The $100 Trillion Trigger That Terrifies Central Banks
By Graham Summers
GoldSeek.com
Thursday, 8 January 2015
The world is turning Japanese.
For over 20 years, Japan has been ground zero for the great Keynesian nightmare of Central Planning. Japan’s financial bubbles burst in 1989-1990. Since that time, Japan has seen little to no growth for thirty straight years.
The Bank of Japan has dealt with this by running an effective zero percent interest rate policy and implementing over NINE different QE programs amounting to an amount of money equal to over 50% of Japanese GDP.
Throughout this period, neither Japan’s GDP growth numbers nor its employment growth numbers have improved significantly.
In the simplest of renderings, Japan has proven point blank that you cannot fight an epic debt bubble by making debt cheaper. The facts are right out in the open for all to see.
However, this has not stopped Central Banks form around the world from implementing the exact same failed policies to fight their own bouts of deflation.
Globally, Central banks have cut interest rates over 500 times and printed over $11 trillion to combat the brief bout of deflation that ran from 2008-early 2009.
The results have mirrored those of Japan’s post 1990: anemic growth and chronically high unemployment. By all measures, the “recovery” post 2008 for much of the world has been the weakest in the post-WWII era.
Rather than trying something new, Governments and Central Banks have resorted to simply printing more money. And they’ve dealt with the slow growth by simply fudging their economic data to the point of it being outright laughable.
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