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Dear Fed: Are You Insane?

 

So sorry, America, but your central bank is certifiably insane, and it’s not going to magically work out.

History definitively shows that speculative bubbles always pop–always. Every speculative bubble mania, regardless of its supposed uniqueness–“it’s different this time”–pops. No speculative bubble has ever “reached a permanently high plateau” and then remained on the plateau for years.

So what does the Federal Reserve do? It inflates the biggest speculative bubble in modern history and then implicitly promises it will never pop. Dear Fed, are you insane?

Dear Fed: Are You Insane?
You might as well make a public pronouncement that stocks have “reached a permanently high plateau” that will be followed by a permanent ascent to ever-higher plateaus, as that is the implicit message you’ve been sending punters and pundits. 

To promise a speculative mania that never ends is insane, yet that is precisely what the Fed is doing. Nothing else matters except “the Fed has our back.”

Dear Fed: Are You Insane?
Dear Fed: Are You Insane?
The Fed is also effectively promising that debt, leverage and wealth/income inequality will also all ascend higher forever. Once again history moots this happy story, as soaring wealth / income / political power asymmetries that serve the interests of the few at the expense of the many inevitably generate revolution or regime collapse. Dear Fed: Are You Insane?
Dear Fed: Are You Insane?
Dear Fed: Are You Insane?
Dear Fed: is your “plan” to accelerate revolution and collapse? If so, you are insane. Has your hubris reached new extremes in la-la-land or are you so disconnected from reality that you’re closing your eyes and going to your happy place where it all magically works out without the extremes you’ve single-handedly created reverting to the mean? Dear Fed: Are You Insane?
So sorry, America, but your central bank is certifiably insane, and it’s not going to magically work out. The speculative bubbles in credit, leverage and assets will pop and the extremes of wealth / income / political power inequality will swing to the opposite extreme. The way of the Tao is reversal and the Fed’s supposedly godlike powers are nothing but the hubris-soaked rantings of the delusionally insane. Dear Fed: Are You Insane?

 

 

 

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Charles Hugh Smith
At readers' request, I've prepared a biography. I am not confident this is the right length or has the desired information; the whole project veers uncomfortably close to PR. On the other hand, who wants to read a boring bio? I am reminded of the "Peanuts" comic character Lucy, who once issued this terse biographical summary: "A man was born, he lived, he died." All undoubtedly true, but somewhat lacking in narrative.
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