Wednesday, October 14, 2009

IMF joining the liquidity party

The International Monetary Fund is now flooding global markets with liquidity, issuing Special Drawing Rights (SDR), which is basically a basket of the USDollar, the Euro, the Japanese Yen, and the Pound Sterling currencies. Due to liquidity exhaustion by the Fed, the IMF is now stepping up in its role as the international central bank, injecting SDR's into the global financial system. Is this inflationary? You decide.



Near the end of the interview, Rickards sums up well the disdain for gold from central bankers:

"The problem is: when you own gold, you're fighting every central bank in the world. Central banks hate gold, because it limits their ability to print money. But the market is the market; the market will do what it wants. Even the central banks are not bigger than the market."

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