<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' gd:etag='W/&quot;A0AARHszcCp7ImA9Wx5WFEk.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4027639518668914298</id><updated>2010-09-26T04:22:25.588+07:00</updated><title>Dinar Saving</title><subtitle type='html'>Membangun keberkahan dengan uang yang adil...</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4027639518668914298/posts/default?redirect=false&amp;v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4027639518668914298/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25&amp;redirect=false&amp;v=2'/><author><name>rizko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08659436625661270760</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>73</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;CEcGRH84eCp7ImA9WxFVGE8.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4027639518668914298.post-6240329150796660451</id><published>2010-06-18T07:47:00.000+07:00</published><updated>2010-06-18T07:47:05.130+07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2010-06-18T07:47:05.130+07:00</app:edited><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Utama'/><title></title><content type='html'>Go To : &lt;a href="http://karangan.web.id/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;http://karangan.web.id&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; untuk update artikel2 terbaru...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4027639518668914298-6240329150796660451?l=www.dinarsaving.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/feeds/6240329150796660451/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/2010/06/go-to-httpkarangan.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4027639518668914298/posts/default/6240329150796660451?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4027639518668914298/posts/default/6240329150796660451?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/2010/06/go-to-httpkarangan.html' title=''/><author><name>rizko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08659436625661270760</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00889770664132642904'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;CEIBR3g6eip7ImA9WxFVE0w.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4027639518668914298.post-7059569116484615907</id><published>2010-06-12T10:14:00.001+07:00</published><updated>2010-06-12T10:15:56.612+07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2010-06-12T10:15:56.612+07:00</app:edited><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dinarnomics'/><title>Bagaimana Spekulan Menghancurkan (Ekonomi) Dunia...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="img_caption top" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 480px;"&gt;&lt;img align="top" alt="Derivative Market" border="0" class="caption" height="235" hspace="1" src="http://www.geraidinar.com/images/2010/derivative.jpg" title="Derivative Market" vspace="1" width="320" /&gt;Derivative  Market&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"&gt;Meskipun dengan  pengalaman 21 tahun di pasar pengelolaan risiko dan investasi, saya  tetap tidak mudah untuk dapat memahami bagaimana spekulan menghancurkan  ekonomi Indonesia (1997/1998) , Amerika (2008) dan Eropa (2010). Sampai  baru-baru ini membaca tulisan sederhana dari Dr. Jeffrey Lewis dari &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 9pt;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.silver-coin-investor.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;Silver Coin Investor &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;, yang  setelah saya corat-coret dalam gambar di bawah – saya ketemu gambarannya  yang sederhana tentang masalah ini.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"&gt;Untuk mudahnya memahami  ulah spekulan ini, kita gunakan personifikasi tiga oknum yang berteman  satu sama lain. Jon si pengutang, Bob dan Jim yang keduanya suka  berjudi. Jon yang suka hidup diatas kemampuannya sendiri, selalu  berhutang dari satu orang ke orang lain – dan membayar hutang dengan  hutang lainnya.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"&gt;Bulan ini Jon butuh lagi  hutang, dan temannya yang lagi punya duit dari hasil judi – Bob rela  memberi pinjaman Rp 1 juta (huruf A di gambar) – padahal Bob tahu kalau  Jon sebenarnya nggak pernah mampu membayar hutang ini kecuali dengan  hutang lainnya !. Bagi Bob ini tidak apa, karena berdasarkan teori  judi-nya toh nanti dia akan bisa me-recover piutangnya ke Jon lewat judi  lagi dengan orang lain – bahkan menurut teorinya , dia bisa untung  karena hutang ini.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"&gt;Untuk menjalankan  teorinya, pergilah Bob ke warung kopi untuk mencari teman yang bisa di  ajak berjudi – warung kopi ini adalah representasi dari apa yang disebut  Derivatives Market di dunia nyata !. ketemulah Bob dengan penjudi  lainnya bernama jim yang juga sangat mengenal Jon.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"&gt;Maka Bob bercerita kepada Jim bahwa dia baru memberi  pinjaman (lagi) ke Jon sebesar Rp 1 juta; Jim yang tahu tabiat Jon  langsung mentertawakan langkah Bob memberi pinjaman ke Jon. Disinilah  awal perjudian itu, karena Bob tahu kalau Jim berkeyakinan bahwa Jon  tidak akan mampu membayar hutangnya – atau kalau toh akhirnya membayar  pasti tidak akan tepat waktu – maka ditantanglah Jim untuk taruhan.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"&gt;Isi tawaran taruhannya Bob adalah sebagai  berikut : bila Jon membayar hutang tepat waktu – maka Bob akan memberi  Jim uang dua kali lipat dari nilai hutang Jon (B). Sebaliknya karena Jim  tahu betul siapa si Jon ini, maka dia memberi penawaran taruhan balik  sebagai berikut : Bila Jon&amp;nbsp; membayar hutang tepat waktu –  maka Jim akan memberi Bob uang dua setengah kali dari nilai hutang Jon  (C). Mereka sepakat dengan perjanjian judi ini, tinggal menunggu  hutangnya Jon jatuh tempo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"&gt;Sambil menunggu hutang  jatuh tempo, Bob memutar otak kotornya agar memenangkan perjudian ini.  Maka dibelakang layar dia bergerilya ke Jon,&amp;nbsp; menawari Jon  uang Rp 1 juta (E) agar menggunakan uang ini untuk membayar balik  hutangnya ke Bob tepat waktu – dengan demikian Bob akan menang taruhan  dan untung Rp 1.5 juta – yaitu Rp 2.5 juta dari kekalahannya Jim minus  Rp 1 juta yang dipinjamkan awal ke Jon (C – A).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"&gt;Jim-pun tidak kalah kotor otaknya; di dekatinyalah Jon untuk  diberi uang Rp 1&amp;nbsp; juta (D) – agar digunakan uang tersebut  untuk membayar hutang Jon ke Bob tepat waktu. Dalam teorinya Bob akan  kalah taruhan sehingga harus memberinya uang Ro 2 juta (B) , bila ini  terjadi maka Jim dengan mudah untung Rp 1 juta – yaitu Rp 2 juta dari  kekalahan Bob dikurangi Rp 1 juta yang diberikan ke Jim untuk membayar  hutang tepat waktu (B-D).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"&gt;Siapa yang akhirnya  menang ?. Bob dan Jim keduanya berpeluang memang dan keduanya juga  berpeluang kalah. Sedangkan Jon terpupuk kegemarannya untuk berhutang  dari waktu-ke waktu karena dalam pikirannya akan selalu ada yang  ‘membantu’ dia membayari hutangnya. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"&gt;Begitu  seterusnya sampai salah satu pihak jatuh dengan kekalahan-kekalahan  judi-nya atau ketidak mampuan untuk membayar hutang-hutang lainnya yang  jatuh tempo, saat itulah seluruh system perjudian yang nilainya jauh  diatas nilai hutang semula ini hancur – Jim dan Bob bangkrut dan Jon  juga tidak akan mampu bertahan karena selama ini hidup dari hutang – dan  kini tidak ada lagi yang menghutanginya.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"&gt;Dalam dunia nyata, sosok Jon adalah sosok negara-negara di  dunia yang memang kegemarannya berhutang dari waktu ke waktu. Sosok Jim  dan Bob adalah para pemain derivatives raksasa dunia yang akhir-akhir  ini banyak dituding menjadi biang keladi krisis ekonomi global.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"&gt;Lantas bagaimana kita selamat dari hutang  dan perjudian ini ?; kembali kejalan syariah – dimana perjudian – maisir  dan gharar dilarang; dimana setiap hari kita dianjurkan untuk  berlindung dari hutang yang melilit – maka insyaallah dengan syariah  kita selamat. Amin.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"&gt;Sumber : &lt;a href="http://geraidinar.com/"&gt;GeraiDinar.Com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4027639518668914298-7059569116484615907?l=www.dinarsaving.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/feeds/7059569116484615907/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/2010/06/bagaimana-spekulan-menghancurkan.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4027639518668914298/posts/default/7059569116484615907?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4027639518668914298/posts/default/7059569116484615907?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/2010/06/bagaimana-spekulan-menghancurkan.html' title='Bagaimana Spekulan Menghancurkan (Ekonomi) Dunia...'/><author><name>rizko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08659436625661270760</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00889770664132642904'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;C0MBQXY_eCp7ImA9WxFXEko.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4027639518668914298.post-8437349221876864478</id><published>2010-05-19T19:17:00.000+07:00</published><updated>2010-05-19T19:17:30.840+07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2010-05-19T19:17:30.840+07:00</app:edited><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dinarnomics'/><title>Kapan Waktu Beli Emas/Dinar Terbaik &amp; Kapan Waktu Jual...?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.geraidinar.com/images/2010/oecd.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="187" src="http://www.geraidinar.com/images/2010/oecd.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Hal yang paling banyak ditanyakan oleh pembaca situs ini ke saya adalah pertanyaan seputar kapan waktu terbaik untuk membeli Dinar/Emas dan kapan waktu terbaik untuk menjualnya. Tulisan ini untuk memberi jawaban secara umum, agar jumlah e-mail yang saya harus jawab menurun.&lt;br /&gt;
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Untuk membeli emas atau Dinar dengan tujuan membangun ketahanan ekonomi jangka panjang, agar anak-anak bisa sekolah sampai tuntas, agar ketika tua kita tidak menjadi beban orang lain, agar asset yang merupakan hasil jerih payah kita tidak terus menurun nilainya dari waktu – ke waktu; maka membeli emas untuk tujuan ini dapat dilakukan kapan saja.&lt;br /&gt;
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Dalam rentang waktu jangka menengah/panjang, tidak ada istilah ketinggian untuk harga emas atau Dinar. Ketika harga Dinar pertama kali menyentuh nilai Rp 1,000,000/Dinar (emas di kisaran Rp 237,000/gram)  sekitar dua setengah tahun lalu – tepatnya tanggal 27 Oktober 2007; saat itu banyak yang berpendapat harga Dinar sudah ketinggian – lalu sementara permintaan Dinar menurun.&lt;br /&gt;
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Ironinya ketika 13 bulan kemudian (27/11/2008)  harga Dinar menyentuh angka Rp 1,400,000/Dinar ( emas di kisaran Rp 325,000/gram), permintaan Dinar justru mencapai titik tertingginya. Kemudian 3 bulan berikutnya lagi (19/02/2009) ketika angka menyentuh Rp 1,600,000/ Dinar ( emas di kisaran Rp 373,000/gram), kembali permintaan Dinar mencapai titik tertinggi berikutnya.&lt;br /&gt;
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Dari fakta-fakta diatas, Anda akan mudah memahami bahwa bila Anda menabung untuk tujuan proteksi nilai atau membangun ketahanan ekonomi  dalam jangka panjang – maka tidak ada waktu yang salah untuk memindahkan asset Anda dari Asset yang berpeluang mengalami debasement (penurunan nilai) yaitu uang kertas ke asset yang terbukti memiliki daya beli stabil sepanjang zaman yaitu emas atau Dinar.&lt;br /&gt;
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Apakah trend yang terjadi seperti yang ditunjukkan oleh angka-angka tersebut diatas akan terus berlangsung ?, dan harga emas/Dinar yang  sekarang dianggap sudah benar-benar ketinggian oleh sebagian orang – akhirnya akan turun juga ?.&lt;br /&gt;
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Dalam jangka pendek iya, bisa jadi harga emas/Dinar akan turun. Namun sekali lagi dalam jangka panjangnya – lebih banyak faktor fundamental yang mendorongnya naik ketimbang turun. Salah satu faktor yang sangat dominan adalah realitas bahwa uang kertas dunia saat ini dibangun dengan hutang – ketika hutang menumpuk dan tidak ada lagi yang bisa/mau memberi hutangan  baru – sedangkan hutang lama harus dibayar – maka pasti uang kertas jatuh nilainya.&lt;br /&gt;
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Grafik diatas adalah prediksi OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) untuk negara-negara yang konon paling kuat ekonominya. Rata-rata negara anggota OECD ternyata akan memiliki hutang (liabilities) yang melebihi GDP-nya tahun depan (2011). Dari grafik diatas, dapat kita ambil kesimpulan sederhana bahwa seluruh mata uang negara-negara anggota OECD akan turun significant (mengalami debasement) dalam rentang waktu yang tidak terlalu lama – kecuali China. Ketika nilai uang kertas jatuh, apa yang terjadi dengan harga emas dan benda riil lainnya ? – sederhana, harga emas dan benda riil lainnya akan melambung !.&lt;br /&gt;
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Untuk sementara China berkemungkinan bisa bertahan paling lama dalam hal kekuatan mata uangnya. China juga merupakan negara yang sangat pinter dalam mendorong rakyatnya membangun ketahanan ekonomi – &lt;a href="http://www.geraidinar.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;view=article&amp;amp;id=367:belajarlah-emas-walau-sampai-negeri-china&amp;amp;catid=1:latest-news&amp;amp;Itemid=50"&gt;dengan menganjurkan langsung dan mempermudah rakyatnya membeli emas&lt;/a&gt; – mumpung ekonomi mereka kuat dan uang mereka lagi perkasa.&lt;br /&gt;
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Jadi kalau kita mau belajar sampai ke negeri China termasuk dalam hal ketahan ekonomi ini, maka insyaAllah tidak ada waktu yang salah untuk membeli emas atau Dinar.&lt;br /&gt;
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Membeli emas/Dinar hanya akan salah bila tujuannya untuk spekulasi jangka pendek. Karena dalam jangka pendek harga emas akan terus bergejolak – sehingga sangat mungkin Anda merugi karena fluktuasi ini.&lt;br /&gt;
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Lantas kapan waktu menjualnya yang terbaik ?; Yang terbaik adalah ketika Anda membutuhkannya untuk keperluan riil seperti membayar sekolah, pergi haji, membayar rumah, membayar biaya kesehatan, memindahkan ke investasi sektor riil dlsb. Anda tidak akan pernah menyesal mencairkan emas atau Dinar Anda untuk keperluan-keperluan yang riil tersebut.&lt;br /&gt;
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Sebaliknya bila Anda menjual emas/Dinar hanya karena tertarik harga lagi tinggi – maka sangat mungkin Anda bisa menyesal karena angka tertinggi saat ini – bisa saja menjadi kelihatan sangat rendah hanya dalam belasan bulan kedepan seperti contoh angka-angka tersebut diatas.&lt;br /&gt;
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Ringkasnya adalah membeli emas/Dinar yang terbaik adalah pada saat Anda memiliki excess fund untuk keperluan jangka panjang; dan menjualnya terbaik adalah ketika Anda membutuhkannya untuk menutup kebutuhan yang riil.&lt;br /&gt;
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Sebaliknya membeli emas/Dinar untuk tujuan spekulasi jangka pendek selalu berpeluang untuk rugi karena fluktuasi jangka pendek; dan demikian pula menjual emas/Dinar hanya karena melihat harga tinggi sesaat – juga bisa menyesal – karena rekor-rekor tertinggi harga emas akan terus bermunculan sejalan dengan debasement mata uang kertas. Wa Allahu A’lam.&lt;br /&gt;
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Sumber : &lt;a href="http://geraidinar.com/"&gt;GeraiDinar.Com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4027639518668914298-8437349221876864478?l=www.dinarsaving.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/feeds/8437349221876864478/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/2010/05/kapan-waktu-beli-emasdinar-terbaik.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4027639518668914298/posts/default/8437349221876864478?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4027639518668914298/posts/default/8437349221876864478?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/2010/05/kapan-waktu-beli-emasdinar-terbaik.html' title='Kapan Waktu Beli Emas/Dinar Terbaik &amp; Kapan Waktu Jual...?'/><author><name>rizko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08659436625661270760</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00889770664132642904'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><georss:point>-0.02599 109.3513</georss:point></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;CEAAR3c8fyp7ImA9WxFQGUQ.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4027639518668914298.post-3826256895107201143</id><published>2010-05-16T13:43:00.001+07:00</published><updated>2010-05-16T13:52:26.977+07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2010-05-16T13:52:26.977+07:00</app:edited><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dinarnomics'/><title>Survival Strategy : Beyond Currency…</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.geraidinar.com/images/2010/beyondcurr.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://www.geraidinar.com/images/2010/beyondcurr.jpg" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Yang paling sering disalah pahami orang tentang gerakan saya menyebar luaskan Dinar – adalah seolah saya menafikan keberadaan uang kertas. Padahal tulisan saya yang paling popular di web ini dengan judul “&lt;a href="http://www.geraidinar.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;view=article&amp;amp;id=82:mengelola-uang-berdasarkan-fungsinya&amp;amp;catid=1:latest-news&amp;amp;Itemid=50"&gt;Mengelola Uang Berdasarkan Fungsinya…&lt;/a&gt;” yang telah dibaca lengkap (bukan hanya penggalannya) oleh lebih dari 10,000 orang, justru mengakui fungsi uang kertas sebagai alat tukar ini.&lt;br /&gt;
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Untuk meminimise kesalah pahaman ini, saya tidak malu untuk menyontek komunikasi yang digunakan oleh salah satu perusahaan minyak terbesar di dunia yang dahulu dikenal orang sebagai &lt;b&gt;British Petroleum (BP)&lt;/b&gt;. Pada tahun 2002 ketika mereka merubah namanya menjadi &lt;b&gt;BP plc&lt;/b&gt;. ; mereka menambahkan &lt;i&gt;tagline “Beyond Petroleum”&lt;/i&gt; dalam &lt;i&gt;corporate&lt;/i&gt; identity-nya.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Nampaknya BP ingin mengkomunikasikan ke masyarakat dunia bahwa mereka tidak hanya bergerak di bidang perminyakan; karena setelah ber-identitas baru tersebut BP juga meluncurkan &lt;i&gt;business unit&lt;/i&gt; baru yang disebut &lt;i&gt;BP Alternative Energy. Business Unit&lt;/i&gt; baru inilah yang kemudian mengembangkan energi lain diluar minyak seperti energi surya, angin, hydrogen dlsb. Jadi meskipun business utama BP yang juga memberikan income terbesarnya masih dari industri perminyakan, mereka sudah berpikir diluar perminyakan – karena boleh jadi minyak tidak akan selamanya tersedia untuk mereka &lt;i&gt;explore &lt;/i&gt;– mereka tentu ingin tetap &lt;i&gt;survive&lt;/i&gt; meskipun sumber energi utama kelak berubah dari minyak ke energi-energi lain diluar minyak.&lt;br /&gt;
Mirip dengan yang dilakukan oleh BP tersebut diatas – inilah yang kita lakukan dengan gerakan penyebar luasan Dinar. Kalau BP mengembangkan strateginya barangkali berdasarkan &lt;i&gt;prognosis &lt;/i&gt;bahwa minyak tidak akan selamanya tersedia; maka gerakan Dinar menggunakan &lt;i&gt;prognosis &lt;/i&gt;bahwa uang kertas tidak akan bisa bertahan dalam jangka panjang.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;Prognosis &lt;/i&gt;terhadap uang kertas ini didukung oleh statistik yang sangat kuat, sampai-sampai kita bisa menghitung waktu paruh daya beli uang kertas &lt;a href="http://www.geraidinar.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;view=article&amp;amp;id=381:menakar-kekuatan-mata-uang-dengan-melihat-waktu-paruhnya-terhadap-emas&amp;amp;catid=1:latest-news&amp;amp;Itemid=50"&gt;Rupiah yang hanya 4.3 tahun; US Dollar hanya 5.0 tahun&lt;/a&gt; dlsb. Jadi bila anak Anda lahir hari ini dan Anda mulai menabung uang kertas Rupiah untuk masa depannya; maka daya beli uang tabungan Anda tersebut tinggal 1/16 (1/2^4) pada saat anak Anda berulang tahun ke 17 !. Bila Anda menabungnya dalam US$, maka tabungan Anda nilai daya belinya juga tinggal 1/16 pada saat anak Anda tersebut berusia 20 tahun.&lt;br /&gt;
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Karena statistiknya demikian – bahwa daya beli uang kertas meluruh bersamaan dengan waktu – dan zat yang meluruh pasti akhirnya habis; maka kita butuh alternatif lain dari uang kertas ini. Alternatif lain inilah yang saya sebut &lt;i&gt;beyond currency&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Bila &lt;a href="http://www.geraidinar.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;view=article&amp;amp;id=302:bersiap-menghadapi-phenomena-wealth-transfer-&amp;amp;catid=1:latest-news&amp;amp;Itemid=50"&gt;uang kertas hanya berfungsi sebagai currency&lt;/a&gt; – yaitu alat tukar yang hanya berfungsi sesaat; maka yang kita butuhkan untuk &lt;i&gt;survive &lt;/i&gt;dalam jangka panjang  adalah uang yang sesungguhnya – &lt;i&gt;beyond currency&lt;/i&gt; – yaitu uang yang tidak hanya berfungsi sebagai alat tukar atau &lt;i&gt;medium of exchange&lt;/i&gt; atau &lt;i&gt;currency&lt;/i&gt;, tetapi juga berfungsi sebagai unit pencatatan/timbangan yang adil (&lt;i&gt;unit of account&lt;/i&gt;) dan sekaligus juga mampu mempertahankan nilai dari hasil jerih payah kita (&lt;i&gt;store of value&lt;/i&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;
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Uang yang sesungguhnya inipun tidak harus emas; benda-benda lain yang bernilai intrinsik &lt;a href="http://www.geraidinar.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;view=article&amp;amp;id=397:economics-outside-the-box-project-ngecat-langit-bernama-barter&amp;amp;catid=1:latest-news&amp;amp;Itemid=50"&gt;sampai garam sekalipun dapat menjadi uang dalam arti luas tersebut&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Kita pernah mengalami krisis 97/98 dimana saat itu uang kita tiba-tiba anjlog daya belinya tinggal ¼-nya dalam beberapa bulan saja (padahal seharusnya daya beli uang kita baru turun tinggal ¼-nya setelah 2 kali waktu paruh atau 8.6 tahun !), bukan hanya daya belinya yang anjlog – saat itu barang-barang kebutuhan kita juga menghilang di pasaran. Minyak goreng, susu bubuk dlsb. menjadi rebutan di toko-toko yang masih memiliki stok.&lt;br /&gt;
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Pada saat krisis, uang bisa saja menghilang atau turun daya belinya; tetapi kebutuhan kita akan makan minum, kebutuhan anak-anak kita untuk susu dlsb. tetap perlu dipenuhi.&lt;br /&gt;
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Jadi ‘uang’ selain uang kertas yang rentan krisis –  harus juga menjadi bagian dari &lt;i&gt;survival kit&lt;/i&gt; kita – bila kita ingin survive dalam jangka panjang. Selain emas atau Dinar yang praktis, kita bisa juga menggunakan &lt;a href="http://www.geraidinar.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;view=article&amp;amp;id=395:memilih-bidang-pekerjaan-di-akhir-zaman&amp;amp;catid=1:latest-news&amp;amp;Itemid=50"&gt;ternak kambing&lt;/a&gt; misalnya sebagai cadangan ‘tabungan’ kita di masa yang sangat sulit sekalipun.&lt;br /&gt;
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Juga bukan hanya ternak kambing yang di-resep-kan dalam hadits sahih sebagai sumber penghasilan jangka panjang yang bisa diandalkan; antisipasi krisis melalui &lt;a href="http://www.geraidinar.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;view=article&amp;amp;id=67:bangunekonomi&amp;amp;catid=1:latest-news&amp;amp;Itemid=50"&gt;bercocok tanam dengan sungguh-sungguh selama tujuh tahun&lt;/a&gt; – bahkan resepnya ada di Al-Qur’an .&lt;br /&gt;
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Maka tidak heran bila daya tahan masyarakat pedesaan terhadap krisis seperti yang kita alami tahun 1997/1998 lebih besar ketimbang masyarakat perkotaan. Sampai-sampai ketika saya masih rajin pulang kampung di masa krismon tersebut – embok-embok di desa suka bertanya “ krismon iki opo to le ?” – (Krismon ini apa sih nak ?). Mereka tidak terganggu dengan krisis moneter karena mereka memang sudah terbiasa hidup  beyond currency.&lt;br /&gt;
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Jadi mari kita rame-rame menghidupkan kehidupan desa, dengan kambing dan ternak lainnya, dengan pohon-pohonnya, dengan sawah-sawahnya – maka bila &lt;a href="http://www.geraidinar.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;view=article&amp;amp;id=402:kali-ini-bukan-pig-flu-tetapi-piigs-flu-yang-mewabah&amp;amp;catid=1:latest-news&amp;amp;Itemid=50"&gt;wabah PIIGS&lt;/a&gt; meluas ke seluruh dunia – Insyallah kita bisa survive. Sekarang memang kita masih butuh uang kertas sebagai currency atau alat tukar, tetapi ketika uang kertas ini kehilangan daya belinya seperti yang sudah-sudah – kitapun harus siap hidup beyond currency. Amin&lt;br /&gt;
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Sumber : &lt;a href="http://geraidinar.com/"&gt;GeraiDinar.Com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4027639518668914298-3826256895107201143?l=www.dinarsaving.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/feeds/3826256895107201143/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/2010/05/survival-strategy-beyond-currency.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4027639518668914298/posts/default/3826256895107201143?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4027639518668914298/posts/default/3826256895107201143?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/2010/05/survival-strategy-beyond-currency.html' title='Survival Strategy : Beyond Currency…'/><author><name>rizko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08659436625661270760</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00889770664132642904'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><georss:point>-0.02599 109.3513</georss:point></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;CUMEQXs4eCp7ImA9WxFQGEk.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4027639518668914298.post-4402560822431197500</id><published>2010-05-14T20:23:00.000+07:00</published><updated>2010-05-14T20:23:20.530+07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2010-05-14T20:23:20.530+07:00</app:edited><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gold Article'/><title>Gold is Money</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.kitco.com/ind/Hunter/images/may122010_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="157" src="http://www.kitco.com/ind/Hunter/images/may122010_1.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;The Western financial world is officially in full panic mode. A nearly $1 trillion bailout of Greece confirms that fact. Our very own Federal Reserve is providing billions to the effort, but this is much more than a bailout for Greece. It is a bailout for banks holding Greek debt and the debt of other European nations teetering on default.&lt;br /&gt;
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This bailout is not a fix or a cure for too much debt. People on both sides of the pond are simply spending more than they earn. The “fix” is a long painful road of consuming less and saving more, but that is not what this bailout represents. What the leaders of the Western World chose was the short painless path of money printing. You have to ask yourself where did they come up with nearly a trillion dollars in such a short amount of time?&lt;br /&gt;
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If real assets were used for this bailout, it would not be done. Think about this for a minute. Let’s say for the American part of this rescue we had to put up half of New York State for collateral. Does the thought of that much prime land frittered away make you squeamish?  How about putting up 500 million barrels of oil out of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve? Too valuable you say? Then maybe a couple thousand tons of gold out of Fort Knox would be okay to use, after all, it’s just sitting there (I hope).  Doesn’t this sound absurd?  It sure does because these are real assets and printed money is not. This is why the U.S. Fed is using dollars created out of thin air to help bail out its banking buddies in Europe. It is the easy way out, at least at the beginning.&lt;br /&gt;
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In the end, this kind of reckless desperation will cause every dollar you spend and save to be worth less. If the Fed prints too many dollars, then they’ll be just plain worthless. What do you suppose will happen when California, Illinois, Florida or any one of more than a couple of dozen U.S. states all gets into the same trouble as Greece? Do you think the Fed will let them fail or print more money and bail them out too? I’m going with a giant money printing bonanza right here in America. I covered some of this in a February post called “&lt;a href="http://usawatchdog.com/america-has-its-own-pigs/"&gt;America Has Its Own PIGS.&lt;/a&gt;”&lt;br /&gt;
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Gold buyers see what’s coming, and prices are being bid up.  Gold set a new all time high this week. Why? Money, or the buying power of money, is systematically being destroyed by current and coming bailouts. The new money is gold and Congressman Ron Paul agrees. He said earlier this week, “&lt;b&gt;Gold, all of a sudden, started acting differently.  It started acting as a currency rather than just reacting to the value of the dollar or other commodities . . . Gold has been money for 6 thousand years and it’s going to remain that way, and it will rule the roost . . . It’s telling us that the dollar is actually very weak . . . when you measure it against gold.&lt;/b&gt;” Silver is also rising in price. When gold rockets high enough in price, then silver will also be considered money.&lt;br /&gt;
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This so called bailout will just extend the game. The question is for how long? To be frank, I do not know how this will finally shake out. The two things you can count on for sure:  there will be some very big inflation–and &lt;b&gt;gold is money&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Source : &lt;a href="http://www.kitco.com/ind/Hunter/may122010.html"&gt;Greg Hunter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4027639518668914298-4402560822431197500?l=www.dinarsaving.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/feeds/4402560822431197500/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/2010/05/gold-is-money.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4027639518668914298/posts/default/4402560822431197500?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4027639518668914298/posts/default/4402560822431197500?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/2010/05/gold-is-money.html' title='Gold is Money'/><author><name>rizko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08659436625661270760</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00889770664132642904'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;A0IERXY_cSp7ImA9WxFQGE4.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4027639518668914298.post-6879344066337814446</id><published>2010-05-14T19:18:00.000+07:00</published><updated>2010-05-14T19:18:24.849+07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2010-05-14T19:18:24.849+07:00</app:edited><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gold Article'/><title>A Waste of $1 Trillion</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;JUST UNDER&lt;/strong&gt; $1 trillion...that's what the European Union  has promised in an emergency rescue package to stabilize the Euro  currency and Europe's financial woes, &lt;em&gt;writes Steve Sjuggerud at &lt;a href="http://www.dailywealth.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Daily Wealth&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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The result? Nothing so far.&lt;br /&gt;
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On Friday, the Euro hovered around $1.27 all day. As I write...$1  trillion later...the Euro is hovering around $1.27. Like I said,  nothing.&lt;br /&gt;
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In fact, the result turns out to be worse than nothing. It may prove to  be the worst $1 trillion ever spent.&lt;br /&gt;
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To me, this $1 trillion spells the end of the Euro as a credible  "threat" to the US Dollar. And it brings gold one step closer to being  at least the world's No. 2 reserve "currency" (behind the US Dollar).&lt;br /&gt;
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You see, before the $1 trillion promise (along with new promises from  the European Central Bank to spend money to prop markets up), the Euro  currency had some semblance of credibility.&lt;br /&gt;
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The Euro's credibility goes back to the predecessor of the European  Central Bank – Germany's "Bundesbank". For decades, Germany's old  currency (the Deutschemark) was one of the world's strongest. The  Bundesbank had a reputation for not sacrificing the value of the  deutschemark for political needs, so investors wanted to hold Germany's  currency.&lt;br /&gt;
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With the start of the Euro, financial markets assumed the new European  Central Bank would inherit the legacy of the Bundesbank. That's what  kept the Euro up as a credible threat against the US Dollar's world  dominance.&lt;br /&gt;
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But the $1 trillion promised over the weekend – along with promises to  prop up the markets – killed the idea that the European Central Bank  would act like the Bundesbank. It horribly damaged the Euro's long-term  credibility.&lt;br /&gt;
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Now, the Euro is just like a Dollar – politicians are willing to  sacrifice its value. Wait... a Euro is now worse than a Dollar. The Euro  is less traded (less liquid) than the Dollar. And if the Euro fails,  there is nobody to blame.&lt;br /&gt;
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It gets worse...&lt;br /&gt;
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Yesterday, in his excellent &lt;em&gt;Gartman Letter&lt;/em&gt;, trading guru Dennis  Gartman asked, essentially:&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;blockquote&gt;  What is the propensity of the reserve banks of China and India to add  Euros to their reserve assets now? We have to think it is somewhat  reduced from what it was only a short while ago...&lt;br /&gt;
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On the other hand, what is their propensity to own gold now? Almost  certainly it is enhanced.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;The numbers are showing it. &lt;a href="http://gold.bullionvault.com/How/GoldPrices" target="_blank"&gt;Gold Prices&lt;/a&gt; are  hitting highs in BOTH Dollars and Euros. In short, paper money really  lost credibility over the weekend.&lt;br /&gt;
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The Euro is now a garbage currency. It deserves even less credibility  than the US Dollar. But the US Dollar doesn't deserve a lot of  credibility, either.&lt;br /&gt;
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It's easy to sit in the States and see the problems over there. But the  thing is, we have the same problems. We have too much government  spending...and we have too many future promises we can't fulfill, like  Social Security.&lt;br /&gt;
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What makes our government's problems that much different than the  countries of Europe? They're just ahead of us.&lt;br /&gt;
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What we need is change. We need countries to commit to changing their  ways.&lt;br /&gt;
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You don't fix a drug addict by giving him more money. He'll go spend it  on more drugs. Instead, you need to get him to rehab, to give him a  fighting chance to change his ways.&lt;br /&gt;
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You don't fix someone who's overspent on their credit cards and is  living beyond his means by giving him more money. He'll simply get  himself deeper in debt. Instead, you need to cut up the credit cards and  force him to live lean for a while.&lt;br /&gt;
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What can you do? Two obvious things:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://gold.bullionvault.com/How/BuyGold" target="_blank"&gt;Buy  Gold&lt;/a&gt; instead of paper currencies. The US and Europe have made it  crystal clear their "release" valve is the value of our paper  currencies;&lt;br /&gt;
Make your presence known to your government representatives. Do your  best to "take their credit card away" and "send them to rehab" to  prevent the US from becoming the next Greece.&lt;br /&gt;
Both the Dollar and the Euro will be weak against gold, as politicians  the world over have now proven they'll sacrifice the value of their  currencies for short-term political gain.&lt;br /&gt;
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Trade and invest accordingly.&lt;br /&gt;
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Source : &lt;a href="http://goldnews.bullionvault.com/buy_gold_euro_051320104"&gt;http://goldnews.bullionvault.com/buy_gold_euro_051320104&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4027639518668914298-6879344066337814446?l=www.dinarsaving.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/feeds/6879344066337814446/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/2010/05/waste-of-1-trillion.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4027639518668914298/posts/default/6879344066337814446?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4027639518668914298/posts/default/6879344066337814446?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/2010/05/waste-of-1-trillion.html' title='A Waste of $1 Trillion'/><author><name>rizko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08659436625661270760</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00889770664132642904'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><georss:point>-0.02599 109.3513</georss:point></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;DEAMSHwzfSp7ImA9WxFQGE0.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4027639518668914298.post-6738809177253605031</id><published>2010-05-14T10:13:00.000+07:00</published><updated>2010-05-14T10:13:09.285+07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2010-05-14T10:13:09.285+07:00</app:edited><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dinarnomics'/><title>Emas Ibarat Cermin...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.geraidinar.com/images/greek1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="136" src="http://www.geraidinar.com/images/greek1.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Sekitar sembilan abad yang lalu Imam Al Ghazali (1058-1111) dengan kejernihan pemikirannya mengungkapkan bahwa sejatinya emas sebagai timbangan yang adil, dirinya sendiri ibarat cermin yang dengannya barang-barang dapat ditentukan nilainya dengan akurat.&lt;br /&gt;
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Sekarang saya akan gunakan cermin Imam Ghazali ini untuk melihat krisis yang sekarang sedang menghebohkan dunia. Kita lihat krisis tersebut dari kacamata harga emas yang mencerminkan daya beli uang negara-negara di dunia. Saya ambil case negara kita dibandingkan negara yang menjadi epicentrum krisis sekarang ini yaitu Yunani secara khusus dan European Union secara umum.&lt;br /&gt;
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Perhatikan grafik diatas, dalam mata uang Greek Drachmas (GRD) yaitu mata uang Yunani – harga emas setahun terakhir mengalami kenaikan 41%.  Dalam Euro kenaikan ini bahkan mencapai 44%, sedangkan dalam Rupiah hanya mengalami kenaikan 16 %.&lt;br /&gt;
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Dari kacamata kenaikan harga emas ini kita bisa tahu bahwa krisis yang melanda Yunani setahun terakhir memang sangat parah, sehingga daya beli uangnya terhadap emas anjlog  sekitar 30 % (100%/141%). Karena emas ini cerminan harga barang-barang di sekitarnya – maka daya beli uang mereka terhadap barang-barang juga turun kurang lebih pada persentase yang sama. Bisa dibayangkan penderitaan rakyat negeri itu sebagai dampak dari penurunan daya beli uangnya ini.&lt;br /&gt;
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Namun ternyata Yunani tidak sendirian mengalami krisis ini, secara bersama-sama negara-negara yang tergabung dalam European Union – juga lagi tenggelam bersama.  Ini bisa dilihat dari kenaikan harga emas dalam Euro bahkan lebih tinggi ketimbang dalam Drachmas – yaitu mencapai 44%, atau daya beli Euro mengalami penurunan sekitar  31%.&lt;br /&gt;
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Kita yang di Indonesia, juga tentu tidak terlepas dari &lt;a href="http://www.geraidinar.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;view=article&amp;amp;id=402:kali-ini-bukan-pig-flu-tetapi-piigs-flu-yang-mewabah&amp;amp;catid=1:latest-news&amp;amp;Itemid=50"&gt;wabah PIIGS&lt;/a&gt; ini; tetapi dalam Rupiah rata-rata harga emas setahun terakhir hanya naik sekitar 16% saja. Maka bersyukur memang sudah sepatutnya bahwa ekonomi kita lagi perkasa, namun untuk berbangga dengan kinerja kita – ini yang tidak boleh.&lt;br /&gt;
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Selain berbangga menimbulkan kesombongan yang dilarang agama, kenyataannya memang belum ada yang bisa kita banggakan. Mengapa demikian ?, coba kita bercermin kembali dengan cerminnya Imam Ghazali tersebut diatas – sekarang kita lihat harga emas sepuluh tahun terakhir.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.geraidinar.com/images/greek2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="136" src="http://www.geraidinar.com/images/greek2.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Dalam sepuluh tahun terakhir, di Yunani yang menjadi epicentrum krisis saja  - harga emasnya hanya naik sebesar 253% (dalam Drachmas) ; dalam Euro kenaikan ini hanya 249 % ; dalam Rupiah kenaikan ini mencapai 445%. Bila pada Januari 2000 kita bisa membeli emas 1 gram seharga  Rp 66,000,- ; kini harga emas tersebut menjadi Rp 360,000 per gram.&lt;br /&gt;
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Maka bercermin dengan cermin yang utuh kita perlu – agar kita tahu seperti apa kinerja kita sesungguhnya; dengan cermin itu pula kita bisa memperbaiki diri – agar dari waktu-kewaktu semakin indah wajah kita.&lt;br /&gt;
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Jangan pula sampai terjadi ‘Buruk Muka Cermin Dibelah’ seperti yang diungkapkan oleh &lt;a href="http://www.geraidinar.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;view=article&amp;amp;id=398:gold-wars-perang-terhadap-emas-dari-kacamata-swiss-banker&amp;amp;catid=1:latest-news&amp;amp;Itemid=50"&gt;Ferdinand Lips dalam Gold War&lt;/a&gt; ; bahwa bank-bank central dari negara-negara di dunia memerangi emas karena ingin membelah cermin ini; mereka tidak mau wajahnya terlihat buruk di depan cermin yang adil. Wa Allahu A’lam.&lt;br /&gt;
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Sumber : &lt;a href="http://geraidinar.com/"&gt;GeraiDinar.Com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4027639518668914298-6738809177253605031?l=www.dinarsaving.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/feeds/6738809177253605031/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/2010/05/emas-ibarat-cermin.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4027639518668914298/posts/default/6738809177253605031?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4027639518668914298/posts/default/6738809177253605031?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/2010/05/emas-ibarat-cermin.html' title='Emas Ibarat Cermin...'/><author><name>rizko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08659436625661270760</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00889770664132642904'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><georss:point>-0.02599 109.3513</georss:point></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;CEcMQHs8fip7ImA9WxFQFk8.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4027639518668914298.post-1619151264237890066</id><published>2010-05-12T06:54:00.000+07:00</published><updated>2010-05-12T06:54:41.576+07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2010-05-12T06:54:41.576+07:00</app:edited><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dinarnomics'/><title>Kali Ini Bukan PIG FLU, Tetapi PIIGS ‘FLU’ Yang Mewabah...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.geraidinar.com/images/2010/piigs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="113" src="http://www.geraidinar.com/images/2010/piigs.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Tahun lalu wabah flu babi (Swine Flu atau Pig Flu) sempat membuat panik dunia setelah ditemukannya flu ini menjalar ke manusia di Amerika, Mexico dan Canada. Hari –hari ini dunia kembali dibuat panik tetapi bukan oleh PIG tetapi oleh PIIGS, acronym dari Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece dan Spain.&lt;br /&gt;
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‘Flu’ di pasar uang dunia begitu terasa dalam beberapa hari perdagangan terakhir, bahkan ketika bailout senilai 750 Milyar Euro terhadap Yunani atau Greece sudah di commit oleh European Union dan IMF.  Komitmen raksasa untuk mengatasi kebolongan di epicentrum krisis tersebut nampaknya tidak membuat para pemain pasar lega.&lt;br /&gt;
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Hanya dua hari setelah bailout tersebut diumumkan, para pemain pasar kembali memburu jaring penyelamat untuk investasinya – yaitu antara lain emas. Karena permintaan yang melonjak inilah maka pagi ini – saat artikel ini saya tulis - harga emas berada di atas US$ 1,230/Oz atau dalam US$ telah mengalami peningkatan lebih dari 34% dibanding harga emas dunia tahun lalu. Harga ini memecahkan rekor tertinggi sebelumnya yang berada di kisaran US$ 1,226 yang tercapai di awal Desember tahun lalu.&lt;br /&gt;
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Mengapa seolah pasar tidak percaya terhadap upaya – upaya negara yang dilanda krisis tersebut untuk dapat mengatasi masalahnya ?, ada dua hal yang sangat mendasar yang menyebabkan hal ini.&lt;br /&gt;
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Pertama hutang yang sudah begitu besar yang diderita oleh negara-negara yang dilanda krisis tersebut, perhatikan grafik diatas faktanya. Yunani dan Italy bahkan hutangnya per akhir tahun lalu saja sudah melebihi GDP-nya. Nenek-nenek kita dahulu juga tahu kalau problem hutang ini tidak bisa diatasi dengan hutang baru, semua bantuan baik dari EU, IMF dlsb. tidak ada yang gratis – pada waktunya harus dibayar.&lt;br /&gt;
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Kedua adalah selain menghadapi masalah hutang yang sangat besar, negara-negara tersebut juga mengalami deficit pada anggaran belanjanya , sekaligus juga perekonomiannya tidak tumbuh – sebagian malah merosot seperti yang dialami Spanyol.&lt;br /&gt;
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Masalah deficit ini sungguh tidak mudah diatasi karena menyangkut budaya. Pegawai-pegawai pemerintah di negara-negara tersebut misalnya tidak akan mudah bisa diturunkan gajinya. Layanan publik juga tidak mudah diturunkan standarnya (dipotong anggarannya).&lt;br /&gt;
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Wal hasil bailout dari EU dan IMF untuk Yunani nampaknya hanya semacam obat untuk menghilangkan rasa sakit, tetapi bukan obat untuk menyembuhkan penyakit. PIIGS ‘FLU’ (krisis) mungkin masih akan terus kambuh, bukan hanya terhadap Greece  dan PIIGS tetapi terhadap semua negara yang memiliki ketahanan ‘tubuh’ (ekonomi) yang sama.&lt;br /&gt;
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Symptoms atau gejala-gejala ketahanan ekonomi yang lemah ini antara lain ya tiga hal diatas yaitu hutangnya banyak, anggarannya defisit dan pertumbuhan ekonominya rendah atau bahkan turun atau tidak tumbuh.&lt;br /&gt;
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Jadi harga emas masih akan terus bergejolak karena dari waktu ke waktu orang butuh jaring penyelamat, dan emas-lah yang terbukti dapat berperan sebagai jaring penyelamat yang mudah diperoleh, efektif dalam mengatasi masalah inflasi dan gejolak ekonomi lainnya. Wa Allahu A’lam.&lt;br /&gt;
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Sumber : &lt;a href="http://geraidinar.com/"&gt;GeraiDinar.Com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4027639518668914298-1619151264237890066?l=www.dinarsaving.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/feeds/1619151264237890066/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/2010/05/kali-ini-bukan-pig-flu-tetapi-piigs-flu.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4027639518668914298/posts/default/1619151264237890066?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4027639518668914298/posts/default/1619151264237890066?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/2010/05/kali-ini-bukan-pig-flu-tetapi-piigs-flu.html' title='Kali Ini Bukan PIG FLU, Tetapi PIIGS ‘FLU’ Yang Mewabah...'/><author><name>rizko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08659436625661270760</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00889770664132642904'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><georss:point>-0.02599 109.3513</georss:point></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;DkMDQHg9eip7ImA9WxFQEkQ.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4027639518668914298.post-3645930272782329556</id><published>2010-05-08T11:54:00.000+07:00</published><updated>2010-05-08T11:54:31.662+07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2010-05-08T11:54:31.662+07:00</app:edited><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hikmah'/><title>Titik Bumi Yang Terendah</title><content type='html'>“Alif Laam Miim. Telah dikalahkan bangsa Rumawi, di negeri yang terdekat dan mereka sesudah dikalahkan itu akan menang, dalam beberapa tahun (lagi). Bagi Allah-lah urusan sebelum dan sesudah (mereka menang). Dan di hari (kemenangan bangsa Rumawi) itu bergembiralah orang-orang yang beriman, karena pertolongan Allah. Dia menolong siapa yang dikehendaki-Nya. Dan Dialah Yang Maha Perkasa lagi Maha Penyayang. (sebagai) janji yang sebenar-benarnya dari Allah. Allah tidak akan menyalahi janji-Nya, tetapi kebanyakan manusia tidak mengetahui.” (QS Ar-Rum [30]: 1-6)&lt;br /&gt;
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Buku-buku sejarah memberitahu kita tentang pertempuran antara Persia dan kerajaan Romawi Timur - yang terakhir menandakan bagian timur Kekaisaran Romawi - yang terletak di daerah antara Adhra’at dan Basra, dekat Laut Mati. Pertempuran yang terjadi tahun 619 M berakhir dengan kemenangan bangsa Persia.&lt;br /&gt;
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Orang Romawi menerima pukulan berat dalam pertempuran itu dan semua orang pada saat itu khawatir jika kerajaan mereka jatuh. Anehnya, mereka terlibat dalam pertempuran lain di 627 M di daerah Niniwe di mana mereka mengalahkan pasukan Persia dan menduduki banyak daerah. Beberapa bulan kemudian, Bizantium menandatangani perjanjian dengan bangsa Persia yang isinya mereka mengembalikan semua daerah yang diduduki sebelumnya.&lt;br /&gt;
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Atlas geografis menunjukkan bahwa titik terendah di permukaan bumi adalah daerah dekat Laut Mati di mana permukaan bumi adalah serendah 395 meter di bawah permukaan laut. Foto yang diambil oleh satelit mendukung fakta ini.&lt;br /&gt;
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Ada dua keajaiban dalam ayat-ayat ini. Pertama, Alquran memberi kabar gembira dengan kemenangan kepada orang-orang Romawi dalam rentang waktu antara tiga sampai sembilan tahun. Setelah tujuh tahun, berita dari Alquran menjadi kenyataan.&lt;br /&gt;
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Kemenangan Romawi ini bertepatan dengan kemenangan kaum muslimin dalam Perang Badar. Dalam pengamatan orang-orang kafir Arab, kemenangan Romawi tampak mustahil dan mereka mulai mengejek dan mengolok-olok kaum muslimin tentang kata-kata Al-Qur’an ini. Namun ketika nubuat itu menjadi kenyataan, maka mereka kecewa dan rendah hati.&lt;br /&gt;
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Kedua, ayat-ayat tersebut mengungkapkan kepada kita tentang fakta geografis yang tidak diketahui siapa pun pada waktu itu. Ayat-ayat tersebut mengatakan bahwa orang-orang Romawi akan kalah dalam pertempuran di wilayah terendah di bumi, dan itu adalah tempat terdekat dengan Semenanjung Arab dan merupakan titik terendah di bumi adalah 1.312 kaki (sekitar 400 meter) di bawah permukaan laut. Menurut Encyclopedia Britannica, satelit telah mencatat bahwa memang tempat tersebut adalah tempat yang terendah di bumi. Fakta sejarah menjadi saksi bahwa pertempuran terjadi di tempat terendah di bumi; dekat Laut Mati.&lt;br /&gt;
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Pada saat itu, mustahil bagi siapapun untuk mengetahui hal ini adalah wilayah terendah di bumi. Apakah ini tidak memberikan bukti bahwa semakin Selalu Alquran adalah firman Allah? Mahasuci Allah yang berfirman, “Dan katakanlah, ‘Segala puji bagi Allah, Dia akan memperlihatkan kepadamu tanda-tanda kebesaran-Nya, maka kamu akan mengetahuinya. Dan Tuhanmu tiada lalai dari apa yang kamu kerjakan.” (QS An-Naml [27]: 93)&lt;br /&gt;
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Sumber : &lt;b&gt;Dr. Mohamad Daudah - &lt;a href="http://www.eramuslim.com/syariah/quran-sunnah/titik-bumi-yang-terendah.htm"&gt;EraMuslim&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4027639518668914298-3645930272782329556?l=www.dinarsaving.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/feeds/3645930272782329556/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/2010/05/titik-bumi-yang-terendah.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4027639518668914298/posts/default/3645930272782329556?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4027639518668914298/posts/default/3645930272782329556?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/2010/05/titik-bumi-yang-terendah.html' title='Titik Bumi Yang Terendah'/><author><name>rizko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08659436625661270760</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00889770664132642904'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><georss:point>-0.02599 109.3513</georss:point></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;CUEDQn8zfSp7ImA9WxFQEkQ.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4027639518668914298.post-2456562542973455268</id><published>2010-05-08T11:41:00.000+07:00</published><updated>2010-05-08T11:41:13.185+07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2010-05-08T11:41:13.185+07:00</app:edited><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dinarnomics'/><title>Ketika Asset Anda Nilainya Ditentukan Oleh Isu...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.geraidinar.com/images/2010/whatcrisis.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="165" src="http://www.geraidinar.com/images/2010/whatcrisis.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Dalam tulisan saya dua hari lalu tentang &lt;a href="http://www.geraidinar.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;view=article&amp;amp;id=398:gold-wars-perang-terhadap-emas-dari-kacamata-swiss-banker&amp;amp;catid=1:latest-news&amp;amp;Itemid=50"&gt;Gold War&lt;/a&gt; saya ungkapkan bahwa emas ‘dibenci’ pemerintah dan otoritas dunia,  karena begitu mudah digunakan untuk membaca masalah-masalah yang melanda system financial yang ada. Melesatnya harga emas dunia semalam yang menembus angka diatas US$ 1,200/Oz membuktikan hal ini, bahwa system keuangan dunia lagi sakit dan ada kemungkinan komplikasi yang parah.&lt;br /&gt;
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Awalnya penyakit itu berasal dari &lt;a href="http://www.geraidinar.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;view=article&amp;amp;id=394:apa-yang-terjadi-bila-satu-mata-uang-jatuh&amp;amp;catid=1:latest-news&amp;amp;Itemid=50"&gt;krisis yang melanda Yunani&lt;/a&gt;, kemudian menular ke tetangganya yang pertahanan ‘tubuh’ ekonominya juga lemah seperti Portugal dan Spanyol, kemudian seluruh Eropa terpengaruh dengan anjloknya Euro mendekati 9% sejak awal tahun ini.&lt;br /&gt;
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Dan puncaknya semalam ketika dalam beberapa jam perdagangan saja Index Dow Jones Industrials terpangkas hampir 1000 points. Secara umum dalam perdagangan bursa dunia kemarin, rata-rata indexs turun diatas 3 %.&lt;br /&gt;
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Dengan wabah yang ditularkan oleh Yunani ini, semua nilai Asset yang ditentukan dengan mata uang kertas menjadi semu. US$ yang nampak relatif perkasa saja bila dibandingkan dengan mata uang kertas lainnya, setahun terakhir nilainya turun sebesar hampir 25% dibandingkan dengan emas – atau per pagi ini harga emas dalam US$ setahun terakhir naik sekitar 32%.&lt;br /&gt;
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Apakah dampak krisis ini juga akan menjangkau kita yang ribuan miles jauhnya dari Yunani ? secara fisik memang kita berjauhan dari epicentrum krisis.  Namun secara system, semua saling terkait. Ketika bursa dunia berjatuhan, maka bursa kita-pun ikut jatuh.&lt;br /&gt;
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Selain system yang saling terkait, komplikasi lain yang sifatnya internal kita juga ada, yaitu pertahanan ‘tubuh’ dari system keuangan kita lagi rentan isu pergantian pejabat otoritas keuangan negeri ini. Karena berbagai hal inilah nilai uang Rupiah kita dalam  sepekan terakhir turun sampai sekitar 4 % bila dibandingkan dengan US$, dan turun sekitar 8% bila dibandingkan dengan harga emas.&lt;br /&gt;
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Karena selama ini kita menggunakan unit of account Rupiah dalam menilai asset-asset atau transaksi kita, maka ketika nilai mata uang kertas kita jatuh – nilai asset-asset tersebut juga ikut jatuh. Misalkan sepekan lalu Anda bernegosiasi untuk membeli rumah seharga Rp 1 Milyar – saat itu nilainya  setara dengan 685 Dinar; bila Anda selesaikan transaksi tersebut hari ini maka rumah yang harganya Rp 1 Milyar tersebut – kini cukup Anda beli seharga 628 Dinar. Dalam Rupiah tetap, tetapi dalam Dinar rumah tersebut telah turun nilainya sebesar 8 % lebih – dalam sepekan !.&lt;br /&gt;
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Proses yang sama inilah yang membuat asset-asset negeri ini, baik yang berasal dari BUMN maupun swasta – berpindah tangan dari kepemilikan bangsa ini ketangan asing paska krisis 1997/1998. Ketika nilai uang kita paska krisis tinggal seperempatnya dibandingkan dengan sebelum krisis, betapa murahnya asset-asset bangsa ini bila dibeli dengan mata uang asing yang lebih perkasa melalui masa krisis.&lt;br /&gt;
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Sehingga jangan heran bila Anda sempat berjalan di sepanjang jalan protocol ibu kota yaitu dari ujung Jl. Thamrin di utara sampai ke ujung Jl. Sudirman di selatan – tengoklah kiri kanan dan lihatlah papan nama – panan nama yang menjualng indah di pencakar langit – pencakar langit pusat bisnis kebanggaan kita tersebut, lalau bertanyalah siapa yang memiliki saham (mayoritas) perusahaan-perusahaan tersebut ? jawabannya kemungkinan besar bukan kita lagi.&lt;br /&gt;
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Di pintu gerbang  Jalan Thamrin ada perusahaan telekomunikasi kebanggaan bangsa ini (dahulu) – kini negeri ini tinggal memiliki saham 14.29 % saja; 65 %-nya milik asing dan sisanya 20.71% public – yang bisa jadi sebagiannya juga asing.&lt;br /&gt;
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Mendekati ujung Jalan Sudirman ada bank swasta kebanggaan kita (dahulu), bank ini didirikan oleh para pengusaha pejuang yang sebagian besarnya saya kenal pribadi dengan sangat baik.  Bahkan waktu mereka mendirikan bank tersebut tahun 1955 – motifnya bukan untuk mencari keuntungan, tetapi ingin mengisi kemerdekaan !. Ironi sekali, karena bank tersebut kini ultimate shareholder-nya adalah suatu group perusahaan dari negeri jiran. &lt;br /&gt;
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Pengalaman-pengalaman memilukan banyak terjadi dialami oleh temen-temen yang bekerja di perusahaan-perusahaan yang diambil alih pihak asing ini, bukan masalah materi – tetapi lebih kepada masalah harga diri. Setelah 65 tahun merdeka, ternyata yang banyak ‘mengisi’ kemerdekaan ini bukan lagi kita – tetapi para investor asing baik dari negeri jiran maupun dari negeri yang jauh L.&lt;br /&gt;
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Lantas bagaimana kita menghindari pengalaman ini terus dan terus terulang, baik dalam skala pribadi maupun dalam skala bangsa ?. Jawabannya adalah pertahankan nilai kekayaan kita dengan unit of account yang sesungguhnya, yang nilainya tidak mudah rusak oleh isu dan tidak terpengaruh oleh wabah penyakit global seperti penyakit yang ditularkan oleh negeri nun jauh disana – Yunani.&lt;br /&gt;
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Dinar bisa menjadi solusi yang konkrit untuk hal ini, kalau toh di tingkat perusahaan atau negara belum bisa mengambil Dinar ini sebagai solusi – toh kita sudah bisa mengamankan asset kita sendiri dengan Dinar ini. Mulai yang kita bisa, mulai yang kita tahu – insyaAllah Allah akan membimbing kita terhadap apa yang kita belum tahu...Amin.&lt;br /&gt;
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Menutut Lips ini perang terhadap emas dimulai tahun 1933 ketika President Amerika waktu itu Franklin D Roosevelt menyita seluruh emas yang dimiliki warga negaranya, dan menaikan harga emas di negeri itu dari US$ 20.67/ounce ke US$ 35.00/Ounce. Perang ini menjadi semakin serius sejak ditinggalkannya Breton Woods Agreement 1971 – dimana sejak saat itu praktis tidak ada satu uang-pun di dunia yang dikaitkan dengan emas – kecuali Swiss.&lt;br /&gt;
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Swiss merupakan negara yang bertahan mengkaitkan uangnya dengan emas sampai tahun 1992 – itulah sebabnya sampai tahun tersebut mata uang Swiss yaitu Swiss Franc adalah yang paling kuat di dunia. Swiss dahulu juga merupakan surga bagi warga dunia yang ingin mengamankan asetnya.&lt;br /&gt;
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Namun sejak tahun 1992, Swiss juga menjadi anggota IMF, dan sebagai anggota IMF mereka wajib tunduk pada aturan-aturan IMF yang antara lain melarang anggota IMF mengkaitkan uangnya dengan emas. Uang boleh dikaitkan dengan hasil-hasil peternakan, pertanian dan lain sebagainya atau apapun tetapi tidak boleh dikaitkan terhadap emas.&lt;br /&gt;
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Lantas mengapa bank-bank sentral dunia dalam koordinasi IMF ini memerangi emas ?. Menurut Ferdinand Lips ini adalah karena emas merupakan barometer standar yang dengan mudah dapat mendeteksi bila ada yang salah dalam system keuangan yang ada di dunia – dan para otoritas keuangan dunia tentu tidak suka kesalahannya mudah dibaca hanya dengan melihat harga emas !.&lt;br /&gt;
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Dia mencontohkan apa yang terjadi di Amerika pada tahun 1960-an. Awal kesalahan system keuangan negeri itu terbaca dari naiknya harga emas dari US$ 35/Ounce ke US$ 40/Ounce pada masa pemerintahan Kennedy. Situasi kemudian memburuk pada akhir dasawarsa 60-an tersebut ketika Amerika terjerumus dalam perang yang tidak pernah bisa dimenangkannya yaitu perang Vietnam.&lt;br /&gt;
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Puncaknya tahun 1971 ketika Amerika benar-benar tidak bisa mengendalikan system keuangannya dan terpaksa melepaskan kaitan antara US$ dengan emas. Hari-hari yang mencekam dalam system keuangan Amerika yang belakangan menular keseluruh dunia ini – terekam dari cerita para pelaku langsung yang ditulis oleh Ferdinand Lips ini sebagai berikut :&lt;br /&gt;
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“Pada tanggal 10 Agustus 1971 sekolompok bankers dan economist berkumpul membicarakan krisis moneter yang genting di negeri itu, termasuk diantara yang hadir adalah Paul Volker yang saat itu menjabat Under-secretary of the Treasury for Monetary Affairs.&lt;br /&gt;
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Ada dua opsi solusi yang saat itu dibicarakan; pertama menaikkan suku bunga atau menaikkan harga emas – namun nampaknya Paul Volker tidak mengambil salah satunya. Dia mengambil solusi yang tidak terbayangkan waktu itu yaitu meninggalkan emas sama sekali dari referensi uang US$ Amerika. Sepekan kemudian keputusan ini dimumumkan oleh presiden AS saat itu Nixon yang kemudian menimbulkan kejadian yang mengguncang dunia yang dikenal sebagai Nixon Shock 1971.”&lt;br /&gt;
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Sejak saat itu perang terhadap emas semakin hari semakin meningkat yang digambarkan digambarkan oleh Lips (meninggal 2005, konon meninggal tidak wajar karena terlalu banyak tahu !) antara lain sebagai berikut :&lt;br /&gt;
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“Dengan bantuan pemerintahan-pemerintahan dunia, di tahun 1990-an, perang terhadap emas memasuki fase yang sangat destructive. Bank-bank central menjual atau meminjamkan emasnya untuk menghancurkan harga emas...”.&lt;br /&gt;
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Bila ‘perang’ yang diungkapkan oleh Ferdinand Lips tersebut benar adanya –  kemungkinannya memang begitu karena sebagai ‘orang dalam’ dari system perbankan dunia tentu apa yang ditulisnya memiliki dasar yang kuat – maka dalam ‘perang’ ini hanya ada dua pihak, yaitu system uang yang adil berbasis emas dan system uang yang destructive yang berbasis uang kertas.  Hati kecil kitalah yang bisa menjawab, system yang mana yang seharusnya kita bela...Wa Allahu A’lam.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.shadowstats.com/" target="_blank"&gt;ShadowStats&lt;/a&gt;'  Walter J. "John" Williams was born in 1949. He received an A.B. in  Economics, cum laude, from Dartmouth College in 1971, and was awarded a  M.B.A. from Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School of Business Administration in  1972, where he was named an Edward Tuck Scholar.&lt;br /&gt;
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One of his early hires as a consulting economist 25 years ago was a  large manufacturer of commercial airplanes. Their econometric model for  predicting revenue passenger miles had suddenly stopped working. The  model was heavily dependent on official Gross National Product (now  Gross Domestic Product) as reported by the Department of Commerce...and  John Williams realized the GNP numbers were faulty, rather than the  model.&lt;br /&gt;
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Correcting the government's new methodology for his client, John  William's first "shadow stats" helped the model work accurately again  for a couple of years, until the official GNP methodology changed once  more, making the underlying data worthless.&lt;br /&gt;
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Since then, John has worked with individuals as well as Fortune 500  companies, as well as publishing his own "bias free" US data at &lt;a href="http://www.shadowstats.com/" target="_blank"&gt;www.shadowstats.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Here John Williams explains to the &lt;a href="http://www.theaureport.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Gold Report&lt;/a&gt; why the US is in a depression and why a  "Hyper-Inflationary Great Depression" is now unavoidable. John Williams  also shares his view on gold as a metal for asset conversion.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;The Gold Report:&lt;/strong&gt; John, last December you stated, "The  US economic and systemic crisis of the past of the past two years are  just precursors to a great collapse," or what you call a  "hyper-inflationary great depression." Is this prediction unique to the  US, or do you feel that other economies face the same fate?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;John Williams of ShadowStats:&lt;/strong&gt; The hyper-inflationary  portion largely will be unique to the US If the US falls into a great  depression, there's no way the rest of the world cannot have some  negative economic impact.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;TGR: &lt;/strong&gt;How will the United States' decreased economic  power impact global economies? Will the rest of the world survive?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;John Williams:&lt;/strong&gt; People will find to their happy surprise  that they'll be able to survive. Most businesses are pretty creative.  The thing is, the US economic activity accounts for roughly half that of  the globe. There's no way that the US economy can turn down severely  without there being an equivalent, at least a parallel downturn outside  the US with its major trading partners.&lt;br /&gt;
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When I talk about a great depression in the United States, it is  coincident with a hyper-inflation. We're already in the deepest and  longest economic contraction seen since the Great Depression. If you  look at the timing as set by the National Bureau of Economic Research,  which is the arbiter of US recessions, as to whether or not we have one,  they've refused to call an end to this one, so far. But assuming you  called an end to it back in the middle of 2009, it would still be the  longest recession seen since the first down-leg of the Great Depression.&lt;br /&gt;
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In terms of depth, year-to-year decline in the gross domestic product,  or GDP, as reported in the third quarter of 2009, was the steepest  annual decline ever reported in that series, which goes back to the late  '40s on a quarterly basis. Other than for the shutdown of war  production at the end of World War II, which usually is not counted as a  normal business cycle, the full annual decline in 2009 GDP was the  deepest since the Great Depression. There's strong evidence that we're  going to see an intensified downturn ahead, but it won't become a great  depression until a hyper-inflation kicks in. That is because  hyper-inflation will be very disruptive to the normal flow of commerce  and will take you to really low levels of activity that we haven't seen  probably in the history of the Republic.&lt;br /&gt;
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Let me define what I mean by depression and great depression, because  there's no formal definition out there that matches the common  expectation. Before World War II, economic downturns commonly were  referred to as depressions. If you drew a graph of the level of activity  in a depression over time, it would show a dip in the economy, and  you'd go down and then up. The down part was referred to as recession  and the up part as recovery. The Great Depression was one that was so  severe that in the post-World War II era, those looking at economic  cycles tried to come up with a euphemism for "depression." They didn't  want to create the image of or remind people of the 1930s. Basically,  they called economic downturns recessions, and most people think of a  depression now as a severe recession.&lt;br /&gt;
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I've talked with people in the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the  National Bureau of Economic Research in terms of developing a formal  depression definition. The traditional definition of recession – that of  two consecutive quarters of inflation-adjusted contraction in GDP –  still is a solid one, despite recent refinements. Although there's no  official consensus on this, generally, a depression would be considered a  recession where peak-to-trough contraction in the economy was more than  10%; a great depression would be a recession where the peak-to-trough  contraction was more than 25%.&lt;br /&gt;
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We're borderline depression in terms of where we're going to be here  before I think the hyper-inflation kicks in. You've certainly seen  depression-like numbers in things such as retail sales, industrial  production and new orders for durable goods, where you're down more than  10% from peak-to-trough. In terms of housing, you're down more than  75%, and that certainly would be in the great depression category. With  hyper-inflation, you have disruption to the normal flow of commerce and  that will slow things down very remarkably from where we are now.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;TGR:&lt;/strong&gt; After a period of recession, isn't inflation  considered a good sign?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;John Williams: &lt;/strong&gt;There are a couple of things that drive  inflation. The one that you're describing is the relatively happy event  where strong economic demand is exceeding production, and that's pushing  prices higher, as well as interest rates. That's a relatively healthy  circumstance. You can also have inflation, which is driven by factors  other than strong economic activity. That's what we've been seeing in  the last couple of years. It's been largely dominated by swings in oil  prices. That hasn't been due really to oil demand, as much as it has  been due to the value of the US Dollar. Oil is denominated in US  Dollars. Big swings in the US Dollar get reflected in oil pricing. If  the Dollar weakens, oil rises. That's what you saw if you go back to the  1973-1975 recession, for example. That was an inflationary recession.&lt;br /&gt;
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Indeed, the counterpart to what you were suggesting earlier about the  strong demand and higher inflation is that usually in a recession you  see low inflation. The '73 to '75 experience, however, was an  inflationary recession because of the problem with oil prices. That's  what we were seeing early in this cycle, where a weakening Dollar  rallied oil prices, and then the Dollar reversed sharply and oil prices  collapsed. We have passed through a brief period of shallow year-to-year  deflation in the consumer price index, but, as oil prices bottomed out  and headed higher since the end of 2009, we're now seeing higher  inflation, again.&lt;br /&gt;
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I'm looking at hyper-inflation, which is a rather drastic forecast. This  has been in place as an ultimate fate for the system for a number of  years. Back in the '70s, the then Big 10 accounting firms got together  and approached the government and said, "Hey guys, you know you need to  keep your books the way a big corporation does. You're the largest  financial operator on earth." The government then, as well as today,  operates on a cash basis with no accrual accounting and such. Yet, over a  period of 30 years, the accountants and government put together  generally accepted accounting principles, or GAAP, accounting for the  federal government and introduced formal financial statements on that  basis in 2002, which supplement the annual cash-based accounting.&lt;br /&gt;
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If you look at those GAAP-based statements and include in the deficit  the year-to-year change in the net present value of the unfunded  liabilities for Social Security and Medicare, what you'll find is that  the annual operating shortfall is running between $4 and $5 trillion;  not $500 billion as we saw before the crisis or the $1.4 trillion that  they announced for fiscal 2009. Now to put that into perspective, if the  government wanted to balance its deficit on a GAAP basis for a year,  and it seized all personal income and corporate profits, taxing  everything 100%, it would still be in deficit. It can't raise taxes  enough to contain this. On the other side, if it cut all government  spending except for Social Security and Medicare, it still would be in  deficit. With no political will to contain the spending, eventually the  government meets its obligations by revving up the currency printing  press.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;TGR:&lt;/strong&gt; With all this new paper money coming into the  system, wouldn't we see a bigger bubble than we've ever seen prior to a  hyper-inflationary great depression?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;John Williams:&lt;/strong&gt; No, in fact, it's a very unusual  circumstance that we have now. Put yourself in Mr. Bernanke's situation –  he had to prevent a collapse of the banking system. He was afraid of a  severe deflation as was seen in the Great Depression, when a lot of  banks went out of business. The depositors lost funds and the money  supply just collapsed. He wanted to prevent a collapse of the money  supply and keep the depository institutions afloat. Generally, that has  happened. The FDIC expanded its coverage and everything that had to be  done to keep the system from imploding was done. The effects eventually  will be inflationary.&lt;br /&gt;
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In the process, what Mr. Bernanke did was to expand the monetary base  extraordinarily, more than doubling it over a period of a year. The  monetary base is money currently in circulation plus bank reserves. If  you go back to before September 2008, the bank reserves were in the $50  to $60 billion range. Where the currency was maybe $800 billion, we've  gone over $2 trillion in total reserves. Most of that is in excess  reserves and not required reserves that banks have to keep to support  their deposits. Normally banks would take their excess reserves and lend  them out into the regular stream of commerce, and in doing so, that  would create money supply. Instead they're leaving the excess reserves  on deposit with the Fed. Money supply and credit are now generally  contracting. We're going to see an intensified downturn in the near  future. I specialize in looking at leading indicators that have very  successful track records in terms of predicting economic or financial  turns. One such indicator is the broad money supply.&lt;br /&gt;
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Whenever the broad money supply – adjusted for inflation – has turned  negative year over year, the economy has gone into recession, or if it  already was in a recession, the downturn intensified. It's happened four  times before now, in modern reporting. You saw it in the terrible  downturn of '73 to '75, the early '80s and again in the early '90s. In  December of 2009, annual growth in real M3 turned negative. It's now at a  record low in terms of decline, down more than 6% year over year. What  that suggests is that in the immediate future you're going to see  renewed downturn in economic activity.&lt;br /&gt;
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In all the prior instances that I mentioned, this event led recessions,  except for '73 to '75. That's when you had the oil spike and a recession  that came from that. When the money supply turned down in that  recession, the economy accelerated in its decline. We're going to see  something along those lines, now, with about a six-month lead time.  You're going to have negative economic growth this year. The  implications for that are extraordinary, because the projections on the  federal budget deficit, a number of the state deficits, and the solvency  and stress tests for the banking system all were structured assuming  positive economic growth in the 2% to 3% range for 2010. Instead it's  going to be negative. Many states are going to be in greater difficulty  than they thought. Most likely, you're going to have federal bailouts  there. The banks are going to have more troubles. All this means more  government support, more government spending, greater deficits and  greater funding needs for the US Treasury. We have a global market that  already is increasingly reluctant to hold the Dollars and US Treasuries.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;TGR:&lt;/strong&gt; The US Dollar is still the reserve currency, and  it's holding its value while the Euro struggles. Wouldn't decoupling  precede hyper-inflation?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;John Williams:&lt;/strong&gt; I don't know if it will decouple from  being the reserve currency formally, but it will de facto. The reserve  status is the reason the Dollar didn't collapse per se a year and a half  ago during the September '08 panic. The movement is already afoot,  however, to try to relegate the Dollar to some status other than a  reserve currency. For example, OPEC purportedly is looking to price oil  in something other than US Dollars. The pressure is there to change the  status.&lt;br /&gt;
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Again, if you start to see a great depreciation of the US currency or a  tremendous increase in lack of confidence in the soundness of the  government's fiscal condition, there is a problem. You mentioned Greece,  for example. The sovereign solvency issues there are minuscule compared  to what we have with the United States, which is the elephant in the  bathtub. The markets know it's there. The central bankers know it's  there. Again, with the downturn in the economy, all the issues are going  to be brought to a head. As they come to a head, there will be that  effort to dump the Dollar. I would expect that, indeed, it will be  decoupled from its reserve status, although it could follow after the  fact as opposed to before the fact.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;TGR: &lt;/strong&gt;Major economic indicators suggest significant  improvement; even the IMF has stated that we've averted a global  depression. What are you seeing that these governing bodies are not?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;John Williams: &lt;/strong&gt;What I'm using is a leading indicator of  economic activity: year-to-year change in inflation-adjusted broad  money supply. We're now seeing a very sharp year-over-year decline,  which has not been seen since the 1990 recession. This indicator does  not work always in the upside; it doesn't necessarily give you a signal  for a rising economy. It is, however, basic. If you strangle liquidity  you can always contract an economy. Deliberately or not, liquidity's  being strangled. You're seeing very sharp declines in consumer credit,  commercial and industrial loans and commercial paper outstanding.&lt;br /&gt;
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You are getting happy news from governments, central banks, financial  markets, Wall Street analysts and the popular media, which does tend to  cater to Wall Street. Such is standard practice. Happy news is what  sells and you don't want to discourage people. The Obama administration,  interestingly, started talking-down the economy when it wanted to get  its stimulus package in place. As soon as that was done, it started  talking-up the economy. Everything was just fine and dandy again. This  is the most extraordinary downturn most people living today have ever  seen. In terms of modern economic reporting, which basically started  after World War II, we've never had a downturn as long or as severe.  Perversely, the extreme nature of the downturn actually has warped  recent reporting of seasonally-adjusted data to the upside.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;TGR:&lt;/strong&gt; Earlier you mentioned that business around the  world will survive in the event of a depression. Aren't there  sustainable businesses in the US as well? Won't an influx of printed  currency and green-tech job creation offer some value? At some point,  doesn't stimulus money become real cash producing real goods? Surely the  economy would be viable at some level?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;John Williams:&lt;/strong&gt; Not without income growth. There's  nothing there that you've described to me that is growing, aside from  inflation. To have sustainable growth in the economy, you have to income  growth, net of inflation. That is not happening, and there is nothing  in existing government stimulus that will cause real income growth.&lt;br /&gt;
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Beyond income issues, the problem with the hyper-inflation is that very  quickly the use of cash will cease. Let me contrast our circumstance  here with a very popularly followed hyper-inflation case that's now run  its course in Zimbabwe. There you had probably the worst hyper-inflation  that anyone's ever seen. After devaluation upon devaluation, they  successively lopped the zeros off the bills. If you took a $2 bill that  they first issued back in the '80s and then tried to come up with the  equivalent of a $2 bill in the last form of the currency, it would be  very difficult to do because it was so worthless. If you put a pile of  those together to equal the original $2 bill, it would actually stretch  from the earth to the Andromeda Galaxy. We're talking light years. There  are not enough trees on earth to print them. Yet the Zimbabwe economy  survived and functioned. They had a lot of problems, but they operated.  The reason they functioned was because they had a back-up system, which  was a black market in US Dollars. People switched out of the Zimbabwe  Dollar to US Dollars. They could live with that. In the US, we don't  have a back-up system.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;TGR: &lt;/strong&gt;You mentioned in a recent interview with CNN that  you're recommending individuals move into both cash and gold. With the  Euro and the Dollar in jeopardy, where does that leave us?&lt;br /&gt;
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John Williams: &lt;/strong&gt;I don't like the Euro. I don't think that's  going to hold together, and I've thought so for some time. If it should  break up and you have a new German currency, a new mark or something  like that might be a strong one option. At the moment I like the  Canadian Dollar, the Australian Dollar and the Swiss franc. For anyone  living in the United States, rather than looking at the short-term  volatility in the markets and trying to make money off of that, this is  the time to batten down the hatches and to look to preserve your wealth  and assets.&lt;br /&gt;
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In terms of preserving the purchasing power of your assets, the best  thing I can think of is &lt;a href="http://gold.bullionvault.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Physical Gold&lt;/a&gt;. That's worked over the millennia. I'm  not per se a gold bug. It just happens to be a circumstance in which  it's the cleanest asset around for that. You don't need to put all your  assets into gold, but hold some. Hold some silver. I'd look to get some  assets out of the US Dollar and look to get some assets out of the US.  When I say outside of the US Dollar, again, I look at the Canadian  Dollar, Australian Dollar, Swiss Franc in particular. I think they will  tend to do particularly well, whereas the US Dollar is going to become  effectively worthless.&lt;br /&gt;
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As the Dollar breaks down, you'll also likely see disruptions in supply  chains, including shipments of food to grocery stores. People should  consider maintaining stockpiles of basic goods needed for living, much  as they would for a natural disaster. I sit on the Hayward Fault in  California. I have a supply of goods and basic necessities in case  something terrible happens – natural or man-made – that will carry me  for a couple of months. It may take that long for a barter system to  evolve, which I think is what you're going to end up with; at least  until a new currency system is reorganized and you get a government  that's able to bring its fiscal house into order. No currency system in  the US is going to work unless the fiscal conditions that drove it into  oblivion are also addressed.&lt;br /&gt;
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On a global basis, where the Dollar is the world's reserve currency, 80%  of currency transactions involve the US Dollar. There's going to have  to be an overhaul of the global currency system. To gain credibility  with the public, the powers that be likely will design a system that has  some kind of a tie to gold, but that's purely speculative.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;TGR: &lt;/strong&gt;From a personal investment point of view, you  emphasized that this is a time to conserve assets, including gold and  other currencies. How else can investors protect themselves?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;John Williams:&lt;/strong&gt; I like &lt;a href="http://gold.bullionvault.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Gold&lt;/a&gt; and silver.  I look to gold as a primary hedge. If you can come out of this holding  gold, you'll be in a position where you'll be able to take advantage of  some extraordinary investment opportunities that will follow. With  inflation, real estate is usually a pretty good bet. It tends to hold  its value over time. There may be periods of illiquidity, though, and  it's not portable. Neither of those limitations is an issue with gold.  Maybe &lt;a href="http://gold.bullionvault.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Gold&lt;/a&gt;  will become the black market to support US economic activity. It  certainly would be the area that people will try to transfer their  assets to as time goes along.&lt;br /&gt;
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You see people now as gold gets to a new high saying, "Oh my goodness, I  bought at $200, and I can sell out at $1,100 making a good profit."  What people don't realize is that they haven't made a real profit. What  they've done is retained the purchasing power of the Dollars that they  invested in gold, and they've lost proportionately the purchasing power  of the amounts left in Dollar-denominated paper assets over the same  time. &lt;a href="http://gold.bullionvault.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Gold&lt;/a&gt; is  a long-term wealth preserver. Again, where many people are used to an  investment environment where they can buy a stock, make a quick profit  and then sell, with gold you need to hold on for the long haul as an  insurance policy, not as a quick investment.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;TGR:&lt;/strong&gt; Thank you very much for your time.&lt;br /&gt;
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Source : &lt;a href="http://goldnews.bullionvault.com/gold_shadowstats_050420107"&gt;http://goldnews.bullionvault.com/gold_shadowstats_050420107&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4027639518668914298-8812471081908545711?l=www.dinarsaving.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/feeds/8812471081908545711/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/2010/05/gold-shadowstats.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4027639518668914298/posts/default/8812471081908545711?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4027639518668914298/posts/default/8812471081908545711?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/2010/05/gold-shadowstats.html' title='Gold &amp; ShadowStats'/><author><name>rizko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08659436625661270760</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00889770664132642904'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><georss:point>-0.02599 109.3513</georss:point></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;CkUMRXc4cSp7ImA9WxFRGUo.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4027639518668914298.post-970533577001258298</id><published>2010-05-04T17:50:00.001+07:00</published><updated>2010-05-04T17:51:24.939+07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2010-05-04T17:51:24.939+07:00</app:edited><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hikmah'/><title>Uang Rp 100.000 Jadi Pecahan Terbesar Kedua di Dunia</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;Jakarta&lt;/b&gt; -  Uang pecahan Rp 100.000 yang dikeluarkan Bank Indonesia (BI) ternyata  merupakan uang pecahan dengan nilai terbesar kedua di dunia setelah  Vietnam, yang mempunyai pecahan yang terbesar yakni 500.000 Dong (mata  uang Vietnam).&lt;br /&gt;
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Demikian hasil riset redenominasi mata uang  seluruh dunia yang disampaikan oleh Kepala Biro Riset Ekonomi dan  Kebijakan Moneter Iskandar Simorangkir dalam sebuah diskusi di Gedung  BI, Jakarta, Selasa (4/5/2010).&lt;br /&gt;
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"Vietnam itu menjadi nomor satu  negara dengan pecahan terbesar yakni 500.000 Dong. Dan Indonesia nomor  dua setelah vietnam sebesar Rp 100.000, berdasarkan riset Redenominasi  World Bank beberapa waktu lalu," ujar Iskandar.&lt;br /&gt;
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Tadinya,  Indonesia menempati posisi ketiga dan Vietnam yang kedua, setelah  Zimbabwe yang pernah mengeluarkan pecahan 10 juta dollar Zimbabwe karena  inflasi yang terjadi di negara tersebut.&lt;br /&gt;
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Dalam riset tersebut,  lanjut Iskandar, negara yang baru saja melakukan redenominasi adalah  Rumania dan Turki. &lt;br /&gt;
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"Di Rumania, pecahan terbesar di dalam mata  uang itu angka nol-nya dipotong 4 digit, misalnya dari Rp 10.000 jadi Rp  1 di Indonesia. Dan di Turki nol-nya itu dipotong hingga 6 digit,"  paparnya.&lt;br /&gt;
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Iskandar mengungkapkan penggunaan uang dalam pecahan  yang cukup besar memang kurang efisien. Masalahnya uang besar justru  membuat proses pembayaran dan transaksi tunai menjadi lebih susah. &lt;br /&gt;
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"Dulu,  memang sempat terlontar wacana agar pecahan mata uang dalam nilai besar  agar lebih disederhanakan di Indonesia. Salah satunya dengan mengurangi  angka nol dalam pecahan uang yang ada atau redenominasi tadi," katanya.&lt;br /&gt;
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Redenominasi  yaitu pengurangan nilai pecahan tanpa mengurangi nilai dari uang  tersebut. &lt;br /&gt;
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Namun untuk bisa melakukan penyederhanaan satuan uang  tersebut membutuhkan sejumlah persyaratan. Iskandar menjelaskan,  setidaknya ada tiga syarat yang mutlak dipenuhi yaitu kondisi  perekonomian yang stabil, inflasi rendah dan stabil, serta adanya  jaminan stabilitas harga.&lt;br /&gt;
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Iskandar mengatakan, Pemerintah Turki  saja melakukan penyederhanaan satuan mata uangnya dengan membutuhkan  waktu 10 tahun untuk bisa betul-betul siap melakukan ketentuan tersebut.  Selain itu, pemberlakukan juga dilakukan setelah ada konsensus nasional  dan sosialisasi yang optimal. &lt;br /&gt;
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"Hal yang paling sulit dilakukan  dengan cepat dan mudah adalah sosialisasi kepada seluruh masyarakat  Indonesia yang mencapai ratusan juta jiwa," tuturnya. &lt;br /&gt;
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Kemudian,  lanjut Iskandar, &lt;i&gt;cost&lt;/i&gt; (dana) yang dikeluarkan juga sangat  besar, karena jumlah penduduk yang mencapai 200 juta. "Ini harus  dilakukan agar tidak muncul kesan bahwa pemerintah melakukan sanering,"  tegasnya.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;(dru/dnl)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Sumber : &lt;a href="http://www.detikfinance.com/read/2010/05/04/173010/1351068/5/uang-rp-100000-jadi-pecahan-terbesar-kedua-di-dunia?f9911013"&gt;http://www.detikfinance.com/read/2010/05/04/173010/1351068/5/uang-rp-100000-jadi-pecahan-terbesar-kedua-di-dunia?f9911013&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4027639518668914298-970533577001258298?l=www.dinarsaving.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/feeds/970533577001258298/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/2010/05/uang-rp-100000-jadi-pecahan-terbesar.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4027639518668914298/posts/default/970533577001258298?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4027639518668914298/posts/default/970533577001258298?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/2010/05/uang-rp-100000-jadi-pecahan-terbesar.html' title='Uang Rp 100.000 Jadi Pecahan Terbesar Kedua di Dunia'/><author><name>rizko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08659436625661270760</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00889770664132642904'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><georss:point>-0.02599 109.3513</georss:point></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;A0AGRn04fip7ImA9WxFRGU8.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4027639518668914298.post-3291793918944611042</id><published>2010-05-04T06:35:00.000+07:00</published><updated>2010-05-04T06:35:27.336+07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2010-05-04T06:35:27.336+07:00</app:edited><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dinarnomics'/><title>Harga Emas Akan Naik Secara Eksponensial...?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.geraidinar.com/images/2010/bis1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://www.geraidinar.com/images/2010/bis1.jpg" width="142" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span id="goog_1887628278"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="goog_1887628279"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;The Bank for International Settlements (BIS)&lt;/i&gt; adalah organisasi internasional yang anggotanya para bank sentral dari negara-negara di dunia. Tujuan dari organisasi ini adalah untuk meningkatkan kerjasama antara bank-bank sentral tersebut, disamping juga berfungsi menjadi semacam bank-nya para bank sentral dunia.&lt;br /&gt;
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Dengan anggota dan fungsinya tersebut, kita bisa bayangkan betapa &lt;i&gt;powerful&lt;/i&gt;-nya pengaruh organisasi yang bermarkas di Basel – Switzerland ini dalam up and down-nya system keuangan dunia di jaman ini.  Peran mereka yang sentral dalam tata kelola uang di dunia – juga membuat mereka memiliki akses informasi yang sangat &lt;i&gt;comprehensive&lt;/i&gt; dalam setiap aspek keuangan dari para anggotanya.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Dengan kekuatan dan akses informasinya tersebut, laporan hasil riset dan pernyataan-pernyataan dari BIS ini layak untuk menjadi masukan yang serius bagi para pengambil keputusan keuangan atau ekonomi di semua negara – termasuk kita.&lt;br /&gt;
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Di antara laporan-laporan tersebut yang menurut saya sangat perlu kita pahami adalah laporan hasil riset bulan Maret lalu dengan judul &lt;a href="http://www.bis.org/publ/work300.pdf"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Future of Public Debt : Prospects and Implications&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  yang dapat kita unduh dari situs resmi mereka.&lt;br /&gt;
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Berikut adalah &lt;i&gt;statement-statement&lt;/i&gt; inti dari laporan tersebut yang implikasinya bisa sangat serius di masa-masa yang akan datang.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;Abstract&lt;/i&gt; dari laporan ini sudah diawali dengan  (dalam terjemahan bebas saya) : “&lt;i&gt;Sejak awal krisis finansial, hutang negara-negara industri terus meningkat secara dramatis, dan sejauh yang dapat dilihat kedepan (foreseeable future) hutang ini akan terus naik di masa-masa mendatang...&lt;/i&gt;”.&lt;br /&gt;
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Kemudian hasil riset ini menyimpulkan empat hal sebagai berikut :&lt;br /&gt;
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Pertama, &lt;i&gt;problem fiscal&lt;/i&gt; dari negara industri sesungguhnya lebih lebih serius dari laporan resmi pemerintah di negara-negara tersebut. “Sungguh menakutkan bahwa hutang &lt;i&gt;public&lt;/i&gt; mereka akan tumbuh diatas 100% dari GDP...”. Lihat grafik diatas untuk trend-nya (klik untuk melihat lebih jelasnya).&lt;br /&gt;
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Kedua, meningkatnya hutang publik tersebut diatas telah merubah persepsi selama ini bahwa hutang jangka panjang negara dalam berbagai bentuknya yang selama ini dianggap berisiko rendah, kedepannya akan menjadi berisiko tinggi. Hutang pemerintah Yunani misalnya, kini sudah menjadi &lt;i&gt;junk&lt;/i&gt; - yaitu yang sangat rendah nilainya.&lt;br /&gt;
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Ketiga, problem hutang yang terlalu tinggi akan menekan akumulasi modal, menurunkan pertumbuhan produktifitas dan menurunkan potensi pertumbuhan jangka panjang.&lt;br /&gt;
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Keempat, mendung ketimpangan fiscal jangka panjang menimbulkan risiko instabilitas moneter. Dinamika hutang yang tidak stabil akan meningkatkan inflasi yang disebabkan oleh godaan pada para pengelola keuangan negara untuk menurunkan tingkat hutang dengan mencetak uang dalam berbagai bentuknya.&lt;br /&gt;
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Puncak gunung es yang merupakan tanda-tanda problem yang sangat besar tersebut juga sudah bermunculan dalam bentuk krisis di berbagai negara dalam dua tahun terakhir. Krisis di Amerika, Inggris, Iceland, Dubai, Latvia, Yunani, Portugal, Spanyol...dan entah negara mana lagi yang akan segera menyusul...adalah bukti-bukti kebenaran laporan tersebut diatas.&lt;br /&gt;
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Lantas apa kaitannya ini semua dengan harga emas ?. Emas akan menjadi semakin penting perannya dalam memberikan perlindungan terhadap inflasi. Karena kesadaran terhadap hal ini akan meluas, maka sangat mungkin emas akan mengalami kenaikan harga yang eksponensial kedepan.&lt;br /&gt;
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Dua hal yang akan menjadi pendorong kenaian eksponensial harga emas ini yaitu yang pertama adalah karena penurunan nilai uang kertas, dan yang kedua adalah karena kenaikan demand. Pertama, ketika nilai uang kertas jatuh harga emas akan menjadi sangat mahal bila dibeli dengan uang kertas tersebut.&lt;br /&gt;
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Kedua,  harga emas yang mahal tidak akan menurunkan minat orang untuk membeli emas,  malah justru sebaliknya akan semakin banyak orang memburunya karena dalam situasi inflasi tinggi – emas inilah jaring penyelamatnya. &lt;i&gt;Demand&lt;/i&gt; yang tinggi inilah yang mendorong kenaikan harga emas berikutnya.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;Well&lt;/i&gt;, kabar baiknya adalah kenaikan ini mungkin tidak terjadi sekarang atau dalam waktu dekat, tetapi akan seiring dengan garis-garis merah di grafik-grafik tersebut diatas. Wa Allahu A’lam.&lt;br /&gt;
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Cilakanya, krisis ini tidak berhenti di Thailand. Negara-negara tetangganya segera tertular dan bahkan yang terparah dan paling sulit sembuhnya adalah negeri kita. Pada puncak krisis nilai uang kertas kita pernah tinggal kurang lebih seperenamnya dari nilai sebelum krisis (Akhir 1996 US$ 1 = Rp 2,350 ; Juli 1998 US$ 1 = Rp 14,000) bila dibandingkan dengan US Dollar. Padahal di negeri dimana krisis berawal; uangnya hanya mengalami koreksi 61 % saja ( Akhir 1996 US$ 1 = Baht 25.50 ; Juli 1998 US$ 1 = Baht 41.12).&lt;br /&gt;
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Pelajaran pertama yang kita ambil dari krisis 1997/1998 tersebut adalah bahwa krisis financial bersifat sangat menular karena kelemahan system financial global saat ini. Pelajaran keduanya adalah negara-negara yang tertular oleh krisis finansial, bisa menjadi korban yang bahkan lebih parah dari negara yang mengalami krisis yang pertama.&lt;br /&gt;
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Kini tigabelas tahun kemudian, kita melihat proses penularan krisis berulang. Belum juga dunia sembuh oleh menularnya krisis di Amerika dua tahun lalu, krisis sejenis sekarang siap mewabah di Eropa. Yunani yang menjadi pemicu pertamanya, per kemarin hutang pemerintahnya sudah jatuh ke nilai terendah pada tingkat Junk (sampah !). Krisis Yunani sudah menulari Portugal, Spanyol dan bisa jadi akan segera pula menular ke negara-negara lain.&lt;br /&gt;
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Pada setiap krisis tersebut; uang kertas selalu hancur di negara-negara yang terkena krisis. Setiap kali pula uang kertas hancur, pelarian utama yang paling mudah bagi masyarakat yang ingin menyelamatkan assetnya adalah ke emas. Tidak heran bila harga emas justru melonjak pada setiap krisis terjadi; pertama karena daya beli uang kertas yang dipakainya menurun, kedua karena dorongan naiknya permintaan.&lt;br /&gt;
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Sebelum krisis melanda negeri ini 1997/1998; harga emas di Indonesia pada awal 1997 hanya di kisaran Rp 23,400 / gram; di puncak krisis 1998 emas berada pada kisaran harga Rp 147,000/ gram. Meskipun akhirnya sempat membaik ke kisaran angka Rp 65,000-an akhir 1999/awal 2000; perlahan namun pasti harga emas menjulang sampai Rp 340,000/ gram kini. Harga emas saat ini sudah lebih dari 5 kalinya bila dibandingkan harga emas paska krisis, dan  14.5 kalinya dibandingkan harga emas sebelum krisis !.&lt;br /&gt;
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Grafik yang saya sajikan diatas adalah kenaikan harga emas gradual yang terjadi dalam kondisi normal. Bila dalam kondisi normal saja harga emas naik menjadi lebih 5 kalinya dalam sepuluh tahun terakhir; apa jadinya bila krisis Yunani meluas ?.&lt;br /&gt;
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Dalam beberapa pekan kedepan seluruh dunia finansial akan melototi bagaimana krisis Yunani ini di &lt;i&gt;handled&lt;/i&gt; oleh pemerintahnya dan juga pemerintah negeri-negeri yang saling terkait. Puncaknya adalah tanggal 19 Mei 2010 dimana hutang Yunani senilai 8.5 Milyar Euro akan jatuh tempo.&lt;br /&gt;
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Kinta memang jauh dari Yunani baik secara fisik maupun keterkaitan ekonomi, ekonomi kita juga lagi baik-baiknya, namun karena tanpa krisispun harga emas naik seperti yang tercermin dari grafik tersebut diatas – maka penyelamatan asset ke emas/Dinar untuk mengamankan hasil jerih payah jangka panjang selalu advisable untuk dilakukan kapan saja. Jangan menunggu krisis menular....!. Wa Allahu A’lam.&lt;br /&gt;
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Sumber : &lt;a href="http://geraidinar.com/"&gt;GeraiDinar.Com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4027639518668914298-7960281090906020678?l=www.dinarsaving.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/feeds/7960281090906020678/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/2010/04/apa-yang-terjadi-bila-satu-mata-uang.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4027639518668914298/posts/default/7960281090906020678?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4027639518668914298/posts/default/7960281090906020678?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/2010/04/apa-yang-terjadi-bila-satu-mata-uang.html' title='Apa Yang Terjadi Bila Satu Mata Uang Jatuh...?'/><author><name>rizko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08659436625661270760</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00889770664132642904'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><georss:point>-0.02599 109.3513</georss:point></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;D0cFQ3Y6eip7ImA9WxFRE08.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4027639518668914298.post-3540896132739229439</id><published>2010-04-27T06:36:00.000+07:00</published><updated>2010-04-27T06:36:52.812+07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2010-04-27T06:36:52.812+07:00</app:edited><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gold Article'/><title>Gold as Money: Exchange &amp; Value</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;SUBJECTIVE&lt;/strong&gt; decisions about how useful different  goods are – made by each and every individual – determine the value of  those items, &lt;em&gt;writes Toby Baxendale, founder and chairman of the &lt;a href="http://www.cobdencentre.org/author/tbaxendale/" target="_blank"&gt;Cobden  Centre&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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The utility of money is determined by its prospective use as a medium of  exchange. This is interesting as the subjective utility is determined  by its objective exchange value – the only product whose price is  determined in such a way.&lt;br /&gt;
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If a good such as tea did not have an objective exchange value, it would  have no price and would thus be free. Money without an objective price  would be worthless as no one could use it for exchange. If it cannot  command any purchasing power over others goods and services, there is no  point to it.&lt;br /&gt;
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Increases in the supply of goods and services are generally seen as  social progress, as people have more of the things they value.  Production and consumption happen and more satisfaction for more people  happens in this capitalistic process. Increases in money however, whose  only purpose is to exchange for more things, does not bring about more  production or more consumption, as it is solely used for the purposes of  exchange.&lt;br /&gt;
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This would imply that there is always an optimal amount of money to  perform the function of exchange in an economy. Adding more of it does  not confer an increase in social benefit, unlike more goods and  services.&lt;br /&gt;
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When a government prints money and places it in the economy, it weakens  the ability of the purchasing power of money to command what it  previously did in terms of goods and services. It does not in itself  produce more goods and services.&lt;br /&gt;
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So if money were rooted in &lt;a href="http://gold.bullionvault.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Gold&lt;/a&gt; – as it historically was – this would imply  that an increase in gold supply would be of no benefit to society  whatsoever. However, we should be aware that gold has other use values,  in industry and in jewelry. So social benefit is gained by &lt;a href="http://gold.bullionvault.com/How/GoldMining" target="_blank"&gt;Gold  Mining&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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A gold miner may produce his product and sell it to industry, jewelry  shops or central banks. The first two have use value. The latter has  exchange value only. However if there is more demand to facilitate  greater exchange, people will willingly swap real goods and services to  buy more of the commodity of money to facilitate more exchange.  Something that the person or institution values less is exchanged for  gold, which the gold miner values less than that which is exchanged. An  exchange of something for something happens.&lt;br /&gt;
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Therefore we can conclude that with the supply of gold, we only see a  gold mine providing a very useful set of services to facilitate peaceful  indirect exchange between consenting adults, metal for industry and  metal for jewelry.&lt;br /&gt;
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Contrast this with a fiat currency, and you have money produced at a  whim.&lt;br /&gt;
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In a simple economy, with two people bartering their goods and services,  no money is needed. When the economy is more complex and there are  three people, they cannot facilitate barter. So they invent money and  happily exchange gold lumps with each other. Enter the bandit into the  economy, whom I am going to call "Gordon Brown", who says to the three  people:  &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;  "From hence forth, you will accept, by pain of imprisonment, my new  money paper notes."&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;With this new money, he offers me paper in exchange for my saved goods  and services. He has achieved an exchange whereby he gets my real goods  and services and I get his bits of paper. There has been a one-off  wealth transfer from me to him.&lt;br /&gt;
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Granted, I now have this new purchasing power and can spend on other  things. But Gordon has got goods, for which he had done no prior  production. This banditry is called "monetising" the debt and is the way  we (or rather our governments) do things in most of the world. Contrast  this with &lt;a href="http://gold.bullionvault.com/How/GoldMining" target="_blank"&gt;Gold Mining&lt;/a&gt;, when  something is produced and exchanged for something else produced. One is  honest and one is dishonest.&lt;br /&gt;
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Besides being a medium of exchange, money is also used as a unit of  account. Gold can be kept in bullion and paper claims to it can be  granted for ease of use. It can be melted and made into many smaller  units, for ease of use. As a store of value, gold cannot be rapidly  printed like fiat paper money, and it has a cost to dig out of the  ground. So the supply cannot be increased on a whim, and thus it is a  good store of value.&lt;br /&gt;
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I strongly suspect that if the free market were allowed to choose its  own commodity to facilitate exchange, it would choose gold.&lt;br /&gt;
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Source : &lt;a href="http://goldnews.bullionvault.com/gold_money_exchange_value_042620104"&gt;http://goldnews.bullionvault.com/gold_money_exchange_value_042620104&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4027639518668914298-3540896132739229439?l=www.dinarsaving.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/feeds/3540896132739229439/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/2010/04/gold-as-money-exchange-value.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4027639518668914298/posts/default/3540896132739229439?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4027639518668914298/posts/default/3540896132739229439?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/2010/04/gold-as-money-exchange-value.html' title='Gold as Money: Exchange &amp; Value'/><author><name>rizko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08659436625661270760</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00889770664132642904'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><georss:point>-0.02599 109.3513</georss:point></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;Dk8BRHc7eyp7ImA9WxFRE08.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4027639518668914298.post-874593579465769154</id><published>2010-04-27T06:34:00.000+07:00</published><updated>2010-04-27T06:34:15.903+07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2010-04-27T06:34:15.903+07:00</app:edited><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gold Article'/><title>Gold $1500 "Sooner or Later"</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;PROUD and AVOWED&lt;/strong&gt; Keynesian economist, Victor Gonçalves  continues to analyze and recommend precious metals and gold-mining  stocks to his subscribers, looking for what he calls "no brainer"  positions that you simply don't have to worry about.&lt;br /&gt;
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Editor of &lt;a href="http://www.enereport.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Equities  and Economics Report&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, as well as the &lt;a href="http://greendollarreport.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Green  Dollar Report&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; blog, Victor Gonçalves here tells &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.theaureport.com/" target="_blank"&gt;The Gold Report&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;  about his current long and short-term perspectives on gold, silver and  mining investments.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;The Gold Report:&lt;/strong&gt; Victor, one of the big headlines since  we last spoke is Europe's loan to Greece. Some are calling it an EU  bailout. As an economist, what's your perspective?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Victor Gon&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ç&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;alves:&lt;/strong&gt; I  think it's a positive thing actually, given the parameters. A lot of  your Austrian guys would say this is the devil's work and you should let  markets run free. Given the economic policies of the European Union,  which is not a free market, that's probably one of the only options it  has. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;TGR:&lt;/strong&gt; What impact is this going to have on the markets?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Victor Gonçalves:&lt;/strong&gt; It'll have a positive impact because  what it basically says is we're not having a country go into default.  That's the short-term impact. The longer-term impact isn't just Greece,  it´s the bigger picture in relation to the EU. Will more countries come  out of the closet with bad debt? I don't know if that's the case, but  I'm suspecting that might happen. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;TGR:&lt;/strong&gt; When we last spoke in January, you said that the  economic fundamentals weren't stellar and you were expecting a  correction within the markets. The TSX is still trading around 12,000,  while the Dow remains around 11,000. Do you still see a correction  coming and if so, when can we expect it?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Victor Gonçalves:&lt;/strong&gt; We actually did get a correction,  albeit a small one. We did have about a 10%, 11% drop in the market. It  wasn't as much as I would've liked to have seen, but it still happened,  nonetheless. The fundamentals of the market really act in weird ways, so  I'm not sure we're going to see the correction we should see in the  short term. Technically, we should be seeing one quite soon. We  should've seen one already.&lt;br /&gt;
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If you look at the TSX Venture index of stocks, which is a better  barometer because it shows a better picture of who is putting money in  venture capital, it's moved up parabolically recently. So that has to  cool off a bit. Whether it will do it now or in a couple of months,  that's a lot harder to tell. It's a situation where investors really  need to watch the market a lot closer for the volatility. Investors need  to watch for the change in sentiment. It's a little harder to figure  out now, compared to what it was even a couple of years ago when you  could better predict when these things would happen.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;TGR: &lt;/strong&gt;We're currently in a decent earnings season.  Historically, after a good earnings season we've seen corrections. Some  are saying that because the mood is positive we won't see a selloff this  time. What's your opinion?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Victor Gonçalves: &lt;/strong&gt;There's two ways to look at this.  Earnings can look good, but what kind of expectations are we giving  ourselves? That's really what it comes down to. If we reduce our  expectations a lot and then all of a sudden we meet those expectations,  we end up fulfilling our own prophecy. So I think short term, the market  will probably do well if earnings levels are met, given the current  sentiment of the market. That's because we've lowered the bar. Longer  term is the issue. In the long term if nothing has changed, or if a  little has changed, the problems are still there.&lt;br /&gt;
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Realistically we'll probably see a rally in the Dow. Even the TSX should  probably jump, but I don't think a ton. We are also coming into  seasonal weakness in the summer. Adding all those things up means that  we're probably going to see some strength near term going into the  summer, and then a selloff going into the summer.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;TGR:&lt;/strong&gt; If there's a summer selloff, how would you advise  investors to play that correction?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Victor Gonçalves:&lt;/strong&gt; There's multiple ways of doing it.  The easiest way to do it is to look back in history and see where the  corrections have happened. Typically, you're looking at the middle of  May. Just sell the stocks that you've made money on.&lt;br /&gt;
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Now if they're really good stories, stories that you should be involved  in long term, then have a trading position and a core position. That  core position is something you want to build; it's one that you only  want to sell once you hit your target, which should be either full  valuation of the company or a level where you feel comfortable selling.  The trading position is something that you keep building and peeling  away as the market dictates.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;TGR:&lt;/strong&gt; In January, &lt;a href="http://gold.bullionvault.com/How/GoldPrices" target="_blank"&gt;Gold Prices&lt;/a&gt; were  still around $1000. We've gone up to $1150. Where do you think gold is  going as we head into the summer and through the rest of 2010?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Victor Gonçalves:&lt;/strong&gt; You're going to see technical moves  one way or the other. You may see a drop to $1,000 and I wouldn't panic  if that happens. You may see it run to $1250 or $1300. I certainly  wouldn't get overly excited if that happens, unless it holds there for a  little while so it creates a new base. We're probably not going to see a  strong gold market in the summer. That doesn't normally happen. So  really we'll probably see more weakness going forward than strength.&lt;br /&gt;
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That being said, &lt;a href="http://gold.bullionvault.com/How/GoldMining" target="_blank"&gt;Gold Mining&lt;/a&gt;  equities still have to catch up to the $1000 valuation of gold, let  alone where we are now. So even if gold were to come off a little bit  during the summer, gold equities still have to catch up to that  valuation point before they can keep moving up. I think we're really  going to see a move in gold when we saw it last year, around September.  We might see a little strength here for the next month or so. We may hit  $1200. We may test $1240 but it should come off after that during the  summer. For really June, July and August it should see some weakness and  that's normal. So I wouldn't be concerned.&lt;br /&gt;
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Long term, at the end of 2011, I think that $1500 for &lt;a href="http://gold.bullionvault.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Gold&lt;/a&gt; looks fair.  Now if we see a huge debacle in Europe, and let's say three or four  countries start singing the same tune as Greece, then I'm suspecting  we'll see the $1500 level come a lot quicker.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;TGR: &lt;/strong&gt;Very interesting, Victor. Thanks for spending time  with us today.&lt;br /&gt;
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Source : &lt;a href="http://goldnews.bullionvault.com/gold_price_042620103"&gt;http://goldnews.bullionvault.com/gold_price_042620103 &lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4027639518668914298-874593579465769154?l=www.dinarsaving.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/feeds/874593579465769154/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/2010/04/gold-1500-sooner-or-later.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4027639518668914298/posts/default/874593579465769154?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4027639518668914298/posts/default/874593579465769154?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/2010/04/gold-1500-sooner-or-later.html' title='Gold $1500 &quot;Sooner or Later&quot;'/><author><name>rizko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08659436625661270760</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00889770664132642904'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><georss:point>-0.02599 109.3513</georss:point></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;DUYFR347fCp7ImA9WxFSGEU.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4027639518668914298.post-1784209307648922730</id><published>2010-04-22T04:58:00.000+07:00</published><updated>2010-04-22T04:58:36.004+07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2010-04-22T04:58:36.004+07:00</app:edited><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gold Article'/><title>Gold, a Hard Place, and the Dollar</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;The DEVELOPED NATIONS&lt;/strong&gt; of the world are over-extended,  their debt levels are ballooning, and their governments are creating  copious amounts of money,&lt;em&gt; writes Puru Saxena of &lt;a href="http://purusaxena.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Money Matters&lt;/a&gt; in Hong  Kong.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Put simply, most industrialized nations are now caught between a rock  and a hard place.&lt;br /&gt;
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After years of excesses, the developed world is slowly beginning to  realize that you cannot continue to live beyond your means and spend  your way to prosperity. Today, US national debt stands just north of $12  trillion. Its fiscal deficit for this year alone should come in around  $1.6 trillion and the nation faces mind-boggling deficits for as far as  the eye can see. Furthermore, demand for US government debt has begun to  wane and this implies that the Federal Reserve will have to resort to  creating even more money over the following years.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Make no mistake; the US cannot afford higher interest rates and in order  to keep a lid on the government bond yields, we are convinced that the  Federal Reserve will resort to debt monetization. In other words, the  central bank will create new Dollars in order to fund the deficits.&lt;br /&gt;
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Needless to say, this money-creation will be extremely dilutive and end  up undermining the viability of the world's reserve currency.&lt;br /&gt;
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If our assessment is correct, within the course of this decade, the  interest payments on the existing government debt will become so large  that the US Treasury will need to issue new debt just so that it can  keep paying interest on its outstanding debt. When that happens, you can  be sure that foreigners will not be eager buyers of US government debt.  Therefore, the Federal Reserve will have to create additional money,  just to keep the Ponzi scheme going. And when all else fails, the US  will simply debase its currency, thereby repaying its creditors in  significantly depreciated Dollars.&lt;br /&gt;
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Although our prognosis may sound far-fetched, we want to remind you that  throughout history, currency debasement has been the norm rather than  the exception. Let us put it simply, the US is now left with three  options:&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sovereign default (unimaginable)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Severe economic contraction (unlikely)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Currency debasement (most probable)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;Due to the risk of being thrown out of power, the policymakers will  certainly not admit to an outright sovereign default. For such an event  would cause a revolution within the US and shock-waves throughout the  economy. So, this drastic measure can be ruled out.&lt;br /&gt;
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Next, we are also sure that policymakers in the US will not swallow the  bitter pill and pursue sound monetary policies. So this option is also  out of the question.&lt;br /&gt;
Finally, it is obvious to us that policymakers in the US will have no  hesitation in opting for the inflation solution. By diluting the supply  of money and eventually debasing their currency, policymakers in the US  will create the illusion of prosperity via rising nominal asset prices.&lt;br /&gt;
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Unfortunately, severe monetary inflation and currency debasement is  likely to occur in many Western nations, not just the US. Remember, a  host of nations such as Ireland, Italy, Spain, Greece, Portugal and the  UK are also swimming in an ocean of debt. Moreover, their populations  are ageing and this trend will put further pressure on these countries'  finances.&lt;br /&gt;
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So, in this 'new era', whereby most of the 'advanced' economies are on  the edge of bankruptcy, various paper currencies will come under  pressure. The more nations that move to debase their currencies, the  more that the paper monies of the world will depreciate against hard  assets such as &lt;a href="http://gold.bullionvault.com/How/GoldBullion" target="_blank"&gt;Gold Bullion&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Although currency debasement and inflation are good enough reasons to  hold on to some gold, the biggest bullish factor is that real  (inflation-adjusted) interest-rates are now negative in most nations.  Thanks to the central banks' reflationary efforts, short-term interest  rates today are way below the official inflation rate. Therefore,  holding cash is now a loss-making proposition and thus, forward-looking  investors are turning to &lt;a href="http://gold.bullionvault.com/How/BuyGold" target="_blank"&gt;Buy Gold&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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On the supply side of the equation, it is worth noting that central-  banks have now become net buyers of gold. After years of selling  bullion, the public sector has done an about-face and this is very  positive for the yellow metal. Currently, the creditor nations in Asia  are sitting on mountains of foreign exchange reserves and in an effort  to diversify out of paper, they will surely add to their gold holdings.  Recently, we have seen China and India buy huge amounts of gold and you  can bet your bottom Dollar that they will continue to add to their tiny  positions.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://gold.bullionvault.com/How/GoldPrices" target="_blank"&gt;Gold  Prices&lt;/a&gt; are in a secular bull-market and every investor should own  some bullion as an insurance policy. At present, &lt;a href="http://gold.bullionvault.com/How/GoldMining" target="_blank"&gt;Gold Mining&lt;/a&gt;  stocks are undervalued relative to gold bullion, so those seeking extra  leverage should consider investing in dominant gold producers. Finally,  in our view, the high-cost South African gold producers, who do not  hedge their production, offer the maximum leverage to gold. And at  current prices, these companies are being given away.&lt;br /&gt;
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Source : &lt;a href="http://goldnews.bullionvault.com/gold_dollar_042120103"&gt;http://goldnews.bullionvault.com/gold_dollar_042120103 &lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4027639518668914298-1784209307648922730?l=www.dinarsaving.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/feeds/1784209307648922730/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/2010/04/gold-hard-place-and-dollar.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4027639518668914298/posts/default/1784209307648922730?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4027639518668914298/posts/default/1784209307648922730?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/2010/04/gold-hard-place-and-dollar.html' title='Gold, a Hard Place, and the Dollar'/><author><name>rizko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08659436625661270760</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00889770664132642904'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;C0MAQHYyfip7ImA9WxFSGE8.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4027639518668914298.post-4890691323837348449</id><published>2010-04-21T10:44:00.000+07:00</published><updated>2010-04-21T10:44:01.896+07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2010-04-21T10:44:01.896+07:00</app:edited><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dinarnomics'/><title>What To Do Ketika Rupiah Perkasa…?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ey44XKn3AyQ/S850azjD5dI/AAAAAAAAAcc/sWBhIEqe8LI/s1600/goldreserve.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="136" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ey44XKn3AyQ/S850azjD5dI/AAAAAAAAAcc/sWBhIEqe8LI/s200/goldreserve.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Hari-hari ini Rupiah mencapai angka terkuat terhadap US$ sejak tiga tahun terakhir dengan nilai Tukar dibawah Rp 9,000/US$. Rupiah memiliki nilai tukar dibawah Rp 9,000/US$ terakhir sebelumnya adalah pada bulan Juni 2007.&lt;br /&gt;
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Kekuatan Rupiah ini juga bisa dipantau secara lebih akurat melaui &lt;a href="http://www.geraidinar.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;view=article&amp;amp;id=320:rupiah-index-rix-mengukur-kekuatan-rupiah-kita&amp;amp;catid=1:latest-news&amp;amp;Itemid=50"&gt;Rupiah Index (RIX)&lt;/a&gt; yang sudah saya perkenalkan di situs ini sejak Desember 2009 lalu. Bila pada saat saya perkenalkan RIX berada pada angka 56.28; angka RIX tersebut kini berada pada angka 62.97 – kenaikan yang luar biasa selama lima bulan terakhir.&lt;br /&gt;
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Bagus kah keperkasaan Rupiah ini bagi kita ?; secara umum tentu bagus karena penghasilan kita yang rata-rata dalam Rupiah memiliki daya beli yang lebih baik. Apalagi mengingat berbagai kebutuhan kita seperti bahan pangan, susu, pakaian, komputer, mobil, dlsb. sebagiannya masih harus diimpor.&lt;br /&gt;
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Hanya saja Rupiah yang terlalu kuat bila berlangsung dalam jangka waktu yang lebih lama, dapat menurunkan daya saing produk-produk ekspor kita. Jadi para otoritas moneter dan perdagangan negeri ini kudu waspada – agar Rupiah tetap perkasa namun  tidak sampai menurunkan kemampuan kita untuk menghasilkan devisa.&lt;br /&gt;
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Lantas apa yang perlu kita lakukan selagi Rupiah perkasa seperti sekarang ini ?. Untuk skala individu, inilah waktu yang baik untuk mengamankan jerih payah kita dalam bentuk benda riil seperti emas/Dinar, mesin-mesin produksi, stok barang dagangan, stok bibit ternak (yang sebagiannya sekarang masih impor) dan lain sebagainya.&lt;br /&gt;
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Untuk skala negara menurut saya inilah waktu terbaik untuk mengembalikan cadangan emas kita ketingkat yang wajar – minimal setara dengan yang dimiliki oleh negara-negara lain. Kita tahu bahwa Indonesia pernah memiliki cadangan emas &lt;a href="http://www.geraidinar.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;view=article&amp;amp;id=76:emas-kemakmuran&amp;amp;catid=1:latest-news&amp;amp;Itemid=50"&gt;sekitar 249 ton tahun 1951&lt;/a&gt;; kini cadangan tersebut hanya sekitar 73 ton saja. Bahkan empat tahun yang lalu kita menjual sekitar 24% cadangan emas kita untuk mempercepat pembayaran hutang ke IMF.&lt;br /&gt;
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Bila kita berhasil mengembalikan cadangan emas kita ketingkat yang pernah kita miliki pada awal kemerdekaan tersebut; maka ini akan mengangkat persentase cadangan emas kita terhadap &lt;i&gt;Total Reserves&lt;/i&gt; ketingkat yang kurang lebih sama dengan rata-rata persentase cadangan emas negara lain terhadap &lt;i&gt;Total Reserves&lt;/i&gt;-nya masing-masing. Peningkatan cadangan emas inilah yang dilakukan oleh negara-negara di benua Eropa sepanjang sepuluh tahun terakhir (sebelum krisis), sehingga  persentase cadangan emas mereka terhadap &lt;i&gt;Total Reserves&lt;/i&gt;-nya meningkat dari rata-rata 30 % ke angka rata-rata 55 %  seperti yang ditunjukkan oleh grafik diatas yang datanya saya ambil dari data  Dewan Emas Dunia (&lt;i&gt;World Gold Council&lt;/i&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;
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Dari grafik yang sama tersebut selama sepuluh tahun terakhir ini, Indonesia memiliki persentase cadangan emas terhadap &lt;i&gt;Total Reserves&lt;/i&gt; yang kurang lebih hanya 1/3 dari yang dimiliki oleh negara-negara di dunia. Bila dibandingan dengan persentase sejenis untuk negara-negara Eropa, maka persentase cadangan emas kita terhadap Total Reserves turun dari  sekitar 1/10 dari yang dimiliki oleh rata-rata negara-negara di Eropa tersebut 10 tahun lalu, menjadi tinggal kurang lebih 1/18 -nya sekarang. Hal ini karena cadangan emas negara-negara di Eropa naik sedangkan kita malah turun (akhir 2006).&lt;br /&gt;
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Mengapa cadangan emas ini penting ?; karena semakin besar cadangan emas kita terhadap &lt;i&gt;Total Reserves&lt;/i&gt;, semakin stabil daya beli uang kita – semakin aman dari guncangan nilai mata uang seperti yang pernah kita alami secara berulang kali dalam 40 tahun terakhir.&lt;br /&gt;
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Bila hal ini dilakukan oleh negeri ini, insyaallah ini menjadi “&lt;a href="http://www.geraidinar.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;view=article&amp;amp;id=379:antara-yaknizuun-yukhsinuun-dan-duullatan&amp;amp;catid=1:latest-news&amp;amp;Itemid=50"&gt;hasil panenan yang dipertahankan di bulirnya&lt;/a&gt;”  seperti yang dicontohkan oleh Nabi Yusuf A.S. dalam Al-Qur’an ketika menyiapkan rakyatnya untuk menghadapi paceklik panjang. Paceklik panjang di zaman modern ini bisa terjadi melalui hancurnya nilai mata uang seperti yang pernah kita alami tahun 1997/1998.&lt;br /&gt;
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Bila otoritas negeri ini tidak memandang perlu akan hal ini; maka kita secara pribadi-pun bisa melakukan langkah-langkah antisipatif ini - selagi Rupiah masih perkasa. Wa Allahu A’lam.&lt;br /&gt;
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Sumber : &lt;a href="http://geraidinar.com/"&gt;GeraiDinar.Com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4027639518668914298-4890691323837348449?l=www.dinarsaving.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/feeds/4890691323837348449/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/2010/04/what-to-do-ketika-rupiah-perkasa.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4027639518668914298/posts/default/4890691323837348449?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4027639518668914298/posts/default/4890691323837348449?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/2010/04/what-to-do-ketika-rupiah-perkasa.html' title='What To Do Ketika Rupiah Perkasa…?'/><author><name>rizko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08659436625661270760</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00889770664132642904'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ey44XKn3AyQ/S850azjD5dI/AAAAAAAAAcc/sWBhIEqe8LI/s72-c/goldreserve.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;DEMBQn07eCp7ImA9WxFSGE0.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4027639518668914298.post-1168190549378171290</id><published>2010-04-21T06:34:00.000+07:00</published><updated>2010-04-21T06:34:13.300+07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2010-04-21T06:34:13.300+07:00</app:edited><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gold Article'/><title>China's Impact on Gold Prices</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;CHINA IS KEY&lt;/strong&gt; when it comes to the shape of gold demand  according to Eily Ong, author of the World Gold Council's recent study, &lt;a href="http://goldnews.bullionvault.com/china_gold_033020104" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Gold in the Year of the Tiger&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;em&gt;writes  Lara Crigger at &lt;a href="http://www.hardassetsinvestor.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Hard Assets Investor&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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China's growing middle class with disposable income and a penchant for  saving, says Ong, could drive gold consumption in the country to double  over the next decade – which should help boost &lt;a href="http://gold.bullionvault.com/How/GoldPrices" target="_blank"&gt;Gold Prices&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Ong has been with the World Gold Council since November 2009.  Previously, she was a metals and mining equities analyst for Credit  Suisse, in London. Currently, she is an investment research manager for  WGC, where her role is to research and promote the use of gold as a  long-term portfolio asset.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Recently we sat down with Ong to learn more about the supply and demand  factors underpinning Chinese gold consumption, including why jewelry  plays such a big role, how China could affect gold's price seasonality,  and whether the current growth is sustainable.&lt;br /&gt;
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Crigger:&lt;/strong&gt; We've seen incredible growth in Chinese gold demand  over the past few years. What's driving the push?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Ong:&lt;/strong&gt; Chinese gold consumption has been driven mainly by  several factors: the rising average income per head; a surplus of  investable income, given the high savings rate amongst the Chinese  people; the underlying strength of the Chinese gold culture; and the  improving standards of living in China itself.&lt;br /&gt;
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In recent years, we have seen demand across all sectors grow for the  expanding Chinese middle class, especially in the 18-karat jewelry  market and the industrial sector (particularly for mobile phones).  However, our report and our outlook are based on the Chinese population  as a whole, not just the middle class.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Crigger:&lt;/strong&gt; What about the investment side? Are we seeing  growth among the Chinese middle class there?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Ong: &lt;/strong&gt;We do see strong evidence from both the jewelry  and investment side; they are expected to be the chief drivers of  Chinese gold demand going forward.&lt;br /&gt;
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By far, jewelry is the most dominant area of gold demand in China; it  absorbs almost 80 percent of all gold usage! We found that if gold was  consumed in China at the same per capita rate as it was in India, Hong  Kong or Saudi Arabia, then the annual Chinese demand could increase by  at least 100 tonnes, to as much as 4,000 tonnes, in the jewelry sector  alone.&lt;br /&gt;
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But in terms of investment demand, this sector has been growing in line  with the country's GDP and population. The IMF and World Bank have  forecast Chinese GDP to grow by 10 percent and 9.5 percent,  respectively, in 2010. So we'll also see that investment demand grow.  The Chinese are high savers, and the World Gold Council expects  consumers to look at gold as an asset class as they continue to build  (or, in some cases, rebuild) wealth, while minimizing the variability of  their returns.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Crigger:&lt;/strong&gt; Would such a high growth be sustainable over  the long term?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Ong:&lt;/strong&gt; Gold demand has grown in China at an average rate  of 13 percent per annum. During the past decade, the Chinese gold mining  producers stepped up production by 84 percent. So Chinese demand growth  has continued to outpace domestic production capacity, and we've seen  this since 1992.&lt;br /&gt;
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But China is still ranked No. 2 behind India in terms of demand. And  although we see the acceleration in the demand growth, the country still  has one of the lowest gold consumption intensity rates, if you compare  it to Western economies, or even countries with similar gold cultures,  like Taiwan or South Korea. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Crigger:&lt;/strong&gt; Why is that?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Ong: &lt;/strong&gt;Well, we had this deregulation in the Chinese gold  market; I think people aren't really aware that the regulations were  only lifted less than a decade ago. So, yes, we've seen the per capita  consumption level growing: From 2002, the per capita consumption was at  0.17 grams, and this has almost doubled to 0.33 grams in 2009. But it's  still one of the lowest in the world. So they are catching up in terms  of their Western counterparts.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Crigger:&lt;/strong&gt; Won't this growing consumption eventually put  the squeeze on global gold supply?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Ong:&lt;/strong&gt; We did some analysis in the report on recently  published '09 figures from the United States Geological Survey; they  estimate that China's known gold reserves account for just 4 percent of  the total global gold reserves. That's really small. So our estimates  suggest that China may exhaust its known gold reserves in just six years  from now. And it could be less, if the Chinese demand continues to  accelerate.&lt;br /&gt;
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So if our suggested analysis comes to fruition, then it seems that  indubitably, there would be some implication for the gold market, as  China is the world's largest gold producer since 2007. &lt;br /&gt;
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Chinese companies have already started acquiring gold mining production  and businesses outside China, as the country tries to secure sources of  gold supply to meet its growing domestic demand. We do see that domestic  supply growth could be challenging structurally in China, unless  there's more funding directed toward exploration. Chinese gold mining  resources are still relatively undiscovered, and we believe this could  create new investment opportunity.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Crigger:&lt;/strong&gt; As China continues to increase in importance  in the gold market, do you think we'll start to see gold's seasonality  follow the Chinese calendar more closely? Will we see a bigger bump from  the Chinese New Year, for example?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Ong:&lt;/strong&gt; There are many factors driving commodity prices,  of course, and seasonality is just one of them. If you look at it in  terms of Dollars, we showed in the report that January, September and  November have been the strongest months for gold in the past five-10  years.&lt;br /&gt;
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In terms of Chinese holiday seasons, we do typically see investors  restock during the Chinese New Year, Christmas and the world New Year.  Yes, they do have a positive impact on the world &lt;a href="http://gold.bullionvault.com/How/GoldPrices" target="_blank"&gt;Gold Prices&lt;/a&gt;,  historically. But there's no perfect rule of thumb to seasonality, in  terms of forecasting.&lt;br /&gt;
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India is still a key gold market; it has been the world's largest gold  market, in terms of volume. Certainly, China's outlook will have  implications for the gold global market, but in many respects, China  shares a similar gold culture or heritage to India. So in long terms, we  do see both India and China to be very important gold markets,  regardless of which is going to be the main driver.&lt;br /&gt;
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Source : &lt;a href="http://goldnews.bullionvault.com/gold_china_042020102"&gt;http://goldnews.bullionvault.com/gold_china_042020102 &lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4027639518668914298-1168190549378171290?l=www.dinarsaving.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/feeds/1168190549378171290/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/2010/04/chinas-impact-on-gold-prices.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4027639518668914298/posts/default/1168190549378171290?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4027639518668914298/posts/default/1168190549378171290?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/2010/04/chinas-impact-on-gold-prices.html' title='China&apos;s Impact on Gold Prices'/><author><name>rizko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08659436625661270760</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00889770664132642904'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;CE4DRn87fip7ImA9WxFSFko.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4027639518668914298.post-401496461467051900</id><published>2010-04-19T17:29:00.000+07:00</published><updated>2010-04-19T17:29:37.106+07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2010-04-19T17:29:37.106+07:00</app:edited><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dinarnomics'/><title>Gold and Goldman…</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ey44XKn3AyQ/S8wwZPWRf0I/AAAAAAAAAcU/_d6rzP48e9w/s1600/marketpanic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="158" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ey44XKn3AyQ/S8wwZPWRf0I/AAAAAAAAAcU/_d6rzP48e9w/s200/marketpanic.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Marcus Goldman (1821-1904) adalah nama pendiri investment bank kesohor Goldman Sachs yang kini tengah meramaikan pasar dunia. Sejak didirikan pada tahun 1869, kinerja perusahaan tersebut terus meroket – hingga menjadi portfolio favorit &lt;i&gt;investment guru&lt;/i&gt; di jaman modern ini  seperti Warren Buffet dlsb.&lt;br /&gt;
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Namun keperkasaan Goldman kini tengah diuji karena sepanjang akhir pekan lalu, Goldman Sachs dirundung  gugatan yang awalnya hanya diajukan  oleh &lt;i&gt;US Securities and Exchange Commission&lt;/i&gt; (SEC) atas adanya dugaan penipuan yang dilakukan oleh salah satu raksasa financial dunia tersebut. Setelah gugatan awal di negerinya sendiri ini, Goldman nampaknya juga akan menghadapi gugatan sejenis di Eropa oleh pemerintah Jerman.&lt;br /&gt;
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Lantas apa hubungannya antara tuntutan ke Goldman ini dengan harga emas dunia yang turun drastis akhir pekan lalu ?; bukankah biasanya kalau ada guncangan di bursa saham, harga emas justru naik karena orang mencari pelarian yang aman atas asset investasinya ?.&lt;br /&gt;
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Kali ini tidak,  karena sebagian portfolio yang terkait dengan Goldman juga berupa Gold ETF (Exchange-Traded Fund); gejolak yang menimpa Goldman juga mendorong penjualan investasi berupa Gold ETF ini; Penjualan Gold ETF kemudian mendorong pelepasan cadangan emas yang dimiliki para pengelola Gold ETF tersebut. Pelepasan cadangan emas, mendorong bertambahnya &lt;i&gt;supply &lt;/i&gt;emas di pasaran. Penambahan &lt;i&gt;supply&lt;/i&gt; ketika &lt;i&gt;demand&lt;/i&gt; relatif stabil tentu berdampak menurunkan harga.&lt;br /&gt;
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Jadi sepanjang pekan ini – tergantung perkembangan tuntutan SEC terhadap Goldman – maka harga emas dunia akan cenderung turun atau rendah. Ini menjadi kesempatan baik bagi yang ingin merencanakan menabung emas/Dinar untuk keperluan jangka panjang. Untuk yang ingin berspekulasi jangka pendek – saya tetap menyarankan jangan, karena prospek harga emas untuk jangka pendek &lt;a href="http://www.geraidinar.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;view=article&amp;amp;id=380:harga-emas-tidak-ada-prediksi-yang-pasti&amp;amp;catid=1:latest-news&amp;amp;Itemid=50"&gt;terlalu sulit diprediksi bahkan oleh para ahli sekalipun&lt;/a&gt;. Wa Allahu A’lam.&lt;br /&gt;
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Sumber : &lt;a href="http://geraidinar.com/"&gt;GeraiDinar.Com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4027639518668914298-401496461467051900?l=www.dinarsaving.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/feeds/401496461467051900/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/2010/04/gold-and-goldman.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4027639518668914298/posts/default/401496461467051900?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4027639518668914298/posts/default/401496461467051900?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/2010/04/gold-and-goldman.html' title='Gold and Goldman…'/><author><name>rizko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08659436625661270760</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00889770664132642904'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ey44XKn3AyQ/S8wwZPWRf0I/AAAAAAAAAcU/_d6rzP48e9w/s72-c/marketpanic.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;DEYFQX08eip7ImA9WxFSFUg.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4027639518668914298.post-8629311395056539848</id><published>2010-04-18T09:01:00.001+07:00</published><updated>2010-04-18T09:01:50.372+07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2010-04-18T09:01:50.372+07:00</app:edited><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dinarnomics'/><title>Kapitalisme Ribawi Yang Memakan Dirinya Sendiri…</title><content type='html'>Ada cerita menarik dari Danah Zohar dalam bukunya yang &lt;i&gt;best seller&lt;/i&gt; di seluruh dunia &lt;i&gt;Spiritual Capital&lt;/i&gt;,  yang sangat relevan dengan krisis financial yang melanda dunia saat ini.&lt;br /&gt;
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Cerita ini sendiri berasal dari Mythology Yunani kuno tentang seorang tukang kayu yang kaya namun sangat serakah bernama Erisychthon. Saking serakahnya, si tukang kayu bahkan berani menebang pohon kesayangan dewa mereka – dimana rakyat Yunani biasa ‘beribadah’ di sekitar pohon tersebut.&lt;br /&gt;
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Konon sang ‘dewa’ sangat marah atas ditebangnya pohon tersebut, dan dikutuklah Erisychthon untuk tidak pernah kenyang walau apapun telah dimakannya. Maka mulailah Erisychthon memakan apapun yang dijumpainya, toko dan isinya dimakan sampai habis, setelah itu keluarganya juga dimakan sampai habis – sampai tinggal satu-satunya yang ada di sekitar dia, yaitu dirinya sendiri. Karena rasa lapar yang tidak pernah bisa terkenyangkan – maka akhirnya Erisychthon-pun memakan dirinya sendiri.&lt;br /&gt;
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Betapapun tidak masuk akalnya cerita tersebut, tetapi nampaknya realita yang tidak jauh berbeda sesungguhnya terjadi di dunia financial ribawi jaman modern, sehingga menimbulkan krisis di seluruh dunia sampai saat ini.&lt;br /&gt;
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Dua hari lalu saya sarapan pagi dengan kawan lama seorang professional senior di lembaga pembiayaan yang sekarang induknya sudah di caplok oleh konglomerasi asing. Karena beliau sedang dalam taraf untuk berhijrah ke jalan yang lebih baik, beliau menceritakan apa yang bertentangan dengan hatinya yang antara lain terkait dengan  krisis financial global dewasa ini. Yang diambil contohnya oleh beliau adalah industri otomotif di Amerika.&lt;br /&gt;
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Dalam pasar yang normal, semestinya  keseimbangan antara &lt;i&gt;supply and demand&lt;/i&gt; terjadi dengan sendirinya. Produsen akan memproduksi sejumlah barang yang dibutuhkan konsumen, dan konsumen membeli kebutuhannya pada tingkat harga yang wajar sesuai kemampuan dirinya untuk membeli kebutuhan tersebut.&lt;br /&gt;
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Apa yang dilakukan oleh lembaga-lembaga ribawi terhadap keseimbangan &lt;i&gt;supply and demand&lt;/i&gt; tersebut ?.&lt;br /&gt;
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Awalnya dia datang ke produsen mobil dan bilang sama si produsen untuk memproduksi mobil lebih banyak. Nggak punya modal ?, gampang tinggal dipinjami (tentu dengan bunga –karena bunga inilah daya tarik mereka). Nggak ada yang beli ?, gampang, nanti lembaga ribawi tersebut juga yang akan menggarap pembelinya.&lt;br /&gt;
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Maka kemudian si lembaga ribawi datang ke konsumen (dengan berbagai iklannya), untuk mendorong konsumen membeli mobil yang sudah diproduksi produsen tersebut diatas. Konsumen nggak punya duit ?; gampang pula solusinya – tinggal dipinjami lagi oleh mereka – tentu lagi-lagi dengan bunga karena memang bunga inilah inti bisnisnya.&lt;br /&gt;
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Keenakan mendapatkan bunga dari produsen dan juga konsumen, membuat lembaga ribawi semakin keranjingan ‘menciptakan’ keseimbangan baru pada &lt;i&gt;supply and demand&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Kalau awal-awalnya yang digarap adalah produsen &amp;amp; konsumen yang &lt;i&gt;credible &lt;/i&gt;yang memang mampu memproduksi/membeli barang dan mampu pula mengembalikan hutangnya; maka lama- kelamaan ‘pasar’ yang &lt;i&gt;credible &lt;/i&gt;tersebut habis – tinggallah produsen abal-abal dan konsumen yang sebenarnya tidak mampu untuk meminjam dan mengembalikan hutangnya.&lt;br /&gt;
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Apa yang terjadi kemudian ?, lembaga-lembaga ribawi tersebut mulai kesulitan menagih piutangnya ke para nasabahnya; bukan sepenuhnya salah nasabah sebenarnya – tetapi sebagian besar karena ulah lembaga-lembaga ribawi tersebut sendiri.&lt;br /&gt;
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Setelah diambang kesulitan financial global yang begitu banyak korbannya, apakah &lt;i&gt;attitude &lt;/i&gt;lembaga ribawi ini berubah ?, ternyata tidak. Sejauh pendapatan utama mereka dari bunga – maka mereka akan tetap memburu mangsanya untuk ‘dipinjami’ agar mereka tetap mendapatkan sumber  bunga-nya.&lt;br /&gt;
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Buktinya yang sangat &lt;i&gt;up-to-date&lt;/i&gt;  malam-malam begini (jam 11 malam ketika saya menulis artikel ini), masih juga ada sms sampai ke hand phone saya yang menawarkan kemudahan dana tunai…..&lt;br /&gt;
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Hari gini ? ada kemudahan dana tunai ?...apa lagi kalau bukan mereka sedang mengincar kita-kita untuk menjadi sumber pendapatan bunga berikutnya. Kalau orang seperti kitapun sudah habis digarapnya, siapa lagi yang digarap ? mungkin mereka akan mulai memakan dirinya sendiri seperti cerita Erisychthon  tersebut diatas….Wallahu A’lam.&lt;br /&gt;
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Sumber : &lt;a href="http://geraidinar.com/"&gt;GeraiDinar.Com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4027639518668914298-8629311395056539848?l=www.dinarsaving.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/feeds/8629311395056539848/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/2010/04/kapitalisme-ribawi-yang-memakan-dirinya.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4027639518668914298/posts/default/8629311395056539848?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4027639518668914298/posts/default/8629311395056539848?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/2010/04/kapitalisme-ribawi-yang-memakan-dirinya.html' title='Kapitalisme Ribawi Yang Memakan Dirinya Sendiri…'/><author><name>rizko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08659436625661270760</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00889770664132642904'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;CEADR3s9eyp7ImA9WxFSFEo.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4027639518668914298.post-6787809597420525063</id><published>2010-04-09T16:21:00.001+07:00</published><updated>2010-04-17T09:52:56.563+07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2010-04-17T09:52:56.563+07:00</app:edited><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dinarnomics'/><title>Uang Masa Depan Yang Memakmurkan, Menciptakan Lapangan Kerja dan Membuat Dunia Lebih Bijaksana…</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ey44XKn3AyQ/S77xIf2TURI/AAAAAAAAAcE/AVijGO8JVTA/s1600/futuremoney.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ey44XKn3AyQ/S77xIf2TURI/AAAAAAAAAcE/AVijGO8JVTA/s200/futuremoney.jpg" width="139" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Sepuluh tahun yang lalu (2001) seorang peneliti di &lt;i&gt;Center of Sustainable Resources  - University of California at Berkeley Bernard Lietaer&lt;/i&gt; menulis buku dengan judul &lt;i&gt;The Future of Money : Creating New Wealth, Work and a Wiser World&lt;/i&gt;.  Dalam bukunya yang futuristic ini Bernard antara lain menulis tentang berbagai fenomena pencarian uang baru yang sudah mulai saat itu – karena kekecewaan masyarakat tentang system uang yang ada dalam beberapa dasawarsa terakhir.&lt;br /&gt;
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Menurut Bernard, system keuangan dunia dewasa ini tidak ubahnya seperti &lt;i&gt;Casino &lt;/i&gt;raksasa yang dioperasikan dengan penuh spekulatif  - 100 kali lebih besar dari transaksi  total bursa saham di seluruh dunia per harinya. Hanya 2 % saja dari perputaran tersebut yang terkait dengan transaksi barang dan jasa; 98% -nya  murni untuk spekulasi.&lt;br /&gt;
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Bila buku yang ditulis sebagai hasil penelitian Bernard ini dikaitkan dengan pendapat &lt;a href="http://www.geraidinar.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;view=article&amp;amp;id=249:uang-swasta-vs-uang-negara&amp;amp;catid=1:latest-news&amp;amp;Itemid=50"&gt;Ibnu Taimiyyah&lt;/a&gt; bahwa penguasa hanya boleh mencetak fulus sebesar kebutuhan transaksi barang dan jasa yang dibutuhkan oleh masyarakat suatu negeri – maka ya hanya 2 % itu-lah uang yang perlu ada di dunia sesungguhnya.&lt;br /&gt;
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Apa dampak dari besarnya porsi uang yang digunakan untuk keperluan transaksi spekulatif tersebut dibandingkan dengan yang dibutuhkan untuk transaksi riil ?. Nilai uang menjadi sangat rentan terhadap ulah spekulan, porsi terbesar uang tidak menggerakkan sektor riil, pemerintah-pemerintah dunia menjadi sibuk menjaga nilai uang – ketimbang menggerakkan sektor riil. Lapangan pekerjaan tidak mudah tersedia; kemakmuran sulit terwujud – dan dunia menjadi tidak bijaksana karena lebih banyak mengharapkan durian runtuh dari ‘hasil spekulasi’ ketimbang hasil dari kerjaan yang riil.&lt;br /&gt;
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Namun, di setiap zaman, di setiap  masyarakat – selalu ada sekelompok kecil orang yang melihat sesuatu sampai melewati batas horizon (&lt;i&gt;beyond the horizon&lt;/i&gt;), mereka ini sudah mulai mencari solusi untuk problem yang bahkan sebagian terbesar masyarakatnya belum menyadari adanya problem tersebut.&lt;br /&gt;
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Dalam hal problem besar yang terkait uang ini misalnya; Bernard berhasil mengidentifikasi setidaknya saat itu sudah ada 1,900 –an komunitas di seluruh dunia – termasuk ratusan diantaranya di Amerika  - yang sudah mulai mengeluarkan ‘uang’-nya sendiri dalam berbagai bentuknya.&lt;br /&gt;
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Di antara ‘uang swasta’ tersebut yang paling luas dikenal di masyarakat antara lain adalah &lt;i&gt;Frequent Flyers Miles&lt;/i&gt; yang dikeluarkan oleh industri penerbangan; &lt;i&gt;Reward Points&lt;/i&gt; yang dikeluarkan oleh perbankan dan kini juga industri telekomunikasi; &lt;i&gt;Vouchers&lt;/i&gt; yang dikeluarkan oleh para &lt;i&gt;retailers&lt;/i&gt;; &lt;i&gt;credit balances&lt;/i&gt; yang dikeluarkan pengelola transaksi barter; dan yang paling me-representasi-kan uang yang sesungguhnya adalah apa yang disebut &lt;i&gt;backed currencies&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;Backed currencies&lt;/i&gt; adalah &lt;i&gt;currencies&lt;/i&gt; atau alat tukar yang nilainya dijamin atau didukung langsung dengan barang atau jasa. Di antara barang-barang ini yang paling baku nilainya dan memang sudah digunakan sebagai uang selama ribuan tahun adalah emas dan perak. Maka &lt;i&gt;backed currencies&lt;/i&gt; berbasis emas yang sudah dikenal luas di dunia maya seperti e-gold, menjadi primadona dalam pencarian uang modern tersebut.&lt;br /&gt;
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Meskipun emas adalah uang yang paling ideal; berbagai pihak yang berusaha menggunakan emas sebagai uang di masa lampau banyak mengalami kegagalan. Contoh terbesarnya adalah kegagalan &lt;i&gt;Breton Woods Agreement&lt;/i&gt; yang buyar Agustus 1971 – hanya seperempat abad saja usianya. Mengapa demikian ?, sederhana saja – penggunaan emas sebagai uang haruslah disertai serangkaian peraturan yang sangat lengkap dan menyeluruh untuk menjamin ketersediaan emas sebagai uang itu sendiri.&lt;br /&gt;
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Peraturan dan petunjuk pelaksanaan penggunaan emas yang sangat menyeluruh ini, adanya hanyalah di Syariat Islam seperti yang pernah saya tulis dengan judul “&lt;a href="http://geraidinar.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;view=article&amp;amp;id=75:emas-cukup&amp;amp;catid=1:latest-news&amp;amp;Itemid=50"&gt;Emas Cukup Untuk Seluruh Umat Manusia , Tetapi…&lt;/a&gt;”.&lt;br /&gt;
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Seperti judul bukunya Bernard tersebut diatas, uang masa depan haruslah uang yang bisa mendatangkan kemakmuran, uang yang berguna untuk menciptakan lapangan kerja dan uang yang bisa membuat dunia lebih bijaksana. Sekali lagi inilah yang akan terjadi bila uang dikelola sesuai Syariat Islam, hanya dengan Syariat inilah uang &lt;a href="http://geraidinar.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;view=article&amp;amp;id=379:antara-yaknizuun-yukhsinuun-dan-duullatan&amp;amp;catid=1:latest-news&amp;amp;Itemid=50"&gt;tidak menjadi harta yang tertimbun – uang benar-benar mendatangkan kemakmuran bukan hanya pada golongan yang kaya saja&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Jadi sesungguhnya &lt;i&gt;blueprint &lt;/i&gt;uang masa depan yang memakmurkan itu telah lama ada di dunia Islam dan telah pula diterapkan selama ribuan tahun; kini &lt;i&gt;blueprint &lt;/i&gt;inipun siap diterapkan di era teknologi ini. Tinggal kita sendiri mau mengikuti orang lain yang dengan susah payah mencari bentuk uang modernnya ; atau kita kembali menggunakan uang yang sudah ada di Syariat Islam – rujukan yang kita yakini kebenarannya. Wa Allahu A’lam&lt;br /&gt;
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Sumber : &lt;a href="http://geraidinar.com/"&gt;GeraiDinar.Com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4027639518668914298-6787809597420525063?l=www.dinarsaving.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/feeds/6787809597420525063/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/2010/04/uang-masa-depan-yang-memakmurkan.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4027639518668914298/posts/default/6787809597420525063?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4027639518668914298/posts/default/6787809597420525063?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/2010/04/uang-masa-depan-yang-memakmurkan.html' title='Uang Masa Depan Yang Memakmurkan, Menciptakan Lapangan Kerja dan Membuat Dunia Lebih Bijaksana…'/><author><name>rizko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08659436625661270760</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00889770664132642904'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ey44XKn3AyQ/S77xIf2TURI/AAAAAAAAAcE/AVijGO8JVTA/s72-c/futuremoney.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;C0IMQ349fip7ImA9WxFTF0s.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4027639518668914298.post-7174590019553853957</id><published>2010-04-09T04:19:00.000+07:00</published><updated>2010-04-09T04:19:42.066+07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2010-04-09T04:19:42.066+07:00</app:edited><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gold Article'/><title>Gold to "Reach $1375 in 2010"</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;DURING HIS 14-YEAR&lt;/strong&gt; career on Wall Street, John Licata  has held both trading and research positions at the Nymex, Dow Jones,  Smith Barney and Brokerage America.&lt;br /&gt;
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Founder of &lt;a href="http://bluephoenixinc.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Blue  Phoenix&lt;/a&gt; in 2005, and a graduate in economics from Saint Peter's  College – where he received the Wall Street Journal Award for economic  excellence – he tells &lt;a href="http://www.theaureport.com/" target="_blank"&gt;The Gold Report&lt;/a&gt; here that as inflationary pressures  present themselves, &lt;a href="http://gold.bullionvault.com/How/GoldPrices" target="_blank"&gt;Gold Prices&lt;/a&gt; will  continue their upward move. He also sees silver, platinum and palladium  as interesting plays for investors.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;The Gold Report: &lt;/strong&gt;The price of gold is around $1100.  Last year you were saying the best buying opportunities were in the $850  range. Are you still recommending &lt;a href="http://gold.bullionvault.com/How/BuyingGold" target="_blank"&gt;Buying Gold&lt;/a&gt; to  investors?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;John Licata:&lt;/strong&gt; Yes I am. Wall Street has thrown the  kitchen sink at gold, and for all intents and purposes gold could have  fallen below $800 per troy ounce with the rally in the US Dollar and  overall stock market. Yet gold maintained its resiliency and showed it  can act independently of foreign exchange movements. That has me very  constructive on the outlook for the yellow metal. We're still holding on  to $1100 – and I continue to maintain $1375 as my target on gold for  the rest of the year.&lt;br /&gt;
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Gold can benefit from increased geopolitical risk. Also inflationary  pressures will start to reveal themselves later in the year. That will  continue, especially in 2011 from various stimulus packages being  unveiled or implemented over the next few quarters.&lt;br /&gt;
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More and more, &lt;a href="http://gold.bullionvault.com/How/GoldPrices" target="_blank"&gt;Gold Prices&lt;/a&gt; will  be considered a currency in its own right. With that said, I think it's  going to replace the US Dollar as the ultimate hedge in terms of risk.  Gold prices can continue to move higher, and $1,375 is just another stop  on a train that I've been looking at for many years. That train has a  long way to travel, but $1,375 is a level I'm very comfortable sticking  with through this year.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;TGR: &lt;/strong&gt;If gold should really be trading at $800, why are  you putting a $1,375 target on it?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;John Licata:&lt;/strong&gt; I don't think it should be $800, but  that's what the market was suggesting. The market threw everything at  gold. The price of the Euro-Dollar cross deteriorated, and yet gold held  its ground. You heard about less risk of inflation, and yet gold held  its ground. Nothing that the marketplace has thrown at it, including the  stock rally, has taken &lt;a href="http://gold.bullionvault.com/How/GoldPrices" target="_blank"&gt;Gold Prices&lt;/a&gt; down.  If you were a seller of gold, you had your chances to take gold back  down to $800 and now those chances are gone, in my view.&lt;br /&gt;
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The fact that gold held its ground makes me think that, when the economy  starts to show signs of life again – and I do see signs of inflation  contrary to many indicators out there – &lt;a href="http://gold.bullionvault.com/How/GoldPrices" target="_blank"&gt;Gold Prices&lt;/a&gt; will  actually see a much bigger rise. Geopolitical factors will play a role,  as well. Some nations don't view the Dollar as that global safe haven. A  lot foreign exchange companies that have predominantly jumped on the  Dollar bandwagon think that the Fed is not going to raise rates anytime  soon. If that's the case, then maybe gold is more attractive; and I  firmly believe that gold is.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;TGR:&lt;/strong&gt; You've said you expect to see a market rally in  Q310 or Q410 as the unemployment rate potentially goes down. If there is  a market rally and unemployment goes down, are you inferring that gold  will go up because we'll start to see inflation or because we have a  market rally? In other words, what's going to cause gold to rise?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;John Licata: &lt;/strong&gt;Gold will rise as more inflationary  pressures present themselves. Only 40% of the stimulus package has  actually been allocated. There will be a lot more government money  allocated to various economies in the middle, and toward the end, of the  year. We can see a lot of inflation – and not only here in the United  States. Globally, we're still trying to figure out what's happening from  the sovereign debt perspective. If we keep throwing so much stimulus  into reviving economies around the world, then "hyperinflation" is a  term that we'll be really comfortable using in 2011.&lt;br /&gt;
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Because I mentioned sovereign debt, we have to talk about Greece and how  that situation could spill over into Portugal, or perhaps even Italy.  Yet we have our own problems here in the US, with California perhaps  coming up with a default of $20 billion. That's another catalyst for  gold – the fact that sovereign debt issues are being magnified right  before our eyes even here at home.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;TGR: &lt;/strong&gt;Some analysts who recommend precious metals have  actually talked about a complete collapse of the Dollar. Do you see  anything like that happening?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;John Licata:&lt;/strong&gt; I don't know about a total collapse of the  US Dollar. Look at the action we've seen in the Dollar over the past  year. If anything, I was concerned with a total collapse of the Euro.  There were some conversations about perhaps buying the Euro on eBay  someday. I don't think that'll ever happen; but, if there was a total  collapse, it would happen to a non-US Dollar-denominated asset.&lt;br /&gt;
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I don't think the Dollar is going to completely collapse. We still have a  very resilient economy. Look at where we've been in the stock market  just in the last year. I definitely want to point out that I don't mean  the stock market is a sole pointer of confidence, but I do think the  stock market is forward-thinking.&lt;br /&gt;
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What we've seen in the US has definitely been more proactive than what  we've seen in many other countries. The length of time it's taken Europe  to hash out a plan to save Greece has been a confidence deterrent – and  the potential fallout from that is still unknown. That said, I don't  see the USD being the currency to get kicked out of any basket. A basket  of currencies is something that could be discussed in the future. The  Opec oil cartel has actually talked about a basket of currencies for  years so crude oil doesn't have to be tied to the US Dollar.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;TGR:&lt;/strong&gt; You've recommended investors hold physical &lt;a href="http://gold.bullionvault.com/How/GoldBullion" target="_blank"&gt;Gold  Bullion&lt;/a&gt; rather than equities, as the latter tends to underperform  the underlying commodity. Do you still prefer physical gold to equities?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;John Licata:&lt;/strong&gt; I do. There are some opportunities within  the gold space that are intriguing still. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;TGR: &lt;/strong&gt;When you look at &lt;a href="http://gold.bullionvault.com/How/GoldMining" target="_blank"&gt;Gold Mining&lt;/a&gt;  equities – or any other metals companies – what sorts of things do you  look for specifically? Is management a big thing? Do you look at whether  these companies do a lot of exploration? What are your criteria for  choosing such companies?&lt;br /&gt;
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John Licata:&lt;/strong&gt; No matter what area, management credibility is  definitely at the top of the list. Geography is also a major  consideration. Investors shouldn't jump into areas that might be  politically unstable. Government friendliness toward foreign companies  mining their land for economic gain is extremely important, as well.  Companies that have great relationships with foreign governments are  definitely high on my list. Low debt is something that isn't often  discussed when considering metals companies; so when you find those  companies, you kind of embrace them because they'd have an easier time  raising capital if they did find something.&lt;br /&gt;
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Those are the main areas to look at – that and a breakdown of what  they're actually finding. Are they simply a gold player? Or are they a  gold player that is a silver story? Sometimes investors get confused by  the company names; they think that the word "gold" in a company's name  implies that it mines only gold.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;TGR: &lt;/strong&gt;Back in February you were optimistic about a metal  called indium. Can you tell our readers about this metal and your take  on the indium market?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;John Licata:&lt;/strong&gt; Indium is a fascinating under-the-radar  minor metal that, in my opinion, could be major. Its uses are completely  varied. It's used in flat panel LCD screens, plasma TVs, cell phones,  computer monitors, cameras, touch screens and new tablets like the new  Apple iPad. It could be used in leading-edge thin-film solar PV cell  technology.&lt;br /&gt;
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The price of the indium recently traded a little closer to $600 per  kilogram. That's the highest level since October 2008. And there's been  speculation that China's been building the reserves of strategically  important minor metals such as indium. So I do believe that indium can  be a major metal to be on the watch list.&lt;br /&gt;
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Paul Otellini, the CEO of Intel, has been quoted saying that, by 2017,  the silicone processor will be replaced by possibly an indium-based  compound that is actually faster than silicone. It uses less power than  silicone. It's much more efficient at processing 3D graphics, which many  electronic devices are moving toward. Indium is going to be a great  story in the future.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;TGR:&lt;/strong&gt; Are there specific indium companies that you're  watching right now?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;John Licata:&lt;/strong&gt; Unlike many other metals in the  marketplace, there aren't many companies that are specifically  indium-focused. It's usually something that develops when they're  looking for gold or silver, or they just happen to come across indium.  It kind of resembles zinc. It's a metal that could become a scarce  resource over the next decade due to increased usage.&lt;br /&gt;
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TGR: &lt;/strong&gt;Where is indium being found? In specific geographic areas  or worldwide?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;John Licata:&lt;/strong&gt; It's not worldwide. There is some indium  in Argentina, as I mentioned. China has one of the largest indium  resources; Russia has some, too. Those are the biggest sources. The US  does not produce any indium whatsoever.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;TGR: &lt;/strong&gt;In the past, you've been bullish on platinum and  palladium. Do you still think those are good plays for investors?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;John Licata:&lt;/strong&gt; I am and, being that I am so bullish on  gold, I think that platinum and palladium are platinum group metals  (PGMs) that will not only ride the coattails of the gold market strength  but also establish themselves as unique metal plays. Recent launches of  &lt;a href="http://gold.bullionvault.com/How/GoldETFs" target="_blank"&gt;ETFs&lt;/a&gt;  on those metals show that investors are gaining more confidence in them  as individual metals – rather than metals used solely by automakers for  catalytic converters. Both metals are also starting to see more use in  jewelry, especially in Asia. Palladium is so much cheaper than gold. You  can imagine that's definitely resonating with the youth in Asia. They  can get something that looks like platinum but is actually much cheaper.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;TGR:&lt;/strong&gt; You said that geographic factors were very  important in choosing &lt;a href="http://gold.bullionvault.com/How/GoldMining" target="_blank"&gt;Gold Mining&lt;/a&gt;  equities. Do you feel the same way about companies in the platinum and  palladium sectors?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;John Licata:&lt;/strong&gt; If you're looking at commodities, you have  to. That concept goes across the entire spectrum.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;TGR: &lt;/strong&gt;Regardless of what business they're in?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;John Licata:&lt;/strong&gt; It doesn't matter if it's energy, metals  or bottling Coca-Cola. If a company's not in a geographically and  politically sound area, investors should think twice about investing in  it.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;TGR: &lt;/strong&gt;You mentioned platinum and palladium were going to  increase as gold takes off. What do you think about &lt;a href="http://silver.bullionvault.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Silver&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;John Licata:&lt;/strong&gt; In my opinion, silver has been gold's evil  stepchild for years. And I continue to view silver as an overlooked  commodity. Uses of silver continue to increase, and I like the prospects  of the metal very much. Right now, platinum and palladium are the sexy  metals, so to speak, because the &lt;a href="http://gold.bullionvault.com/How/GoldETF" target="_blank"&gt;ETF&lt;/a&gt; is new. However,  I think &lt;a href="http://www.bullionvault.com/silver-price-chart.do" target="_blank"&gt;Silver Prices&lt;/a&gt; will surge above $20 by year's end or  in 2011.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;TGR: &lt;/strong&gt;What about &lt;a href="http://gold.bullionvault.com/How/GoldETFs" target="_blank"&gt;ETFs&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;John Licata:&lt;/strong&gt; The volatility created by these &lt;a href="http://gold.bullionvault.com/How/GoldETFs" target="_blank"&gt;ETFs&lt;/a&gt;  is historically known to take the price of futures higher. You can  apply that to crude oil, natural gas, gold or silver. Platinum and  palladium are the new kids on the block that will benefit from the same  concept. One of the reasons the Commodity Futures Trading Commission  (CFTC) is looking to curb speculation is because it is a major driver of  commodities these days.&lt;br /&gt;
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Recently, a trader told me that if the CFTC puts regulations in place  and limits the amount of contracts individual firms can trade, it might  actually do more harm than good. That's because more violent price  swings can actually take place if there's less volume. It was  interesting to hear a trader say that. It makes me think that, as much  as these &lt;a href="http://gold.bullionvault.com/How/GoldETFs" target="_blank"&gt;ETFs&lt;/a&gt; seem like a  blessing from above, they're probably one of the worst things to happen  to the commodities market.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;TGR:&lt;/strong&gt; Given what you've said, do you anticipate  government regulations on these ETFs; and, if so, in what timeframe?&lt;br /&gt;
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John Licata: &lt;/strong&gt;Government has too much on its plate right now to  handle everything at once. In a month's time, we'll be talking about the  CFTC regulations on energy and metals. So I don't necessarily think &lt;a href="http://gold.bullionvault.com/How/GoldETFs" target="_blank"&gt;ETFs&lt;/a&gt;  are right at the forefront of new legislation, but I do think it's  something we'll hear about in the near future. There's so much happening  on the regulatory side in terms of energy prices and metals;  concentration needs to be focused. As we saw with the healthcare plan,  you can only do one thing at a time.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;TGR:&lt;/strong&gt; Of course. Thanks so much for your time, John.&lt;br /&gt;
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By. &lt;b&gt;John Licata&lt;/b&gt; - &lt;a href="http://goldnews.bullionvault.com/buying_gold_040620103"&gt;http://goldnews.bullionvault.com/buying_gold_040620103&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4027639518668914298-7174590019553853957?l=www.dinarsaving.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/feeds/7174590019553853957/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/2010/04/gold-to-reach-1375-in-2010.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4027639518668914298/posts/default/7174590019553853957?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4027639518668914298/posts/default/7174590019553853957?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.dinarsaving.com/2010/04/gold-to-reach-1375-in-2010.html' title='Gold to &quot;Reach $1375 in 2010&quot;'/><author><name>rizko</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08659436625661270760</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00889770664132642904'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;CE8EQ3k_eip7ImA9WxFSFEo.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4027639518668914298.post-6018289158917409782</id><published>2010-04-09T04:03:00.001+07:00</published><updated>2010-04-17T09:53:22.742+07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2010-04-17T09:53:22.742+07:00</app:edited><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dinarnomics'/><title>Cara Awam Memahami Trend Harga Emas…</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ey44XKn3AyQ/S75EfcFheTI/AAAAAAAAAbs/I-Cc4aw8gaw/s1600/awam.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ey44XKn3AyQ/S75EfcFheTI/AAAAAAAAAbs/I-Cc4aw8gaw/s200/awam.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Dalam tulisan saya &lt;a href="http://www.geraidinar.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;view=article&amp;amp;id=380:harga-emas-tidak-ada-prediksi-yang-pasti&amp;amp;catid=1:latest-news&amp;amp;Itemid=50"&gt;akhir pekan lalu&lt;/a&gt; telah saya ungkapkan berbagai pendekatan teoritis untuk menduga harga emas kedepan yang ternyata tidak ada satupun yang akurat . Bisa kita lihat hasilnya dari pendekatan teoritis yang satu dengan yang lain perbedaannya bisa sangat besar.&lt;br /&gt;
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Lantas apakah dengan demikian kita tidak bisa menduga kedepannya bakal seperti apa harga emas ini ? secara garis besar bisa, namun tidak akan akurat  (nggak masalah, lha wong dugaan para ahli-pun ternyata tidak akurat juga). Dan bagi yang tidak menggunakan harga emas sebagai ajang spekulasi, dugaan secara garis besar ini sudah memadai untuk perencanaan keuangan kita dalam jangka panjang.&lt;br /&gt;
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Salah satu pendekatan ‘awam’ tersebut saya sajikan dalam grafik disamping yang datanya saya ambil dari harga emas di pasar penutupan London. Saya ambil harga terendah dan tertinggi setiap bulan sejak Januari 2000.&lt;br /&gt;
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Logika awamnya begini; meskipun berbagai pihak berusaha mempengaruhi harga emas dunia – harga emas di pasar internasional masih merupakan cerminan mekanisme pasar yang efektif. Mekanisme pembentukan harga di pasar mengikuti hukum penawaran dan permintaan atau &lt;i&gt;supply and demand&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Seperti &lt;a href="http://www.geraidinar.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;view=article&amp;amp;id=247:kemana-harga-emas-akan-berayun-&amp;amp;catid=1:latest-news&amp;amp;Itemid=50"&gt;ayunan bandul jam&lt;/a&gt; – yang ujung satu sejajar dengan ujung lainnya. Demikian pula ayunan harga emas di pasar. Bila kita ambil dari titik A (suatu titik terendah bulanan), kemudian kita tarik garis yang menuju titik terendah lainnya. Maka Ayunan titik-titik tertinggi berikutnya seharusnya sejajar dengan titik-titik terendah – perhatikan dua garis garis biru sejajar  yang dimulai dari titik A dan B.&lt;br /&gt;
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Demikian pula garis sejajar berikutnya berwarna merah antara titik-titik terendah dan tertinggi yang dilalui garis merah C dan D. Bila harga-harga emas lebih tinggi dari garis-garis sejajar titik tertinggi tersebut, maka harga emas sudah terlalu tinggi dan pasti akan terkoreksi balik – persis seperti bandul jam yang mengayun tinggi, pasti ketarik grafitasi bumi untuk kembali ke arah normalnya. Yang mendorong turunnya harga emas ketika melampui rentang harga yang seharusnya adalah mekanisme &lt;i&gt;supply and demand&lt;/i&gt; tersebut diatas.&lt;br /&gt;
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Kita bisa lihat periode antara Desember 2007 – Maret 2008; saat itu harga emas melewati garis sejajar tertinggi-nya ; yang kemudian terkoreksi sampai November 2008. Demikian pula ketika bulan Desember 2009 lalu, harga emas melaju melewati garis sejajar tertinggi – segera saja terkoreksi sampai kini.&lt;br /&gt;
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Pagi ini harga emas berada pada kisaran harga US$ 1,148/Oz ; masih berada pada angka yang wajar untuk saat ini; artinya bisa saja masih naik lagi atau juga turun – keduanya memungkinkan.&lt;br /&gt;
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Dugaan kasar semacam ini ada gunanya kah ?; tidak akan bermanfaat kalau tujuan kita untuk spekulasi jangka pendek. Namun kalau kita perhatikan trend yang ditunjukkan oleh dua garis sejajar biru dan merah tersebut; kita bisa lihat bahwa yang sedang terjadi adalah adanya  &lt;a href="http://www.geraidinar.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;view=article&amp;amp;id=339:trend-harga-emas-dunia-kemana-arahnya-&amp;amp;catid=1:latest-news&amp;amp;Itemid=50"&gt;higher highs dan higher lows&lt;/a&gt; selama sepuluh tahun terakhir – menujukkan emas berada pada trend yang menaik.&lt;br /&gt;
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Karena trend jangka panjang semacam ini tidak mudah serta merta berbalik arah; maka besar kemungkinannya harga emas masih akan cenderung menaik beberapa tahun kedepan – meskipun kita tidak tahu persis sampai berapa nantinya. Wa Allahu A’lam.&lt;br /&gt;
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