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Peter Schiff: Thanks to QE3, We're All Screwed

By David Zeiler, Associate Editor, Money Morning • @DavidGZeiler • November 12, 2012

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U.S. Federal Reserve policies like QE3 are building up to an inflationary catastrophe, says economic expert Peter Schiff.

Schiff, the CEO and Chief Global Strategist of Euro Pacific Capital, made his remarks about the dire consequences of excessive quantitative easing in a video interview on Yahoo! Finance's Breakout.

Schiff said he has dubbed the Fed's third round of bond-buying, known as QE3, "Operation Screw" because "everybody's pretty much screwed if they own dollars."

He warned that the Fed can only continue its policies of buying U.S. Treasuries and mortgages by printing more money, and printing more money inevitably will drive much higher inflation.

"The Fed is now promising to print $85 billion a month," Schiff said. "That's over a trillion dollars a year. And I think that's just their opening bid."

QE3 Not "Inflation-Neutral'

Schiff, who is best known for predicting the collapse of the housing bubble and the 2008 financial crisis in his 2007 book "Crash Proof," laughed at the claim made by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke that QE3 is "inflation-neutral."

"He's lying," Schiff said. "It is not inflation-neutral. It is the very definition of inflation. The government tries to mask how bad inflation is by giving us phony numbers that purport to measure it with the CPI or PCE or whatever Ben Bernanke wants to point to, but the reality is prices are already going up."

Inflation isn't running rampant now, he said, only because all that new Fed money hasn't worked its way to the consumer yet.

"Inflation enters the market in different ways," Schiff explained. "It goes through the banks, it goes through housing, it goes through stocks. Sometimes it takes a distorted path before it ultimately ends up in consumer prices."

As proof that a major bout of inflation is lurking around the corner, he noted that gold prices have more than doubled since the Federal Reserve launched QE1, QE2 and now QE3. Rising gold prices indicate a weakening dollar.

"That's a pretty good barometer of what's going on," Schiff said.

Peter Schiff: We'll Be Standing in Line for Everything

When QE3-fueled inflation finally does strike, Schiff said, the impact will hit Americans hard.

"Ultimately, I think we're going to see prices skyrocketing," he said. "And I think we're going to get shortages."

Schiff said the long gasoline lines in New York and New Jersey in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy are a taste of what's in store for the broader U.S. economy when inflation takes off.

"They won't let gas stations raise prices because they'll prosecute them for price gouging," he said. "So as a result, people have to wait in line five hours for gas.

"When prices start to skyrocket as a result of the inflation the Fed's creating, you're going to see price controls imposed on a whole bunch of products," Schiff said, "which means we're going to be standing in line for just about everything."

The last time the U.S. government imposed price controls to combat inflation was during the administration of President Richard Nixon in 1971.

The effort failed spectacularly, leading to product shortages and only temporarily suppressing price increases, which resumed with a vengeance after the controls were lifted.

Whether U.S. President Barack Obama heeds this lesson from history or elects to use the discredited tool of price controls to assuage a citizenry irate over high inflation remains to be seen.

But in any event, Peter Schiff thinks the Fed's QE3 already has guaranteed a big jolt of inflation.

"It's only a matter of time before you see the increase in consumer prices," Schiff said. "It's like you're standing on a train track and you can see a light, and you can hear a whistle. Get off the track because the train is coming. Don't stand there until you get hit by it."

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David Zeiler, Associate Editor for Money Morning at Money Map Press, has been a journalist for more than 35 years, including 18 spent at The Baltimore Sun. He has worked as a writer, editor, and page designer at different times in his career. He's interviewed a number of well-known personalities - ranging from punk rock icon Joey Ramone to Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak.

Over the course of his journalistic career, Dave has covered many diverse subjects. Since arriving at Money Morning in 2011, he has focused primarily on technology. He's an expert on both Apple and cryptocurrencies. He started writing about Apple for The Sun in the mid-1990s, and had an Apple blog on The Sun's web site from 2007-2009. Dave's been writing about Bitcoin since 2011 - long before most people had even heard of it. He even mined it for a short time.

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Shaun Andrew
Shaun Andrew
10 years ago

Where is a "wage-earner" to run? Most wage-earners have NO hedge against the oncoming train (INFLATION). It has become difficult to just survive, and try to stay out of debt, when one has only wages and NO investments. Most have no discretionary income to invest.

I agree, however, one needs to get off the track. I can see the light and I can hear the whistle.

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Dragisa Denic
Dragisa Denic
10 years ago

Not a great lesson from an expert-if you print money prices go up unless US find a new unknown land to conquer and robb it,just as it did in last six decades!

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doug
doug
10 years ago

Ode to QE3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6JGAHXO_6g&feature=youtu.be

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