It's Mourning in America
Now that America has been transformed from a high-trust social order into a low-trust social order, there's no going back.
The birth of financialization in the early 1980s was morning in America because finance-- the collateralization of previously low-risk assets and the resulting explosion of credit and leverage--gooses demand and asset valuations.
Now that we've at long last reached the demise of financialization, it's mourning in America as the hyper-stimulation has reac…
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