Monday, February 2, 2015

The Hotel Californication: No Vacancy

The Extend and Pretend exit strategy, is called 'no strategy'
1997 Currency crisis +  2008 housing bubble x 10:


From the psychopaths themselves:

MW: Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan [July 27, 2014]:
"Bubbles can't be stopped without a 'crunch'. There's no obvious way to exit this one". 

MarketWatch: 
"Some economists argue that the economy has just been bubble after bubble and that we’re doomed to repeat this cycle"
Greenspan: 
"Well, I agree with that"

[Andy Haldane, Chief Economist, Bank of England]
"Has monetary policy aided and abetted risk-taking? I hope so. That's why we did it,"