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"All my rich friends are hoarding cash," Richard Fisher. Who is he? Here's who.
Fisher was president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and a voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) from 2005 to 2015. He was one of, perhaps the only, skeptic on the Fed board going into the great financial crisis, warning on numerous occasions about the upcoming crash only to be ignored by his wiser peers and certainly Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke. He was also ignored in the post-Lehman era by both Bernanke and Janet Yellen.
Among his biggest concerns:
As we've pointed out before there is a saying in surgery, "The solution to pollution is dilution."
Take the $13 trillion U.S. government debt as the pollution and the endless printing of money as the dilution and you have your end result. Solution:You have inflated your way debt free.
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"All my rich friends are hoarding cash," Richard Fisher. Who is he? Here's who.
Fisher was president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and a voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) from 2005 to 2015. He was one of, perhaps the only, skeptic on the Fed board going into the great financial crisis, warning on numerous occasions about the upcoming crash only to be ignored by his wiser peers and certainly Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke. He was also ignored in the post-Lehman era by both Bernanke and Janet Yellen.
Among his biggest concerns:
- Government Debt: he is worried about the $19 trillion US government debt (up $11 trillion since 2008) because the Fed has fired all its monetary bullets and can’t expand the balance sheet any further.
- China and social instability: he thinks communist leaders care about production but not efficiency. "They might produce more, but our products work," jokes Fisher. There are entire cities in China with nobody living in them, according to him. Fisher says the biggest problem in China is social stability. "I'm deeply worried about their ability to maintain social stability,” but... “It doesn’t affect us directly.” Another risk in China is that millions of people are pulling their money out of the country.
- Low interest rates don't work: "We had a long period of moderation and low interet rares, which did nothing to adjust." The online countries that adjusted were Poland and Mexico, according to Fisher.
- The failed Brazilian experiment: Fisher said Brazil is a symbol of what's wrong with emerging markets. They lived through the crisis but learned nothing from it.“Brazil has always been a country with potential, and it’s never been realized."
- Raising rates is long overdue: he made the point that raising interest rates won’t ruin the economy. "The debt rollover is what we should be worried about. Yet nobody is talking about it."
- It's all one big Ponzi scheme: “Our government has to borrow money just to pay interest.” Or as Minsky would say, this is the Ponzi finance stage, just before everything goes to hell. "We have a lot of unsound policy in place. It is agreeable, but in my view, it is unsound.”
- The death of the middle class: Fisher says the lowest income quartile has seen an increase in income. The highest quartile has also seen a massive increase in income. The two middle quartiles were flat over a period of many years. “This is why we have such support for people like Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.”
- A ritalin monetary policy: “We have what I call a Ritalin based monetary policy.” Now Janet Yellen’s job is to wean it. “It has to do with taking the distortions out of the financial markets and letting the markets down easier.” “These are the lowest interest rates in 239 years of history.”
As we've pointed out before there is a saying in surgery, "The solution to pollution is dilution."
Take the $13 trillion U.S. government debt as the pollution and the endless printing of money as the dilution and you have your end result. Solution:You have inflated your way debt free.
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