Why INTEREST RATE HIKES Are INFLATIONARY!

Interest-Rates / Inflation Nov 24, 2022 - 07:02 PM GMT

Unfortunately I will have to leave this mostly for next time. But basically INTEREST RATE HIKES to bring INFLATION DOWN! Is NOT going to work because INTEREST RATES DO NOT CONTROL the RATE of INFLATION. So that which academics have built their whole careers on is BS! All I hear is Volcker raised rates that brought inflation down and so rinse and repeat, was it Interest rates that killed the Inflation of the 1970's? Are you sure your not lapping up the propaganda which is ECONOMICs perpetuated by the propaganda arms of Governments called central banks who's primary remit is to put up a smoke screen of misinformation so as to allow governments, to get away with printing money!

As I have voiced for well over a decade, Inflation is a function of governments PRINTING MONEY, of which QE is part of the equation i.e print money to monetize government debt, which despite all of the noise continues to this very day! Governments printing money on an epic scale for which the smoking gun is the Governments deficit spending, the US Federal Government is spending $1.4 trillion more than it earns in revenue that is PRINTING MONEY! For the UK it's about £120 billion,

What do you think interest rates hikes are going to do to the money printing? Reduce or increase money printing? Think about it!

Interest rate hikes mean that the INTEREST payments on DEBT INCREASE, so how is the government gong to fund this extra expense? PRINT MORE MONEY! Which means UPWARDS pressure on INFLATION! What's worse is that 1/4 of UK debt is INDEX LINKED! That has already seen debt servicing costs soar from £5 billion a month to £20 billion PER MONTH!

So the inflation train continues to chug along all whilst the government and central banks play their smoke and mirrors game.

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