Worldview Investing - Ruminations on the World Economy

     Fed chairman Jerome Powell assures the world and nervous Americans that after flooding the US economy with $8 trillion of freshly minted money (causing the highest price inflation in forty years) the Federal Reserve Bank is fully capable of remedying the crisis without triggering further inflation, a stock market crash, recession or high unemployment. Believing that requires one to disregard its sorry history of trying to micro-manage the world's biggest, globally interconnected, infinitely complex economy. It also requires one to ignore the fact that it has never managed to avoid precipitating a recession once price inflation exceeds 5%. Today's government-calculated inflation rate is 8.5% (it exceeds 16% if calculated as historically done).