Reality: Looming Plunge Into The Abyss For Financial Markets In A Repeat Of 2008-9, Moving To Cash Or Precious Metals Never Made More Sense

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Wake up Ben Bernanke has lost control of US interest rates!

The US bond market has quietly slipped into a worse slump than in the Armageddon year of 1994 with bond yields up 40 per cent on benchmark T-bonds since the start of May.

Bond prices move in the reverse direction to yields, so that means US bonds have entered a massive bear market. It matters not very much what Fed chairman Ben Bernanke does or does not telegraph to the markets, they have stopped listening and US interest rates are firmly on the way up.

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The reality ahead is a looming plunge into the abyss for financial markets in a repeat of 2008-9. Nobody should expect a smooth rotation from bonds to stocks. Moving to cash or precious metals never made more sense.

http://www.arabianmoney.net/us-dollar/2013/07/17/wake-up-ben-bernanke-has-lost-control-of-us-interest-rates/

THE US FINANCIAL SYSTEM: ON THE BRINK

Most people have no idea that the U.S. financial system is on the brink of utter disaster.  If interest rates continue to rise rapidly, the U.S. economy is going to be facing an economic crisis far greater than the one that erupted back in 2008.  At this point, the economic paradigm that the Federal Reserve has constructed only works if interest rates remain super low.  If they rise, everything falls apart.  Much higher interest rates would mean crippling interest payments on the national debt, much higher borrowing costs for state and local governments, trillions of dollars of losses for bond investors, another devastating real estate crash, and the possibility of a multi-trillion dollar derivatives meltdown.

http://www.silverdoctors.com/the-us-financial-system-on-the-brink/

Everything depends on interest rates staying low.  Unfortunately for the Fed, it only has a certain amount of control over long-term interest rates, and that control appears to be slipping.  The yield on 10 year U.S. Treasuries has soared in recent weeks.  So have mortgage rates.  Fortunately, rates have leveled off for the moment, but if they resume their upward march we could be dealing with a nightmare scenario very, very quickly.

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