The financial system is broke

MSNBC: "MR. GREGORY: Interest rates, how long before they start coming up? Do they need to stay low?

MR. GREENSPAN: Well, the problem there implies that the government has control over those rates, meaning the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department, in a sense. There is no doubt that the federal funds rate, that is the rate produced by the Federal Reserve, can be fixed at whatever the Fed wants it to be, but which the government has no control over is long-term interest rates, and long-term interest rates are what make the economy move. And if this budget problem eventually merges to the point where it begins to become very toxic, it will be reflected in rising long-term interest rates, rising mortgage rates, lower housing. At the moment, there is no sign of that, basically because the financial system is broke and you cannot have inflation if financial system is not working."

De verwachting is dus dat er een periode van deflatie komt, gevolgd door hyperinflatie? In elk geval een diepe depressie. Oh, my god! Wat Greenspan ook zegt is dat de regeringen in het huidige systeem vrijwel machteloos zijn om de economie te sturen. Die macht hebben ze uit handen gegeven aan de banken. Geld creëren betekent nu automatisch een schuld creëren. Dat moet anders.

De oplossing is vrij eenvoudig: er is geld nodig om de economie aan de gang te houden, maar niet door het lenen van geld op de kapitaalmarkt maar door het te creëren uit het niets, niet door de banken want deze geldcreatie uit het niets door banken is juist de oorzaak van de huidige schuldencrisis, maar door de nationale banken, door regeringen dus, intrestvrij, schuldenvrij. Want elke vorm van intrest moet tenslotte weer ergens opgebracht dus gecreëerd worden, waardoor weer een schuld ontstaat, ad infinitum.

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Washington'sBlog: "As the Financial Times notes, the head of China's biggest credit rating agency has said America is insolvent and that U.S. credit ratings are a joke:

The head of China’s largest credit rating agency has slammed his western counterparts for causing the global financial crisis and said that as the world’s largest creditor nation China should have a bigger say in how governments and their debt are rated.

“The western rating agencies are politicised and highly ideological and they do not adhere to objective standards,” Guan Jianzhong, chairman of Dagong Global Credit Rating, told the Financial Times in an interview.

“The financial crisis was caused because rating agencies didn’t properly disclose risk and this brought the entire US financial system to the verge of collapse, causing huge damage to the US and its strategic interests,” Mr Guan said.

“The US is insolvent and faces bankruptcy as a pure debtor nation but the rating agencies still give it high rankings ,” Mr Guan said.

In other words, everyone who pays any attention knows that we're broke."
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