Quote from toc:
Why is everyone in panic?
Dollar and Deficits are to be worried upon, but does not lower dollar wipe out the debt levels in the real sense.
Quote from sysre:
I'd be long oil and short gold.
If you look at the price of oil in real asset terms it's cheap (forget what it costs in USD - that's just paper).
i.e. how many ounces of gold would you have to spend in order to buy a barrel of crude?
I do think that the US is at a cyclical bottom in rates. It's only going to edge up from here, which will strengthen the USD, and gold will fall in response. p.s. when gold falls, it falls very hard and swift.
Quote from harkm:
Gold is tricky. It goes up with deflation or rising inflation. It goes down with steady disinflation. So it can go up substantially either way. It only crashes when price stability sets in. So if the equity markets really get going with strong volume you know gold is a very good short and price stability is ahead.