It's not hard to imagine how conditions today might look a few years hence. With the interest rate pedal nailed to the floorboard, money continuing to spew from Washington to buy all sorts of things, banks once again trying to figure out how to divide up bonus money, and the price of gold again approaching $1,000, officials are concerned about moving too fast toward restoring a more normal monetary policy environment as reported by Bloomberg.Geithner: Too Early to Implement Exit Strategies
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said the Group of 20 nations has been “very successful” in helping to end the global recession and cautioned that it’s too early to remove policies aimed at boosting growth.
“You’re seeing the first signs of positive growth now in this country and countries around the world,” Geithner told reporters in Washington today. “We’ve come a very long way but I think we have to be realistic, we’ve got a long way to go still.”
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Geithner said talks in London will include the start of a discussion on bank capital standards as well as a “framework” for how the world’s largest industrial and developing economies can cooperate to remove policies to stimulate growth. While it’s “too early” to implement exit strategies, it’s not too soon to talk about them, he said.
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It is “very important” to the U.S. to “reinforce the progress we are seeing,” Geithner said.
Assuming we navigate the deflationary abyss that continues to beckon from afar, we'll probably find out a couple years from now that we were very well "reinforced" at this point in time, well on the way to inflating an even more enormous bubble ... somewhere, in something ... to replace the one that just burst.
This post has been republished from Tim Iacono's blog, The Mess That Greenspan Made.
2 comments:
I think it is very difficult to say where the next bubble will come from. The past two were based on industry sectors that could support large scale job growth (tech and FIRE). Going forward the only industry I can think of is alternative energy, but most forms are too expensive unless oil gets back over $100, which seems unlikely given the lack of demand for it.
But I do think we will still have large inflationary problems down the road, and the main item to benefit from this should be gold, given the Fed's money printing efforts that are weakening our currency. Here is a further thought on the gold price and how it may react in such an environment.
I think we touched the bottom...maybe in a few years...
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