Alternative Visions - The US Fiscal-Monetary Crisis Intensifies - 10/02/13

Dr. Jack Rasmus provides his analysis on the current government shutdown and the repeat of the debt ceiling crisis coming by mid-October and their possible negative impacts on the economy.  Rasmus then considers the 'other policy crisis'--i.e. the US Federal Reserve's QE and zero interest rate monetary policies. He explains why US monetary policy has also entered a crisis stage in recent months--i.e. proving increasingly ineffective at stimulating the real economy while simultaneously generating financial bubbles. QE and austerity policies elsewhere in the world are discussed, with similar counterproductive effects on the real economy. Rasmus concludes the US and global economy is now entering a period of growing ineffectiveness of traditional fiscal-monetary policies generating a sustained economic recovery, at a time during which the US and global economies continue to slow or stagnate long term.