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The War on Cash is now accelerating.
As the financial system lurches towards collapse, the elites and those who
derive power from sitting at the top of the food chain are growing
increasingly desperate to maintain the status quo.
When 2008 hit, the Fed cut rates to zero and began implementing QE. It has
now maintained ZIRP for six years (the single longest period in history) and
has grown its balance sheet by over $3.5 trillion (larger than most
countries).
ZIRP has made no sense whatsoever since 2011. You cannot continue to
babble about a “recovery” when ZIRP is in place. No legitimate “recovery” in
economic history required ZIRP four years into a new business cycle.
Moreover, QE was known to be a Wall Street bailout and an economic dud as
early as 2010. The man who ran QE 1 admitted the former in an op-ed piece.
And anyone who’s examined Japan’s multi-decade, multi-Trillions of Yen QE
failures knows the latter.
Despite this, the Fed ran QE ran through 2014 printing another $2 trillion
in the process. That is correct, the Fed had rates at zero and was
printing over $85 billion per month SIX years into a “recovery.”
With the US now back in recession and another financial crisis at our
doorstep, the calls are going up for even more dramatic measures.
Multiple Fed Presidents have called for NEGATIVE interest rate policy
(NIRP) in the US. Obviously these “date driven” individuals haven’t bothered
to examine the fact that in Europe, NIRP didn’t accomplish ANYTHING as far as
inflation targets were concerned.
The ECB implemented NIRP in June 2014. Europe’s inflation rate actually
COLLAPSED in the six months following it, resulting in the ECB announcing QE.
THAT policy (the first in Europe’s history) generated five months’ worth of
uptick in inflation before rolling over again.
 
Somehow the Fed missed this when it began calling for NIRP in the US. Even
more amazingly, no one has bothered to ask the Fed why six years into this
“recovery” the Fed is even discussing NIRP. ZIRP was a disaster. Why would
NIRP fix anything?
NIRP will not be the last straw either. If the markets begin the truly
collapse, the Fed will likely announce another, even larger QE program. That
is precisely what Japan did in April 2013 despite the clear evidence that its
previous EIGHT QE programs had failed to accomplish anything of note.
But even NIRP and QE will likely not be the Fed’s worst atrocity against
capital formation. Before it’s all said and done, the Fed will likely push to
either implement a carry tax on physical cash OR ban physical cash entirely.
Indeed, we've uncovered a secret document outlining how the Fed plans to
incinerate savings to force investors away from cash and into riskier assets.
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