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The global liquidity pyramid

What's stopping the US Dollar from doing what it must – and collapsing...?

"Global demand for the Dollar is now driven by the explosion in Dollar-denominated assets," writes Dan Denning from Melbourne, "almost completely out of the control of central banks."

Dan says these "assets" are the preferred retirement vehicles for millions of Western Baby Boomers...and the quickest way for money shufflers in London, Washington, Sydney and elsewhere to get rich on the flow of cash. They outweigh government-issued money – referred to as 'power money' by Independent Strategy in the chart above – by a factor of 85 times.

"Only a radical increase in official interest rates or a radical decline in Dollar confidence will change the incentives to create new assets denominated in Dollars," says Denning.

Will either event happen in 2007? Or will gold have much further to rise before the scramble for settlement hits...and $340 trillion in derivatives – plus $59 trillion in bonds – tries to turn itself into $4 trillion of government-issued money?

Adrian Ash

Adrian Ash, BullionVault Gold News

Adrian Ash is director of research at BullionVault, the world-leading physical gold, silver, platinum and palladium market for private investors online. Formerly head of editorial at London's top publisher of private-investment advice, he was City correspondent for The Daily Reckoning from 2003 to 2008, and he has now been researching and writing daily analysis of precious metals and the wider financial markets for over 20 years. A frequent guest on BBC radio and television, Adrian is regularly quoted by the Financial Times, MarketWatch and many other respected news outlets, and his views from inside the bullion market have been sought by the Economist magazine, CNBC, Bloomberg, Germany's Handelsblatt and FAZ, plus Italy's Il Sole 24 Ore.

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