Axel Merk: Is The Fed Losing Control? Is An Inflation Crisis Underway?

Part 1 (part 2 below)

Suddenly, higher prices are everywhere: in food, fuel, housing - you name it. In fact, the annual Consumer Price Inflation rate (CPI) just spiked to 5.4%, a high not seen since 2008. A growing number of economic observers see these higher prices as the predictable result of the many trillions of new dollars in monetary and fiscal stimulus that world central banks & governments have been issuing in response to last year's COVID outbreak. We now seem to be at an awkward point where this ongoing stimulus is no longer boosting economic growth much. But it IS still driving prices higher - rising the cost of living and exacerbating the wealth gap between the very rich and everyone else. Are the central planners losing their control of the system? Fed-watcher and currency expert Axel Merk weighs in on the current situation, the outcome of which will impact our future more than most realize.

Part 2

In this Part 2 of our interview with currency expert Axel Merk, he shares his growing concerns of the undesirable social consequences he sees current central bank policies are creating. Also, given his expertise as a currency fund manager, I of course ask him what impact today's negative real interest rates will have on gold. Then the lead partners at Wealthion's endorsed financial advisor, New Harbor Financial, discuss their reaction to Axel's insights and ways to put those ideas into action in one's portfolio.

Axel Merk is the Founder, President, Portfolio Manager, and CIO at Merk Investments LLC. He is an expert on qualitative research and macroeconomic trends. Mr. Merk is also an expert on macro trends, hard money, international investing, and on building sustainable wealth, and he is a pioneer in the use of strategic currency investing to seek diversification. He is a speaker and author on topics ranging from the economy, gold, and currencies to sustainable wealth and personal finance, as well as a regular guest and contributor to the business media around the world. Mr. Merk is an Author of the book Sustainable Wealth: Achieve Financial Security in a Volatile World of Debt and Consumption.

Adam Taggart is the Founder of Wealthion. He is also Co-Founder and former President of Peak Prosperity. Adam is an experienced Silicon Valley internet executive and Stanford MBA. Prior to partnering with Chris Martenson (Adam was General Manager of our earlier site, ChrisMartenson.com), he was a Vice President at Yahoo!, a company he served for nine years. Before that, he did the 'startup thing' (mySimon.com, sold to CNET in 2001). As a fresh-faced graduate from Brown University in the early 1990s, Adam got a first-hand look at all that was broken with Wall Street as an investment banking analyst for Merrill Lynch. Most importantly, he's a devoted husband and dad.