In late 2007 America entered into what has been called, "the Great Recession." In late 2008, the housing market crashed, stocks fell, credit froze, and mass hysteria took root on Mainstreet, Wallstreet, and in Washington. The "wizards of smart" assured us that the solution to this great problem was more government spending, easy money, low interest rates, and massive government involvement in the economy. Four years later, America is experiencing a weak and anemic recovery fueled, and threatened, by those very policies. According to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, overall prices have increased on average .5% per month, for the last five months. The slow and anemic growth in our economy, the lack of jobs being created, and poor numbers in vital markets, like housing, suggest that the rise in prices is not the result of higher demand but a decline in buying power from a falling dollar. This is further evidenced by the extraordinary rise in commodities like...(Read Full Post)