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2016-06-27 — kunstler.com
The next stage of this protean global melodrama [post-Brexit] is what happens when currencies and interest rates become completely unglued from their assigned roles as patsies in financial racketeering. Sooner or later we'll know what's going on in the vast shadowy gloaming of "derivatives," especially the "innovative" arrangements that affect to be "insurance" against losses in currency and interest rate "positions" -- bets made on the movements of these things. When currencies rise or fall quickly, these so-called "swaps" are "triggered," and then some hapless institution is left holding a big bag of dog-shit. A zombie is a terrible thing to behold, but a zombie holding a bag of dog-shit is like unto the end of the world.
Once this contagion starts burning, the people-in-charge won't be able to quell it the way they did last time: by drowning it in torrents of money-from-nowhere. At least not without inducing real-deal inflation, the kind that leads to epochal ruin and more intense political upheaval: the nation-changing kind. source article | permalink | discuss | subscribe by: | RSS | email Comments: Be the first to add a comment add a comment | go to forum thread Note: Comments may take a few minutes to show up on this page. If you go to the forum thread, however, you can see them immediately. |