Racing Toward the Monetary Cliff: How Endless Money Printing Dooms the Economy

Last week was a revealing one for the economy, with turbulence on Wall Street and abysmally low consumer sentiment data coming in Friday. These are only the most visible signs of decades of government tinkering in the economy. With central banking, regulation, and extreme taxation plaguing the economy, the only possible outcome is economic collapse.

The following article was originally published by the Mises Institute. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of Peter Schiff or SchiffGold.

Here is modern economic theory in one sentence: money needs to be plentiful for a prosperous economy. As a corollary: No problem is too big that can’t be resolved with enough money.

On the other hand, here are modern economic results in one sentence: a boom eventually nosedives into crisis, which is the necessary correction, but is delayed or fought by the process that caused it—massive money printing to save significant market participants.