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Dec 6, 2022 15 tweets 8 min read Read on X
The four unpleasant means to get #inflation under control:

1) Keep rising rates.
2) Getting rid of all (useless) Covid restrictions + NO more stimulus.
3) Peace in #Ukraine .
4) Running down the global balance sheet of #centralbanks .
(+ A revolution?)

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#inflation = excess (monetary) demand over supply.

You need to get demand down and/or supply up to get price pressures under control.

Current situation is an (insane) combo of stimulus and demand destruction. We, e.g., should do everything to grow energy production. 2/
We are at a situation, where #inflation expectations are becoming a problem. Firms are rising prices and workers demand higher salaries in expactation of fast inflation. 👉 The worst situation.

We are also entering the second leg of #EnergyCrisis . 3/
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In this situation only drastic measures will be effective. ☝️

Effectively, you need to kill the "excess" demand. 😖

This means rising rates ABOVE or very close to the current rate of #inflation . But, financial system is likely to crumble way before. 4/
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Unfortunately, this is what we may need. 😱

13 years of constant monetary meddlind by #centralbanks has created a massively bloated and fragile global #economy .

Quite simply, something has to "give". 5/
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We also need a peace in #Ukraine and lifting most of the sanctions, asap, to stave off global energy, food, primary energy, banking and sovereign debt crises.

A truce should be achieved before the possible (likely) winter offensive by #Russia . 6/
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After such an event, the security (peace) structure of #Europe would be in ruins. That has never been a good thing for the world. ☝️ 7/
I've been explaining, over and over, how the asset purchase (QE) programs are a form of central bank credit. So have got it, others still not. 🤷

Still, that's a fact and all CB credit is highly inflationary. 8/
This is because it truly is #money "out of thin air".

When banks create money (credit), it's a business transaction, but when #centralbanks do it, it's manipulation of the financial and monetary system.

This difference is crucial. ☝️ 9/
So, we need to get the global balance sheet of #centralbanks down.

But again, the global financial system is unlikely to be able to cope with that. 🤦

Yet, we absolutely need to do it. 🥶
10/
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#inflation checks are probably the stupidest idea in the current situation. 🤦

They will just keep demand artificially high sustaining #inflation pressures.

You absolutely CANNOT fix over-demand issue by increasing demand! 😡 🤦 11/
Situation is so dire, because we have let authorities and politicians to make an utter mess of things. We don't want to "face the music".

Central banks have corrupted their original purpose and European leaders have sleep-walked us into yet another war in our continent. 12/
I do fear what's in store for our continent.

#Europe has become a mockery of all it should represent (at least since the French revolution).

We should be the beacon of #freedom and #Peace but, after just three years, our ideals lay in ruins, again. 😢 13/
It's quite unfathomable how our "leaders" have been able to pull this off. 🤦🤬

Can we trust them to fix our (and the world's) problems? I am not so sure. 🤷

Maybe it would be a good time for yet another period of uprising in #Europe ? 🤔
14/
In any case, drastic actions are needed to turn our economies around and to sustain our living standards. ☝️

Otherwise, we are in major risk of destroying both our future and the future of our children.
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Sep 24
If it holds true that NATO has struck Russia with a tactical nuclear weapon, we would have entered a very dangerous world.

First of all, the whole nuclear deterrence policy of Russia would have been thrown out of the window. Some excepts from my article: Strategical asymmetry in a game theoretical model of a tactical nuclear first strike. 1/5
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…Image
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Most importantly, if the analysis of @cirnosad is correct, as I start to believe it is (no personal expertise, though), we would have entered an era of nuclear warfare, with horrendous implications. Another excerpt from my article.
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Researchers on nuclear warfare and deterrence have feared this step (tactical nuclear strike) for a very long time, because it changes how wars are fought. If the analysis of @cirnosad holds true, a nuclear attack to a major city is only a matter of time.
3/5
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Sep 7
The fraudulence of the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank. 🧵1/12

The #FederalReserve has accrued massive “paper” losses. How does it handle these?

Source: The Fed’s Remittances to the Treasury: Explaining the 'Deferred Asset'Image
The Fed is currently arguing that these gargantuan deficits (losses) do not to matter, because it can accrue seigniorage revenue (from its money 'printing'; see my post to subscribers here) ad infinitum. So, it claims to be solvent despite of these losses.
2/
The European Central Bank has taken a similar policy stance, labelling the losses as deferred assets, which “will be carried forward on the ECB’s balance sheet to be offset against future profits.”
3/
ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/…
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Aug 18
While we wait for the mayhem to come, I feel I need to come clean on something.

Everyone who has been close to political decision making, with the courage to see, knows that we're in a power-game that's mostly played in the "shadows". 🧵1/13
Very few know all the players, and many of us experts do not even want to know. Yet, you quickly understand (if you're smart and courageous enough) that the game is about the 'hearts and minds' of politicians.
2/
Thus, the game can be simplified as the people vs. the elite.

People (in the western countries) are included because our leaders need a political mandate from their constituencies. The elite have their own motives to play, which I consider not to be benevolent for us rest.
3/
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Jul 31
A thread explaining, why importing men from Africa is an extremely bad policy, and the likely reason why our elite is pushing for it.

A general result in development economic research is that uncontrolled migration destroys the cohesion of a country.
🧵1/15
Especially so, if the migration comes from a culture that is considerably less developed.

This holds for the broad range of African countries. Reasons can be debated, but the fact is that African societies tend to be unable to reach a higher level of progress.
2/
Two historical facts:

1) It's has been very difficult to enslave white European men.
2) It has been relatively easy to enslave black African men.

Like I said, I will not dwell into the likely reasons here, but this provides a hint what the elite is likely pursuing for.
3/
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Jul 4
I was the economist behind my former friend, current Minister of Foreign Affairs @elinavaltonen for five years. Our pact was to bring back the market economy to Finland and save us from the Federal EU.

We parted ways after she took part on a Bilderberg meeting.
🧵1/12
I learned about her participation only after the 2019 meeting. During that summer she also met with @EmmanuelMacron and something changed. The change was gradual, but little by little her tone changed to support the current political order, which we agreed to object in 2015. 2/
The breakup came during the Corona spring of 2020, when she started to support the Recovery Fund of the EU. This was against everything we had agreed, and I distanced myself from her team. It was devastating as I really liked her as a person and rooted for her.
3/
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Jun 20
In my latest, I deal with the U.S. private sector recession, which has not manifested to GDP-figures, yet, because of the gargantuan fiscal stimulus by the @POTUS administration.

A short thread on why the U.S. in a recession already (link to newsletter article in bio).
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Commercial and industrial (C&I) loans has been one of the most trustworthy recession indicators since late 1940s. It's currently signaling that the U.S. corporate sector has entered a recession.

Yet, there's more.
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The demand for C&I loans continues to hover deep in recession territory. This is another metric that has never been in such depths without an U.S. recession.
@DiMartinoBooth
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