{"id":51033,"date":"2020-02-08T14:01:08","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T19:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51033"},"modified":"2020-02-08T14:01:15","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T19:01:15","slug":"the-pandemic-isnt-ending-its-just-the-beginning-of-global-disorder-and-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51033","title":{"rendered":"The Pandemic Isn’t Ending, It’s Just the Beginning of Global Disorder and Depression"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Pandemic Isn’t Ending, It’s Just the Beginning of Global Disorder and Depression<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

When you’ve been lied to, you’ve been betrayed. Betrayal has consequences.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unsurprisingly, denying the pandemic is unstoppable and consequential is the order of the day:<\/strong>\u00a0authorities everywhere are terrified these realities might leak through all their oh-so-obviously desperate firewalls and filters. Why are they terrified? Because they know the entire global economy, including the linchpin Chinese and U.S. economies, was extremely fragile before the pandemic arose: why else the panic-stimulus and panic-repo policies of the Federal Reserve and the People’s Bank of China in the pre-pandemic months of Q4 2019?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And so everything is covered up, and if that doesn’t work, then outright denial is the default policy.<\/strong>\u00a0The number of cases globally is absurdly understated, the number of deaths in China is absurdly under-reported, and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the biggest denial campaign is aimed at masking the fragility of the global economy,<\/strong>\u00a0as the only thing keeping the rickety, speculative-bubble, insolvent global economy from imploding is\u00a0the belief and confidence of the masses that everything is going swimmingly<\/strong>, so keep on borrowing, borrowing, borrowing, buying, buying, buying and speculating, speculating, speculating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the real-world battle to limit the spread of the virus in China gets the headlines, the battle inside your head to maintain your confidence in the system is just as important.<\/strong>\u00a0Economists talk about recession and depression in quantitative terms: deflation, sales, profits, employment and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The key dynamic in recessions and depressions is\u00a0confidence<\/em>:<\/strong>\u00a0confidence that the condo you buy today will be worth a lot more tomorrow, the business investment you make today will generate higher profits tomorrow, your job benefits will increase tomorrow, your house value will rise tomorrow, and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Pandemic Isn’t Ending, It’s Just the Beginning of Global Disorder and Depression When you’ve been lied to, you’ve been betrayed. Betrayal has consequences. Unsurprisingly, denying the pandemic is unstoppable and consequential is the order of the day:\u00a0authorities everywhere are terrified these realities might leak through all their oh-so-obviously desperate firewalls and filters. Why are […]<\/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":[2,7],"tags":[28817,28947,303,305,587,607,2615,28849],"class_list":["post-51033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-survival-2","tag-coronavirus","tag-coronavirus-pandemic","tag-fed","tag-federal-reserve","tag-of-two-minds","tag-pandemic","tag-peoples-bank-of-china","tag-wuhan-virus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51033","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=51033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51034,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51033\/revisions\/51034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}