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Ever since 1999 and the tech bubble implosion, Fed-engineered boom/bust cycles have been the most efficacious means for the Wall Street-Federal Reserve Looting Syndicate to transfer the wealth and assets of the increasingly pauperized middle and working classes, i.e. the retail investor muppets, to the Fed's "private equity" accomplices. 2000 saw the tech bubble bust, then housing bubble bust of 2007 and the 2008 financial crash. Each of these events enabled the already super-wealthy to concentrate even more wealth and power in their own hands.
Now, the Keynesian fraudsters at the Fed have blown the Mother of All Bubbles, prior to the recent rate hikes bilking savers out of trillions in interest income that forced yield-seekers to gamble in Wall Street’s rigged casino. So, here’s the question: are we overdue for yet another Fed-engineered crash, aka another Great Muppet Reaping?
All it would take to burst these bubbles is for interest rates to spike, after being artificially suppressed since 2008 by the Fed and central banks based on their lies of low or “transitory” inflation. Conversely, if/when the Fed implements yield curve control in an attempt to prevent the bond vigilantes from signaling trouble, forewarning the stock market, this risks causing a major loss of investor confidence since these rigged and broken “markets” are totally disconnected from underlying fundamentals.
A broad market meltdown might initially be bearish for precious metals, due to liquidation selling on cascading margin calls (margin debt is currently at all-time highs of $1.3 trillion). Any sharp drop in precious metals prices due to forced selling would potentially enable the Fed’s bullion bank market-rigging accomplices to cover some of their massive short positions in gold & silver and go long before the “flight to quality” stampede into the safe haven of physical precious metals begins in earnest.
These insane bubbles have already gone on far longer than many thought possible. People and institutions vastly underestimated how reckless and irresponsible the criminal central banks would be with their Keynesian monetary lunacy while professing to see no bubbles or inflation.
So how does this end? Too much debt that can never be repaid has been built up in the financial system. Factor in tens of trillions of derivatives and dodgy 2X or 3X leveraged bets, out-of-control government spending, and a dangerously polarized body politic with an enraged right and militant far left, and the level of systemic risk to the financial system is off the charts – especially since no Wall Street investment banks or their Fed accomplices were ever held accountable for causing the 2008 great financial crisis. Our policymakers, regulators, and enforcers remain as captured, corrupt, and clueless as ever. A long-overdue reckoning is coming.
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