Recently there has been some talk by a few members of the Federal Reserve Board that there may be deflation in our future. Federal Reserve voting member James Bullard recently released a paper revealing that the U.S. risks the potential of falling into a Japan-like deflation period.
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2010
I Was A Guest On the Blogtalkradio Show The Optimistic Bear Talking About Gold and Deflation
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: blogtalkradio, Deflation, Gold, Michael Surkan, Optimistic Bear
I was a guest last night on the Blogtalkradio show, “The Optimistic Bear” with host Michael Surkan. It was a great show and the topics of discussion were gold, deflation, Austrian Economics, and a critique of mainstream financial advice including Modern Portfolio Theory and the Prudent Man Rule. The link to listen is here: http://surkanstance.blogspot.com/2010/07/this-week-on-bear-radio-gold-as.html – Specifically we discussed my …
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Is the U.S. Following in Japan’s Deflationary Footsteps? Part 2
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: Credit Contraction, Debt to GDP, Deflation, Gold, Interest rates, Japan Deflation, U.S. economy
In Part 2, I will address the 5, 10 and 30 year yields of the Japanese Government Bonds (JGB) and U.S. Dollar T-Bonds first and speak to the likeliness the U.S. will follow the Japan example of increasing Debt as a percentage of GDP to fight the deflationary credit contraction occurring. I’ll then correlate the four areas discussed in Part 1 and Part 2 with contemplations on how gold priced in U.S. Dollars will perform moving forward.
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