A Greater Depression?

Project Syndicate/Noriel Roubini

people line up at failed bank 1931
“But these deficit-financed interventions must be fully monetized. If they are financed through standard government debt, interest rates would rise sharply, and the recovery would be smothered in its cradle. Given the circumstances, interventions long proposed by leftists of the Modern Monetary Theory school, including helicopter drops, have become mainstream.”

USAGOLD note: Doctor Doom outdoes himself in this one. He warns at one point that even if the coronavirus is contained his year, it could potentially return next flu season and cause markets to crash again. The engame? …… a “persistent depression and a runaway financial-market meltdown,” he says.


Repost from 3-24-2020

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