Even the President is Terrified of the Dreaded “D” Word Deflation

By: Graham_Summers

The following tweet tells you everything you need to know about the state of the US financial system today…

The media will focus on ridiculing President Trump for being “un-Presidential” or some such thing.

They are missing the bigger picture here.

The bigger picture is an implicit admission, by the most powerful person in the world, that the stock market is directly linked to GDP growth… and that the Fed HAS to inflate both for the system to properly function.

What President Trump is really tweeting about is this:

In a financial system as leveraged as this, the single most important thing is to avoid the dreaded “d” word…debt deflation.

Debt deflation is the process through which debt falls in value. When it hits, the entire financial system experiences a kind of “margin call” and begins to implode.

If you think I’m being dramatic here, consider that the debt deflation that triggered 2008 crisis, the crisis in which the entire financial system nearly went under, is that tiny dip in the red square below:

THIS is why debt deflation is so terrifying to powerful people, the President included: in a system as leveraged as the US financial system today, even tiny amount of debt deflation can trigger a systemic reset.

The dirty little secret is President Trump didn’t mention in his tweet is that we just began to experience another bout of debt deflation in December 2018.

This is why the Fed panicked and abandoned its attempts at raising rates or shrinking is balance sheet.

It’s also why everyone at the top of the financial/ political pyramid (the Secretary of the Treasury, the President’s economic advisors, even the President himself, is urging the Fed to start printing money aggressively now.

They know that something truly horrific is unfolding “behind the scenes” right now.

The market knows it too… though the media is doing its best to avoid showing you this chart:

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Graham Summers

Phoenix Capital Research

http://www.phoenixcapitalmarketing.com

Graham also writes Private Wealth Advisory, a monthly investment advisory focusing on the most lucrative investment opportunities the financial markets have to offer. Graham understands the big picture from both a macro-economic and capital in/outflow perspective. He translates his understanding into finding trends and unde74rvalued investment opportunities months before the markets catch on: the Private Wealth Advisory portfolio has outperformed the S&P 500 three of the last five years, including a 7% return in 2008 vs. a 37% loss for the S&P 500.

Previously, Graham worked as a Senior Financial Analyst covering global markets for several investment firms in the Mid-Atlantic region. He’s lived and performed research in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the United States.

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