SocraticGadfly: Get ready for gas prices to soar and $1,000 gold

March 07, 2008

Get ready for gas prices to soar and $1,000 gold

In light of today’s spate of bad economic news, the Street’s guessing game is that the Fed will cut the disoount rate as much as three-quarter percent at its March 18 meeting or even sooner.

If that’s true, the Fed is clearly saying “we don’t give a damn about inflation,” or else, “we don’t have a fricking clue how to control inflation.”

In either case, a rate cuthack like that is guaranteed to fuel inflation. Even with a recession, I predict oil prices will hit $115/bbl and gold $1,000/ounce by Memorial Day.

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