How GE Screwed Over Its Retirees
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/how-ge-screwed-over-its-retirees/
Our Nuts Are in Danger
By John Mauldin October 11, 2019
https://www.mauldineconomics.com/frontlinethoughts/our-nuts-are-in-danger
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jack goldman Oct. 13, 11:32 a.m.
You miss a simple point John. We transitioned from a real economy making real stuff with real money, gold and silver, to a fake economy making fake stuff (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google, Wall Street) making fake stuff, with fake money, Federal Reserve debt notes after August 15th, 1971.
It took $250,000 principal to pay $3,000 per month at 18% interest in 1980 when promises were made. It takes $3,600,000 to pay $3,000 per month in 2010 at 1% interest when promises are due. Who pays the difference? The pensioners retire as multi millionaires. Someone must pay. Who pays? The pensions are 14x more valuable from 1980 to 2010. Who pays the 14x? I don’t want to pay, that’s for sure.
It’s the time value of money. Bonds have outperformed stocks by 500% since 1980 due to falling interest rates. Now we have a day of reckoning. Who pays for the promises now that the time value of money and fake computer credits have changed? US Treasury issues real money, gold and silver coins. Federal Reserve issues fake money, debt note money, computer credits, of no real value. Who pays?
Dow is down 35% from 1966 to 2019 in real money, ounces of gold. Dow is up 2,500% in fake money, debt notes. The issue is we are now a fake economy using fake money to get fake measurements. Businesses that make real stuff are in real trouble in the fake economy. Fake businesses are doing great. Can Trump fix it? No. We need a reset. We are over valuing the fake because it can be replicated for free and real stuff has to be made in the expensive real world. This is why educated people don’t have children. We will resolve it with a war.