Keynesian Shangri-La From Myth To Reality

In less than the time it takes for a chrysalis to release one of life’s remarkable transformations, many once called ‘capitalists’ woke to find the world they once new changed into something only dreamed or told in folklore.
Where business models resembling unicorns abounded along with rainbows in their resembling equivalent of over-arching ETF’s. All available in a multitude of hues and proportions so plentiful: It was hard for one not to well up when contemplating. For in this new fairytale land there must certainly be a pot of gold at the end of every ‘rainbow.’ However, one would be mistaken. For one must remember this is a ‘Keynesian Shangri-la’ and gold here is useless. (insert choir music here)
Today, at the end of these self propagated rainbows lies a Central Bank ready and willing to print as much money as one needs to see those vivid colors so plainly; only the term Technicolor seems appropriate as a descriptor. (no special glasses or headset required)
Although the above is a bit tongue in cheek what it isn’t sadly to say: is fiction.
We now have entered a time where what you once knew or thought about capitalism is out the window. At least when it comes to the global financial markets.
What was once the bastion of ‘free market capitalism’ has now metamorphosed into what the devotee’s of Keynesian economics have been chomping at the bit to unleash and install. And that day is – now here.
The only bug in their soup they forgot to remember while they’ve been drooling in anticipation, waiting for its possible arrival is this: Be careful what you wish for. For you just might get it.
The Keynesian argument has been made for decades. I wonder if the man (John Maynard Keynes) would be impressed with just how much his ideology is so vehemently held in the halls of academia and political circles. Many religious devotees pale in comparison.
Once upon time people believed in free market capitalism. The relationship with the money supply. The economy, markets, interest rates and their effects on keeping governments spending in line. All that and more is now out the window along with the old draperies. No need for those silly viewpoints nor those curtains because there’s no longer a need or even the inclination as to try to hide.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on 11/02/2014.