This time the collapse will be global.
Even the left gets it on some level.
They fail to see the role their policies play. But, they see the rot.
“ Civilizations die in familiar patterns. They exhaust natural resources. They spawn parasitic elites who plunder and loot the institutions and systems that make a complex society possible. They engage in futile and self-defeating wars. And then the rot sets in. The great urban centers die first, falling into irreversible decay. Central authority unravels. Artistic expression and intellectual inquiry are replaced by a new dark age, the triumph of tawdry spectacle and the celebration of crowd-pleasing imbecility.”
They fail to see the role their policies play. But, they see the rot.
“ Civilizations die in familiar patterns. They exhaust natural resources. They spawn parasitic elites who plunder and loot the institutions and systems that make a complex society possible. They engage in futile and self-defeating wars. And then the rot sets in. The great urban centers die first, falling into irreversible decay. Central authority unravels. Artistic expression and intellectual inquiry are replaced by a new dark age, the triumph of tawdry spectacle and the celebration of crowd-pleasing imbecility.”
Unless we ADAPT. Which would be a lot easier without a bunch of odious government over regulation.
Right now by the old measure of CPI we are running well above 20% inflation. http://www.shadowstats.com The highest it’s been since 1974. The traditional way to kill inflation is too induce a recession through interest rate hikes. But here’s the kicker.....we are leveraged out 30 Trillion Dollars. If they bump interest rates to where they historically were under this level of inflation we should be looking at 20% mortgage rates. But they can’t because they’d be unable to service the debt. You’d literally have a sovereign debt crisis. So the “plan” apparently is to make it look like they are fighting inflation but to continue it. Because that’s the only way to dig out of this level of debt. Paper it over.
Schiff, Kiyosaki, and Dallio estimate that Worldwide Sovereign debt is running something close to 400% of global GDP. You don’t just bounce back from that. You’d have to tax everyone at 100% for 4 YEARS just to pay off the principle. That’s not even considering the interest payments.
They are lying too us. Expect more inflation. Expect more MMT. Expect UBI. That’s the only way they can get out of this mess with a good chance of having their heads still attached to their shoulders. Their “Best Case Scenario” would be a 1930’s style “Mostly Peaceful” Depression.
PS....the dirty little secret about CPI is that SSI cost of living increases are tied to it. So why wouldn’t THEY cook the books?
They do that to reduce credit (and $) creation.
They can limit credit creation more directly by increasing the
deposits required in banks for loans to be made.
This would spread the pain of fighting inflation to the banks -
who created the inflation problem for higher profits for themselves.
Of course, that will not happen or even be mentioned as an option.
This makes more clear who controls con-gress, doesn't it?
back then, most people could fend for themselves
not today, when the stores run out of food in about 3 days, the REAL fun begins
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