Guest Post by Alex Berenson
So Russia invades Ukraine and stocks go UP.
Why? Because the hedge funds that rule the market care about one thing and one thing only, keeping the flow of free money coming from the Federal Reserve at any cost.
Until this morning, the Fed was going to have to start raising interest rates, because inflation is out of control. But the Fed doesn’t want to raise rates. It is desperate not to raise rates. It should have started almost a year ago, and it looked for any excuse to delay – a delay that has led to the current inflation crisis.
Now the Vladiator has given America’s Finest Central Bank a new excuse to do nothing about inflation, and doing nothing is what this Fed does best.
Thus:
It goes almost without saying this will end very badly; Vlad’s Ukrainian Vacation cannot help but worsen inflation by driving up energy prices. In a couple of months the headline US annual inflation rate could be approaching 10% – devastating for lower-income Americans.
But that’s tomorrow’s problem. The Fed made the hedge funds happy today. And today is what counts!
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“this will end very badly.”
Yup.
Alex is a jerk. But he’s right. Mannarino said Wall Street loves high oil prices and the Fed will never raise rates because they need to keep the money flowing.
This week the PPI – Producer Price Index – for Germany, for the month of January was released. It came in at 25%. A 25% increase. This is not sustainable. Something is going to break. This crap has gone on since 2008.
Gregg M. really says the Global Cabal loves high oil prices and will do anything to keep them high. Wall street loves low oil as it produces low shipping costs which make for higher earning and drives stock up.
So, after 12 hours of panic, the financial markets have shrugged off the attack as a ‘nothing burger’. Measured against the million plus lives the USA has taken in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and elsewhere over the past 20 years in the name of their national security it is hard to disagree with them. Every death in war is wrong but a few hundred mainly military men killed by Russians against a million brown people, over half of which were civilians, killed this century by Uncle Sam is a particular kind of context. It would be a shock if the msm mentioned this.
Another difference is distance. The supposed threats to US security were all thousands of miles from their borders whereas the threats against Russia are in their own front yard and growing constantly thanks to weapons being poured in from the MIC. Meanwhile the USA has surrendered control of their own southern border to Mexican cartels who supplied, from China, the fentanyl that killed over 100,000 Americans just last year whilst bringing in 2 million illegal immigrants. Go figure.
Raising rates is never going to be a solution.
Imagine you made $40,000 per year. And imagine you have $300,000 in debt. How will you pay that debt?
Now imagine paying that debt when your annual expenses are $50,000 every year, and you will not, cannot, reduce them. That’s the situation for the U.S. government.
The Fed is in a box of its own creation where low rates destroy the currency and the economy through hyperinflation, and raising rates bankrupts the government. I say the Fed is in a box; but, really, this is and has always been their plan. The destruction of the American (and global) economy and financial system so that it can be replaced with a “new and improved” one. It happens one way, or it happens the other way. There is no saving the current system.
It has always been a scheme to profit by defrauding the American people. Those involved will never face repercussions for this. The Federal Reserve is, and always was, an intentional fraud. The Fraudal Reserve.
The antichrist will have a one world money system to work with. The old system must collapse before this system would be accepted by the worlds people. I can see no reason this system could not be in use before the man of sin appears on the scene. My suggestion is to get out of dollar denominated investments as quickly as possible.
he is on the scene. Has been for quite some time….the son of perdition that is.
Eat, drink and be merry for soon we shall die with a huge bank account of funny money!
Got gold Balb? Gold is to deal with banksters, silver kills vampires.
The entire Federal Government is full of vampires. Maybe ammo should be made out of silver instead of brass.
John Reed ( the Lone Ranger ) thought so too: