The Fed and the other major world central banks are pumping huge amounts of money into global markets while busy ‘easing’, which means ‘lowering interest rates’.

Their plan is for all this funny-money to boost further the stock markets, er ““markets,”” which is very popular with both the domestic politicians and the international Davos crowd that central bankers prefer to hang around with.

Thus, every social pressure the central bankers are exposed to is 100% in support of continuing to pump up financial asset prices.

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Executive Summary

• Why today’s ‘magnificent folly’ will unwind in the 2020s
• The return of Peak Oil
• Why the pace of change will accelerate faster from here
• Why time is of the essence for those with the courage to act

If you have not yet read Part 1: Good Riddance To The ‘Twenty-Teens’, available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.

This next decade will be a banquet of consequences.

Our misdeeds and mistakes will all be coming home to roost.

I certainly hope you are  taking steps to prepare yourself for them. I certainly am.

The subversion of our free and fair markets has resulted in the most radical, interventionist, large-scale social experiment ever run in the modern developed world.

The early returns, unless you’re a member of the 0.1%, are dismal across the board.

The 2020’s will see the unwinding of this magnificent folly. It’s collapse will be extremely painful for the vast majority of humanity.

You see, the extremely dangerous thing about credit bubbles is that they… (Enroll now to continue reading)

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You wouldn’t know it from the ever-rising stock ““market””, but something is really wrong beneath the surface of the financial system.

The Fed is lying about it, too. So is the mainstream financial press, unable to perform its most basic function of asking obvious questions and following them up with additional inquiry.

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This week Chris sat down with Peak Prosperity’s favorite expert on the Federal Reserve, Axel Merk, to try to make sense of what’s going on with Fed policy.

We’re rushing this podcast to you before the transcript is ready as the situation is so fluid this week. In the 48 hours since the recording of this interview, the Fed has announced it will keep interest rates unchanged for the time being, but will begin a massive increase to its rescue efforts in the repo market, committing to injecting $425 billion over the near future.

That is a truly staggering sum and a clear sign of trouble in the banking system. Most likely, one or more big players are failing and, as a result, banks are becoming increasingly reluctant to lend to one another, even for very short durations.

What does this all portend? Listen on…

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