{"id":26635,"date":"2017-10-09T16:50:04","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T21:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26635"},"modified":"2017-10-09T16:50:04","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T21:50:04","slug":"the-tale-of-two-americas-urban-rise-rural-demise-rationale-to-hyper-monetize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26635","title":{"rendered":"The Tale of Two America’s…Urban Rise, Rural Demise, Rationale to Hyper-Monetize"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tale of Two America’s…Urban Rise, Rural Demise, Rationale to Hyper-Monetize<\/a><\/h3>\n
\u00a0(The following was written as an outline for a potential book.\u00a0 To this point no publisher has shown interest\u00a0and time and funds have run out.)<\/em><\/div>\n
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\n<\/em>America is in the midst of an ongoing and accelerating shift in demographics and population growth.\u00a0 These trends, long in place, are at a tipping point that\u00a0are simultaneously driving urban economic growth\u00a0(plus associated asset bubbles) and rural economic declines (plus associated\u00a0asset collapses).\u00a0 The spin up and spin down are mutually interconnected, the result of movement in a zero sum game.\u00a0\u00a0But for\u00a0select regions (and rural America in general), there is a surging quantity of sellers and a dwindling quantity and quality of buyers that will result in the primary asset of most Americans, their home, transitioning from an asset to an outright liability.<\/p>\n

Many will point to record stock market valuations as an indicator of positive economic and\/or business activity to refute my claims.\u00a0 Instead, I\u00a0argue it is the\u00a0Federal Reserve and federal government policies, in place\u00a0as a quasi “life support” for the negatively affected regions and rural America at large, that\u00a0are driving the asset valuation explosions of equities (chart below, representing all stocks publicly traded in the US) and urban housing.\u00a0 I will outline why the situation in the affected regions will only get worse and thus the Fed believes its hands are tied.\u00a0 Why any amount of normalization will only\u00a0induce localized collapses across much of the nation.\u00a0 The total market capitalization ($ value) of the Wilshire has nearly doubled the acknowledged “bubbles” of 2000 and 2008 and is likely to continue rising further, precisely due to the worsening issues I detail below.
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The Tale of Two America’s…Urban Rise, Rural Demise, Rationale to Hyper-Monetize \u00a0(The following was written as an outline for a potential book.\u00a0 To this point no publisher has shown interest\u00a0and time and funds have run out.) America is in the midst of an ongoing and accelerating shift in demographics and population growth.\u00a0 These trends, long […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1949,16387,2889,14704,303,16389,1160,16388,9740,4942,3650],"class_list":["post-26635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-america","tag-chris-hamilton","tag-demographics","tag-economica","tag-fed","tag-hyper-monetize","tag-population-growth","tag-suburban","tag-tipping-points","tag-urban","tag-us-federal-reserve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26636,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26635\/revisions\/26636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}