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The U.S. and global economies are choking on a massive amount of debt. While Wall Street and the mainstream financial media continue to rationalize the skyrocketing debt as merely the cost of doing business, the disintegrating fundamentals point to an economic catastrophe in the making. [Indeed,] when the massive amount of debt finally implodes, it will take down the values of most stocks, bonds, and real estate. This is not a matter of "if,” it’s a matter of “when” and it seems as if the "when" is quickly approaching.

4 economic conditions need to be in place for interest rates to rise ahead of – and independent of – the Fed’s forward guidance. The economy met only one of those conditions to date but will likely meet all four by the end of the year...What follows is a status report on the four conditions.

Below is some interesting research by Doug Peta of BCA Research regarding the Fed Funds Rate Cycle, and what that research - as well as our own in-house research - could mean for gold to help you understand the positivity we see for the precious metal looking towards 2015.