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5 ETF's To Protect Against Inflation

As the U.S. government has resorted to excessive spending measures to keep the economy from completely crumbling, many investors suggest that inflation is inevitable and is likely to prevail in the near future.

Current economic data suggest that inflation is relatively tame, but prices are on the rise. In April, the Consumer Price Index, also known as the CPI, rose by 3.2 percent from a year earlier marking the fourth straight month of rising prices. Furthermore, these increases in prices had already emerged in the retail sector as rising prices of cotton, wheat, sugar, crude oil and other raw materials have forced companies like Starbucks (SBUX), McDonalds (MCD) and Levi Strauss to raise prices and pass the impact through to the consumer.

Another indicator that inflation is likely to prevail is the recent jump in the breakeven rate of five-year Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPs), which are flirting with three year highs. The breakeven rate is the yield difference between TIPS and comparable maturity Treasuries and a good measure of the outlook for consumer prices over the life of the securities, in this case five years. As this rate increases, the likelihood of rising prices increases.

Lastly, the general perception of inflation expectations appears to be rising at the Federal Reserve. In fact, according to Caroline Salas and Scott Lanman of Bloomberg, expectations for annual consumer price gains have increased by more than 40% since the Fed began its second round of asset purchase in November. Despite this perception, the Fed continues to implement its stimulus policy-making by keeping the short-term interest rate at or near zero, which could also add fuel to the inflation fire.

At the end of the day, although inflation is not prevailing, signs are starting to emerge. Some ways to protect against inflation include:

iShares Barclays TIPS Bond Fund (TIP), which is one of the most popular way to hedge against inflation. TIP is designed to generate a yield which adjusts to the CPI, meaning that as CPI rises, TIP’s yield rises and vice versa
IndexIQ CPI Inflation Hedged ETF (CPI), which aims to track an Index that seeks to generate a rate of return that is above inflation which is measured by the consumer price index
PowerShares DB Agriculture Fund (DBA) holds futures contracts in food based commodities such as corn, wheat, sugar and soybeans, which could witness price appreciation as inflation looms.
US Oil Fund (USO) which is a play on crude oil futures contracts. Historically speaking, crude oil appreciates in value during times of inflation, which would enable USO to reap the benefits.
SPDR Gold Shares (GLD)- traditionally gold has been the go-to investment to hedge against inflation and will likely to continue to witness appreciation in inflationary times.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/271370-5-etfs-to-protect-against-inflation


(HeeHaw Memories)
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s0r0s bought miners....too early for that....i'll be doing that when DOW tanks after greece default and eu breakup.....miners are baby that gets thrownout w/bathwater.

paulson bought gold....HEYYY_OOOOOOO!!!

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URL: http://www.dollarvigilante.com/blog/2011/5/21/they-got-dominique-strauss-kahn...

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May 23, 2011

As soon as I heard the "news" of the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Managing
Director, Dominique Strauss-Khan (DSK), having said to have raped a chambermaid
in his $3,000/night New York hotel room my B.S. sensor began ticking like a geiger
counter in Fukushima Prefecture.

It is, as always, sad to see how quickly so many people actually just took the Government
(the police, District Attorney etc.) and the media at their word on the development.
The last thing I would ever do from any reported "news" from the Government or
the media would be to actually believe it - a mindset that has served me very well
in life.

Two Criminals: DSK & Obama

Many jumped on it right away and began bashing DSK as a rapist. People seem to
just lust for someone to be arrested or accused of something - true or not.

But if you put any amount of thought into this the chances that he raped a chambermaid
is highly unlikely. Besides the fact that he is 62 and would need to take a handful
of v!agra and quaaludes to muster up the energy to turn into a sex-depraved maniac,
here's why.

First, DSK is your typical political, international banker type. He has literally
never had a real job in his life - this seems to be a prerequisite for central bankers
and their ilk. He is a socialist/communist as are most central bankers (central
banking, after all, is one of the main tenets of communism [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=8hv8ugeab&et=1105659327119&s=1923&e=001NgLBX19LZtfSTX8zxQAtGqe-Iaalj6XzGDi7nEdAjs7gOMG0V6APPXl61thRV4Z-gn6n5WRXtQA4J8oRj338FmxZT7XI2E5CaYo3tlnNbFAFawHbsU-1fAoePCnGznJWg3zXOrpteOWnvq09njlSsR78q7TNxAYy]).
While in school he was a member of the Union of Communist Students and up until
recently was a front-runner to become the next French President with the Socialist
Party.

The first thing that set-off my spidey senses was just the plain fact that the Managing
Director of the IMF had been arrested for something as lowbrow as rape. It'd be
like if they announced that Ben Bernanke had just been charged with child molestation
with his niece. Or Barack Obama with selling marijuana outside of a Virginia middle
school. Not going to happen. Bernanke or Obama could rape entire dorm rooms of
girls and all that would happen is that all the girls who were raped and the witnesses
to the raping would "have some accidents" and disappear.

People at this level of the global financial elite structure don't have any problems
with the law or the media unless it has been ordained from above. They own the
law and the media.

That's when I realized the next part of this. I had been confused about a few of
the things coming out of the IMF of late. I hadn't even mentioned them in our blog
because I was so confused.

The most confusing was their release about a month ago stating that the "Age of
America is near its end [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=8hv8ugeab&et=1105659327119&s=1923&e=001NgLBX19LZtfUuWGfD8aZV5Y3532MSixfs7wJgrAmtwpcG3cWWzCBJxQu9EaM5Uzd9CU2gpFewSBK7z96dxzTjt07dgZoijwfHwXlErI3nJKa6oWK8O_1q8j0lZmBJwWibArDcttOiLBtZDPcbwyp6wkIl-A_24HM8r6aqDkJ2v1pRVkk4fQQLw2Z-rufxsBYnvIcB3mmL9E=]"
as the US will be surpassed by China in the next five years in terms of GDP.

This made no sense. The IMF and the US are practically one and the same. Why would
the IMF announce this, even if it were true?

Clearly something was going on.

Then, a few weeks later, DSK's second in command, resigned [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=8hv8ugeab&et=1105659327119&s=1923&e=001NgLBX19LZtd8IOPPdQNXG9DgjqDne__zN4rkFbw7uwNjSr3MPop2Lnb-4vtOspi3nszaVrRSgXUz0YY0y-1ILFFL9dtLnMllkq9J7W15p6txYe6OIgtmG0-r-f8aKwJbE_vya_b7wiOXz8uBESnM8kYSaMeX7vfZ9YltRB0nLuc=].

This all coming at a time when the US and France had found a way to ally to bomb
a North African country [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=8hv8ugeab&et=1105659327119&s=1923&e=001NgLBX19LZtcEscNSXuxiP8L0FfSGhCcUuhp0bZa_bd1xv8neq2rT-A3YIaQBicb8ac7XUfU3Cahsd598QVYrsGQmZdZ-SmwGum-0hBMfUpwZzKbsPJ92dFe8GW2RGJWo_yWWwpV9qrexbNb8JJgqPA6cmTZJOwnfd307lr-1lpwOOkPiPgxBmEegi1BLAptbyilgFHsRb6Z4IkpueCX0xsXhsg8ee7ErO0mMAUn0Q7Yqb-Ka2n1fP12mZBN-XzHSGw29HDkeLj8HwMEAK1YU3cUW1PKKct0w3TnaOTKTQ0a8d0BACyFitLYDAHfb1PyM],
Libya, and DSK was the front runner to knock off the current President of France,
Nicolas Sarkozy. It should be noted, in fact, that the majority of the French public
think DSK was framed [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=8hv8ugeab&et=1105659327119&s=1923&e=001NgLBX19LZtfDZNiKu-k2j5V8cB2TzlsaOQgV0YAeD5CzJAWVDqA-QBBwbN02LXsU33ZTrriD4D87oospAP4nrnaFgMsumPT9CelR2V0P78739XV3UplF3FtGvTjp1YNEj54sTewXSgAC2UgrnDhOVLaMppgiG94CXDNn244mEHFPkYYdbbQv9VLhugNzWPWH].

Certainly, a lot of people seemed to have an interest in DSK suddenly becoming a
raging rapist.

Sex crimes seem to be the favorite way to get rid of people causing problems for
the financial elites. They did the same with Julian Assange as we stated in "Governments
Gone Wild [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=8hv8ugeab&et=1105659327119&s=1923&e=001NgLBX19LZtd_7hot2pgelB7upMJVAHx5IZgDfebNKlZR5-1YQMLQTQXcfblRet7uSkrdf-5xC7HenIi7teo6tzgB2J8KVPDNd6Xf9UqwaeRdSj_MyBUrsvGwpe-JpsztrSjydr94TbTycNtdXp2M5CC3LhMI281qR8Nw-8_vR5PrLHusszUp_DvxKt-qxVMv]".
With Assange causing problems for many governments he suddenly was charged with
"not using a condom when his sex partner had asked him to do so". That sex partner,
by the way, was soon discovered to be in the employ of the Israeli Mossad. Surprise,
surprise. (here, by the way, is an excellent documentary on Wikileaks called WikiRebels
[http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=8hv8ugeab&et=1105659327119&s=1923&e=001NgLBX19LZtcfBKe5o0gdxWkl1zsYelEuZTWgCGZcwFxGgZOJ1KTjYvLG7PfFUvppFI6XmRtEA3dRhDbwB6laXfSfnWiAfIaDcTpW9yV9xAl7y-VZgWHn4IsHFV0WJN5krcK3fJ76W_fzpR2fW456_hveq5-YhdyfvpcEzGaDlgs=])

We have no doubt, just by his position at the IMF that DSK is likely a deranged
sociopath. But they have charged him with the wrong raping.

DSK and the IMF have been raping the planet for decades as has been well documented
in the book, "Confessions of an Economic Hitman [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=8hv8ugeab&et=1105659327119&s=1923&e=001NgLBX19LZtf5sz_LWpsQvg6WHXESIjA794Xw8eB50sHJ6ZltTK9E0gAs1dheYb9jg1cfzxqSHUJVrncfohqq7Rg3mIpRIfTnjWV2WGFMnIHXDCR21yTh1RWvbe1l8nESOS7uEveMyNbU1O40aJURJ1wGYaT9jbxfavKFPXcUrl8=]".
Peter Schiff does a good job of describing what a criminal organization the IMF
is in the following video:

Peter Schiff on the IMF [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=8hv8ugeab&et=1105659327119&s=1923&e=001NgLBX19LZtcT9JKGI0QVmYSBxQWcpQA6kLfNRQts--ZEv1RijVWLOiKbs7FRv6kRNZpjYY5h-vECBt6W-wQCfQglFuWErfhwMt-LqguMZkfDeGjiMUzp3hJvpMY-X-0Suwbj1AbU3ZNBREB31UZhukbZh4o-2mDdMohkw9jsdRMrdLaoWaTLhA==]

Peter Schiff on the IMF

Central banks, in and of themselves, are non-free market, criminal organizations
that have been impoverishing the planet, funding every war and funnelling much
of the world's wealth into the pockets of a small group of financial elite for decades.
The IMF is the king of the central banks.

Did DSK rape a chambermaid in New York? Maybe. Did DSK, in his role at the IMF,
steal from and impoverish hundreds of millions of people? Unquestionably.

Wake me up when he goes on trial for that.

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that dude is soooo wrong