Source: How To Survive The WinterThe point is, the Potemkin village of inflated stock and real estate prices cannot continue indefinitely. When asset prices crack, and pension funds are exposed to be in terminal arrears, exacting clarity will prevail. Federal, state, and local governments are flat broke. So, too, are corporations and consumers.
This coincidence must alert readers that a tempest is brewing on subjects noted: lurking inflation, increasing debt, suppressed interest rates and the shifting of hegemonic power. There are only two important questions in investing that also apply to subjects impacting the future stability of the world — tell me why and tell me when. Plender gives us the “why”, the ever-increasing “intolerable burden” of government debt and suppressed rates leveraging the global financial system. He gives us the tipping point. What we await is “the when”, as in when do we know we have “tipped”. Paul Hackett Madison, NJ, US Letter: Why the geopolitics of international currency choice matters
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