In the same category

Velocity of Money and the Coming cRaCK-uP BOOM!

IMG Auteur
Published : July 02nd, 2013
246 words - Reading time : less than a minute
( 0 vote, 0/5 )
Print article
  Article Comments Comment this article Rating All Articles  
0
Send
0
comment
Our Newsletter...
FOLLOW : Debt
Category : Editorials

With JOHN RUBINO & GORDON T LONG

32 Minutes, 34 Slides

24hGold - Velocity of Money an...

If you're a banker, you were traumatized by the 2009 crash and have been unwilling to lend to marginal customers. Now you're seeing:

    • Customers' homes becoming more valuable
    • Stock portfolios going up
    • Business valuations rising

In short, your customers are becoming a lot more creditworthy.

Meanwhile, you're sitting on massive reserves and are starting to feel like you're missing the boat, and worried that your competitors are going to ramp up lending more quickly than you, report better numbers, and make you look incompetent.

24hGold - Velocity of Money an...

SOLUTION: Go for it, start lending to anyone with a pulse and collecting the resulting fees.

Meanwhile, the Fed is in a box. It can't let interest rates rise to historically normal levels because that would cause federal interest expense to explode when short term debt is rolled over. So they have to maintain QE even in the face of a ramp-up in bank lending.

RESULT: Massive amounts of money slamming into a system where stocks and home prices are already at near record levels. A Crack up boom?

24hGold - Velocity of Money an...

Money flows where it is perceived to be safest or of most value based on weakening currency value.

The Places where VALUE can be STORED and PRESERVED

LIKELY HOMES:

  • Physical Assets
  • Hard Currency Assets
  • Financial Dividend Paying Equity Instruments
  • Food and Staples

24hGold - Velocity of Money an...

Check Out Our Extensive Library of Videos
Video Library
YouTube Channel

20-40 Minute Shows with 25-50 Supporting Slides

<< Previous article
Rate : Average note :0 (0 vote)
>> Next article
John Rubino is the author of The Coming Collapse of the Dollar (co-written with James Turk), How to Profit From the Coming Real Estate Bust (Rodale, 2003), and Main Street, Not Wall Street (William Morrow, 1998). A former Wall Street financial analyst and columnist with theStreet.com, he currently writes for Fidelity Magazine and CFA Magazine He lives in Moscow, Idaho
Comments closed
Latest comment posted for this article
Be the first to comment
Add your comment
Top articles
World PM Newsflow
ALL
GOLD
SILVER
PGM & DIAMONDS
OIL & GAS
OTHER METALS
Take advantage of rising gold stocks
  • Subscribe to our weekly mining market briefing.
  • Receive our research reports on junior mining companies
    with the strongest potential
  • Free service, your email is safe
  • Limited offer, register now !
Go to website.