Thursday, May 2, 2013

Life Inside The Bubble

[Updated: May 14th, 2013]

This is the third and last monetary stimulus fueled bubble. Unlike the last two credit bubbles, this time, no one can point to any ubiquitous signs of  "excess".  That's because the prevailing consumption-oriented lifestyle is the excess - our presumed way of life is the final bubble. To believe in the status quo is to assume that we can borrow from Third World wage slaves indefinitely. The unmistakable indicator of unsustainability is that each bubble has required a vastly greater amount of monetary stimulus than the previous one - which only drives asset speculation rather than sustainable economic growth. The majority can't see the bubble, because they are living in it...