by John Rubino
Dollar Collapse
In this week’s Credit Bubble Bulletin, Doug Noland concludes that at long last the world’s governments have run out of new financial bubbles to inflate. The result: This time is different, in a very bad way. Here’s an excerpt from the much longer article, that should be read in its entirety.
Please Don’t Completely Destroy…
I’ve been dreading this. In the midst of all the policy responses to the collapse of the mortgage finance Bubble, I recall writing something to the effect: “I understand we can’t allow the system to collapse, but please don’t inflate another Bubble.” It was obvious early on that policymakers had every intention to reflate Bubbles.
There was a failure to grasp the most critical lessons from that terrible boom and bust episode: Aggressive monetary stimulus foments market distortions, while promoting risk-taking, leveraged speculation and latent risk intermediation dysfunction. Years of deranged finance ensured unprecedented economic imbalances and deep structural impairment. There was no predicting a global pandemic. Yet today’s acute financial and economic fragility – and the risk of financial collapse – are directly traceable to years of negligent monetary management.