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 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.
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…
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. 2/5
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.
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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'
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.
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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/…
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. 2/
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 3/