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How to Protect Your Family and Wealth from the End of America
Written by Sierra Hancock Subject: Economy - Economics USA
How to Protect Your Family and Wealth from the End of America
Porter Stansberry
Steve's note: As you've seen in our special series this week,
my friend and colleague Porter Stansberry is deeply concerned about the
problems developing in our country and around the world. And today,
he's showing readers how to prepare for the crisis he sees happening.
Read on for the final installment of our "End of America" series...
The International Monetary Fund estimates the 20 largest
industrial nations (known as the G20) are on course to see their
combined government debt exceed 100% of their combined GDP within three
years.
Debts of this size simply cannot be financed, let alone repaid. The
first step in this great unraveling is underway – the collapse of the
euro.
In March 2010, I wrote:
Like dominoes, the highly indebted economies of Europe are
going to topple. Greece was first. But plenty more problems are coming.
Italy has no way to meet its obligations. Nor do Portugal or Spain...
Events over the past two weeks in Greece should give you plenty of warning governments all over the world have too much debt.
What will the U.S. do when a major European financial
institution fails? If the resulting contagion causes one of America's
major banks to fail, what will the U.S. government do?
The answer, my friends, is simple: It will print, print, print, and print. Here's the important fact to remember...
The United States is the only government in the world that can actually afford to underwrite the world's banking system.
That's not because we have any real savings, but because we control the
world's reserve currency. It's a paper standard, which means we can
always print more of it.
The U.S. announced exactly that last month, setting
up an enormous $1 trillion bailout fund for the euro via the IMF and
beginning a new round of quantative easing – this time $600 billion of
new dollar reserves will be injected into the U.S. Treasury market.
Despite the enormous buying of Treasurys by the Fed, long-term
Treasury bond rates have soared on these announcements. Investors have
begun to flee the U.S. dollar into all other forms of savings:
* Coal and oil are trading at two-year highs.
* Corn, soybeans, wheat, cotton, and sugar are trading at multiyear highs.
* Gold and copper are trading at record highs.
* Silver is trading at a 30-year high.
* Even long-depressed natural gas is now rallying.
This list sums up the arguments and warnings we've been giving for years. We are not going to have a crisis. We are in a crisis right now.
What's the best way to protect yourself?
Well, if you had done nothing this year but buy real money (gold)
and short U.S. Treasury bonds, you would be sitting on a significant
profit.
Take a look at the chart below. Gold (the blue line) is up about
23% in the last year. The Treasury bond fund (the black line) is flat.
The credit of the U.S., which backs every bankrupt government in
the western world, must soon collapse. Our ongoing debts and deficits
are too big to be financed in sound money. Thus, the Fed is turning on
the printing presses, and they will be running for a long time.
The time to act is now.
It's critical you orient your investments so you're long real money
and real assets and short bad credits – starting with the U.S.
government. Buy the things people need – food, energy, and money. Sell
things that are vastly encumbered – especially the stocks of
corporations that are deeply in debt.
As you look through your portfolio, the first thing you ought to
consider adding is silver. Silver is the best hedge against paper money
for one simple reason: When it's not used as money, there's very little
demand for it. When it is used as money, there's a tremendous demand for
it.
I expect gold will continue to move higher, too... much higher. If
you wanted to put the U.S. dollar on a 10% gold-reserve standard, the
price of gold would have to reach nearly $10,000 an ounce to back all
the outstanding money of zero maturity. Assuming gold reaches this
price, the price of silver at its full monetary value (at a 15:1 ratio
to gold) would be around $650 an ounce.
I know these prices seem ludicrous today... but those numbers are real.
Remember, we're a long way from the end of this crisis. Most people
don't even own any gold or silver yet. So now is the best time to hedge
your portfolio... before the rest of the world realizes a massive
inflation is underway.
Good investing,
P.S. My claims may sound crazy. But please don't hesitate to
protect your portfolio against this very real currency crisis. I
recently put together a presentation to show you exactly how dire things
have gotten... and discuss possible solutions for you and your family. I
urge you to review the simple facts in my presentation. You'll be surprised by what you hear.
Further Reading:
Read more here: Why You Need to Get Long Silver Immediately.
DailyWealth readers have been ahead of the crowd in
the precious metals trade. But, as Brian Hunt recently pointed out,
"Now that folks are watching whole countries go bankrupt on the nightly
news and reading how U.S. government spending is exploding, they are
waking up to the idea of owning gold and silver as a 'real money' way to
protect themselves from these disasters."