Opinion: Stock-market crash of 2016: The countdown begins
Dow will drop 50% as market replays 2008, 2000 and 1929
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/stock-market-crash-of-2016-the-countdown-begins-2015-02-25?mod=MW_story_recommended_default
Any thoughts?
It could easily be much worse. Last time the Fed slashed interest rates to zero to stop the hemorrhaging. They are STILL at zero seven years later. There are very few bullets left in the gun without resorting to outright counterfeiting. This has already started in Japan and Europe (quantitative easing).
The entire system is leveraged to the hilt and nothing will stop the deflationary pressure when the money multiplier of fractional reserve lending runs in reverse. There could be bank holidays. After that, capital controls.
This will be much different than what's happening in Ukraine. It will be a deflationary collapse.
In the US... They've doubled the money supply in the last decade, and the only tool is printing more, where does deflation come in, in this equation?
The narrow money supply is a tiny amount compared to the leviathon of credit money.