{"id":41180,"date":"2018-12-02T19:35:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T00:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41180"},"modified":"2018-12-02T19:35:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T00:35:28","slug":"eric-peters-america-has-begun-to-use-its-economic-and-military-might-to-take-what-it-wants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41180","title":{"rendered":"Eric Peters: “America Has Begun To Use Its Economic And Military Might To Take What It Wants”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Eric Peters: “America Has Begun To Use Its Economic And Military Might To Take What It Wants”<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Stockholm:<\/strong>“How should we think about inflation?\u201d asked the Strategic Asset Allocation Committee. \u201cIs inflation something that should have been much lower were it not for such low interest rates and so much QE? Because if that is so, won\u2019t policy normalization cause deflation? Or has QE created disinflation? Because if it has, won\u2019t its reversal create inflation? How will politics affect inflation? And what should we think of Trump? Who will come next? A socialist? Is Fed independence under attack? And what are we to make of your trade conflict with China?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stockholm II<\/strong>:\u201cOur conflict with China is about far more than a trade deficit,\u201d I explained. \u201cIt is about slowing China\u2019s rise, economically, militarily. Confronting them on intellectual property, market access.\u201d The committee agreed. \u201cUS and EU policy, business, and military circles all seem to believe that this is necessary, overdue, but many are offended by our approach.\u201d The Swedes agreed. \u201cWhat would have happened if the US had tried to coordinate its European allies to confront China in a multi-lateral way?\u201d I asked them. \u201cNothing,\u201d they said. And I agreed.<\/p>\n

Stockholm III<\/strong>: \u201cUS markets are priced for roughly 2% or less inflation every year for 30yrs,\u201d I said. In a world of extraordinary debt, rising deficits, and impossible entitlement liabilities, pricing low and stable inflation when governments print money seems a poor bet.<\/p>\n

\u201cElectorates are voting for higher wages, greater income security, less trade and immigration \u2013 more balanced division of economic profits between labor and capital. And if the current parties do not deliver this result, they will be replaced by parties that will lift inflation through socialist redistribution<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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