Monetização da dívida e a pirâmide de Ponzi

Há uma semana atrás evoquei aqui o aniversário de nascimento de Charles Ponzi (no essencial, um antecessor da Dona Branca) de quem, muito suspeito, se falará proximamente com muita frequência.  É o caso de Tyler Durden, no ZeroHedge, que escreveu ontem um post intitulado Bernanke Tries To Explain Why A Ponzi Scheme Is A Perfectly Acceptable System For Post Civil-War America, Fails, a propósito de uma troca de palavras entre o Senador Kirk e Ben Bernanke (clip abaixo) que, desde logo ilustra que há mais gente no Capitólio, para além de Ron Paul, que já não se deixa atemorizar pelo Chairman da Fed.

Escreve Tyler Durden:

The following exchange between Ben Bernanke and Senator Kirk is a must watch for everyone who wonders how Ben Bernanke justifies the fact that America is now an open Ponzi scheme. Kirk's question "in laymen's terms this is one part of the government lending another part of the government money, which would not let to long term confidence once the American people understood the basics a little bit better" relates to the open monetization that the Fed does each and every day at least until the end of June. What Kirk did not ask is what happens when the American people realize just how truly preposterous the Ponzi is, and that all the interest "paid" by the Treasury to the Fed ends up being remitted as cash right back to the Treasury as revenue in essence incentivizing the Treasury to spend and borrow more in order to earn more! This is the most circular Weimarian nightmare scenario imaginable, and we can only hope that "the American people" understand this as soon as possible.