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I suggest getting out of the US dollar as soon as you can.

Update: From Augest 2008 to May 2009 the monetary base has more than doubled!

This shows the inflation is not necessary and is a result of an increase of the money supply.

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Press TV
December 24, 2008

The Iranian president calls on a regional economic body to abandon the US dollar in order to reduce the effects of the financial crisis.

In a Tuesday speech to a meeting of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO)*, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the 10-member group of Asian nations could adopt a single currency instead of the US dollar to shield their financial systems from the negative impacts of the global economic crisis.

*ECO was originally founded by Iran, Pakistan and Turkey, but was later joined by the Central Asian states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, as well as Azerbaijan and Afghanistan.

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By decreasing the demand for US dollars you also reduce it’s value.  Click here for an explination of why.

Bob Willis and Shobhana Chandra
Bloomberg
December 26, 2008

Sales of single-family houses in the U.S. dropped in November by the most in two decades and resale prices collapsed at a pace reminiscent of the Great Depression, dashing speculation the market was close to a bottom.

Purchases of both new and existing houses dropped 7.6 percent from the prior month, the biggest decline since January 1989, to an annual rate of 4.43 million, government and industry figures showed today. A 13 percent drop in the median resale price from a year earlier was the most since records began in 1968 and was likely the largest since the 1930s, the National Association of Realtors said.

“Housing is still in a freefall,” said Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at IHS Global Insight in Lexington, Massachusetts.

The figures were worse than economists had forecast and signal that the battered housing market that led the economy into a recession may be taking another lurch down. Sliding property values mean more Americans will be under water on their mortgages, destroying household wealth and undermining consumers’ purchasing power.

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Peter Schiff believes we will be seeing a lot of inflation (increased prices due to increase in the money supply) in the coming years and as a result we may see a “solution” from government called price fixing.

For example the price of milk might have a price cap of $5 a gallon.  This seems good on the surface but I assure you it is not.

Consumers will now buy more milk because it is relatively cheaper than other products.  Producers will not make as much money or even loose money when they sell milk so they will be discouraged to produce milk and they will focus on producing products that actually make them money.

The result of this will be a shortage of milk.  Now imagine this happening with bread, eggs, produce, etc.

Let’s just hope Peter Schiff is wrong.