Covid-19 – A Hobgoblin

[Ed. Note: “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” – H.L. Mencken]

by Egon von Greyerz
Gold Switzerland

Is Covid the most perfect distraction that could have hit the world? The timing couldn’t have been more perfect for the European and American economies. We know that there were major problems in the financial system back in August-September 2019 when both the ECB and the Fed declared that they would do what it takes. And since then we have seen massive injections of liquidity in the form of QE and Repos.

The world was never informed what the financial problems were but it is obvious that this was the hangover from the 2006-9 financial crisis which was never solved but just deferred with the help of unlimited money printing and credit expansion. There was clearly something rotten in the kingdom of the financial world.

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