Thursday , 28 March 2024

The World Is Descending Into An Economic Hell (+3K Views)

Hey! Look! Here I am! Over here! I’m back! be-happy

The Mogambo Guru

Perhaps you are wondering “Where have you been all this lonely, lonely time, oh, Mighty Magnificent Mogambo (MMM), that you can now announce your triumphant return” to the dispensing of wit and wonder about things such as the titanic seismic economic events concerning fiscal and monetary policy – the monstrous interplay of which I can only vaguely contemplate, but with a shudder.

I know that you, like most people, are probably scratching your head quizzically, asking yourself “Who is this doofus who calls himself Mighty Magnificent Mogambo? Who cares that he is back, which is not to mention why am I reading this stupid crap in the first freaking place?”

Well, frankly it is because just an hour ago I found myself frantically screaming “We’re Freaking Doomed (WFD) because of all the absolutely INSANE amounts of money and the INSANE amounts of accompanying debt created by the evil Federal Reserve and all the other dirtbag central banks around the world all these many, many years.”

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I had been reading Chuck Butler’s Daily Pfennig newsletter during the lulls in the action on TV when suddenly, out of nowhere, I was metaphorically slapped in the face (“Whack! Whack!”) by Mr. Butler when he revealed the alarming fact that the M2 Money Supply in 2000 was $4.673 trillion, and that today it is $13.386 trillion going on to say, and I quote: “Imagine that if you will! That’s a 186% increase in Money Supply here in the U.S. in 16 years.”  Yikes!

In case your blood has not immediately turned to a corrosive, ashy slurry congealing icily in your veins, I laboriously make the necessary calculations (by, first, tracking down some guy who remembers how to figure this stuff on an HP12C) only to discover, to my horror, that this means that the money supply has been increasing at 6.4 % per year!  Yikes!  Per Freaking Year (PFY)! Yikes! Yikes! Yet, this is when GDP growth has been less than a quarter that!  Yikes! Yikes, Yikes! No wonder that the velocity of money has been slowing!

The screeching terror and disgusting flecks of spittle flying out of my mouth are easily explained by the simple, ugly fact that inflation in the money supply necessarily means inflation in prices –  and it is inflation in prices that destroys economies; GDP falls when fewer and fewer people can afford discretionary spending, and economies crash when fewer and fewer people can afford to buy absolute necessities.

And how much debt has sprung from this poison fount of fiat currency? Egon von Greyerz of Matterhorn Asset Management AG writes that “global debt going from virtually zero one hundred years ago, to $230 trillion today. Within this astronomical figure is personal debt that cannot be repaid and government debt that will not be repaid. In addition there are unfunded liabilities and derivatives in the quadrillions.”

Quadrillions of dollars! At least two million billions of dollars! Or, if you prefer, two billion millions of dollars! Either way, a lot of moolah! And with the GDP of The Whole Freaking World (TWFW) added together being somewhere around $80 trillion, the paltry lower figure of $230 trillion is (gulp!) almost 300% of GDP! Closer to home, let’s not forget about a towering $20 trillion national debt, or our massive $500 billion per year trade deficit, or the staggering $1.3 trillion in annual federal spending deficits!!  More yikes!!

Also, let’s not forget that the Baby Boomers starting retiring ten years ago when they reached 59 ½.  And with the money put into pension plans all fully invested in the stock, bond and housing markets, and with the banks all fully invested in the stock, bond and housing markets, and every other depositor’s dimes that any banks or investors can get their grubby little hands on, everything is all, all, all suicidally, invested in those three overpriced, highly-leveraged markets. Tens of trillions of dollars could be lost from these never-seen-before, nosebleed market valuations going down, and STILL be above real, long-term value!

This means that everyone involved (which is you, me and everybody else with two dimes to rub together, whether they like it or not) is, or should be, absolutely fixated on making sure, sure, sure that nothing, nothing, nothing bad happens to the stock, bond and housing markets due to a pesky, yet easily-remedied, insufficient supply of new money with which to continually bid prices higher and higher.

Now we know why President Trump has surrounded himself with a lot of people associated with Goldman Sachs and the financial services industry, who have apparently always proven more than willing to do secret, slimy, corrupt things so that they reap the benefits of the inflation in asset prices, using money that the evil Federal Reserve creates, which causes the inflation in prices in the First Freaking Place (FFP)!

And with a fiat currency, a willing Congress and a complicit evil Federal Reserve making it all possible, it seems more and more obvious that Many, Many More Trillions Of Dollars (MMMTOD) will be created in the years ahead, and that things you buy are going to get much more expensive; A Dow Jones Industrial Average of 30,000? Sure! 50,000? No problem! 100,000? Easy as pie! A $25 taco? Sure! A $50 taco? No problem! A $100 taco? Easy as pie!

…History has shown that the value of gold and silver always survive such monetary insanities, especially the insane Keynesian jibber-jabber that currently holds the world’s monetary system captive, and is directly responsible for the bankrupting mess we are in…

Soon enough, you will be agreeing with me that “Whee! This investing stuff is easy AND pleasant!”

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3 comments

  1. I am so happy to have you back in my wheelhouse, dear Magambo Guru. I used to read you for years in “The Daily Reckoning.” Can’t tell you all the laughs your columns have given me over the years. Well done, my friend!