Written by Rick Ackerman, Rick’s Picks
The Dollar Index, currently trading for around 95, is poised for a breakout that seems likely to hit the century mark within the next 12-24 months if not sooner. This is going to put added pressure on foreign earnings of U.S. multinationals as well as increasing the already ponderous weight on bullion.
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My long-term forecast for the Dollar Index calls for a test of highs near 120 that were made more than 17 years ago. If so, the implication is that February’s 88.25 low marked the beginning of a monster rally like the one that took DXY from 79 to 100 in 2014-15.
There’s no way the dollar could reach 120 in a normal economy. The forecast implies that at some point, the U.S. will experience a catastrophic deflation that makes dollars scarce. A wave of bankruptcies could cause this, and the most logical place for it to start would be in the collapse of a public-employee pension system that is already a sinkhole waiting to happen. This is a liability that cannot be monetized – at least not without touching off hyperinflation. For reasons that I have written about for more than a decade, it is all but certain to occur.
For further discussion of this, click here to access an interview I did on Wednesday with Cory Fleck of Korelin Economics Report and National Investors‘ Chris Temple.
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