Things are getting weird over the last several weeks in ways I have trouble characterizing (my not being a professional.) I'm holed up waiting to see what happens.
Feels like a Norman Rockwell painting but instead of it being admirable and calming, you're on edge and panicky, sensing that something is amiss?
Welcome to the illusion: behind the painting is a noxious black mold eating away at the canvas. Whether Europe, Japan, or the US erupts in May, something is going to give way very soon - and it won't be physical gold.
How to
preserve wealth. It's worked for ages, only now Bitcoin fits into the mix alongside gold.
Maybe like that Dorian Grey story. QE is keeping up some appearance of health and vibrancy, but behind the facade the actual corpus is decomposing to a thoroughly putrid state.
Actually, as I remind myself of the story by looking it up on wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray, I think it more fitting to consider the reserve currency status of the USD as the mojo which allows various malfeasance...including QE. So to slightly re-arrange the wikipedia text:
"Bernanke's wish is fulfilled, plunging him into debauched acts."
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