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Eight Axioms to Understand the Fake Economy

Tuesday, December 19, 2017 1:49

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“Eight Axioms to Understand the Fake Economy”

by Bill Bonner

“What have we learned so far? Let’s spell it out as a series of axioms:

1. Real money must be connected to the real economy of energy, time, and resources. Traditionally, gold makes the connection. (In the case of bitcoin, electricity is the connector.)

2. Time, energy, and resources are limited; money must be limited, too. Real wealth is based on real things. The feds cannot command real wealth to increase, so they cannot increase the supply of real money, either. They can increase only the supply of fake money – the new elastic currency put in place in 1971.

3. The financial world is cyclical, governed by markets and manias. The economic world is incremental and made up of real things. Markets can reverse suddenly. Prices can collapse. But farms, factories, and films rarely disappear.

4. Government is always a way for the few to take advantage of the many. While the rest of society engages (mostly) in win-win deals, the feds rely on win-lose deals. Controlling money is a way to force win-lose deals onto people (usually without them realizing how they are being flimflammed).

5. Things have no inherent price or value. Instead, markets discover what they are worth as people bid for them. If markets are not allowed to function freely, honest price discovery doesn’t happen…and no one knows what anything is really worth.

6. Interest rates should be discovered, too, honestly, in a free market. Since 1987, the feds have diddled interest rates, forcing them down into the sweet mud of fantasyland, where time runs backwards and risks decline as time passes.

7. Driving interest rates down to ultra-low levels, the feds have falsified all asset prices.

8. The Fed is reversing the policy of the last three decades. Instead of adding to liquidity, it is subtracting from it. (By the end of 2018, the Fed says it will be draining about $600 billion a year from the US money supply.) Instead of pushing down interest rates, it is pushing them up. Instead of supporting the stock and bond markets as the world’s number one buyer, it will become the world’s number one seller.

Fed banana peels: What’s next? That’s today’s question: What? And how? (We eschew the ‘when’ part; we are not good at it…though not for lack of practice.) Yes, dear reader, the Fed is throwing out banana peels – in the shape of a series of quarter-point interest rate increases. It is just a matter of time until someone slips up. But to fully understand what is going on, we return to the real role of the feds and their control of our money.

Remember that the few – the insiders who control the government (aka the Deep State) – want to extract wealth, power, and status from the many. In ancient Rome, for example, they ‘clipped’ the coins – removing part of the precious metals. Then they replaced silver and gold completely with base metal…and finally, with leather. This was no longer real money. People turned up their noses at it. And even the government refused to take it in payment of taxes. This debasement technique continued up until the reign of Henry VIII in England, who replaced silver coins with copper to pay for his wars with Scotland and France.

A more recent scam is simply to print up extra paper money. This technique has been used by almost all modern governments, with Weimar Germany, Zimbabwe, and Venezuela providing recent, gaudy examples. Government uses this fake money to pay its bills, and reward its cronies. Then as the new money disperses through the economy, prices rise. The public pays more for its bread and beer; usually, it has no idea why. The government then blames ‘profiteers’, ‘speculators’, or capitalists with tails.

Latex dollar: The flimflam of the latex dollar is subtler. Rather than use it to pay bills directly, the feds lend it out at below-market rates to big banks, who, in turn, lend it back to the federal government. Then, to keep the swindle going, the central bank buys the bonds from the banks, guaranteeing that the cronies make money, and that the Fed’s supply of cash keeps flowing.

All funny-money bamboozles share the same features: Fake money is created. This money looks like the pre-existing real money. The elite get their hands on it first and use it to call away existing wealth from its rightful owners. That’s why the ‘One Percent’ – especially Wall Street – is so much richer now than it was in 1971. And it’s why three of the richest counties in the country are now those around Washington DC, rather than around places where wealth is actually created.

So far, Americans have not caught on. They don’t realize how they are being robbed. Instead, they think they are rich, with $97 trillion in household wealth. But much of that is just on paper, in overpriced stocks, bonds, and real estate. It is financial, not economic, wealth. And it is subject to repricing in the twinkle of an eye.

Traditionally, household wealth is about three times GDP, and total debt (public and private) is about 1.5-times GDP. If we adjust today’s numbers to these old proportions, household wealth should decline by $37 trillion, and debt should deflate by about $33 trillion. These are just numbers. But they show, grosso modo, what to expect when today’s fake-money system blows up.”

- https://www.marketsandmoney.com.au/

Source: http://coyoteprime-runningcauseicantfly.blogspot.com/2017/12/eight-axioms-to-understand-fake-economy.html

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