Outlook For 2026: It All Goes Wrong? Financial Crisis and Rising Inflation

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Thu 11 Dec 2025 - 16:30 GMT / 11:30 EST

Summary

Michael discussed how global liquidity rather than traditional money supply now drives the economic and market cycle, explaining that modern financial systems are highly leveraged and increasingly shaped by funding, collateral and cross border flows beyond central banks. He pointed to tightening liquidity, rising refinancing pressures and deteriorating debt to liquidity dynamics, arguing that these conditions heighten the risk of financial instability while also creating the conditions for renewed inflation as the cycle turns into 2026.

Topics

Global Liquidity Cycle, in upswing since October 2022, is showing signs of faltering

US shifting from ‘Fed QE’ to ‘Treasury QE’ helped by stablecoin revolution

This step towards greater ‘monetization’ means inflation

More liquidity for Main Street real economy implies less liquidity for Wall Street