A related post from Gulfcoastcommentary: Fiat Money is a Con Job and Extremes in Unsound Money and Finance Will (Eventually) Lead to Catastrophe. The vast majority of this new money is going directly to the top 0.1 to top 1%.
From Sven Henrich on Twitter:
During the entire history of the United States 75% of its money supply was added in just the past 14 years.
Stunning.
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During the entire history of the United States 70% of its current debt was added in the same 14 years.
The illusion of prosperity & growth is entirely debt financed & brought about by a radical process of financial engineering made possible by low rates & a price insensitive buyer with unlimited pockets buying over $8 trillion in assets during the same time frame.
Nothing we see is normal or reflective of an underlying fundamental reality.
If anything, the sheer size of what it took perhaps does reflect what reality is lurking beneath.
You don't vertically disconnect asset prices from the economy to over twice of GDP by accident.
And if anyone thinks these type of disconnects & distortions can be sustained without continued intervention of this magnitude I welcome you to your fantasy. But recognize for what it is.
How this all rebalances at some point is the undiscovered journey we are all on.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled is convince people that the very extreme is the new normal.
It's not.
The world has gone down a rabbit hole. It can only be maintained by intervention.
The free market finally died in 2009.
It's been a central bank subsidy since then.
And I'm not saying this will all collapse in an instant. Far from it, indeed to this day we still see central bank control/intervention. We're just at the beginning of a process.
But the extremes inform of risk/reward & we need to navigate through it as realistically as possible.
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