by John Rubino
Dollar Collapse
One glance at this chart should silence any talk of “a return to normalcy”. We are emphatically not headed in a normal direction.
[…] The liquidity being generated by this debt binge is pushing up prices in a wide variety of sectors. Shipping costs, for instance, are soaring…
[…] … which is raising manufacturing costs for any company that buys materials or components from overseas (in other words all of them).
[…] At the same time, a tsunami of hot money pouring into the financial markets is turning investors into speculators. Where most stockholders, both professional and amateur, used to hold their positions for years, today’s overstimulated players now go in and out in months.