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 at the moment are pointless,” he careworn, 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 lot of new banking rules after the 2008 monetary disaster, we had been assured that what is occurring proper now would by no means occur once more.” Nevertheless, he argued:

One cause 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 tougher now!” the economist opined.

“The Fed brought on 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 might 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 tip of the month, the stability sheet may attain a brand new excessive. Fee hikes don’t matter. Inflation is headed a lot increased, because of 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 battle towards 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 increase it. Future price hikes at the moment are pointless, as any impact can be greater than offset by QE.

“As I warned for years the one means the Fed can come near reaching 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 clients,” he conveyed. Referencing latest bailouts of main banks, he concluded: “The Fed selected bailouts and surrendered the inflation battle.”