What the world is overlooking ..

While millions of people are fixated on Covid or whether or not to take the vaccine, the biggest overhaul of society is gathering pace. The Western industrialised economies are de-facto bankrupt and .. buying time by printing paper money at a reckless pace. People don’t notice it, because all major nations are printing simultaneously and gold prices are being kept from rising.
Having lost their moral compass and refused recessions (market discipline) for the past two decades, Western nations are printing money to finance their deficits, Covid programs and to prop up their stocks, bonds and real estate. The coming Currency Reform is “overdue” and only part of a “global reset” in politics, security, economics and money. Unaware that crypto was “the” central element of central bankers’ Exit Strategy, crypto investors have been the greatest blessing to central bankers’ own digital strategy and efforts to keep the gold price from rising sharply.
An irony, that exactly those weary of big government have shunned gold to buy crypto currencies. G7 governments seized financial markets over the past 12 years and are now beginning to seize the real economy – a Green economy will be enforced. By the end of this decade nearly 3/4 of all G7 citizens will be depending on the state for their income, directly or indirectly. Government regulation – not private enterprise – is the main driver of jobs among the G10. As the G10 and G20 boost oligopolies and monopolies, the fate of the capitalistic market economy and democracy seems sealed.
With Western economies as vulnerable as in the mid 1930’s, a growing number of geopolitical risks are also converging – especially over the Middle East – threatening to trigger a Perfect Storm that could devastate the fragile & bankrupt Western world – One that would not concede it can’t repay its debt. G10 policy makers have to act before that happens, if they can agree. Zero interest rates and excessive money have have crippled productive investments, boosted speculation and weakened the real economy. In the current shape, the Western economies could not survive a major war in the Middle East or another major systemic risk event.
With investors’ morality compromised since 2009 and money illusion ruling consumers & retirees, policy makers are on the driver’s seat. the convergence of external forces is likely to trigger the coming monetary reform.
Governments, businesses and even charities need to prepare for these events – i.e. diversify away partially from the Northern hemisphere, de-facto bankrupt Western economies and inflated financial assets. Contrary to public opinion, it is the Western nations that are the most over-indebted and whose financial & real estate assets are most inflated (at risk). Ironically, it is small and mid-sized emerging nations around the equator and in the Southern hemisphere that have upheld fiscal and monetary discipline over the past 20 years. Some are currently in political trouble, because they refused to print money to address the Covid crisis. What investors will denounce as wealth destruction is seen by policy makers as a necessary normalisation, correctly so. What has been utterly inflated will have to be deflated. Both hyper-inflation and deflation are coming.

Editorial: EU to build own military & financial system ex USA

By Christian Takushi MA UZH Macro Economist – 28 Aug 2018 (delayed public release)

French President Macron has stated this week that Europe needs to build her own financial and security framework in order to be independent from the USA. He confirmed the repeated calls by German Chancellor Merkel for Europe to detach from the USA. Paris, Berlin and Brussels are now in agreement. Many are cheering that the EU is standing up to America.

The EU is on confrontation course with the USA, and the Anglo-Saxon world in a sense. This is something we have been warning of for years. Many would like to blame this on US President Trump alone  – a convenient, but somewhat misleading narrative. The USA and Europe have been on collision course for a long time. But despite the increasingly conflicting interests, political leaders on both sides of the Atlantic for over a decade continued to stress “the shared values” in public instead.

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