Meyer Rothschild's famous quote: "Let me control a peoples' currency and
I care not who makes their laws" has never been more true.
Never try to teach a pig to sing, advised Robert Heinlein. It wastes your time
and it annoys the pig. Similarly, never try to convince a central banker that
his policies are destructive. After five years of enduring crisis, market prices
are no longer determined by the considered assessment of independent investors
acting rationally (if indeed they ever were), but simply by expectations of
further monetary stimulus. So far, those expectations have not been
disappointed. The Fed, the ECB and lately even the BoJ have gone “all- in” in
their fight to ensure that after a grotesque explosion in credit,
insolvent governments and private sector banks will be defended to the very
last taxpayer.
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