{"id":23959,"date":"2021-02-05T05:29:23","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T05:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/?p=23959"},"modified":"2021-02-05T05:29:23","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T05:29:23","slug":"the-debt-trap-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/05\/the-debt-trap-video\/","title":{"rendered":"The Debt Trap (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former central banker William White warns that the US and other major developed economies are in a debt trap where they are unable to raise interest rates for fear of triggering the very crisis they are trying to avoid.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Kfm4F6b6hZM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Canadian economist, William White was chairman of the Economic and Development Review Committee at the OECD from 2009 to 2018 and is best known for warning of the wild behavior in the debt markets before the global financial crisis in 2008.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">Danielle DiMartino Booth is founder &amp; CEO of Quill Intelligence. A former adviser to Richard Fisher at the Dallas Fed, she is also the<\/span><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\"> author of <em>Fed Up: An Insider\u2019s Take on Why the Federal Reserve is Bad for America<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former central banker William White warns that the US and other major developed economies are in a debt trap where they are unable to raise interest rates for fear of triggering the very crisis they are trying to avoid. 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