It's there.
It's there in the half trillion Euros pumped into an already dead European financial system at Christmas by the European Central Bank. It's there in the half trillion Euros that the ECB is going to pump in next month. It's there in the trillions upon trillions of dollars pumped into the system by the Fed, and the hundreds of billions of pounds pumped into system by the Bank of England.
All this money printing is supposed to be increasing the availability of credit. Except it isn't. The bankrupt Inter-Alpha Group banks are hoarding it - in Europe to the tune of over €500 billion. The banks are in a blind panic, hanging onto every penny they can get their grubby mits on. It's that fact alone which has created a temporary downward pressure on prices.
As a result of that downward pressure, the real economy is grinding to a halt.
Britain has "slipped into recession", we're told. What a joke that is, as a quick walk along any of our high streets will demonstrate. For a consumer society, we are becoming extremely lacking in anything to consume, as our high streets become increasing devoid of any actual shops. Those that exist are trying to drum up a few crumbs of business with 70% discounts. Is this sustainable?
And here's the danger. The hyperinflation is there, now. It has been there since before this bailout process began.
In fact, we are in the final stage just before it kicks us all in the face. The "consumer price index", that bastion of lies, is falling, mostly because of energy price falls as a result of fluctuations in the commodities markets, and all those 70% off signs. The sustained, heavy, downward pressure on prices in the high street is having a direct effect - shops are closing.
What happens when they have all closed, and all we are left with is a couple of major supermarket chains? What will be the effect of the lack of competition? What will happen when all the distribution companies have closed down because there are no shops to distribute to? What will happen when the manufacturers can no longer afford to pay even their child labour costs? What will happen when all this is combined with a collapse of confidence in national, or, at least initially, one particular international currency?
Prices are going rise, significantly, soon, as the supply and demand equation kicks in. Another link in the systemic collapse chain will have been forged. Once that upward price pressure has begun, it will be unstoppable.
Could this be why China is willing to take the risk of handing its currency over to the City of London in an effort to turn it into a reserve currency? Perhaps, sitting on over three trillion dollars in foreign reserves, China feels it has nothing left to lose?
