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How to invest for deflation, then inflation<\/p><\/div>\n

This article continues on from – Debt Crisis Explosion: Still a Long Way Off<\/a><\/p>\n

Although Mauldin\u2019s book is most informative, even entertaining, it ends up being unsatisfying in two ways.<\/p>\n

His recommendations about what investors should do to survive and prosper in the developing crisis are negligible, accounting for just two pages in a work of almost 300, although he is probably correct in forecasting the future as: \u201cDeflation first, and then inflation.\u201d<\/p>\n

We should invest accordingly. For the initial, deflation phase, he says buy:<\/p>\n

Treasury bonds (the book is written for an American audience);<\/p>\n

Income-producing securities;<\/p>\n

The dollar.<\/p>\n

For the following inflation phase, buy:<\/p>\n

Precious metals;<\/p>\n

Inflation-protected and short-duration bonds;<\/p>\n

Commodity currencies such as the Canadian loonie, New Zealand kiwi, Aussie dollar, Brazilian real and Norwegian krone;<\/p>\n

Companies supplying basic materials, energy and consumer staples.<\/p>\n

But my fundamental problem with his book is with his equivocation on the key issue facing investors for the next few years \u2013 the extent to which there is going to be money printing, and its likely consequences.<\/p>\n

Mauldin says (page 230) that as central banks generally are overwhelmingly more concerned about deflation than about inflation, they will be \u201cextremely loose with their monetary policies\u201d and \u201ccontinue to flood the world with money.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, he also says (page 202) that, \u201ceven given the recent bout of QE2,\u201d (money printing), \u201cit is hard to conceive of the Fed\u201d (the American central bank) \u201cactually monetizing\u201d (printing money to buy new issues of Treasury bonds), so allowing \u201cthe US government to run large deficits.\u201d<\/p>\n

Why would the Fed, which has been among the world\u2019s leaders when it comes to easy-money policies, suddenly reverse direction so sharply, adopt Volcker-style restraint, and do the opposite of other central banks?<\/p>\n

Why would American financial policymakers, who have been so generous with their massive support for mega-banks, insurance speculators, uncompetitive industrial giants, overcommitted mortgage loan borrowers \u2013 even foolish foreign mega-banks \u2013 refuse to accommodate the biggest wasteful spenders of the lot, their own political class?<\/p>\n

As the global economy struggles to fend off recession, central banks \u2013 including and especially the Fed \u2013 will provide even larger doses of money.<\/p>\n

They won\u2019t solve anything. But they will delay further, and eventually worsen, tackling the fundamental problem of too much debt.<\/p>\n

Mauldin says that \u201cexcess liquidity\u201d created by quantitative easing and similar central bank policies, being money surplus to the needs of economies for their productive purposes, tends to flow into asset markets such as stocks, bonds, commodities and property.<\/p>\n

So more money printing will be favourable for many investments. Mauldin\u2019s endgame will come, eventually\u2026 but not for quite a while.<\/p>\n

This article continues on from – Debt Crisis Explosion: Still a Long Way Off<\/a><\/p>\n

CopyRight \u2013 OnTarget 2012 by Martin Spring<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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