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Asset prices (especially stocks and real estate which look highly vulnerable here) and
Policy in 2015 (when most of the major economies should be back to aggressive QE).
PARADOX OF INFLATION
We have two worlds. One in the emerging markets and developing economies who are fighting inflation and in the developed economies who have signs of continued deflationary pressures. Now we are seeing inflation falling rapidly in China and Europe while producer prices just jumped in the US? What is going on?
Gord suggests we will have both in a specific sequence with regional counter-currents with his biggest inflationary worry being food.
FOOD PRICES
Food price increases are politically destabilizing and bring predictable social unrest. The recent rapid rise in food prices should now be a concern.
There is no sure outcome to the debate but many of the signals that give us directional clues are now emerging. Join Gordon and John as they explore the subject.
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Regular Co-Host:CHARLES HUGH SMITH , Author & Publisher of OfTwoMinds.com
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THE NEW NATURE OF WORK
Jobs, Occupations & Careers
with Charles Hugh Smith & Gordon T Long
25 Minutes, 24 Slides
In this 25 minute video Charles High Smith and Gordon T Long discuss the dramatic changes currently underway in the Nature of Work.
Discussed are:
NEW AGE
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HIGH TOUCH WORK
This is work where most of the value is in human interactions. This includes psychotherapy, service in fine-dining restaurants, helping elderly people, running a farmers market, etc.
PROBLEM SOLVING WORK
Computer programs can only solve known problems, i.e. problems where the solution is already known and can be broken down into processes that can be performed by software or machines.
VALUE CREATION WORK
Doing work that cannot be broken into programmable processes.
HYBRID OWNERSHIP
Also discussed are new collaboration models which are allowing work to operate globally.
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SPECIAL GUEST HOST:JOHN RUBINO, Author & Publisher of DollarCollapse.com
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EU: Financial Repression
with John Rubino & Gordon T Long
27 Minutes, 38 Slides
According to John Rubino the EU is being penalized and disadvantaged for attempting a more prudently sound Monetary Policy. Unfortunately the old adage of "Bad Money forcing out Good Money" is occurring and will force the ECB to soon succumb to the pressures of the other, even more monetary spendthrift, developed economies.
A positive current account and falling inflation has kept the Euro strong, which is now undermining further possible EU/ECB recovery efforts. Mario Draghi and the ECB have recently been very vocal that actions will soon need to be taken to weaken the Euro.
This has all the earmarks of escalating Currency Wars as Japan blatantly debases the Yen as a cornerstone of ABE-nomics and The Fed still prints at a rate of $55B/Month (Current TAPER rate).
With the "Baby Boomers" now retiring in Europe (much sooner than the US due to more generous entitlements), the massive unfunded and 'cash accounting' pension and entitlements programs in Europe are hitting fiscal operating budgets. There is little policy alternatives, without unprecedented social unrest, but to rapidly re-expand the money supply in an unsterilized fashion.
FINANCIAL REPRESSION
As a consequence, with little media coverage the EU is stepping up its policies of Financial Repression to combat the soon to explode "in budget" government debt levels which have previously been shrouded in government obfucation and 'creative' accounting.
RACE TO DEBASE
We are now in a global "race to debase" as the developed nations debase their currencies to reduce debt burdens, while the emerging economies traditionally have debased their currencies to gain or maintain export led mercantilism economic strategies.
We are left with the developed economies exporting inflation and the rest of the world exporting deflation. The balance is shifting and the question is which way will it tip?
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be taken to weaken the Euro. 
