Ben
bepaald geen fan van Bill Bonner, echter het volgende artikel van
zijn hand bevat (althans zeker voor mij) aardige gezichtspunten op het
financiële beleid in de VS als instrument om dollars bij te kunnen
drukken en daarmee de waarde van de dollar te verminderen. Zo zou de
huidige dollar volgens Bonner in vergelijking met die van 1971 nog
maar 3 dollarcent waard zijn……

Eén en
ander is het gevolg van de ‘nieuwe dollar’ die in 1971 onder ‘tricky dick’ Nixon werd
geïntroduceerd en waarbij de Fed de macht kreeg om (fiks) dollars
bij te drukken en daarmee de inflatie te voeden…….. Het grootste
deel van het volk in de VS begreep niet waarom hun geld destijds zo
snel in waarde verminderde en gaven de schuld aan de arabieren
(vanwege de hoge olieprijs), echter de energiecrisis van de 70 er
jaren bracht alleen de prijs terug op het niveau van voor de grote
dollar diefstal in 1971* >> de OPEC besloot minder
olie te produceren, waarop de prijzen stegen naar het niveau van
voor 1971…… Zie in het artikel hieronder hoe de inflatie zelfs met dubbele cijfers groeide…… (het is een studie waard om te zien wat het effect van de nieuwe dollar en de infaltie in de VS was op
de Nederlandse economie en die van de ons omringende landen….)

Inflatie
is zoals Bonner zegt inderdaad een instrument om mensen nog meer
belasting te laten betalen, waar de winsten daarvan in de VS vooral
naar de superrijken stromen…… Terwijl 50% van de onderlaag in de VS sinds 1999 30% armer is geworden, stijgen de inkomens van de welgestelden jaar op jaar……

Vergeet bij dit alles niet dat ook in de EU, ofwel bij de Europese Centrale Bank (ECB) de geldpersen al jaren overuren maken……. Een zaak die in feite de ‘EU maatschappij’ steeds verder ontwricht…….

Lees het
artikel van Bonner, overigens onderdeel uit een soort ‘dagboek’, waar
je de link naar het vervolg van het hieronder opgenomen artikel, onder dat artikel terugvindt. Mocht je het interessant vinden dit ‘dagboek’ te volgen, neem dan
het adres van Bonner & Partners of van Money and Markets over en
houdt de boel in de gaten, dit artikel nam ik over van Money and Markets:

Bonner:
The Feds and the Biggest Money Heist In History

Posted
by Bonner &
Partners | Jan 28, 2020 | News

Inflation
is always and everywhere a rip-off. –
Bill Bonner

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND —
The nice thing about inflation, at least from the feds’ point of
view, is that it doesn’t leave fingerprints.

Today’s dollar, for
example, is worth only three cents of the pre-1971 dollar. But who
dunnit? Who stole 97 cents out of every dollar?

New-Buck Scam

People thought the
switch to a new buck in 1971 was just a “technical” move. Still
do. But there was a big difference. The old dollar was a killjoy. The
feds just couldn’t have much fun with it. But the new one was like
an inflatable sex toy — it would go along with anything.

And when the first
wave of consumer price inflation hit in the ’70s, few people
understood what had happened. They thought the Arabs had pulled a
fast one. But as we saw last week (catch up here and here),
the First Oil Shock only returned the real price to where it had been
before the feds’ funny-money printing began.

Investors didn’t
notice their pockets were being picked either. In new dollars, the
Dow barely moved throughout the ’70s. But it lost 92% of its real
value.

And still today, only
you… and we… seem to realize how the Federal Reserve’s money
printing and ultralow interest rate policies (from 2009 to 2015) put
$20-some trillion into the pockets of the richest people in the
country.

Most people got
nothing from it. And relatively, the poor got poorer as the rich got
richer. 

The bottom 50% of the population are actually 30% poorer
today than they were in 1999 — even using the feds’ phony
inflation calculator.

But does anyone blame
the real culprits? Nope. They blame the Mexicans and the Chinese. 

Do
they vote for someone who pledges to end inflation? Or someone who
calls for more of it?

It doesn’t matter
whether the inflation goes into the capital markets or the consumer
economy… it works the same way, like a thief in the night. And now
underway is probably the biggest heist in history…

Like
a Street Mugging

Milton Friedman was
wrong about inflation. It is “always and everywhere a monetary
phenomenon,” said he. But that misses the point of it. A shooting
star is a phenomenon. So is irritable bowel syndrome; nobody is sure
what causes it.

But inflation is no
more a “phenomenon” than a street mugging; it is done for a
reason, to transfer wealth from some people to other people. It’s a
way for the feds — and their clients, cronies, and hangers-on —
to get more than taxpayers are willing to give them.

If they tried to
support their boondoggles and jackass programs by direct taxation
alone, there would soon be mobs gathered in the Capitol, with pitch
bubbling and rails at-the-ready.

But inflation?

Here at the Diary,
we guess about a great number of things — always trying to connect
the dots. We’ve been at it for so long, we’ve probably been wrong
about most everything. We’ll get to the rest in due course.

But one thing we’re
probably not wrong about is inflation. And when the Fed announced at
its December 2015 meeting that it would stop inflating and
“normalize” its monetary policy, we knew it was BS. Why?

With its ultralow
interest rates and its quantitative
easing (QE) programs, the Fed created a hothouse atmosphere. The
QE program alone gave some $3.6 trillion in new money to big
investors.

It was as if a very
rich person in a small town bid on all the houses that came up for
sale. 

Prices rose. Everyone thought he had gotten richer. But take
away the reckless buyer, and the market would quickly adjust to
normal supply and demand pressures. Prices would fall back to
“normal.”

Falling prices would
cause the “wealth effect” to reverse into a “negative wealth
effect.” The economy would go into recession.

Keep
the Heat On

Either you keep
feeding warm air into the hothouse… or the orchids die. Greenspan,
Bernanke, Yellen, and now Powell — have all kept the heat on.

The last Fed chief to
turn off the heat was the recently
deceased Paul Volcker. He saw the “Inflate-or-Die” trap. To
escape it in 1980, he raised the Fed’s key rate to 20%, cut off the
hot air, and opened the windows, causing the worst U.S. recession
since the Great Depression.

Naturally,
politicians, economists, and the press howled and whined. A mob even
burned Volcker in effigy on the Capitol steps. But inflation quickly
fell, from nearly 14% in 1980 to only 3.2% in 1983.

Years before, another
great Fed chief, William McChesney Martin, explained why a good
central banker is more likely to be branded a villain than a hero:

In the field
of monetary and credit policy, precautionary action to prevent
inflationary excesses is bound to have some onerous effects… Those
who have the task of making such policy don’t expect you to
applaud.

Tough
Love

It’s been 40 years
since Volcker’s tough love. Since then U.S. federal debt has gone
from under $1 trillion to $23 trillion.

The Dow, too, went
from under 1,000 to over 29,000. And the people willing to support an
honest central banker — traditional fiscal conservatives and Ronald
Reagan — have disappeared.

As for the old
conservatives, they went AWOL when Republicans realized that, in a
funny-money world, “deficits don’t matter.”

William McChesney
Martin died in 1998. (He was replaced at the Fed in 1970 when he
resisted the new-money plotters.) Paul Volcker died late last year.

Today, Fed jefes are
willing to go along with the gag, and are described by the popular
press as “saving the world” (Greenspan), or “heroes” with
“the courage to act” (Bernanke).

And the current U.S.
president is not worried about curbing inflation. He wants more of
it. Here’s the commander in chief commenting on the Fed’s brief
fling with prudence:

It was a
killer when they raised the rate. It was just a big mistake. And they
admit to it. They admit to it. I was right. I don’t wanna be right,
but I was right.

More to come…

Regards,

Bill

• This article
was originally published by Bonner & Partners. You can learn more
about Bill and Bill Bonner’s Diary right
here.

Zie ook het vervolg van dit artikel: ‘Bonner: How Paper Money Became the Means for Modern Inflation‘

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*  In Wikipedia spreekt men bij de eerste oliecrisis in 1973 over ‘een politieke actie van de arabieren gericht tegen het westen’, terwijl de olieprijs in dollars werd en wordt weergegeven, ofwel de arabieren kregen inderdaad veel minder voor hun olie, daar de inflatie destijds zelfs met dubbele cijfers groeide, zie het artikel hierboven….. Wikipedia……

Door de inflatie van de ‘petrodollar’ (ofwel de olieprijs in
dollars), was de prijs van olie op een veel lager niveau gekomen, waarop de
arabieren het westen maar vooral de VS ‘de bel aanbonden’ en begonnen met de vermindering van de olieproductie, zodat de prijs omhoog ging. De olieprijs werd overigens vanaf 1971 in dollars weergegeven. (al werd ook voor die tijd vooral naar de VS gekeken wat betreft de olieprijs, daar het land eerst de grootste olieleverancier was en later tot de grootste olieproducerende landen bleef behoren)