{"id":29670,"date":"2018-01-12T20:21:18","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T01:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29670"},"modified":"2018-01-12T20:21:18","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T01:21:18","slug":"drowning-in-the-money-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29670","title":{"rendered":"Drowning In The Money River"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Drowning In The Money River<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Why the 99% of us are falling farther behind<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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It’s a big club and you ain’t in it.
\n~ George Carlin<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you suspect society is unfair, that there’s a different set of rules the rich live by, you’re right.<\/p>\n

I’ve had ample chance to witness first-hand evidence of this in my time working on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley. Simply put: our highly financialized economy is gamed to enrich those who run it, at the expense of everybody else.<\/p>\n

The Money River<\/strong><\/p>\n

A recent experience really drove this home for me.<\/p>\n

Having received my MBA from Stanford in the late 90s, I remain on several alumni discussion groups. Recently, a former classmate of mine, who now runs her own asset management firm, circulated her thoughts on how today’s graduating students could best access an on-ramp to the ‘money river’.<\/p>\n

What’s the ‘money river’? Good question.<\/p>\n

The money river is the huge tsunami of investment capital sloshing around the globe, birthed by the historically-unprecedented\u00a0money printing conducted by the world’s central banks over the past decade. Since 2008, they’ve more than tripled their collective balance sheet:<\/p>\n

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The $13+ trillion in new thin-air money issued to achieve this is truly staggering. It’s so large that the human brain really can’t wrap around it. (For those who haven’t seen it, watch our brief video How Much Is A Trillion?<\/a> to better understand this.)<\/p>\n

But suffice it to say, all that money has to go somewhere. And it first goes into the pockets of those with closest access to it, and of those who direct where it flows.<\/p>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photobank gallery\/Shutterstock Drowning In The Money River Why the 99% of us are falling farther behind It’s a big club and you ain’t in it. ~ George Carlin If you suspect society is unfair, that there’s a different set of rules the rich live by, you’re right. I’ve had ample chance to witness first-hand evidence […]<\/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":[9860,124,303,305,426,534,17896,2218,661,662],"class_list":["post-29670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-adam-taggart","tag-central-banks","tag-fed","tag-federal-reserve","tag-inflation","tag-monetary-policy","tag-money-river","tag-peak-prosperity","tag-qe","tag-quantitative-easing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29670","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=29670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29671,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29670\/revisions\/29671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}