Central Planning, Politics, Economics and The Santelligram

Rick Santelli may be one of the last speakers of truth left in the mainstream financial
space.
Santelli is a former commodities trade now a popular CNBC commentator,
broadcasting from Chicago.
He is treated like a sad clown brought out for entertainment effect, where you brace for
the extreme. In his case, this often manifests as an angry rant.
In a recent broadcast, Santelli presented what is now affectionately known as The
Santelligram. Its Venn diagram illustrating the multigenerational evolution and
relationship between money, finance, and politics reaching back from now to the end
to the 19th century.
You can access the original piece here:
Rick Santelli Unleashed: Its Not The Economy, Stupid The Central Planners Are In
Control
In other words, its a chart illustrating a developing imbalance over time, where
ultimately central planning takes over everything.
Ive added a couple things.
I would argue that government was engulfed by central planning long ago.
Little by little money centers gained access to and influence over the highest levels of
political and judicial powers.
Also, central planning ultimately captures Justice. Or rather an injustice rationalized and
accepted by the profit motive.
See the accompanying video for further explanation. (CLICK here)
This is why the regulators stand by while the system is pillaged.
Its why high frequency trading has been allowed to replace the traditional market maker.
These are the advantages given to publicly traded multinational investment banks or the
primary nodal points in a fiat-based financial system that stands at edge of collapse.
As a result of this full-capture, no markets are allowed to trade according to
fundamentals. In fact, fundamentals are actively scorned, almost to the point of
conspiracy theory.

In this way, true market price is never allowed to manifest.

The silver market is the poster child for this. Silver is tiny market long dominated by
power-house fabricators, traded by insider speculators, and mostly ignored by the masses
over time.
Politically, all of this capture, leads to much greater hazards.
The slow, steady wealth grab continues while the masses are safely distracted.
Is it so surprising that not so much as the person, but the persona of a Donald
Trump would arrive on the scene at this point in the generational cycle?
It is a sad omen. A festering on the surface that has given way to a fuming ulcer.
For the general mistrust and apathy created by this progression from true capitalism to
where we are now, combined with the disenfranchised, leaves a massive vacuum to be
filled by whomever shouts the loudest.
Ultimately, central planning has never worked. In retrospect, this scale of intervention
always appears like a futile exercise. Like trying to save a fish from drowning by taking it
out of the water.
A points that outline this futility over the years.

Central banks now own over $22 trillion of financial assets, a figure that
exceeds the annual GDP of US & Japan
Central banks have cut interest rates 577 times since Lehman, a rate cut once
every three 3 trading days
Central bank financial repression created $6 trillion of negatively-yielding
global government bonds earlier this year
45% of all government bonds in the world currently yield <1% (thats $17.4
trillion of bond issues outstanding)
US corporate high grade bond issuance as a % of GDP has doubled to almost
30% since the introduction of ZIRP
US small cap 5-year rolling returns hit 30-year highs (28%) in recent
quarters
The US equity bull market is now in the 3rd longest ever
83% of global equity markets are currently supported by zero rate policies

What worked in the past was a balanced decentralization, based primarily on the will of
people, and not the power of leadership.
Alas, ultimate power is synonymous with unlimited force.

And pretend what we will about the civility of the oblivious during these times of bread
and circuses.
Domestic spying, the militarization of local police, the erosion of justice from the top
down.
Sadly, if those in power are any indication, humanity has as long way to go before
expanding the laws of morality beyond the law of the land.

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