses on oil as just one example of the inflation that will help collapse the dollar.
When the price of oil rises, it reverberates through the economy. Peter called it a gigantic tax hike for consumers. But the Fed is still worried prices aren’t going up fast enough and that they won’t hit the mystical 2% goal.
“They’re going to hit that out of the park. They’re going to be looking at 2% in the rearview mirror – in the distant rearview mirror. That is going to be the big story. They’re going to way overshoot and they’re not going to be able to do anything about it.” –Peter Schiff
Schiff also warns that the dollar’s decline is just getting starting. He also says “everything that can go wrong, will.” We are not experiencing economic growth. We are experiencing inflation.
“High inflation is not good for the dollar. By definition, high inflation means the dollar is losing purchasing power. If the dollar is losing purchasing power, that is bad for the dollar,” Shiff explains.
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Yeh I’m weary of Schiff. With drill baby drill how will oil prices skyrocket? If the stock market stays strong so will the dollar.
“Somebody used to post a graphic of a stick figure typing furiously at a keyboard. Eventually blood starts coming out of the stick fingers and the stick figure just collapses. I really liked that one.”
I have that for you, but haven’t figured out how to post a gif.
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