The dollar demise seems to be in vogue nowadays thanks in no small part to QE I and II. I guess it makes for good headlines, especially when gold is over $1430.

The dollar demise seems to be in vogue nowadays thanks in no small part to QE I and II. I guess it makes for good headlines, especially when gold is over $1430. To those of you that may be interested in financial commentaries outside of mainstream I suggest the following: - Mish [1] - The automatic earth [2] - Max Keiser [3] - Jesse's Café Américain [4] These can be classified more or less so in three different camps: inflationist, deflationist, and stagflation. But inflation/deflation here does not mean price increase, but credit expansion/contraction. Also, these blogs are all against the status quo, hence their non-mainstream designation. For that there is WSJ. For starters, at the automatic earth [2], Illargi and Stonleigh give very detailed analysis of the current situation taking into account credit availability and peak oil for example. They argue that we will hit a deflation period (i.e., credit contraction) before any hyperinflation destroys the dollar. Mish [1] is also in the deflationist camp and provides excellent commentary on current financial news. US centric but with good international coverage. Max Keiser [3] is an inflationist. I believe that he has called correctly gold and silver trends (up and up) for the past decade. He’s a very vocal anti-to-big-to-fail commentator. I think that he’s currently spearheading a movement to get people to buy silver bullion in order to put JP Morgan out of business given their alleged silver shorts. Mish, while a good friend of Max, disagrees and thinks that JP Morgan is most likely well hedge against silver. Jesse [4] provides a thoughtful market analysis, especially with gold and silver. He thinks that the US is going into stagflation for quite a while. [1] Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/ http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/ [2] The Automatic Earth http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/ http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/ [3] Max Keiser — Markets Finance Scandal http://www.maxkeiser.com/ http://www.maxkeiser.com/ [4] Jesse's Café Américain http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/ http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/