Originally Posted by dalakhani

oh gales. Lets not turn this into a geo-political discussion. The chinese and the rest of the world will buy our debt as long as we need them to because it is in their best interest to on many levels. But thats not what this thread is about.

The thread was about "hyper inflation". Obviously, if you are talking about unemployment and I am seeing housing values and new homes starts drop...then we are still in a DEFLATIONARY environment. And we will be here for a while.

Originally Posted by gales0678

what about the low us rates causing specualtion in global mkts , commodities , and currencies

Originally Posted by dalakhani

You are always going to have speculation and regardless commodities/equity bubbles are certainly the lesser of the evils.

The worst of the rate adjustments is set to occur over the next two years. The housing market is not yet stabilized. Even a half point rise would send our markets into a tailspin.

There really is no choice.

Originally Posted by gales0678

so we just plod along to a slow death?

Originally Posted by hi_im_god (Post 707521)

Bernanke spoke at length about the current levels of inflation, considering them "too low," with the risk of deflation being more than desirable. He also said he expected inflation levels will likely remain subdued as inflation expectations remain stable and substantial slack in productive resources restrain cost pressures.

http://www.thestreet.com/story/10890...s-too-low.html

hyper-inflation will get here any day now.

Originally Posted by Smooth Operator (Post 488994)

Plenty of blame to go around, no doubt ... but it's pretty funny how the current financial/economic implosion happened while Bush-Cheney were at the wheel.

A full seven years after they hopped into that driver's seat, no less.


Not like they didn't have enough time to deal with stuff...