What started back in 2008 has still yet to be felt in the broader economy

Rewind the clock to 2008 where the early stages of the Great Recession were starting to play out.

Bail out after bail out and stimulus after stimulus eventually emerged from it.

We saw gold and silver prices go through the roof and money printing on a scale never seen before had started.

However, what happened from there was rather interesting.

The inflation that many had expected to cripple the economy and the country never actually happened.

At least not to the scale and degree the new money printing and suggested.

Why was that?

It was mostly due to the fact that the majority of that new money never actually made it's way out into the broader economy where the effects of it would be felt by ordinary citizens.

Much of that bailout money went to banks that sat on it and collected their risk free returns in a time where there was no yield anywhere else.

As we eventually climbed out of that deflationary period and started to actually see some semblance of growth again, we saw inflation start to creep in ever so slightly.

A double cheeseburger at McDonald's for example was around $.99 in 2008 and a decade later it was going for about $2.49.

The stock market was the biggest benefactor though as it is now up multiples of where it was at the 2008/2009 lows.

If fact if you pull up a chart of SPY, it looks like that is up close to 6x from the lows to where it is today...

(Source: https://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui)

When going by that metric it looks like there has been perhaps a little more inflation than most of the talking heads would have you believe...

Which brings me to where we are today...

Recently the US alone just created roughly $6 trillion (a conservative number) out of thin air.

Most estimates point to the US injecting about $2.8 trillion into the economy back in 2008/2009 in order to stimulate it.

So, we have already spent more than double what we did last time, when the stock went up by 6x over the following decade...

By the way, some context of just how big $6 trillion is...

A million seconds ago was 11 days, a billion seconds ago was 31 years, and a trillion seconds ago there was no written human history.

Let that sink in for a moment...

Watch what happens to assets price in dollars when we transition from a deflationary environment to an inflationary environment.

And it will happen, the powers that be are going to make sure of it.

Stay informed my friends.

-Doc