Negative Interest Rates Destroying the World Economy

Guest Post by Martin Armstrong

I believe the answer is rather simple. How can anyone pretend to be analysts if they have never traded? It would be like a man writing a book explaining how it feels to give birth. You cannot analyze what you have never done. It is just impossible. Those who cannot teach and those who can just do. Negative interest rates are fueling deflation. People have less income to spend so how is this beneficial? The Fed always needed 2% inflation. The father of negative interest rates is Larry Summers. He teaches or has been in government. He is not a trader and is clueless about how markets functions. I warned that this idea of negative interest rates was very dangerous.

Yes, I have warned that the central banks are trapped. Their QE policies have totally failed. They have lost all ability to manage the economy even in theory. They have bought the bonds and are unable to ever sell them. If they reverse their policy, government debt explodes, if the refuse to reverse this policy of negative interest rates they will see a massive capital flight from government to the private sector once the MAJORITY realize they are incapable of any control. They played a very dangerous game and have lost. It appears we are facing the collapse of Social Security which began August 14th, 1935 (1935.619). We will probably see the end of this program 2021.772 (October 9th, 2021), or about 89 weeks into the next business cycle.

Roman-Army

We have government addicted to borrowing and if rates rise, then will go bust. We have debt which is unsustainable the further you move away from the United States which is the core economy. Unfunded pensions destroyed the Roman Empire. We are collapsing in the very same manner and for the very same reason.


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Mark
Mark
April 18, 2016 8:12 am

Yes, but according to many people here. This helps the banks even if there is no demand for loans. Which is how banks actually make money. The banks make it up on the spread of their prior loans before customers refinance or the term of the loan expires.

Well people . Is it just bad policy or a conspiracy theory .

Raven
Raven
April 18, 2016 12:56 pm

Repudiate the debt.

David
David
April 18, 2016 6:19 pm

The time Larry tried his hand at analysis and trading in the private sector it only cost Harvard $1 billion. When he and his intellectual equals do it for government they can really show what they can do.