Before Alan Greenspan fell off the wagon in pursuit of government power, position, praise, and riches, in his 1966 speech, “Gold and Economic Freedom,” he said the following:
In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value… The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves.
This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists’ tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard. (Emphasis mine.)
When Greenspan spoke in 1966, the public debt was just $325 billion and amounted to 40% of GDP. And that figure had been steadily falling from the WWII peak of 125%.
No more. The public debt now standards at $28.1 trillion and 127% of GDP and is rising at breakneck speed.
What happened was that once the Fed-fueled tech boom of the 1990s ran out of gas with the dotcom bust in the spring of 2000, industrial production in the US got pinned to the flat-line.
During the first period between 1972 and 2000 the Fed’s balance sheet grew by about $500 billion, or $18 billion per year.
But during the last 21 years since then, the Fed’s balance sheet has soared by $7.6 trillion, or $362 billion per year.
When the central bank injects 20 times more fiat credit into the economy each year, it has to go somewhere.
As dramatically depicted by the chart below, the stock market became the great monetary sump that absorbed the inflationary tide.
Inflation-adjusted NASDAQ 100 Versus Real GDP, 1995–2021
The stock market recorded a staggering $38.3 trillion gain in value during the last 25 years that was well more than double the $14.5 trillion rise of nominal GDP, meaning that the stock market is now capitalized at 200% of national income.
The value of the stock market rose by 6.3X during the last quarter-century of money-printing madness, while national income increased by only 2.7X.
What has driven the market to current nose-bleed heights is a purely central bank-fueled speculative mania and profits-to-earnings ratio (P/E) multiple expansion that is without any plausible foundation.
But this cannot lead to anything but a $90 trillion global stock market bubble collapse when the central banks are finally forced to throw in the towel on their “transitory inflation” baloney.
It also leads to decades of consumer inflation.
YoY Change in CPI for Durable Goods, 2012–2021
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Stockman has been a Pied Piper for the globalists for a long time. He is right about this situation though. Currency debasement has never worked in the long run and will not work this time either. The tools of debasement are different but the debasement is the same. The system will crash when they have stolen all the wealth.
All true but it misses the point that the perpetrators know that too.
Yeah, the root of the problem is the (((Fed))) and the people who run it.
An interesting take with all the usual suspects:
https://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/current-membership-of-the-committee-of-300/39507
Further to here is some supplemental information:
You have to ask yourself, “Why are all the central banks of any substance, holding and now buying gold to add to their Reserves”
Before Alan Greenspan fell off the wagon in pursuit of government power, position, praise, and riches, in his 1966 speech, “Gold and Economic Freedom,” he said the following:
“In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value… The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves. This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists’ tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.”
(Statists now being the government and their lackeys, the Banksters, pushing the paper with ink on it.)
https://schiffgold.com/exploring-finance/hedge-funds-are-driving-price-action-in-the-gold-market/
Physical metal so you can see the price spread.
https://www.apmex.com/product/11950/1-oz-gold-bar-credit-suisse-in-assay