Turning Hard Times Into Good Times

John Rubino, Patrick Highsmith and Chen Lin return. The big Keynesian fantasy that a country can forever become wealthy by consuming more than it produces has seemed believable to Americans because we have owned the world’s fiat reserve currency. That meant for the past number of decades that the Federal Reserve could create fiat money out of thin air to enable Americans to buy foreign goods rather than Americans earning income through export sales to pay for their consumption. But alas, the Federal Reserve and America cannot defy the law of mathematics because money isn’t actually created out of thin air at all. Fiat money is manufactured with debt. So, as decade after decade, America continued to consume more than it produced, its debt relative to income has risen to the point where the U.S. is now insolvent. Because of excessive unearned money creation by the Fed, America is now facing double-digit levels of inflation akin to 1980. But unlike 1980, when a 20% Fed Funds interest rate was required to break t