Which is it? Is the Fed a
moron or a liar?
Here the last part of this art. To read the entire doct
OPEN http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-01/biggest-heist-human-history
A little background
from an article at the WSWS:
“A new report issued by the Swiss bank Credit Suisse finds that global wealth inequality continues to worsen and has reached
a new milestone, with the top 1 percent owning more of the world’s assets than
the bottom 99 percent combined.
Of the estimated $250 trillion in global
assets, the top 1 percent owned almost exactly 50 percent, while the bottom 50
percent of humanity owned collectively less than 1 percent. The richest 10 percent owned 87.7 percent of the world’s
wealth, leaving 12.3 percent for the bottom 90 percent of the population.”
(“Top 1
percent own more than half of world’s wealth“, World Socialist Web Site)
But it’s not just the
fact that half of everything is owned by a handful of obscenely-wealthy,
money-grubbing loafers. This same voracious crew of
miscreants is pulling down the lions-share of the yearly income too.
Check it out:
“The census data also reveals that income
inequality in America remained virtually unchanged from 2014, with the wealthy in the top fifth of the population taking in
about half of all household income, while the bottom fifth earned only 3.4
percent.” (“Despite
increase in 2015, US household income still lags behind pre-recession levels“,
Kate Randall, World Socialist web Site)
So –not only do
the plutocrats own half of everything on planet earth– their share of
the booty is actually increasing every year. Nice, eh?
The point is, none of this is accidental. These outcomes are the direct result of policy, the Fed’s
policies. And the Fed is not alone either. This
greatly-accelerated class war is a now global phenom. Just look at an
article at CNBC:
“Data from JPMorgan shows that the top 50
central banks around the world have cut rates 672 times since the collapse of
Lehman Brothers, a figure that translates to an average of one interest
rate cut every three trading days. THIS HAS ALSO
BEEN COMBINED WITH $24 TRILLION WORTH OF ASSET PURCHASES.” (“QE
Infinity: Are we heading into the unknown?“, CNBC)
$24 trillion!
$24
trillion represents the biggest freaking bank heist in human
history, and what do we have to show for it?
A big fat nothing,
that’s what! All the data is sagging and global growth has slowed to a
crawl. It’s like all the dough that was supposed to strengthen the
fictitious recovery just vanished into thin air. Poof!
So why hasn’t that $24 trillion had more of an
impact? Why isn’t their more inflation, more activity, more spending,
more consumption and more growth???
It’s because everywhere the global bank cartel has its
tentacles, the same policies of austerity and QE have been adopted.
(Japan, UK, EU, US etc) Everywhere you look it’s caviar and Dom Perignon for
the investor class and thin gruel and table scraps for everyone else.
Everywhere economies are being gutted, looted, hollowed
out by financial parasites who seek greater gain by holding down wages,
slashing benefits and retirement, and eviscerating standards of living for
ordinary working slobs while the big money honchos are living the life of
Riley. Everywhere it’s starve the beast but gorge the rich.
This is political economy writ
large. Trump is right, the Fed is the most political institution in government. It IS
the government, and it has an absolute stranglehold on the economy.
Is it any wonder why owners of wealth are no longer using their money to
invest in future production or growth or retooling or building factories or
anything. Instead, they’re buying back their own shares, issuing fat
dividends on droopy earnings, and shrinking their businesses in the
relentless pursuit of short-term gain.
This type of destructive behavior didn’t just appear out
of the ether. Heck, no. The Fed’s easy money policies created irresistible incentives
for this reckless, suicidal behavior. That means the Fed is 100 percent
responsible for the fragile condition of the financial system and the ginormous
asset-price bubble that’s headed lickety-split for the power-lines.
But now it’s all
coming to a head. Now all the big time global
institutions (IMF, BIS, WTO, OECD) are warning that a “Hard Rain’s a-gonna Fall” and that the day of reckoning
may be at hand. According to a recent report by the Organization for Economic
Co-operation and Development (OECD), GDP-per-capita will grow only 1% in 2016, “which
is half the average in the two decades preceding the crisis.”
As it happens, the
OECD report is no more apocalyptic then the others, it’s just more explicit in
what it expects to transpire. Here’s more on the report from Wolf
Street:
“Financial
instability risks are rising, including from exceptionally low interest rates
and their effects on financial assets and real estate prices.”…
Share prices have risen significantly in recent
years in advanced economies, notably in the United States. By contrast,
the growth of profits for non-financial companies has recently slowed to a
modest pace, following a post-crisis recovery…
A reassessment in financial markets of interest
rates could result in substantial re-pricing of assets and heighten financial
volatility even if interest rates were to remain below long-term averages….”
(“OECD
Warns Fed, BOJ, ECB of Asset Bubbles, “Risks to Financial Stability,” Pinpoints
US Stocks & Real Estate “, Wolf Street)
Okay, let’s summarize: The global economy is slowing,
corporate profits are tanking, monetary stimulus has lost its mojo, and
financial instability risks are rising.
Oh, and did you catch
the part about “a substantial re-pricing of assets”. That’s
financial jargon for “a crash”, a big, thundering, cataclysmic, earth-shattering CRASH.
The author is simply stating the obvious, that Central Banks have
brought us to the brink of another gut-wrenching downward
spiral followed by another excruciating financial crisis.
And it’s all by design, the
unavoidable result of the Fed’s destabilizing, wealth-shifting policies.
Key question:
How many times are we going
to go through this drill before we disband the Fed and start from scratch?
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