11/15/2014 - Tim Price – Speaking Out on Financial Repression
Special Guest: Tim Price – PFP Group
Tim recalls the words we last heard in the dark days of 2008:
“When you’re a distressed seller of an illiquid asset in a market panic, it’s not even like being in a crowded theater that’s on fire. It’s like being in a crowded theater that’s on fire and the only way you can get out is by persuading somebody outside to swap places with you .”
This is precisely what occurs when the regulatory pressures and un-natural forces of FINANCIAL REPRESSION finally ends
“Financial Repression is government stealing from savers and the future!”
“The single biggest problem of our times economically, is that for the last 40 years there has been an unsustainable buildup of credit expansion throughout the developed world … and we have reached the end of the road new. Every policy by governments and their agents (the central banks) is too a) Kick the Can Down the Road and B) to steal from savers to keep this bandwagon rolling!”
THREE ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO ATTEMPT A RESOLUTION:
- Generate Sufficient Economic Growth to Keep Servicing the Debt,
- Repudiation or Debt Default,
- An Explicit Policy of State Sanctioned Inflationism.
Approach #1 and #2 or no longer realistically viable, leaving governments with only option #3. The last options has historically always been the option governments of fiat based systems have resorted to throughout the ages because of a lack of “political will and discipline”.
Tim believes Japan is presently the ‘dress rehearsal’ and the rest of the world will be the main event.
