{"id":403125,"date":"2019-04-15T01:26:46","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T00:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/silver-shortages-are-here-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2019-04-15T01:26:46","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T00:26:46","slug":"silver-shortages-are-here-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/silver-shortages-are-here-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Silver Shortages are Here &#8211; LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Non-Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>MMT is the socialists\u2019 dream. It officially stands for Modern Monetary Theory but a more appropriate name would be More Money Theory. Because\u00a0<strong>MMT is just a fancy name to justify more money printing, more deficits and more debts.<\/strong>\u00a0Socialists love MMT, because for a sovereign nation, it justifies constantly living above your means.<\/p>\n<p>This is of course nothing new for the US which has practised MMT for soon 70 years. Not since the early 1960s has the US had a real budget surplus. Europe has had socialist governments for decades, but for the US it is a relatively new phenomenon. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) has now picked up the baton from Krugman, arguing that socialism and deficit spending is the solution to the US problems and the world\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p><strong>US UBER-SPENDING<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump, who normally is as far from a socialist as you can get, is nevertheless applying MMT to the US economy by continuing to spend money that doesn\u2019t exist. His tax cutting and uber-spending, combined with the imminent downturn of the US economy, will soon put the US in the same category as countries like Italy. That is what is called<strong>\u00a0the basket case category<\/strong>\u00a0where default will be unavoidable.<\/p>\n<p>As opposed to Italy, the US can print its own money. And they continue to do at an ever increasing rate. Just look at the chart below which shows the only way the US government knows how to grow GDP. But we must remember that printing unlimited amounts of worthless money leads to a total debasement of the currency which is just another form of default.<\/p>\n<p>From 1970 to 2008 it took $0.77 of debt to produce $1 of GDP. From 2008 to 2019 it has taken $4 of debt to produce $1 of GDP. In simple terms, the US is running on empty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/lrc-cdn\/assets\/2019\/04\/IPOs4-10-192.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-707909 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/lrc-cdn\/assets\/2019\/04\/IPOs4-10-192-620x285.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/lrc-cdn\/assets\/2019\/04\/IPOs4-10-192-620x285.jpg 620w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/lrc-cdn\/assets\/2019\/04\/IPOs4-10-192-150x69.jpg 150w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/lrc-cdn\/assets\/2019\/04\/IPOs4-10-192-300x138.jpg 300w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/lrc-cdn\/assets\/2019\/04\/IPOs4-10-192-768x353.jpg 768w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/lrc-cdn\/assets\/2019\/04\/IPOs4-10-192.jpg 1011w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>FALSE MONEY LEADS TO FALSE VALUES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"amazon-element-wrapper-custom align-right last-count\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-med-image\"><span class=\"amazon-image-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/How-Economy-Grows-Why-Crashes\/dp\/047052670X?SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&amp;tag=lrc18-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=2025&amp;creative=165953&amp;creativeASIN=047052670X\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41hxcwjGMfL.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"amazon-image amazon-image-medium\"\/><\/a><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-title\"><span class=\"appip-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/How-Economy-Grows-Why-Crashes\/dp\/047052670X?SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&amp;tag=lrc18-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=2025&amp;creative=165953&amp;creativeASIN=047052670X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">How an Economy Grows&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2019\/04\/egon-von-greyerz\/silver-shortages-are-here-and-gold-scarcity-is-coming\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MMT is the socialists\u2019 dream. It officially stands for Modern Monetary Theory but a more appropriate name would be More Money Theory. Because\u00a0MMT is just a fancy name to justify more money printing, more deficits and more debts.\u00a0Socialists love MMT, because for a sovereign nation, it justifies constantly living above your means. This is of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-403125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}