The Nightmare Scenario: "This is the nightmare scenario that keeps central bankers and institutional investors up at night"
John Rubino
It’s safe to say that as this is written at noon EST on Monday the 24th, every economic policymaker in this hemisphere (and a lot of sleepless folks elsewhere) are staring at screens and wondering if this is it. They’ve been playing with fire for such a long time, trying to balance incompatible goals of low interest rates, stable currencies and accelerating growth, that for a while they almost believed that they would get away with it, that the laws of economics could be bent to their will forever.
Now they see that this was hubris, that their sense of control was just an illusion bought with credit on a scale so large that the numbers had become meaningless.
During the night, emerging market stocks tanked again, led, ominously, by China. This morning the carnage has shifted to the US, where stocks are down hard but, more important, interest rates are still rising. 10-year Treasuries, the key to mortgage rates and pretty much everything else, now yield nearly twice what they did a year ago. That means massive losses for a whole world of risk-averse investors who thought they were parking their money in the safest-possible asset. Presumably the rest of their capital is in riskier places like stocks and junk bonds, which means they’re losing big across the board.
This is a global story, since Treasuries have been everyone’s safe haven of choice for decades. But painful as a 40% haircut for the world’s pension funds might be, it pales next to the impact on growth. US interest rates are, with a few notable exceptions like Japan, the base of the global yield curve. Everything else, being riskier, has to have a higher yield. So a doubling of US rates means a commensurate ratcheting up of everyone else’s rates.
Since equities are valued in part in relation to the yield on available bonds, rising interest rates mean lower stock prices – everywhere. And real estate, which is generally leveraged, has just gotten a lot more expensive (which means the other group obsessively staring at screens these days is the new generation of flippers who recently joined the Southern California and Florida bubbles).
This is the nightmare scenario that keeps central bankers and institutional investors up at night because, based on Japan’s experience with hyper-aggressive monetary ease, there might not be a fix. If even easier money is met with dramatically higher bond yields, as in Japan, then there’s nothing left to do but to let the system unravel.
Not that they won’t try one more role of the dice. It’s just that this time their odds of getting snake eyes have gone way up, and they know it.
http://dollarcollapse.com/the-economy/the-nightmare-scenario/
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i dont get it ben can print more money and drive us into hyperinflation or stop the money printing and watch interest rates go up and the system collapses-eithier way were kinda screwed so any of you genious people out there that thinks nothing is going to happen let me know how you possibly think a collapse is not going to happen
The collapse is happening by design, not a mistake or hubris at all. Totally planned.
The central bankers aren’t worried. They’re destroying their currencies on purpose. The goal is to bring about a one-world government with a one-world currency.
I agree with Theron. This plan was designed decades ago with FEAR and corruption. They are gonna hide in their little bunkers and watch us all be dammed, but they forgot about the White Hats.