No One Wins in a Currency War
We’re all losing in currency wars. How long can it go on? Well, it can go on as long as politicians can continue to print
money. The problem is, of course, eventually the markets will just say,
“We’re not going to play this game anymore” and we’ll have a serious
collapse. You and I can print money all day long, but at some point,
you, I and everybody else is going to say, “Wait a minute, guys, this
money is getting worse and worse and more and more worthless, so why
don’t we stop playing this game?” I wish the politicians were smart
enough at some point to say, “We’ve got to stop this, this is going to
be bad.”
But unfortunately they never have, and probably never
will. Mr. Bernanke is certainly not going to stop it, because he doesn’t
want to go down in history as causing the collapse. Mrs. Yellen, when
she comes in, she’s not going to stop it, first of all she doesn’t
believe in stopping it, she thinks printing money is good. And she knows
– I hope she’s smart enough to know – that if she stops, oh my gosh,
it’s going to collapse. So she’s not going to stop. Nobody wants to go
down as causing the collapse of the world. So I’m afraid this is going
to go on until the market eventually says to them, “Okay, enough is
enough,” we have a big collapse and then they’re all thrown out and we
can start over.
- Source, Birch Gold Group:
Jim Rogers is a bestselling author, financial commentator and successful international investor. Rogers was a co-founder of the Quantum Fund (considered to be the first truly international fund of its kind) and is the creator of the Rogers International Commodities Index (RICI).