A Bale in the Wind

``Savers and merchants worldwide are being forced to price scarce resources in ever-depreciating money... Over in China – which uses some 40% of the world's raw cotton output...and accounts for one-third of global textile exports – textile manufacturers face a "shortage of raw material", said industry group the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing meantime, with last month's record-high prices "endangering" their survival. For our money here at BullionVault, we'll blame loose monetary policy...and not just from force of habit, either. ''