But we now see this changing and as you can read at links like this one, the elite running our government, our corporations and our highest academic centers are no longer being given this free pass. We are all used to bankers and banks and corporations getting fines for crimes but always without the apology or jail time or other admissions or proclamations of guilt. Those days are ending now, not because the elite want them to but because their power source, which was economic growth on the back of credit growth, is now up against the law of diminishing returns. Soon, more credit growth will produce net negative returns and people will finally realize the truth of Austrian economic math: you cannot have sustainable growth based on debt.
Jim Rickards provides the clear data behind the this claim that Keynes was a liar and a con man in his position that debt=growth. Rickards writes (quote is in blue below):
Debt can no longer be used to artificially grow our economy.
During the boom years of the 1950s and 1960s, every dollar of debt that was created, we got $2.41 worth of economic growth.
So that was pretty good bang for the buck.
But by the "stagflation" of the late 1970s that relationship had actually collapsed.
So now for a dollar of debt in the late 1970s, we were only getting $.41 in growth, so, obviously, that's a huge drop-off.
You know what that number is today? Today, we only get $.03 in growth for every $1 of debt.
So we're piling on the debt, but we're getting less and less growth.
As the trend goes from $2.41 to $.41 to $.03…
It's soon going to go negative.
This is a signal of a complex system about to collapse.
We are probably already at negative economic growth relative to debt increases yet still we are piling on the debt and we will not stop until math stops us. In other words, higher interest rates will stop and reverse it and, according to my models (here, here and here), interest rates are now in the early stages of a 3rd wave up even though top economic people are saying "low interest rates are required" or "low interest rates will remain into the foreseeable future". These people say these things because, being economically infected with Keynesianism, they actually believe that the federal reserve is omnipotent and omniscient. Of course, the federal reserve is neither; it is just a grand show, a con game and when it collapses it will do so rather quickly and the the great surprise of people that don't really know anything despite holding loft positions of economic exaltation.- Side note: While I have known it to be true for a long time (as well as WHY it is true), I have only recently begun to report recently on the pedophilic aspect of the elite. I pick this time for good reason to begin to disclose the truths that I know. Today's installment of this truth is that John Meynards Keynes was apparently a homosexual pedophile according to his own notes. Why is it that such a recurring theme with these people? Hint: not a coincidence. Expect the pedophile charges against famous people to come falling out of the closet as part of the skeleton avalanche that I promise you is coming in conjunction with collapse of the global debt Ponzi. They are closely related folks.
The power of fake money and the magick words of its proponents (aka sophistry) are having an exponentially decreasing effect on the herd. This decrease is in locked step with the perceived loss of prosperity that the herd had been enjoying during the growth years of the debt Ponzi as crumbs fell from the elite table to sprinkle down upon the middle class. The crumbs have all but vaporized now and so the herd is asking, as herds always do, what have you done for me lately, dear leaders? But since the con men only had one trick - debt inflation - and since that is ultimately a game of diminishing returns (an outcome enforced by math), the con men have nothing left to offer and the collapse of their power is all that remains.
Debt worked in the years immediately after WWII because it provided savers a means of getting a return on their capital. Interstates and bridges were built, industries and real estate grew. Capital was also squandered by sending man to the Moon and ICBMs in subs. A generation or two later and there were no more savers, but only takers.
ReplyDeleteWithout real savings, fictional money was used to the fullest to keep the goose laying eggs, ever smaller eggs. Until the goose died and was kept alive in life support, so that it charts of its growth and rebounce could be shown to the populace. One of these days, the brain dead goose will give up the ghost for good, in spite of all the artificial means used to maintain the similitude of life.
Then, all the accumulated debt will come crashing down and count negatively towards growth, a deflationary spiral, and the inevitable result of bad policies ensues: austerity, the real kind as this country hasn't seen in almost a century.
Brace yourselves.
All true.
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