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Comment by Gordon Ray Kissinger on December 29, 2009 at 9:39am
.John Williams Blows Away Government Data - Hyperinflation Horizon - ShadowStats.com





ShadowStats.com founder John Williams explains the risk of hyperinflation.
Worst-case scenario? Rioting in the streets and devolution to a bartering
system.
http://www.shadowstats.com/

Economist/statistician John Williams shifts through the
government's rose-tinted data
Thursday, December 31, 2009
By Phil Maymin

Do you believe everything the government tells you? Economist and
statistician John Williams sure doesn't. Williams, who has consulted for
individuals and Fortune 500 companies, now uncovers the truth behind
the U.S. government's economic numbers on his Web site at ShadowStats.com.
Williams says, over the last several decades, the feds have been infusing their
data with optimistic biases to make the economy seem far rosier than it really
is. His site reruns the numbers using the original methodology. What he found
was not good.

Maymin: So we are technically
bankrupt?
Williams: Yes, and when countries are in that state, what
they usually do is rev up the printing presses and print the money they need to
meet their obligations. And that creates inflation, hyperinflation, and makes
the currency worthless.

Obama says America will go bankrupt if Congress doesn't pass the health
care bill.
Well, it's going to go bankrupt if they do pass the health care bill, too,
but at least he's thinking about it. He talks about it publicly, which is one
thing prior administrations refused to do. Give him credit for that. But what
he's setting up with this health care system will just accelerate the process.

Where are we right now?
In terms of the GDP, we are about halfway to depression level. If you look at
retail sales, industrial production, we are already well into depressionary. If
you look at things such as the housing industry, the new orders for durable
goods we are in Great Depression territory. If we have hyperinflation, which I
see coming not too far down the road, that would be so disruptive to our system
that it would result in the cessation of many levels of normal economic
commerce, and that would throw us into a great depression, and one worse than
was seen in the 1930s.

What kind of hyperinflation are we talking about?
I am talking something like you saw with the Weimar Republic of the 1930s.
There the currency became worthless enough that people used it actually as
toilet paper or wallpaper. You could go to a fine restaurant and have an
expensive dinner and order an expensive bottle of wine. The next morning that
empty bottle of wine is worth more as scrap glass than it had been the night
before filled with expensive wine.
We just saw an extreme example in Zimbabwe. ... Probably the most extreme
hyperinflation that anyone has ever seen. At the same time, you still had a
functioning, albeit troubled, Zimbabwe economy. How could that be? They had a
workable backup system of a black market in U.S. dollars. We don't have a backup
system of anything. Our system, with its heavy dependence on electronic
currency, in a hyperinflation would not do well. It would probably cease to
function very quickly. You could have disruptions in supply chains to food
stores. The economy would devolve into something like a barter system until they
came up with a replacement global currency.

What can we do to avoid hyperinflation? What if we just shut down the Fed
or something like that?
We can't. The actions have already been taken to put us in it. It's beyond
control. The government does put out financial statements usually in December
using generally accepted accounting principles, where unfunded liabilities like
Medicare and Social Security are included in the same way as corporations
account for their employee pension liabilities. And in 2008, for example, the
one-year deficit was $5.1 trillion dollars. And that's instead of the $450
billion, plus or minus, that was officially reported.

Wow.
These numbers are beyond containment. Even the 2008 numbers, you can take 100
percent of people's income and corporate profit and you'd still be in deficit.
There's no way you can raise enough money in taxes.

What about spending?
If you eliminated all federal expenditures except for Medicare and Social
Security, you'd still be in deficit. You have to slash Social Security and
Medicare. But I don't see any political will to rein in the costs the way they
have to be reined in. There's just no way it can be contained. The total federal
debt and net present value of the unfunded liabilities right now totals about
$75 trillion. That's five times the level of GDP.

What can we, the people, do to stop the government from, you know, taking
all our money?
We should have acted 20 years ago. There's not much you can do at this point
to prevent the eventual debasement of the dollar. This involves both sides of
the political spectrum. It's not limited to the Republicans or the Democrats.
They've both been very active in setting this up.

What can individuals do?
The only thing individuals can do now is look to protect themselves. I wish I
could see a way, but shy of severe slashing of the social programs that is so
politically reprehensible and would create such problems and social unrest, I
don't see that as a practical solution.

If you're a young 20- or 25-year-old guy or gal, would you move to
another country? What would you do?
We still have a great country. We're going through a period of economic pain.
It's happened before. This is the kind of thing that's taken us decades to get
into and it will take us decades to get out. Although the hyperinflation is
going to be limited largely to the U.S., the economic downturn will affect
things globally. I can't tell you how things will go with a hyperinflationary
Great Depression, which is where I see things going.
It's the type of thing that will tend to lead to significant political
change. People tend to vote their pocketbooks. You could have the rise of a
third party. You could even have rioting in the streets. I'm not formally
predicting that ? anyone can run these different scenarios. For the individual,
what you need to do, from an investment standpoint, look to preserve your wealth
and assets. Don't worry about the day-to-day fluctuations in the markets. What
I'm talking about here is over the long haul...
[Gold is] going to be highly volatile, as will the dollar, over the near
term, but longer term, physical gold I would look at as a primary hedge for
preserving the purchasing power of your wealth and assets. Maybe some physical
silver. Get some assets outside the U.S. dollar. I might even look to move some
assets physically outside the United States. The key here is to look at a longer
range survival package, battening down the hatches, and preserving your wealth
and assets during a very difficult time. Once you're through that, you'll have
some extraordinary investment opportunities, and I can't tell you what it's
going to be like on the other side of this crisis.
Dr. Phil Maymin is an Assistant Professor of Finance and Risk Engineering
at NYU-Polytechnic Institute. The views represented are his
own.

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