Death Of Globalization, Death Of Currency; Death Spiral

Mike Krieger On The Death Of Globalization, The Death Of Currency And The Death Spiral

Submitted by Tyler Durden
02/03/2011 15:21 -0500

by Mike Krieger of KAM LP

They had then learned how easy it is to issue it; how difficult it is to check its over issue; how seductively it leads to the absorption of the means of the workingmen and men of small fortunes; how heavily it falls on all those living on fixed incomes, salaries or wages; how securely it creates on the ruins of the prosperity of all men of meager means a class of debauched speculators, the most injurious class that a nation can harbor,—more injurious, indeed, than professional criminals whom the law recognizes and can throttle; how it stimulates overproduction at first and leaves every industry flaccid afterward; how it breaks down thrift and develops political and social immorality. All this France had been thoroughly taught by experience.

Everything was enormously inflated in price except the wages of labor. As manufacturers had closed, wages had fallen, until all that kept them up seemed to be the fact that so many laborers were drafted off into the army. From this state of things came grievous wrong and gross fraud.

- Andrew Dickson White, “Fiat Money Inflation in Franceâ€