off of moscow. welcome to the kaiser report imax guys are this you ever get the feeling that nobody actually knows what they're talking about that politicians central bankers and unelected bureaucrats are just talking out of the bottle it appears you're right they've just been making it all up stacy. max when you look out across the world and we've had this financial collapse one thing you've noticed the response that unifies all our western nations is austerity make the people pay for their sovereign debt crimes that were not sovereign debt crimes first but were financial debt crimes sector first of all so there's been a big little loops this week reinhart and rogoff yes we made

a microsoft excel blunder in our debt study and it makes a notable difference so this is common reinhart and ken rogoff and they wrote a book which is now basically the policy template before there was a cyprus template there was the reinhart and rogoff template the book is called this time is different and they said that any time sovereign debt gets up to ninety percent of g.d.p. it causes basically economic disaster do low growth rate well there's a there's a lot of different things you can say in response to this you know my primary response to this would be that you've got some academics guys who are not in the market who don't have real jobs who are poring over data who are looking at textbooks and come up with a theory that they have a predisposition toward proving and they're willing to overlook actual facts to get

to the goal line of proving a theory that turns out that the facts cited were wrong the conclusions were wrong the title of the book is wrong and says this time it's different no it's exactly the same all over again a bunch of bureaucratic academic not whether it's these two it is or ben bernanke the making academic assumptions that do not jive with the marketplace yeah and any investor knows that as soon as you hear those words this time is different you all . always know it's not so the fact that all these policymakers around the world were duped by even the title so let's go into what actually happened what was the flaw in an article called how much unemployment was caused by reinhart and rogoff arithmetic mistake so university of massachusetts economist thomas herndon michael ash and robert pollan refer to us have. looked at the data and it turns out that

the initial results were driven by simple computational and transcription errors the most important of these errors was excluding four years of growth data from new zealand in which it was above the ninety percent debt to g.d.p. threshold when these four years are added in the average growth rate in new zealand for its high debt years was two point six percent compared to negative seven point six percent that reinhart and rogoff had entered in their calculation so if we restore those years in fact there's very little correlation to lead to their causation which they say is the high debt it's inconclusive you don't know whether the high debt causes unemployment or whether the unemployment causes high debt what we do know is that policymakers and bureaucrats who follow this prescription imposed austerity in countries like greece because of massive unemployment and a massive plunging in g.d.p. and a massive increase in debt because they don't want to see the markets simply do what

the market does which is to allocate resources and goods and services and a way that's better than having academics and bureaucrats and central planners who fail time and time again you know there was real imperishable evidence all these austerity measures were imposed on greece and ireland and spain and it's spiraling worse the debt is exploding the unemployment rates are exploding. molotov cocktails are exploding and they kept on saying no but this paper this book by wrote often reinhart says this time is different right and when presented with the evidence all we need now is for them to say this lady's not for turning remember margaret thatcher when shown the evidence that her policies were destroying the u.k. said this lady is not for turning and as a result unemployment went up the economy shown now the course you had north sea oil which hid the fact that our policies were horrendous and now you've got

a post that your period where the in adequate series of her policies are becoming manifest and we're going to see higher inflation and wage collapse so this is what jobs are joe's or is born of his ilk so this guy and his work reason for austerity in the u.k. are they going to now admit that their policies are based on a completely faulty corrupt data or are they going to stand up in parliament say i'm george osborne with is going to worsen fall season which skirt and say this lady is not for turning based on his crowing at passers funeral i'd say he's going to do the dress up like satcher and do the facts or impression which is going to hurt the british people i'm going to go over some of the quotes from heads of state and unelected bureaucrats who have basically imposed policies on taxpayers and citizens around the world based on this paper all the rant of the european commission says it is widely acknowledged based on serious research that when public debt levels rise above ninety percent they tend to have

a negative economic dynamism which translates into low growth for many years and timothy geitner said it's an excellent study although in some ways understates the risks so here are guys setting economic policy and they have a whole team of hundreds of economists that work at the treasury why did he ever even think to look at the data and test it himself because they wanted this outcome anyway this is they fit the facts around what they wanted i. ideologically right well there's a double tragedy at play here because of course people like paul krugman and the money printers will say you see steroids bad we need to print lots of money but of course they have an academic agenda as well they're not paul krugman doesn't have a real job he's summer had a real job he doesn't have anything experience in the market or finance he has an ideological objective as well he'll use this to make errors on the other side of the debate by over stimulating by flooding the economy with money and as even milton friedman said there's no connection between monetary policy employment but

of course with a site that even though there are that's their god milton friedman no so again neither krugman nor these to jerk off respect the market they should because the market is better than academics making arguments based on their own theories and then faulty data we have interviewed professor steve keen several times about this over the past few years and he said this americans and many policymakers have this obsession with the government debt number is when it is private debt numbers that matter the most this is what according to steve kean's models suggest so i tweeted him and i asked how many times have you said on kaiser report that it is private debt not government debt that matters hash tag reinhart wrote off he responded yep stacy and i have a causal argument supported by correlation rather than dependent on it and i don't use excel well the private debt issue of course that would mean rolling back the

activities of the private banks who are in the business of accumulating in this country for example in the u.k. the private banks have a six times the g.d.p. of debt on their balance sheet many times more than the national debt but to clue that in your calculations would mean admitting that you've got a rogue central you've got a rogue banking sector that's completely out of control and then of course everyone's bonuses would dry up so that's likely to happen either all the policy because of this time is different they've cleaned all the policy has been about cutting social services cutting welfare benefits cutting health care all the education. where nobody cares about the private debt of the actual consumer so you have the explosion of student loan debt in america which is now is non-recourse you can't walk away from that like what happened with the housing bubble in america you have the explosion of student debt here in the u.k. private debt consumer debt credit card debt is exploding and nobody is doing

anything to stop it in fact they're encouraging it in order to say they are trying to save the sovereign debt numbers to get those to go lower but if you want central planners and academics to run your economy then make a simple rule that the private debt should never be more than twenty percent of the public debt so therefore your banking sector or whatever they can relate in debt the public sector should be able to invest themselves five times greater the risk show should be opposite of what it is today so you've got the public sector of who's out there in debt in themselves but at the same time creating jobs wages would go up consumerism would increase and you wouldn't have a banking sector that's gone rogue that's dragging the global economy into the ditch now if you want to impose a rule if you want to be bureaucratic impose that rule but or impose no rule but don't let the private debts get to five or six times public debt that's the worst of both possible worlds in the u.k. you've had rising these shock bad unemployment numbers and the i.m.f.

has told them to back off on austerity but there has been one number that has always been telling the truth for the last ten years since two thousand and two two thousand and three and that's the price of gold we know the price of gold of course had huge crash one of the worst ever from friday to monday and on through the week central banks find stimulus glitter and gold slump the slumping gold may hand activist central bankers more reasons to pursue the easy monetary policy that helped to drive up the metals price and the first place central banks can be opportunistic and proceed with quantitative easing now the gold market is. rendering with regards to his hyper inflation fears said edward carey denny president and chief investment strategist at your identity research in new york not once again you've got academics looking through the wrong end of the telescope and drawing completely ridiculous conclusions clearly the price of gold pulled back because of all the paper that's been created as part of quantitative easing the fact that they successfully flooded the market with naked short sells that is

a counterfeit contracts and drop the price down they're using it as justification to flood the market with more naked short sales and to print more money there's not going to be any retraction from quantitative easing price of gold and silver is now at a point where the globe is buying hand over fist in a frenzy and of we're still headed to ten thousand dollars an ounce but here again you know relating it to what happened to reinhart and rogoff they just ignore the data that doesn't support their ideology and here the situation is that you know they believe that quantitative easing should work and it was their irrational price fear in gold which was it was just the price was the wrong thing you know it wasn't there it's like the story of the kid who shoots his parents and goes the judge and says your honor i mean leniency because i'm an orphan here you've got global traders killing the price of gold and going to the world banking establishment saying we need more bailouts because the price of gold just went down because we just shot it in the head so they're always going to get more bailouts and the price

of gold will pull back on its way to ten thousand dollars an ounce and the correlation and causation again you know that they see that the price of gold is correlated to their policies the insanity of their policies so they think if they could just get gold to go down that means their policies are no longer crazy it's if you're saying to the person gold is correlated your policies are you're also saying that the world is on a gold standard the worry is not a gold standard today that's the biggest joke of all we're on the gold standard these guys are making policies based on the price of gold what is that you think that means we're like you said it's just a trick it's just tradition we don't respect. he's lying through his teeth all right thanks for being on the kaiser report thank you i stayed over the second half was more. a clear image of iraq after inflation. twenty day taxi trip through the

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international and the world in the very heart of moscow. welcome back to the kaiser report imax guys are time now to go to florida and talk with the father of reaganomics dr paul craig roberts a former official in ronald reagan's treasury department and author of a new e-book the failure of laws a fair capitalism an economic best solution of the west dr roberts welcome back to the gaza report thank you max all right dr robert gold fell violently in price despite it being in backwardation a sign that physical markets are tight your thoughts on what has happened in gold

recently well i think the fed is driving gold down to protect its. quantitative easing policy. thousand billion dollars each year but the demand for dollars is not growing more and more characters are no longer using it to. settle their international payments you get a huge difference between supply and demand and to the fair the feds quantitative easing threatens the dollar exchange rate and a strong gold price is an indication that the dollar's exchange rate is untenable so to to protect the law strong the effects of quantitative easing the periodic lee taxes by losing its bullion barracks

in the paper go market basket shorts the logic here seems like something out of a dr seuss book because the federal reserve recently said that because the price of gold is down they can then ease and print more money and they can introduce more quantitative easing however we know that the price of gold went down recently because the fed and its cohorts on wall street shattered the price with make it short sellers are fed printing of more money or counterfeiting than that in fact increased their net supply of debt and increase the amount of money in the system in the shadow banking system but then they use that as justification to print more money to presumably help these insolvent banks so still at this late stage of the game even though the insolvent banks have proven to be money launderers for all laundering money for terrorists funding terrorism funding mexican drug cartels raiding live or rigging gold and involved in misselling involved in criminal activity j.p. morgan goldman sachs barclays h.s.b.c.

the fed still protects them it's still a protection racket your thoughts all that's right but the groups run the fair don't when they run the treasury is to save executives who calls the financial crisis. the run the treasury records or indices and then the stroke orses their predator dr roberts just prior to the smashed. gold prices by make it start selling a little short selling the fed accidentally released minutes which signaled a major change of policy the minutes suggest the fed may possibly wind down quantitative easing what do you think of this dr roberts i don't see how they can do it because if they do unwind it. what happened what france is the one with a one trillion dollar federal budget deficit and if they do one wind it what supports the bond crisis the whole reason for quantitative easing is to drive up

the prices of the debt related to root it was all in the banks too big to fail books and so they're trapped if they if they stop quantitative easing and they're not supporting bond prices that interest rates will rots and the the solace of the banks will worsen will cause the prices of the assets in the bank's books will be flat. course if interest rates rose and by market collapses stuck mortgage collapses so i don't believe we're on what. quantitative easing i don't know how they'll get out of it now i'm not exactly clear on the dates but were you in the reagan administration during the plaza accord because i believe that was the last time international country in a got together internationally to reset global exchange rates after the kind of the

post bretton woods era the plaza court came in the mid eighty's they had to readjust the parameters on the global four x. trading and the the currency grid i think that was the last major time they did that so in my here's my statement there's not going to be an on winding of quantitative easing but there will be some new international conference to figure out how to readjust the global currency grid in one fell swoop what are your thoughts i think the players are cool we do a great second term. jim baker has been moved from. she was staring the white house to treasury and that was at the time. i don't know if there will be another agreement i think what's happening is individual countries are making their own agreements to simply award the use of dollar as as international payment you know the brics. all are making the reman

to settle their trade in their own currencies and recently it was announced that australia has made this agreement with china they're not going to convert their currencies into dollars and back out all japan and china are working on the same kind of very big so it looks to me more like a move away from the use of the reserve currency at least for countries whose currencies all are stable certainly more stable the law. so i don't know that there will be another agreement don't quite see how they can. real and both veterans are banker to pay and apparently also your future. are needed to printing money or to the. various kinds of bailout schemes now i don't know if he's saw this or not but just before they smash and

gold coordinated by central banks the price of gold in yen and actually had a forty year high so here you had massive money printing in japan a new forty year high in gold and that was that was tipping people's hand that there that this money printing policy was in fact potentially hyperinflationary i don't know if he saw that particular action on the markets if you could comment on that and secondarily this accidental release of fed minutes to insiders we've seen and also we also understand that the rule the stock act stop trading on insider knowledge act between washington and wall street has expired so that in fact traders and congressmen can trade out inside information you are in washington there openly releasing data ahead of market

moving points and they're trading on it and they're just they're just stealing money from the population isn't this kind of them a new high watermark for corruption in america or. you know states' government no it's probably. won't the most corrupt in the world if not the most corrupt. literally everybody knows shares a lot are done just about economic policy the rules are also wrote a recent. war for. the recent table a league table that describes the countries around the world in terms of corruption america is no longer in the top twenty in terms of the least corrupt they are dropping precipitously down that scale they're becoming one of the most corrupt countries in the world and this bernanke and the fed in washington are demonstrating exactly what it's like basically argentina we saw during their collapse america same's to be mimicking that pretty closely now let's turn to your book for a second the failure of laws if you're capitalism explain how and why it has failed

george let me just run through. what care you or less affair is just horrible. the books it's very possible what the first part does as it examines failures and economic their problems in an economic there is such as the economists who confuse labor arbitrage with free tray and sat and shared while the middle class jobs were moved out of the country leaving us with a you. trade deficit with. a devastated middle class. so the first part deals with those kinds of problems a second part shows what is happening to the american labor force it in effect has been turned into a third world labor force where they only available jobs are and lowly paid the

best services so that they can affect. the new economy is to have to have an undeveloped burial of congress and the third part deals with the current. so-cal sovereign debt crisis in europe and shows that it's being used to establish two things one that the public must bear the cost of mistakes made by private banks and the other use of the so-called crisis is to take away the sovereignty of the individual countries by turning their budget and tax policy over to to the e.u. so that's what the book is it walks you through basically the failure of economics the failure of all of the apologists for the failure policies now what happened

with. while it probably and i use the failure of laissez faire capitalism well if you look back over the last quarter century it's been a century of massive deregulation and massive proposition you know that your. privatized evening deregulated so did the french and of course here it was extraordinary particularly in the financial region they simply totally degraded laid. all american finesse that they repealed lest the galactic show that commercial banking is now lumped together with the best of my acting. and they took the position i'm in stop speculators speculators can now dominate commodity markets they got rid of. all constraints and debt leverage and what happened we didn't get libertarian nirvana and we got crony capitalism that they forgot that

private power is it can be just as abusive as public paul and now while this is going on dr roberts the stock market setting new all time highs that of course the majority of the media will point to that as proof of success what are they getting wrong yes well. it's rigged to is that what the banks do all the money that the fed funnels until. there buy stock futures look how can you have a stock market at all time high. when considering becomes a plotting when the labor force participation rate is collapsing because there's no jobs in retail sales or the cloudy or that what is the basis for this market and we've had these amazing collapses should we had one of the beginning of this century we had a lot of the oh wait and there's one now pending it's just

a question what sets it off all right well we're going to leave it there dr paul craig roberts thanks so much survey on the report listen to the max. all right and that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max geyser and stacy herbert my guest paul craig roberts his web site is paul craig roberts dot org if you'd like to send us an email please do so at kaiser reported r t t v dot argue until next time nice guys are saying. mission. critical three. four charges free. range month free. three stooges free.

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