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A Tale Of Two Extremes: Global Inflation In One Chart
While Europe, and the bulk of the Developed World is struggling to dig out of its unprecedented credit crunch (in which central banks are the only source of credit money which instead of entering the economy is stuck in the capital markets via the reserve pathway) and resulting deflation, the rest of the Emerging Market world is doing just fine. If by fine one means inflation at what Goldman calls, bordering on "extreme levels." This is shown in the chart below which breaks down the Y/Y change in broad prices across the main DM and EM countries, and which shows that when talking about inflation there are two worlds: the Emerging, where inflation is scorching, and Developing, where inflation is in a state of deep freeze.
What is notable here is that despite hopes for a convergence between the inflationary trends in the Developed (downside extremes) and Emerging (upside extremes) world for the past year, what has happened instead is an acceleration of the process especially in recent weeks as EMs have been forced to devalue their currencies at an ever faster pace in order to offset the impact of the taper, leading to surging inflation as Turkey, Argentina, and Venezuela among many others, have found out the hard way in just the past month.
And as inflation in EM nations continues to roil ever higher not only does the implicit exporting of deflation to the DM accelerate, but it means that their societies approach ever closert to the tipping point when the citizens decide they have had just about enough with their government and/or their currency and decide to change one and/or the other. Hopefully, in a peaceful matter.
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U.S Most effective export!!!
American exceptionalism will bankrupt you.
OT -
when you push your vehicles onto dealers, that's channel stuffing
but when you push your houses onto fema/dhs, that's preparedness
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=6579c2845112391f305...
let the New Housing Starts and the New Houses Sold abound!
It's been 3 generations of the FED exporting inflation.
When the dollar breaks, all that inflation is going to come back to the US very very fast. Most will have zero idea how to live with their new reduced purchasing power.
Partly because inflation figures are calculated more honestly in EM's (Argentina being a notable exception). That is because in most EM's, food and energy are all that really matter.
One of the EM countries will soon experience hyperinflation. It will be interesting to see if the public latch onto Bitcoin, because for the first time in the collapse of a fiat system a better alternative exists.
Regretably LatAm's twin duncecaps, Argentina and Venezuela, had to be excluded since their bars are about 8 and 12 inches beyond the top of the chart, respectively.
True, but at least their student loans are toast;)
Current US inflation (real rate) is about 9%.
http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts
Exactly, and I would assume that the European nations real inflation rate is significantly higher as well.
We can assume that Goldman knows the 'real' inflation rates and therefore their 'extreme levels' is an accurate statement, even if the chart is a bunch of bullshit.
Make your own deflation. Check out MOHU, OOMA, HOLA, HULU. Hint: these are not ticker symbols. Personal knowledge, they work.
why do i smell one world governess coming?
no chance in hell that will work.
And .... you think that fact alone will stop it?
'one world governess' -- Hillary 2016!
/sarc
It's already here and called American foreign policy
Kinda shoots the goal of all Federal Banks Racing To The Bottom at the same rate all to Hell, doesn't it?
i don't have to outrun the bear (inflation) i just have to outrun you. demand destruction bitchez.
check back in 12 months for the DEFLATION update
while I'd be the last to commend the Vampire Squid for its efforts, Exhibit 1 is a good synopsis of what I've been trying to explain to people for months. half the world's population (the poor half) is getting hammered by inflation while the other half (the not poor half) is benefiting from the hammering. next chart: on the right side of the scale, inflation-adjusted returns from each country's major bourse. i am fairly certain that chart will be inversely correlated with a coefficient nearly 1 without even looking at the data.
Whether by design or merely as a byproduct of globalization we have weaved a web of financial transactions that circle the globe. Over the last several years as money was printed by the central Banks it was not contained in the countries where in was printed. This money flowed across borders influencing and distorting markets and prices across the world.
Some people have been calling for a "world currency" for years. the saying "one should never let a good crisis go to waste" means a meltdown with high levels of fear would present a perfect opportunity and catalyst to advance this agenda down the field. Remember many people with agendas have a lot to gain when a major shift in the currency markets takes place. More on this subject below,
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2014/02/contagion-may-lead-to-new-world-c...
And why wouldn't this be something along the lines of BitCoin?
Because Bitcoin is broken and nobody knows/trusts where it came from.
Remember that big horse that turned up outside Troy. Did anyone ask where it came from?
Check this out......
http://gizmodo.com/somebody-hacked-into-silk-road-2-and-stole-all-the-bi...
So bit coin can be hacked, thought it was Bullet Proof............
Pagin fonestar
The US FED, backstop to the world......
http://www.theguardian.com/business/economics-blog/2014/feb/13/global-ma...
Da, Japan's most coveted
I know this is OT, but is even Bit[shit]coin safe??????
http://gizmodo.com/somebody-hacked-into-silk-road-2-and-stole-all-the-bi...
So bit coin can be hacked, thought it was Bullet Proof............
Pagin fonestar
FFS, is the dollar unsafe because somewhere someone robbed a bank?
There is no inflation, Ben told me so.
ya know, when you've got the home team advantage of creating and simultaneously buying $85bn/ month at near zero % rates and letting the TBTF do the FX thingy... you'll never lose the over/under or the point spread! emphasis on point spread!
what liquidity trap(?)? what liquidity trap there was has gone with the, winds-of-change 'TBTF Knighthood via 'Dodd-Frank Act'! indeed, when your hegemony is 70% of the world's cash-n-carry on hand... it's nice to be a EM and/or *DM (*baggard thy neighbor) Kingmaker!
remember the spread... be it points or over/under means nothing except to the 'VIG'!!!
lastly, inflation/ deflation... recession/ depression mean shit to the money changers
so go with the flow,... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_exchange_market#Market_size_and_Liquidity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_exchange_market#Trading_characteristics
$4.5tn/ daily FX and USA ~ 87%
jmo
Ps. as tyler says so often,... on a long enough timeline we'll all be dead-- or something like that
australia leading the DM pack
Aussie Aussie Aussie!!!!!!!
Real inflation in Brazil is something around 15%-20% a year. Government manipulates numbers.
Wealth inequality is increasing to such a extent that it is crashing the consumption side of the Production-Consumption equilibrium.
As a result we have a vicious cycle whereby lack of consumption leads to higher unemployment and further idling of productive/factory potentials.
And now production capacity is so unneeded that it is no longer pursued except where innovative magic can still happen. Production as a whole awaits consumption to catch up.
The only means to increase consumption is to take money from the "winners"/capitalists/investors and funnel it back to the "loser"/worker-consumers/wage-slaves.
There are three peaceful means to do this: INFLATION--TAXATION--CONFISCATION
And there is one bloody tool: REVOLUTION
Which will you choose? There is no going forward without making a choice.