The World Economy's a Ticking Time Bomb (and the Fuse Is Lit)!

• The World Economy’s a Ticking Time Bomb (and the Fuse Is Lit)! 
  by Richard (RJ) Eskow, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-blog/
  Respected economist John Kay is about to make a public statement which essentially says that the world economy is a ticking time bomb and global markets are a lit fuse.
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  Kay is a professor at the London School of Economics, a columnist for the Financial Times, and the author of a widely-read report on stock market flaws which was commissioned last year by the British government.
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  Kay says that the world is “waiting for the next crisis.” He’ll present that conclusion in a keynote speech which was previewed and extensively quoted earlier this week.
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  Correction Time
  “Prices are driven to silly levels,” Kay says, “but everyone makes a load of money in the meantime, and then you get a correction.”
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  What is known as a “correction” in financial parlance is better understood by most people as a recession or depression resulting in lost jobs, wealth, health, and security.   The lords of finance have been disarmingly frank about this money-making strategy at times.
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  “We actually benefit from downturns,” JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon told investors earlier this year. After the 2008 crisis Dimon told reporters he had explained downturns to his seven-year-old daughter by saying they’re “something that happens every five to seven years.” In case you haven’t been counting, the last crisis occurred five years ago.
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  Arbitraging the Future
  Tomorrow’s crisis is already making billions today for bankers and investors. But then, there’s almost no way for financiers to stop profiting from the next crisis under current conditions. The Federal Reserve and other central banks have flooded them with cheap money, making it inexpensive to borrow.
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