Monday, November 24, 2014

Central Banks and Social Instability

There's a room where the light won't find you
Holding hands while the walls come tumbling down
When they do, I'll be right behind you
--Tears for Fears

Minsky-esque hypothesis that efforts by central banks to stabilize economies and financial markets will create social instability as the wealth chasm grows between people at the top and bottom of the social pyramids. That social instability, in turn, could exert significant political pressure on the system to remove interventionary monetary policy.

Of course, such social instability could also spawn riots in the streets.

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