Jeff Snider and Lynette Zang Thursday 9-30-2021
Jeff Snider: The Global Currency System that Really Matters
Palisades Gold Radio: Sep 30, 2021
Tom welcomes an extremely thought provoking guest Jeff Snider to the show. Jeff flips the lid on the global shadow money system and shows us all the mechanisms and leavers that lie in the shadows.
Inflation is understandably an emotional topic and often a difficult conversation to have. Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon. It's usually a significant increase in prices across a broad swath of the economy.
In order to see sustained price increases, you need to have too much money chasing too few goods. Bank reserves are not money they are a unit of account used in the banking system. Therefore the Fed isn't flooding the world with money.
The balance sheet of the Fed is a reaction to something else happening behind the scenes. Reserves are not the same as printing dollars. What we have seen in the CPI and PPI figures recently seems exclusive to the United States.
We see these humps in these flawed measures which clearly line up with the reopening of the economy.
We also see a response from the large drops of helicopter money but these conditions tend to be temporary. Part of the Fed's objective is to promote expectation policy. Some of their plans are intentionally designed to register an emotional response.
Something is not right with what we are being told. They don't actually print money, that's why the dollar and inflation don't get out of control. If you believe the Fed is printing money then you will act on that information. That is the point. This is called expectation policy.
Jeff points out that the Eurodollar system plays a key role in the global reserve currency system. The Euro is a virtual reserve-less currency standard that is global.
Jeff explains why Evergrande is not a Lehman moment because it's an intentional event created by China. China is attempting to transition to a more socialist state via a system of managed economic contraction.
Crypto prices today are way out of whack with the rest of the economy and the idea of ledger money is not a new phenomenon.
Since a tidal wave of inflation is not coming the shift in the narrative will cause problems for crypto. Central bankers no longer understand money or what is going on with the system. They only look at various metrics to judge if their policies are working.
Time Stamp References:
0:00 – Introduction
0:40 - Inflation Causes
3:17 - Sustaining Inflation
6:54 - Camel Humps
10:52 - Fed Policy Approach
13:50 - Bank Reserves
16:14 - Reverse Repo
17:40 - Euro Policies
23:53 - What broke in 2007?
27:40 - U.S. TIC Data
32:26 - An Evergrande Moment?
36:55 - China's Debt & Risk
39:11 - Gold and/or Crypto
43:12 - Where is the risk?
45:30 - Fed & U.S. Gov't
48:20 - Lies & Statistics
54:52 - Course Corrections?
56:42 - Digital C.B. Currencies
58:46 - Money Vs. Currency
1:01:52 - Concluding Thoughts
1:07:35 - Wrap Up
Talking Points From This Episode
- How bank reserves and how the shadow banking system works.
Why the Fed's main job is 'managing expectations'.
- The 2007/2008 crisis and the real causes.
- The importance and role of the Eurodollar system.
NEGATIVE RATES & MORTGAGE PAYMENTS Q&A with LYNETTE ZANG & ERIC GRIFFIN
Sept 29, 2021
Question 1: 0:45 I heard that less than 5% of the US population is stacking silver. Do you think that is true? What does that mean for the 95% that won’t have any when the crash happens?
Question 2: 3:49 If we reset, what happens to debt?
Question 3: 5:35 How will a negative rate effect my mortgage? Will it decrease my mortgage payment?
Question 4: 13:01 I heard that the CCPs Chinese bonds are crashing. The only way for them to fix this is by revaluing gold and silver and it will happen in a couple months. Prices could go up a couple hundred percent. What do you think?
Question 5: 15:38 There’s a lot of talk about national debt. If the USA prints its own money, who is the USA indebted to?
Question 6: 16:48 How is your garden doing?