They are printing too much money

``Rising precious metal prices tell us that there is a lot of inflation in the pipeline, but they are not alone in giving us this message. More generally, look at the trend in commodity prices over the past few months in the following chart of the CRB Continuing Commodity Index, which is based on the price of 19 different commodities... Commodity prices are not rising because of good economic activity, which remains in the doldrums with high unemployment throughout most of the world. Commodity prices are rising because too much money is being printed.''