Francis Schutte

Are We out of the Deflation Woods Yet?

Jim. PLEASE...Inflation is a more than proportional rise of the money supply and NOT prices rising or falling. It has normally higher prices as a consequence. Deflation is a decrease in the money supply and it has normally lower prices as a consequence.
One has to be blind not to see that Quantitative Easing = huge monetay inflation which will in time will have price inflation as a consequence. Monetary inflation has ALWAYS price inflation as a consequence whaterver interest rates are.

Dollar Hurt by Geopolitical Concerns and High Oil

The Dollar is still in a secular downtrend. There is NO bottom building and it appears to fall out of a downflag against the Euro. The suprise could well be a new bottom....To be continued.

Can Saudi Arabia Push Down the Price of Oil?

This is PEAK OIL! Even a magician cannot increase supply...so Saudi's surely won't. In the long run, all saving ideas are stupid. Better focus on alternates like hydrogen and/or others.