FORT LEE, N.J., Sept. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Inflation Association
today released the following statement to its http://inflation.us members:

"While the mainstream media has officially declared the U.S. recession over and an economic recovery here, NIA believes what the media sees as an economic recovery is nothing but inflation. We believe the U.S. recession has just begun, but declare that gold and silver mania is officially here. Of course, this is just the first inning of gold and silver mania. The mania won't reach
its height until everybody you know who invested into the real estate bubble, abandons real estate and starts investing into gold and silver.

Last year during the U.S. financial crisis, Americans rushed out of stocks and real estate and into U.S. dollars as a safe haven. Unfortunately, these Americans who already lost so much in stocks and real estate, will soon get hit by a hyperinflation tidal wave that washes away what little wealth they have left. The only people who will survive are those who wake up and realize
that gold and silver are the only real safe havens because the Federal Reserve can't print them out of thin air; gold and silver supplies will always be scarce.

Gold prices today reached a 18-month high of $1,009.40 per ounce and silver reached a 13-month high of $16.86 per ounce. While current gold & silver prices may seem expensive to some, they are still a long way off of their 1980 inflation adjusted highs of $2,300 and $130 per ounce respectively, and we believe inflation will soon get much worse than the 1970's.

The Federal Reserve has held interest rates at 0% for the past nine months while taking trillions of dollars of worthless

- mortgage-backed securities,
- student loans,
- credit card loans, and
- auto loans

onto its balance sheet.

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For some perspective on the current rally that began back on March 9th, today's chart presents the Dow divided by the price of one ounce of gold. This results in what is referred to as the Dow / gold ratio or the cost of the Dow in ounces of gold. For example, it currently takes 9.7 ounces of gold to “buy the Dow.” This is considerably less (78% less) than the 44.8 ounces it took to buy the Dow back in 1999. Since 2007, the Dow / gold ratio has declined at an accelerated pace (see dashed lines). As a result of the recent rally, the Dow (priced in gold) has moved up significantly and is currently testing resistance of its accelerated downtrend.

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The Dow Jones priced in gold fell from a high of 44 in 1999 down to a low of 7 this year. Since then, the Dow to Gold ratio has bounced to 10 and is currently 9.5, but we believe the economy won't truly be at a bottom until the Dow to Gold ratio falls to 1 like it did in 1980. It took seven years from the time the Dow to Gold ratio fell to 7 in 1973, to when it finally bottomed at 1 in 1980. Therefore, don't expect to see gold prices meet the Dow Jones in the short-term, but we do believe it will happen within the next 5 to 10 years. In 1973, the Dow to Gold ratio saw a bounce from 7 to 10 just like it did this year, but its next move was down to 4 a year later. If history repeats itself, we could potentially see Dow 8,000 and Gold $2,000 in 2010.

The U.S. budget deficit this year is expected to reach $2 trillion. Obama talks about cutting the budget deficit in half by the end of his first term, but this won't be possible when interest rates will surely rise and cause the interest on our national debt to be trillions of dollars per year. It's insane to think that Obama wants to spend a reported $1 trillion a year on health
care reform. Of course, if the government projects they will spend $1 trillion a year on health care, they really mean $2 trillion or more. There is no way this spending will be possible unless Bernanke prints the money up and creates massive inflation.

Gold and silver investing has for years been looked at as risky and speculative, but soon perceptions will change and Americans will look at dollars as being the riskiest asset of all. Our documentary Hyperinflation Nation surpassed 200,000 views today. We are happy to have already helped 200,000 people prepare for hyperinflation, but we need to help millions more
so that the U.S. doesn't become the next Zimbabwe."

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About us:

The National Inflation Association is an organization that is dedicated to preparing Americans for hyperinflation. The NIA offers free membership at http://www.inflation.us and provides its members with articles about the economy and inflation, news stories, important charts not shown by the mainstream media; YouTube videos featuring Jim Rogers, Marc Faber, Ron Paul, Peter Schiff, and others; and profiles of gold, silver, and agriculture companies that we believe could prosper in an inflationary environment.

SOURCE: National Inflation Association via Reuters News Service

Gerard Adams of National Inflation Association, 1-888-99-NIA US
(1888-996-4287), or Staff, Editor@inflation.us