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In an interview with Bloomberg Surveillance, Alan Greenspan, the former Chairman of the
Federal Reserve, has warned that Brexit was a “terrible outcome in all respects” and that we are in the “early days of a crisis.” He advocates a return to the gold standard as a way to create financial, economic and monetary stability.
The comments above and below are excerpts from an article by Mark O’Byrne (GoldCore.com) which has been edited ([ ]) and abridged (…) to provide a faster and easier read.
“Brexit didn’t have to happen,” Greenspan said, warning that it is now likely that Scotland, whose majority of voters wanted to stay in the EU, will have another referendum on its own independence and predicted such a vote would be successful, and Northern Ireland would “probably” go the same way.
He also warned about the massive entitlements and unfunded liabilities in the U.S. and western world. The U.S. national debt is heading rapidly towards $19 trillion but the U.S. also has unfunded liabilities estimated to be between $100 trillion and $200 trillion.
“The issue is essentially that entitlements are legal issues. They have nothing to do with economics. You reach a certain age or you are ill or something of that nature and you are entitled to certain expenditures out of the budget without any reference to how it’s going to be funded. Where the productivity levels are now, we are lucky to get something even close to two percent annual growth rate. That annual growth rate of two percent is not adequate to finance the existing needs.”
“I don’t know how it’s going to resolve, but there’s going to be a crisis.”
He warns that the crisis will likely lead to inflation:
“I know if you look at human history, there are times and times again where we thought that there was no inflation and everything was just going fine. And I just basically say, wait. This is not the way this thing ordinarily comes up. I don’t know. I cannot say I see it on the horizon. In fact, commodity prices are soggy. The oil prices has had a terrific impact on global inflation. It’s not about to emerge quickly, but I would not be surprised to see the next unexpected move to be on the inflation side. You don’t have inflation now. And you don’t have it until it happens.”
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Finally, Greenspan advocates a return to the gold standard as a way to create financial, economic and monetary stability:
“If we went back on the gold standard and we adhered to the actual structure of the gold standard as it exited prior to 1913, we’d be fine. Remember that the period 1870 to 1913 was one of the most aggressive periods economically that we’ve had in the United States, and that was a golden period of the gold standard. I’m known as a gold bug and everyone laughs at me, but why do central banks own gold now?”
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