At this point the current financial system was irrevocably broken. We simply had yet to feel it.
That is, until, last week, when the Swiss National Bank lost control, breaking a promise, and a currency peg, losing an amount of money equal to somewhere between 10% and 15% of Swiss GDP in a single day, and showing, once and for all, that there are problems so big that even the ability to print money can’t fix them.
Please let this sink in: a Central bank lost control last week. This will not be a one-off event. With the Fed and other Central banks now leveraged well above 50-to-1, even those entities that were backstopping an insolvent financial system are themselves insolvent.
The Big Crisis, the one in which entire countries go bust, has begun. It will not unfold in a matter of weeks; these sorts of things take months to complete. But it has begun.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-01-17/financial-system-broke-last-week
Hold on to something, it's going to be a bumpy ride from here on out.
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