[markomalley]

Our future...

[Paladin2]

Where do I go to get the free money going to the Banker Gangsters?

[GeronL]

Weimar America

[joelt]

Tip toe out of it.. Up the rate .125 per quarter. Lets see what happens. Could be bad. But lets get off the life support.

[House Atreides]

This will not end well.

[Bon mots]

When Money Dies

Read it and weep. It's our future. (free link above)

OR...you can buy it on Amazon:

[dp0622]

the Dow could go to 100000000000000000!!!!!!
we’ll all be rich!! there’s no downside!!!!

[kaehurowing]

[boycott]

They sold us down a river.

[EvilCapitalist]

Makes me glad I’ve been paying off my mortgage instead of blowing cash for the past 6 years.

[HangnJudge]

Liquidity Trap

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquidity_trap

[Darksheare]

The Fed: a bunch of mentally disabled morons rolling dice to find the worst policy possible.

[rawcatslyentist]

The republic of Weimarzimbabwe.

Thank you king Sumohadiwidjojo

[stylin_geek]

We have mathematically illiterate people setting monetary policy.

No problem, right?

[Amendment10]

Probably if the 17th Amendment had never been ratified then federal senators would have protected their states by not passing the Gold Reserve Act of 1934 without an appropriate amendment to the Constitution.

The 17th Amendment needs to disappear.

[arthurus]

It is certainly not impossible. It will just bring on the consequences earlier than continuing it will bring them on and by ending it now rather than later the consequences will be less onerous. It has goer on long enough that the consequences will be horrific now, later it will be horrific times several.

[america-rules]

The Fed needs/wants inflation so they can pay down the debt.

I don't know why every one keeps saying raise the rates, raise the rates yada yada when they want inflation!

[Pearls Before Swine]

ZIRP is Sharia compliant....no interest /S

[logi_cal869]

QEfinity

New name for 'The Beast'. Fitting.

[Sgt_Schultze]

We already knew this. If interest rates returned to market level, the now $600 billion annual interest on $18 trillion would balloon to consume all federal receipts.

[InMemoriam]

I just had a horrible realization. You point out that this policy ends in hyperinflation.

We should be seeing this by now. What is happening?

Hyperinflation requires a middle class spending the extra money, driving up prices. If they eliminate our manufacturing base, peg interest to zero, and spend corruptly enough, the money does not go to anyone who will spend it, but to elite cronies who stockpile it like ammunition for the coming war.

What do we see instead of inflation?

• Social policy requiring unsustainable increases in government debt financed by banks, with a reserve requirement set to zero: The classic recipe for hyperinflation
• No small business lending despite the vast expanses of free money
• Historically unprecedented levels of wealth inequality
• Dropping prices for oil, fairly stable prices for staples
• Domestic militarization, from the Department of Education's SWAT Team to the 1.6 billion rounds of hollow point ammunition for the civilian government agencies, to the armored personnel carriers the Feds gave to your police chief.
• Governmental initiatives that are producing societal destabilization
• Laws changing to give the 1% the right to confiscate your bank account
• Governmental control of income for 49% of the population currently

They've figured out how to substitute tyranny for hyperinflation as the outcome of uncontrolled debt monetization.

There will be no hyperinflation, but that is the bad news, not the good news.