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Alasdair Macleod: Inflation is a monetary curse

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Alasdair Macleod
GoldMoney, Toronto
Thursday, September 2, 2021

Remarkably, in a speech on monetary policy given at the Jackson Hole conference last Friday, Federal Reserve Chairman Jay Powell never mentioned money, money supply, M1, or M2. With money supply expanding at a record pace to fund both quantitative easing and intractable budget deficits, the omission is extraordinary.

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Wednesday, July 28, 2021

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The Federal Open Market Committee, the interest rate-setting committee, appears to no longer take the consequences of monetary expansion into account. But rising consumer prices caused by monetary expansion have driven real rates sharply negative and are leading to pressure for higher interest rates.

This article looks at the consequences of policies that combine the maintenance of a wealth effect by juicing markets with QE, and funding enormous government deficits, which are now beyond control. A flight out of foreign-owned dollars and dollar-denominated financial assets, which total over $32 trillion, is becoming inevitable.

Will the Fed respond by increasing its QE support for financial markets while resisting the pressure of rising interest rates? 

If so, there is no surer way to destroy the dollar.

The lessons from history combined with sound economic analysis tell us that markets will reassert themselves over the Fed, and for that matter, over all other central banks that have embarked on similar monetary policies.

Gold is the ultimate hedge against these events and their consequences. ...

... For the remainder of the report:

https://www.goldmoney.com/research/goldmoney-insights/inflation-is-a-monetary-curse?gmrefcode=gata

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