This is a great article by Alar Tamming, Tavex, Estonia and Dr. Krassimir Petrov, Ahlia University, Bahrain on the situation we are in right now minus all the mass-media propaganda. Their cannot be a “jobless recovery”, you can’t print your way out of this mess. Keynesianism is wrong at the core, no matter what bureaucrats, politicians, journalist or bankers tell you. The printing of money of Central Banks around the world has gone parabolical and the paper will return to its intrinsic value of zero.
…Just like a capitalistic society cannot return back to slavery, or just like slavery cannot return back to the primeval society of hunters and gatherers, so we can no longer return to the capitalistic economic model that is based on consumption.
Development of all complex systems, whether we are dealing with a society, a business, or a human being, always take place in cycles. There is a time of balance (equilibrium), then a period of confusion (disequilibrium), and afterwards the system will be re-organised at a new, higher level, so that the problems that were a source of conflicts at the previous level will be resolved. This is the essence of Hegelian dialectics…
The economic system has gone critical – it has reached point from where there is no turning back. The worst part is that the system cannot self-organise. “Normal” business organisation typically means that if you are doing business and make wrong decisions in a particular economic environment, then you should also suffer the consequences. In other words – if a bank has made bad loans, then we should let it fail. Failure is part of capitalism. Individuals and businesses that have deposited their money in this bank and, therefore, made a wrong decision, should also lose their money. Simple and logical, this is what capitalism is all about.
Unfortunately, governments and central banks do not want to accept that. They think that trying to feed a dead horse will bring it back to life. And if it won’t revive, then it has to be fed even more…
Financial history teaches us that every time a financial crisis has been alleviated by printing more money instead of cutting costs and prices, it has ended up with hyperinflation…
In conclusion, let us reiterate: “Don’t say you haven’t been forewarned.” But of course, this warning is just as good as giving a moralizing speech about drinking in a packed bar – no one would listen anyway. However, you have been warned – protect yourself, buy gold!
