How Bad Will It Get, How Long Will It Last & What Comes Next? Neil Howe On The Fourth Turning! - Wealthion Must Video

Appreciate the video and listening to Mr. Howe.  I think the take on inflating away the existing debt will be far more difficult than simply allowing inflation to run hot for several decades.  Yes, this was achieved after WWII, but the problem with that I see is that the global economy today has been so financialized that it can not grow without the expansion of more and more credit.  And you can’t inflate away the existing debt if you continue to allow new debt to be created at an increasing rate, as we have seen over the past decade where global debt has doubled.

It seems we are facing an unfavorable and unfortunate feedback loop whereby if credit growth slows, then the economy slows, inflation slows and then you can’t inflate the debt away.  So then the Fed is going to have to reintroduce easy monetary policy thereby increasing debt, fiscal spending (and deficits) will have to increase to spur growth and thus (hopefully) you get more inflation.  How do we ever inflate our way out of this?

This is something that the erudite managers at the Fed should have considered long before ever traversing down this destructive path.