The Financial System of the World Has Been Turned into a Doomsday Machine by Central Bankers

• The Financial System of the World Has Been Turned into a Doomsday Machine by Central Bankers
  by David Stockman, http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/
  Central Banker Jabberwocky  
  The financial system of the world has been turned into a doomsday machine by central bankers stranded in an intellectual puzzle palace. That is, they are marching financial markets straight into another giant bubble implosion owing to their embrace of a fundamental error about why there is an apparent lack of consumer inflation in the official indices.
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  For example, the chief economist of the IMF, Maurice Obstfeld, recently trotted out the chart below to prove that “lowflation” is a deadly threat everywhere on the planet to growth, jobs, living standards, public finances, and even capitalist viability.
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  The ill of lowflation can only be remedied, he averred, by resort to “out of the box” central bank expedients designed to compensate for the purported drastic shortfall of that Keynesian ether called “aggregate demand”.
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  What he had in mind, of course, was negative interest rates and further massive monetization of the public debt and other existing assets in the name of QE.
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  So trapped in their illiterate orthodoxy, Obstfeld, Kuroda, Yellen, Draghi and the rest the central bankers cartel resort to desperate monetary expedients that would have been considered crackpot economics even 15 years ago. The idea of ZIRP for 82 months running would have been considered borderline lunacy; the notion that the collective central bank balance sheets of the world could explode by 10X in two decades would have been viewed as incendiary radicalism.
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  But it is exactly these crackpot doctrines which have now become embedded in a relentlessly tedious central banker groupthink.
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