UVXY in a massive downward spiral as the Fed’s massive Ponzi scheme of printing infinite amounts of money to keep the stock market green keeps volatility fairly down. The markets will keep on fakely booming while the US economy continues to tank miserably.
US manufacturing was exported to China by bribed and paid off politicians for many years. Country is done for the most part and markets will one day crash once the Fed Ponzi unravels. When will that happen is anyone’s guess.
As WolfStreet explains, the US has increasingly offshored its entire economy.
Today, virtually all of the durable goods sold in the US are imported – from smartphones, to appliances, to clothing. And many of the products assembled in the US are made from imported parts. WolfStreet says we’ve established a pattern.
“After decades of rampant offshoring of production, US consumers get free stimulus money in the hopes that they will turn this taxpayer money – or rather future taxpayers’ money since this is borrowed money and will have to be dealt with by future taxpayers for all times to come – into a big-fat stimulus for the manufacturing economies in other countries.”
This mirrors what Peter Schiff has been saying.
“The government, or the Federal Reserve, is printing money and just giving it to unemployed people who aren’t making stuff, but they’re spending money. And so what they’re doing is they’re buying the stuff that people in other countries are employed making. So, it’s the productivity of the rest of the world that Americans are living off of, and the trade deficit evidences that and shows you that our whole economy, our whole recovery, is a fraud.”
Peter said this shows you just how much the US economy has declined.
“At this point, we’re just living off the charity of the rest of the world and there’s a limit to the amount of charity, and I think we’re going to be testing those limits soon.”
What we’re seeing is entirely predictable. When you had a bunch of people who aren’t producing anything big fat checks, they’re going to spend the money on goods that come from places where people are working. In effect, the US government is supporting the manufacturing economies of China and other countries. As Peter put it, China gives the US valuable consumer goods that our economy lacks the capacity to produce. All the Chinese get in exchange for their efforts and resources are dollars, which the US creates for free.
This is clearly not sustainable. What happens when the Chinese decide they have enough dollars? And that day may not be far down the road.
What do you get when you hand Americans big fat stimulus checks after decades of offshoring the country’s manufacturing economy?
Massive trade deficits.
The proof is in the numbers.
The overall trade deficit expanded by 87% in February to $71.1 billion, according to the latest Census Bureau data.
The trade deficit in goods hit another all-time record of $88 billion in February.
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