Submitted by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com,
Normalcy bias is a rather horrifying thing. It is so frightening because it is so final; much like death, there is simply no coming back. Rather than a physical death, normalcy bias represents the death of reason and simple observation. It is the death of the mind and cognitive thought instead of the death of the body.
While various Chinese bubbles have already burst in recent years, including those in the real estate, stock market and fixed investment sectors, so far the credit and shadow banking bubbles linger on with bond yields recently touching on record lows as the money invested in the various other bubbles has migrated into various forms of fixed income, including investment companies which promise exorbitant returns.
As we predicted over a year ago, in a world in which QE has failed, and in which the ice-cold grip of NIRP has to be global in order to achieve its intended purpose of forcing savers around the world to spend the taxed product of their labor, one thing has to be abolished: cash.
Dale Dorsey isn’t happy.
After working 33 years, he’s facing a 55% cut to his pension benefits, a blow which he says will “cripple” his family and imperil the livelihood of his two children, one of whom is in the fourth grade and one of whom is just entering high school.
Submitted by Robert Romano via NetRightDaily.com,
Interest rates in Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, the European Central Bank and now the Bank Japan have now plunged into negative territory, starting a new phase in the era of central banking that is very much uncharted.
Time will tell if it leaves the global economy lost at sea.