QUESTION: Re: Am i certain about the Strong Dollar?

QUESTION: Hello Marty. I so appreciate your blog and Socrates, which is helping me steer through these crazy markets. I’m a Canadian taking care of all my family’s investment accounts, and knowing what’s coming down the road, I’m very concerned I’m going to take a misstep, especially with my children’s accounts. I haven’t been doing this long enough to have experienced a monetary crisis anywhere. What I can’t get my head wrapped around is what to do longer term from the Canadian perspective. We all have both USD and CAD funds in our accounts. I plan to increase the USD portion while the CAD is down. I’m also buying US investments in CAD (unhedged) to catch the rise in currency. But when the USD peaks and the crash and burn begins, my assumption is Canada has a boom in metals commodities while oil crashes due to lack of demand and we also go into recession due to lack of exports to the US and so lower employment. So what is a Canadian’s smart move when the USD peaks……cash out our USD investments and turn back to CAD and invest in commodities, etc. or would I be better off staying in the USD and buying inverse etfs and commodity stocks/etf’s that aren’t available on the TSX? Just trying to get a handle on what ultimately happens to Canada in all this. Thanks so much for any insight you may have on this topic.

QUESTION #1: Marty,

ANSWER:  This proposal is insane and it would not work anyhow. In 1934, it was the link of gold to the dollar that CAUSE deflation. When Roosevelt devalued the dollar, then inflation took place. If you suddenly fixed gold at $5,000, so what? He would be doing the opposite by creating deflation and then the national debt would become payable in gold.

The 1971 closing of the gold window by Nixon cut the link to gold ending Bretton Woods and then inflation unfolded. This is why Europe is in trouble for they keep trying to create a strong Euro which means assets decline and that produces deflation.

I just do not get the reasoning of these people. They clearly have no real world experience. They want to forecast markets without ever leaving their bedroom.

QUESTION #2: I have been bullish on gold until recently. It seems that to cheer gold we have to cheer the end of the world. If that is our fate for us all, then gold won’t matter. As you said, a $1,000 in gold in 1980 is worth $1350 today less storage fees. A $1,000 in the Dow back then is $22,000 plus all the dividends. Do you really think gold will ever go up? With North Korea fading out, what reason do we even have for gold? Deflation dominates the world and taxes keep going higher and higher so there is less disposable income. It does seem gold is on its deathbed. Any comment?

ANSWER: All of that is true. We have to wait for the next cycle. Tax reform is absolutely critical to the future. The next cycle things will chang

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has now come out in a very desperate move telling that those members of the EU who are non-euro countries should introduce the euro ASAP. “The euro is destined to be the single currency of the EU as a whole,” Juncker declared. Juncker then proposed a “euro preparation instrument” to provide technical and financial assistance to make this transition.

The Euro is in serious trouble because of the total mismanagement of the ECB. Low to negative interest rates have totally failed to stimulate the economy after almost 10 years. Now that rates must rise to try to avoid a massive pension collapse in Europe, the ECB could suffer a major default and will need to be bailed-out itself by the government since it owns 40% of euro-zone debt.

Juncker ‘s message is desperately trying to spread the pain. Insisting that all states now adopt the Euro will not save it. The structural design is faulty and Germany stands in the way of a debt consolidation. Increasing the number of states in the Euro will not help and this cannot even be accomplished in time to save the Euro assuming it did work.

Meanwhile, Austria sees the pending debt crisis and is rushing to offer the first euro member issue of a 100 year bond that will yield about 2.10%. They are looking to raise €3.5 billion euros of the debt maturing in 2117. The buyers of this one are totally insane. Yet, virtual-zero interest rates in Europe have forced many institutional investors running funds that need to cover pension or insurance liabilities into riskier, or longer-dated debt to increase their yields. This will only further increase the pending crisis on the horizon as they suffer massive losses as rates rise.

The hunt for taxes in France and Germany is in full swing. Merkel and Macrone are looking for endless new sources of tax revenues. They are moving directly into the position of destroying their economies because their thirst for more and more taxes never ends. No matter how much they collect, they never have enough. The latest scheme is now to tax gross turnover of internet companies such as Google and Amazon – not profits. The French want a 5% tax on everything in Europe. They already get a 20% VAT which is a complex consumption tax to keep countless government employees in a job with every layer of business taxesd having to file claims constantly.

The French tried to tax Google advertising. They lost that case because the revenue was being generated in Ireland, not France. Nevertheless, the French are telling everyone this is the windfall they desperately need and it will produce more taxes than anything else. Effectively, a turnover tax of 5% on gross revenues on top of a 20% VAT, will only come out of the pocket of European consumers. There is NEVER any discussion about reducing government size. It is always bigger and bigger as if there is no end in sight to potential tax revenues.

The Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is doing his best to send Canada into the Dark Age. He is clearly a Marxist and has targeted small business which creates 70% of all employment. He said “I want to be clear,” at the Liberal party’s recent caucus gathering in Kelowna. “People who make $50,000 a year should not pay higher taxes than people who make $250,000 a year.”

These people who always seek to run governments have ZERO real world experience and totally fail to understand the economy no less how society functions. They believe that they can just decree some law and everything will function to the desires.

Trudeau has been defending the his outrageous tax increase on small business that will impose double taxation as owners will no longer be able to pay themselves dividends, neither will they be able to sprinkle income among family members, or holding certain investments — such as real estate — through a corporation.

The Hunt for Taxes in Canada is in full swing. This is only part of the economic decline we see coming into play starting in 2018.

QUESTION: Marty; there is another documentary on the Abacus Bank and how they were singled out and charged for the 2007-2009 crash. While they said this was a tiny banks for immigrants that was too  Small Enough to Jail, I found this offensive that they said it was the first bank to be indicted since 1991. Not even Matt Taibbi ever would report on your case and your film was blocked in the USA because it opened the door to political intervention into Russia by the banksters. I believe HSBC and Republic Bank were charged criminally in your case so there was another bank charged after 1991 but nobody will report it. Am I correct? Has Steve Jame or Matt Taibbi  ever contacted you?

ANSWER: As far as I am aware, neither Matt Taibbi  nor Steve Jame ever contacted me. You have to look at what and how the government prosecuted the bank in my case. The bank did not plead guilty, it was the holding company that owned the bank – Republic New York Corporation. Then they steered the case to the only Federal Judge who was blind – Richard Casey (who died shortly thereafter). The judge just listened and could not read the truck load of papers to even know the full story. Republic plead guilty promising to make everyone whole and the government allowed them to buy our notes, pocket the profit differential of almost $400 million that was ours which explains the alleged $1 billion turns into $650 million.

When I realized the government was protecting the bank, I did an interview with the Japanese press and told all our Japanese clients that they had better file suit against the bank or they would never see a dime. They listened. Then the government ran to court to put a gag order on me to PREVENT me from helping my clients. You just can’t make up this degree of corruption. Nobody in the press ever reported that one.

The author of Too Big to Fail, Andrew Ross Sorkin, was a journalist for the New York Times. He came to see me about Judge Owen changing the transcripts and told me he was doing the same to Frank Quatrone. The New York Times did not let him report that judges in New York were changing transcripts which is in itself a crime. (see US v Ziccetello).

True, the movie was rated a 10 in Europe, blocked in the USA, and has even been shown in Japan and Canada.  It was being shown on international flights to the USA – but not in US theaters. It will appear on German TV in October. Yet, every American newspaper, TV station, and even NetFlix, who first accepted the film and suddenly pulled it, has done everything in their power to suppress the truth from the American people to protect the banks and how Putin even came to power. You just cannot make up this stuff.

Welcome to the land of the free and home of the brave where propaganda is free to prevail over the truth when it goes against New York bankers. The banks pay huge fines and nobody goes to jail BECAUSE the government wants the billions of dollars in fines. It’s either you jail bankers, with no huge fines since the individuals don’t have that kind of money, or you go for the corporate shell and the big bucks. Abacus Bank was small enough to jail BECAUSE they did not have the big bucks to pay off the government and they were Chinese.