Inflation? Only A Matter of Time and Treachery:
Good Morning everyone out there in Reality Land; your King of Simple News is on the air.
Yesterday we talked about the hidden horrors of purposely induced inflation, which resulted in the loss of the majority of America’s most important industry. When a company actually needs to raise prices in response to the rising cost of doing business in United States and cannot do so without suffering additional sales losses due to the buying public being totally tapped out; the next step is bankruptcy.
Greg brought up some interesting points in his comments on yesterday’s article; primarily by noting that Trillions have been dumped in the economy with no positive return and without creating noticeable consumer inflation.
First of all, Greg was correct in that most of the money was nothing more than cookin’ the books for the banks and insurance companies resulting in massive bad debt being transferred from the rich and being placed on the tab for the future generations of poor to repay. This method of saving our wealthy brotherhood at the top of the food chain will create future inflation. We’ll talk about what future means in the context of months and years in a moment.
The money that the government borrowed from the taxpaying public to pay the bills for the auto companies is money that would have been paid out anyway had the auto companies not gone into default. Therefore, this expenditure of borrowed funds represents zero gain and creates no immediate inflation. This is referred to as the “pay now and inflate later” program.
While all of this mega bailout is occurring by virtue of borrow and print funny money from the Fed, it does not represent any capital going back into the hands of the public, which public is the absolute engine of U.S. commerce. Quite to the contrary in fact.
For the big banks, insurance, and auto companies to survive under the new reverse Robin Hood government approach of stealing from the poor and giving to the rich, these companies fired thousands upon thousands of workers while at the same time asking the stock and stake holders to take BILLIONS UPON BILLIONS in losses.
George Bush and Barrack Obama set out to save a system that is mathematically fatally flawed. Temporarily rescuing this system of exponential growth has the downside of wiping out any possibility for the remaining Middle Class to survive.
In the mean time, it should be pointed out that every last dollar of all rebates and stimulus was obtained by borrowing the money. Companies who were far too broke to borrow another dime were rescued by a government who had to borrow every last dime of the rescue money.
Once more, none of this money found its way into the hands of the same public who the money is being borrowed from. And it would have been impossible to actually borrow this money from the people who are being asked to repay it…because they haven’t been born yet! Our existing population couldn’t pay the existing debt, let alone the $TRILLIONS in stimulus and other mal-spending.
To make this rescue plan even more interesting, the loans to the U.S. government are borrowed from foreign governments, primarily the Communist Chinese. Our government is purposely selling the future of America to the Communists.
At some point, the appetite for U.S. debt will wane and the chickens will come home to roost in the way of hyper-inflation. I’ll leave it to you to determine the date of that unfortunate juncture.
On a couple of other ditties, our president not so long ago signed a children’s health insurance bill into law that he promised to fund with rising tax on tobacco. Yesterday he signed the toughest anti-smoking bill in our history. Our president smokes ya know? It’s the tobacco company’s fault that he has lacked the resolve and willpower to quit. Mr. Obama has the metal to run America, but quitting smoking is beyond his abilities. My question is; who is going to pay for the health insurance now?
In other news today, it was reported that more than 800 people in the U.S. have purchased guns while being on the terrorist watch list which now encompasses some 400,000 citizens. In other words, they have never committed a crime or in any other way violated the parameters of a federal background check…but they might.
“Law-abiding Americans should not be treated like terrorists,” the NRA’s Chris Cox said. “To deny law-abiding people due process and their Second Amendment rights based on a secret list is not how we do things in America.” I vehemently disagree with Mr. Cox; that is exactly how we have done business in the United States after 9-11.

Mike stated:
“In other news today, it was reported that more than 800 people in the U.S. have purchased guns while being on the terrorist watch list which now encompasses some 400,000 citizens. In other words, they have never committed a crime or in any other way violated the parameters of a federal background check…but they might.
“Law-abiding Americans should not be treated like terrorists,” the NRA’s Chris Cox said. “To deny law-abiding people due process and their Second Amendment rights based on a secret list is not how we do things in America.” I vehemently disagree with Mr. Cox; that is exactly how we have done business in the United States after 9-11.”
I agree. But this does show that the NCIC data is kept and not destroyed. Which as far as I recall is illegal and a de facto registration of said guns.. And I understand the number is closer to 1MM citizens and growing.
Pickdog
Mike,
How long will this last?
Moody’s Investors Service said on Tuesday that the U.S. government’s triple-A credit rating was safe.
I like that Mike, “Our president smokes ya know?”
What he is smoking is another story I’ll bet. Our president and his VP will soon be known as dumb and dumber to a very large group of Americans. Will it help? No, but then very littel can help at this stage without massive audience participation. Will that happen? Not likely. -bb
Pickdog,
My brother was visiting on 9-1-01 and we were about to head down to the San Juan Mountains for the day when the news of 9-1-1 broke. The first thing out of my mouth was, “Our lives have just changed forever. Government now has the event necessary for the public to ASK to be controlled under the guise of protection.”
Clyde, There can be little doubt that the G-20 nations have agreed in principal as to how they will play out the final days of this Ponzi scheme that we call globalization. We also must remember that false ratings were a critical aspect of the sub-prime scam.
Even old enemies can pose as beneficial friends when times are good, but the worm soon turns when it gets down to “Us or Them.”
Billyb,
As you stated, very little can help at this stage and so few understand even the basics of what allows our world to go around. We do in fact live in interesting times.
I suspect we haven’t seen anything yet compared to what will unfold. Utopians with actual power seem to invariably reach a state of anger and frustration when their “plans” don’t work. Eventually they will lash out at who ever or what ever is perceived as their greatest obstacle / opponent.
hutch,
I was just thinking about Obama’s comments of the day. He is “appalled and outraged” about the treatment of the protesters in Iran.
I hope the president remembers this when Americans are protesting against him.
Mike wrote….At some point, the appetite for U.S. debt will wane and the chickens will come home to roost in the way of hyper-inflation.
The appetite for long-term US debt is waning; however, the Chinese and others are too heavily invested in US dollars to pull the plug suddenly. They would lose too much.
This is a little bit like the situation with the airlines a few years ago. For all intents and purposes, the airlines have been insolvent for a long time. However, their suppliers have kept them in business at great cost even though it wasn’t a particularly good business decision. The reason was that if the airlines weren’t kept on life support, the suppliers would have gone belly up with them.
And so it is with our creditors. They would lose too much money if our currency were to suddenly became worthless. So they keep us on life support until such time as they can come up with a replacement reserve currency and they can gradually reduce their dollar holdings.
If this happens we could die from lots of other causes before the hyper-inflation can come home to roost. Perhaps hyperinflation will simply be the coup de grace.
The IMF is going to sell, at market rate, 400 tons of gold for $13 billion dollars.
If $13 billion dollars buys 400 tons of gold, it seems like we should be getting a lot more for the $1.8 trillion stimulus spending.
Puts a lot of things in perspective.
California would need 700 tons of gold to close its budget gap.
Just a question..
How do we know that foreign countries are buying u.s. treasury notes?? I don’t think we know that for a fact.. I don’t know it, just because somebody says so..
I do believe that I’ve heard that the Fed is buying u.s. treasury notes.. My head hurts when I try to figure that out..
WmA..
Thanks for all of the comments. In some ways the currency debacle is only a bit of trivial minutia to throw around when one compares it to the big picture.
Printing zillions, borrowing zillions, paying zillions in interest….are all merely symptoms of much greater problems.