The Fed’s Super Nova Asset Bubble
In a commentary released today on Of Two Minds, Charles Hugh Smith explains how the Fed has painted itself into a corner with its endless quantitative easing. Smith argues that it can’t be long before the markets become completely desensitized to the money printing and the whole bubble economy goes kablooey. How do you protect yourself from the fallout of a super nova asset bubble of this size? Avoid dollar denominated investments and look to hard assets like physical gold and silver.
“The trouble with inflating asset bubbles is that you have to keep inflating them or they pop. Unfortunately for the bubble-blowing central banks, asset bubbles are a double-bind: you cannot inflate assets forever. At some unpredictable point, the risk and moral hazard that are part and parcel of all asset bubbles trigger an avalanche of selling that pops the bubble.
This is another facet of The Fed’s Double-Bind: if you stop pumping asset bubbles, they pop as participants realize the music has stopped, and if you keep pumping them, they expand to super-nova criticality and implode.
There are several dynamics at play in this double-bind.”
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