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The more currency they print, The less value the currency has.
I will do my best to stay politically neutral with my comments.
What's going to happen to the US economy seems pretty straight forward to me.
The fed is now aggressively attempting to prop up the economy by lowering interests rates which is analogous to printing more money: an extremely inflationary measure.
The 200+ upward move in the Dow last Friday, 9/14/12, was a direct result of this recent fed action. These gains in the Dow are all fluff or window dressing in my humble opinion.
Investors in stocks will unfortunately soon have a rude awakening in the next six months or so when company's earnings do not live up to investor expectations.
Over the last several years the US economy has essentially been stuck in neutral exhibiting negligible growth as a result of business owners' reluctancy to invest in new endeavors because of the unknowns regarding taxes( ie the fiscal cliff this Dec 2012) and political outcomes etc.
Now here is the spin on the precious metals' angle in relation to the Dow.
As US interest rates tank to historic lows all commodities like precious metals and basic staples should continue their recent meteoric rise making everything more expensive to procure.
When essential raw materials become more expensive to acquire small businesses (the primary and most important core of the US economy) will conversely suffer by experiencing higher operating costs.
These higher operating costs will force business owners to cut back on hiring new employees resulting in further declines in US employment and overall declines in the US economy.
So in summary the end result should be higher silver and gold prices no matter what course of action is pursued because either:
1) the US economy will have tanked so low that the continual printing of money and 16 trillion dollar + deficit
http://www.usdebtclock.org/ has necessitated further inflationary stimulus measures or
2) another political party (unnamed in order to comply with CCF directives) changes the current fiscal direction to one where business owners feel a greater motivation to hire more workers which consequently stimulates the US economy resulting in higher productivity and naturally higher inflation or
3) Iran and Israel engage in a nuclear World War III, a type of event which has historically forced investors to flock into gold and silver etc. for safety and preservation of capital.
This is only my opinion but I feel reasonably sure that investing in metals is at least appropriate in today's current economic climate.
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