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Warning signs of a coming currency crisis

Greg Hunter of USAWatchDog, a former mainstream media correspondent for CNN, ABC, etc., gathers some disturbing trends regarding a potential currency crisis:

Gold hit an all-time high this week—again.  The yellow metal briefly topped $1,500 an ounce before falling back down a few dollars.  The world has become increasingly nervous about the size of the growing U.S. debt.  Just this week, America’s debt topped $14.3 trillion (also an all-time high) which is close to the limit Congress can legally borrow. A recent CNSNews.com report shows why the $38 billion, that was just cut, is a drop in the budgetary bucket. 

The report said,“Friday’s $34.54-billion jump in the national debt almost equaled the $38.5 billion the Republican House leadership said would be cut from spending for the remainder of this fiscal year by the continuing resolution that the Congress passed on Thursday and President Obama signed Friday.  The federal government is now perilously close to hitting its legal limit on debt.”  

Odds are the debt ceiling will be raised by more than $1 trillion.  Meanwhile, the Fed is printing more than $75 billion a month to finance 70% of the U.S. budget.  The math of this screams currency crisis 2011!

The warning signs over the past few weeks are monumental. The world’s largest bond fund, PIMCO, recently sold ALL of its U.S. Treasury bills.

Read the full story.  Very informative. 

 


China’s Dagong Sees No Threat Of Fed Monetization Ending, Believes “World Credit War” Is About To Escalate

From Zero Hedge

Starting to get doubts about QE3? Don’t tell that to the official Chinese rating agency Dagong, who in traditional uber-pragmatic fashion, has the following summary observation on US monetary policy, and any imaginary changes thereto: “The second round quantitative easing policy ongoing in the United States can not change its weak domestic demand in the short term.

In fact, it can only lower the interest rate of US Treasuries so as to maintain stable interest rate in the capital market in the long term, playing the indirect role of clearing some obstacles for a stable recovery. However, the plan of purchasing 600 billion US dollar Treasury bonds can not realize its predicted goal; and therefore, the United States will hardly change its predetermined monetary policy in 2011.” What does this mean for China and the rest of the world: “The continuous implementation of such unconventional monetary policy in the United States will lead to the escalation of world credit war and inflict greater losses for related parties in the world credit system.” Any questions?

Full Dagong report from 01/2011