Inflation Is Already Withering The US Economy
2004 05 25
You know just as well as I. the federal government is bk...that's bankrupt. Further, there is no wiggle room for personal debt, and with each slightest increase in interest rates, it snowballs. This, of course, is on top of tanking housing...and on top of that Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Citibank, JP Morgan - all of which have multi-trillion derivative bets on low rates.
So, it's an absolutely no-win doom-laden economic situation: raise rates and the economy collapses; keep rates low and it becomes more apparent with time (even with the never-ending diddling of economic numbers) that inflation is running at 10%, or more. Look at gas, milk, medical costs. And they tell America inflation is not a problem!
Adam Hamilton wrote at the beginning of the year in the early 1980's when real rates were negative 5+% (short rate - inflation) gold was 800+. Now, real rates are twice that to the negative--and the debt picture now towers over what was then.
There is NO way out. I can't see it coming out any other way than a depression. The question is, will it solely be a depression, or one with the added dimension of civil disorder...
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