Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog [6],
Of the three games in town, only one isn't doomed: the real economy.
Last year, Senator Schumer (Democrat, N.Y.) famously told Fed chairman Ben Bernanke "You are the only game in town." Really, Senator? What about the real economy? Bernanke and the Fed's machinations are indeed the only game in town for the parasitic financiers, but unnoticed by the Senator, America's real economy is innovating away from the dead hand of the Fed and its toxic spew of free money to the predatory class.
There's actually three games in town: the financier game the Fed is playing that will end in collapse, the Federal government's borrow-and-blow trillions of dollars game that will also end badly, and the real economy, where millions of people don't give a rat's rear-end about Bernanke's latest attempt to placate the financial Monster Id he has created.
Bernanke is irrelevant to millions of people who are building the next economy beneath the rotting soggy mess of the financialized one Bernanke is attempting to resuscitate.
Here is Bernanke's game: Bernanke has managed to stretch Phase II into five years; Phase III will finally begin in 2014-15 as the unintended consequences of Bernanke's save-the-financial-parasites game take the financial markets by the throat:
Serial asset bubbles blown by the Fed that always pop:
Here is the Federal government's game: Rapidly rising debt:
Diminishing returns on centralization and deficit spending:
Bernanke, Schumer, et al. are trying to revive the Financialization machine, but it's disintegrating as a result of its own toxic output. Meanwhile, the parts of the economy that view Bernanke, Schumer et al. as either impediments or as irrelevant are innovating and evolving.