RE:Amazing DAY!Financial repression in that sense you are referring to, to allow
higher inflation, a lot of it going to pay off the humongous world
debt, taking perhaps 25 years or more to do,
works best
when the US or whoever, led, world economy, is humming along
which it is far from doing.
But instead like you said it's producing negative interest rates after
you subtract the higher inflation from the lower interest rates
even after the rate increase today.
Forcing everyone to invest in the riskier stock market, or could be
riskier if collapses, to get dividends much higher than the especially
inflation rate, in order to generate the income to live on.
Even those smart enough to invest in the gold/silver metals and
their stocks, have to do that to generate enough income.
At least
till the latter really takes off in a bubble, and gold/silver become
money again so not taxed as captial gains (well I guess they still
be) and for the stocks of gold/silver start generating banking stocks'
like dividends.
From Financial repression expert Dan Amerman, used to pay off huge
debt especially from side wars and world wars, using higher inflation
to do over decades. Inflation kept higher than the kept on increasing
interest rates.
ie
'Dan Amerman: Financial Repression
& The New Interest Rate Hike'
Referring to Dec 15,
2015 https://www.peakprosperity.com/podcast/95856/dan-amerman-financial-repression-new-interest-rate-hike "The key to understand the situation here is that this is not normalizing,
and we don’t have a precedent. We really don’t. We’re kind of all being
soothed and reassured by the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg and
the financial authorities that we’ve been down this path before, we’ve
been down it many times, more often than not we’ve had rising markets
as a result and, really, there’s nothing to worry about. The issue with that
is there are many things this time that are entirely different, and what is
presented as 'normalizing', for instance, is going back to say a projected
interest rate cycle like we saw in the 2000’s or the 1990’s. What’s
completely different, among many other things, is that we’ve never had
rates forced so low before, and they’ve never been so low for so long. So,
if you look, say at a long-term graph since 1954, what’s been going on
with the Fed funds rates, we’ve had plenty of reversals in interest rate
direction, but they’ve been these brief little dips that look nothing whatsoever
like this."