We're broke! Spending money we don't have to create wealth for the working class is crazy. Shovel ready jobs? This is politics at it's worst. It's a scam, a fraud. It's criminal to drive the country's economy into a downward spiral that he next generation will not be able to sustain.
Monetary Stimulus Does Not Compensate for Real Wealth Creation
Source: James Dorn, "Monetary Stimulus Creates Only Pseudo Wealth," Investors.com, April 20, 2015.
April 23, 2015
The European Central Bank's (ECB) decision to follow the Federal Reserve's footsteps and embark on a massive program of quantitative easing to lower interest rates, encourage risk and inflate asset prices seems to be working for the moment.
New wealth appears to be created even though simple economic logic tells us that monetary stimulus cannot permanently increase a nation's productive capacity or real income. Central bankers are engaged in pseudo, not true, wealth creation.
The wealth effect of central bank "stimulus" will be short-lived. When rates return to normal, as they must, asset bubbles will burst, major losses will be incurred and the distortions in capital markets will become evident.The Eurozone's negative real interest rates are not natural; they are the result of government policy — in particular, the ECB's unconventional monetary policy.
In a normally functioning market economy, with monetary equilibrium, nominal interest rates will be close to natural rates. However, when central banks cause an excess supply of money or an excess demand, monetary disequilibrium leads to a divergence between nominal and natural rates.
The main factor today resulting in negative real rates (i.e., financial repression) is the failure of central banks to adhere to a monetary rule. We live in a world of pure discretionary government fiat monies, and a political environment in which the focus is short-term palliatives rather than long-run solutions.
Economic freedom, not central bank intervention, is the driving force of wealth creation and widespread prosperity. Waiting a little longer with a hope that central banks know how to create wealth is a dangerous gambit.
New wealth appears to be created even though simple economic logic tells us that monetary stimulus cannot permanently increase a nation's productive capacity or real income. Central bankers are engaged in pseudo, not true, wealth creation.
The wealth effect of central bank "stimulus" will be short-lived. When rates return to normal, as they must, asset bubbles will burst, major losses will be incurred and the distortions in capital markets will become evident.The Eurozone's negative real interest rates are not natural; they are the result of government policy — in particular, the ECB's unconventional monetary policy.
In a normally functioning market economy, with monetary equilibrium, nominal interest rates will be close to natural rates. However, when central banks cause an excess supply of money or an excess demand, monetary disequilibrium leads to a divergence between nominal and natural rates.
The main factor today resulting in negative real rates (i.e., financial repression) is the failure of central banks to adhere to a monetary rule. We live in a world of pure discretionary government fiat monies, and a political environment in which the focus is short-term palliatives rather than long-run solutions.
Economic freedom, not central bank intervention, is the driving force of wealth creation and widespread prosperity. Waiting a little longer with a hope that central banks know how to create wealth is a dangerous gambit.
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