The price of money affects everything.
When you artificially suppress the price of money dangerous bubbles emerge.
No one notices or cares because of inherited denial of reality.
Until the bubbles pop and everyone is forced to care.
This time is different because of its magnitude and global nature.
And because there is no cheap energy left to push us out of a depression.
https://www.theautomaticearth.com/2017/07/i-read-the-news-today-oh-boy/
Reading the news on America should scare everyone, and every day, but it doesn’t. We’re immune, largely.
What we’re witnessing is the demise of the American political system, in real time. We just don’t know it. Actually, we’re witnessing the downfall of the entire western system. And it turns out the media are an integral part of that system. The reason we’re seeing it happen now is that although the narratives and memes emanating from both politics and the press point to economic recovery and a future full of hope and technological solutions to all our problems, people are not buying the memes anymore. And the people are right.
Tyler Durden ran a Credit Suisse graph overnight that should give everyone a heart attack, or something in that order. It shows that nobody’s buying stocks anymore, other than the companies who issue them. They use ultra-cheap leveraged loans to make it look like they’re doing fine. Instead of using the money/credit to invest in, well, anything, really. You can be a successful US/European company these days just by purchasing your own shares. How long for, you ask?
Why this rush by companies to buyback their own stock, and in the process artificially boost their Earning per Share? There is one very simple reason: as Reuters explained some time ago, “Stock buybacks enrich the bosses even when business sags.”
In other words, the system doesn’t only keep zombies alive, making it impossible for anyone to see who’s healthy or not, no, the system itself has become a zombie.
un-Denial 