Deflation, Inflation or Stagflation???

Remember FCX as leading indicator?



Gold rallied 31 percent in 2007 as inflation rose at the fastest rate in almost two decades. Consumer prices dropped 1.7 percent in November, the most on record, as energy costs plunged. Crude-oil futures have plunged 74 percent from a record in July.

Will copper and oil and CRX drag gold down again? Gold: "The 885 level should prove to be resistance and the market should soon resume its move down into the 550-600 range." Carl Futia:

"Inflation Coming, But Not in Time
We expect that to change, but not in time to rescue debtors with a flood of cheapened money. We have told you for years to tune out the inflationists because they do not know their butt from a hole in the ground. That is still true. The inflation/stagflation they have been blathering about, and which materialized only fleetingly in the form of a speculative blowoff in commodities, was just a head-fake, a seduction whose purpose was to screw any investor who thought he could outsmart the first deflation ever to occur in the midst, paradoxically, of a global credit explosion.

It goes without saying that you should also tune out the self-aggrandizing charlatans who are saying the housing market and the economy will bottom “sometime next year.” These are the same unmitigated bozos who were insisting just six months ago that the economy would avoid a recession. Deflation will run its course no matter what the puny central banks attempt to throw at it next. It will take years to play out, and the price declines we have seen so far in the housing market are not even halfway to their bottom. As for gold, we will reiterate something we said here earlier: Even if it should fall to $200 an ounce, it is all but guaranteed to be do better, much as it has been, compared to nearly every other investment asset you could conceivably have chosen." Rick Ackerman
Dec 22 2008


I for one am very uncertain about the future.

Here is another opinion:

For the first time since 1940, the yield on the three-month Treasury bill went negative this month. Investors eagerly bought up a negative 0.01% yield. That means that they would rather lock in a certain 90-day loss than risk anything in the stock market.

Probability 72% for S&P up market tomorrow. Very light volume for trading until the end of the year.

My thoughts? First deflation, next inflation and then stagflation. Best assets when I get "buy" signals: Oil and gas stocks , gold bullion and gold producing mining stocks.

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