Today, we are witnessing the investment world’s slow awakening to the fact that the monetary actions taken by the world’s Central Banks have not in fact solved the issues leading up to the 2008 Crisis.
In point of fact, the Central Banks’ actions have exacerbated pre-existing problems (excessive leverage) while simultaneously creating new problems (inflation).
This slow awakening has taken much longer than I would have expected, but with tens of thousands of careers on the line (financial professionals) as well as tens of trillions of dollars in portfolios at risk, the vast majority of professional market participants were highly incentivized not to realize these issues.
However, at this point, it is becoming clear that not only are financial professionals slowly realizing that 2008 was actually “the warm up,” but that Central Banks themselves are aware that they’ve:
Failed to solve the issues leading up to 2008.
Created other unforeseen problems.
Indeed, this process of realization first began in the US where we had signs as far back as April 2011 that the Federal Reserve was aware that QE (AKA monetization of US debt) was less “attractive” as a policy (read: not such a good idea).
The vast majority of the media and Wall Street analysts failed to recognize this, though Bernanke himself admitted it in public:
Q. Since both housing and unemployment have not recovered sufficiently, why are you not instantly embarking on QE3? — Michael A. Kamperman, Waco, Tex.
Mr. Bernanke: “Going forward, we’ll have to continue to make judgments about whether additional steps are warranted, but as we do so, we have to keep in mind that we do have a dual mandate, that we do have to worry about both the rate of growth but also the inflation rate…
“The trade-offs are getting — are getting less attractive at this point. Inflation has gotten higher. Inflation expectations are
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