Powell: “I’m inclined to agree
with Keith. I have always suspected that what is underway here is a
redistribution of world gold supply, from the West to the East, to compensate
the Eastern nations for their dollar surpluses which are not going to hold their
value as gold does.
I think that is probably the secret
bargain here -- that China and the other dollar-surplus countries will agree not
to pull the plug on the dollar and US government bonds and Western debt
generally, as long as they have access to discounted gold.
Everything has been rigged in
market terms. 5 years ago in a speech in Washington I said, ‘There are no
markets anymore, just interventions.’ Increasingly in academic and journalistic
circles this is being called ‘financial repression.’ I suspect and fear that
the Fed’s defeat on tapering this week means that we are going to see even more
repression..."
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