a 'wake up call' about economic fundamentals , and the potential pitfalls of thinking of the US dollar as an accurate measure of 'value' from
(snip)"Price is what you pay but value is what you get. During the Great Credit Contraction capital is seeking not only the safest assets but also the most liquid.
Market liquidity is a business, economics or investment term that refers to an asset’s ability to be easily converted through an act of buying or selling without causing a significant movement in the price and with minimum loss of value."(snip)
(snip)"The Great Credit Contraction, an economic climate change from an inflationary summer to a deflationary ice age, has barely begun. The remaining liquidity in the market is largely illusory. Residential real estate, commercial real estate, the major stock markets and even the banks are almost all zombie institutions anchored to fraudulent financial statements that are preventing the needed healing liquidation. The unemployment situation is escalating out of control and The Greater Depression is wearing on people and psychology is being changed. Earnings are collapsing and dividend to earning payout ratios are unsustainable. Meanwhile the monetary metals appear poised for a significant rise as the FRN$ continues evaporating.
Because there is no intelligible answer for what is a dollar therefore it is an unreliable instrument for performing mental calculations of value. This next crash which appears imminent but could take a while to materialize because of manipulations will likely see the DOW fall from its current 9.5 ounces to about 5 ounces of gold and the S&P 500 sliding from its current 1.3 ounces of gold to about 0.85 ounces."(snip)



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