Margaret Flowers on Budget & Economy

	Margaret Flowers on Budget & Economy

Federal Reserve is over-leveraged, like in 2008 crash

We seem to be at the beginning of the economic collapse predicted by many for 2016. The predictions call for a collapse worse than 2008. There are trillions of dollars more in high risk investments and central banks are over-leveraged. After central banks shifted trillions to wealthy businesses after the last collapse, they are now in a weaker position to respond to the next collapse. The Federal Reserve is leveraged at 78 to 1, for comparison Lehman Brothers was at 30 to 1 when it triggered the 2008 collapse.

The US commodities markets are at depression-era levels not seen since 1938. Wholesale sales collapsed creating an inventories-to-sales ratio that is the highest since 2008's crisis and as high as the worst in the 2001 recession. The ris

Source: 2016 Maryland Senate campaign website FlowersForSenate.org , Feb 3, 2016

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