Economist Peter Schiff Expects Worse Monetary Disaster Than 2008 — Says ‘Future Fee Hikes Are Now Pointless’

Economist Peter Schiff has warned that the present monetary disaster can be worse than in 2008. “Future price hikes are actually pointless,” he harassed, including that any impact can be greater than offset by the Fed’s quantitative easing.

Peter Schiff’s Monetary Disaster Warning

Economist and gold bug Peter Schiff shared his outlook for the U.S. financial system in a sequence of tweets this week. He defined that when the federal government “imposed a number of new banking laws after the 2008 monetary disaster, we had been assured that what is occurring proper now would by no means occur once more.” Nonetheless, he argued:

One motive we had the 2008 monetary disaster was an excessive amount of authorities regulation. That’s why this disaster can be worse.

“This time it’s completely different. When the 2008 monetary disaster began, the greenback rose and gold fell. This time it’s the reverse … That’s as a result of traders are realizing the excessive inflation that ought to’ve hit ten years in the past will hit even more durable now!” the economist opined.

“The Fed induced the monetary disaster of 2008 and 2023,” Schiff asserted, claiming that he forecasted each as a result of he “understood the implications of the Fed’s coverage errors.” He added that he “began predicting the present monetary disaster again in 2009,” however on the time, he didn’t know “how lengthy it could take for it to hit.”

Schiff additional defined that the Fed’s quantitative easing (QE) is again. “Final week, the Fed’s stability sheet swelled by $300 billion, wiping out 4 months of QT [quantitative tightening] in a single week. By the top of the month, the stability sheet might attain a brand new excessive. Fee hikes don’t matter. Inflation is headed a lot greater, due to financial institution bailouts,” he detailed. His remark adopted the Federal Reserve and the U.S. authorities unveiling measures to bail out failed Silicon Valley Financial institution and Signature Financial institution final Sunday.

The economist continued:

The Fed was preventing a two-pronged warfare in opposition to inflation, price hikes and QT. The Fed has now reversed hearth, and is doing aggressive QE. If QT was designed to decrease inflation, QE will elevate it. Future price hikes are actually pointless, as any impact can be greater than offset by QE.

“As I warned for years the one approach the Fed can come near attaining its 2% inflation goal is to permit a worse monetary disaster than 2008 to run its pure course, with no bailouts for banks or their prospects,” he conveyed. Referencing latest bailouts of main banks, he concluded: “The Fed selected bailouts and surrendered the inflation battle.”

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