{"id":53295,"date":"2020-05-14T16:48:04","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T21:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=53295"},"modified":"2020-05-14T16:48:07","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T21:48:07","slug":"no-stimulus-for-the-weary-the-us-is-now-sitting-on-an-inflation-time-bomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=53295","title":{"rendered":"No Stimulus for the Weary: The US is Now Sitting on an Inflation Time Bomb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/economy-stimulus-covid-19-inflation-time-bomb\/267446\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/AP_20092777731338_edited.jpg\" alt=\"Coronavirus Inflation Feature Photo\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/economy-stimulus-covid-19-inflation-time-bomb\/267446\/\">No Stimulus for the Weary: The US is Now Sitting on an Inflation Time Bomb<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The White House budget office doesn\u2019t know if the $2.2 Trillion-dollar stimulus package and Trump\u2019s $1,200 stimulus checks might cause an inflationary spiral. But many economists have no doubt it will.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>T<\/strong>he consequences of the $2.2 trillion stimulus package are being ignored, even by the White House budget office that put it together, admitting that the package had \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/03\/27\/upshot\/stimulus-national-debt-coronavirus.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">come together so quickly<\/a>,\u201d that they had no time \u201cto do the customary modeling of its fiscal impact.\u201d What does appear to have consensus in financial circles is that after this is over&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-03-25\/economies-already-look-totally-different-from-the-pre-virus-age?srnd=economics-vp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">central banks will effectively own<\/a>&nbsp;the governments of the world, including the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When it is all said and done, President Trump\u2019s stimulus checks will carry an inflationary cost many multiples more than their original $1,200 value in the pre-coronavirus economic reality, a reality that probably won\u2019t become apparent until after the election in November. By then the checks will have served their purpose as a political move, not an economic one. When understood from the vantage point of what is in store for the American working classes as we emerge from this red light on main street, Trump\u2019s checks will only add fuel to the inflationary fire just ahead, according to Neal Kimberley, a macroeconomics analyst for the&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/comment\/opinion\/article\/3078709\/what-follows-pandemic-unemployment-and-emergency-stimulus-inflation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">South China Morning Post<\/a><\/em>.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/QTRResearch\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/QTRResearch\"><strong>Quoth the Raven<\/strong>@QTRResearch<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/QTRResearch\/status\/1259524447654031361\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is an inflationary cost to the Fed printing ~$50,000 per citizen in stimulus.<br><br>If you have only received $1,200 you should be asking why you are bearing the inflationary cost for another $48,800 you never got.<br><br>Instead of a bailout you\u2019re paying a hidden tax. Speak up.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/like?tweet_id=1259524447654031361\">4,266<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/QTRResearch\/status\/1259524447654031361\"><time datetime=\"2020-05-10T16:43:23+0000\">12:43 PM &#8211; May 10, 2020<\/time><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/support.twitter.com\/articles\/20175256\">Twitter Ads info and privacy<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/QTRResearch\/status\/1259524447654031361\">1,383 people are talking about this<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No Stimulus for the Weary: The US is Now Sitting on an Inflation Time Bomb The White House budget office doesn\u2019t know if the $2.2 Trillion-dollar stimulus package and Trump\u2019s $1,200 stimulus checks might cause an inflationary spiral. But many economists have no doubt it will. The consequences of the $2.2 trillion stimulus package are [&hellip;]<\/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":[426,29742,29741,1234,14907],"class_list":["post-53295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-inflation","tag-inflation-time-bomb","tag-raul-diego","tag-stimulus","tag-us-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53295","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=53295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53296,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53295\/revisions\/53296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}