see if I can do a simpler and more direct explanation the world has more debt than it can ever pay back this should result in massive foreclosures, liquidations of assets and insolvencies (real estate, stocks, bonds, - only commodities are arguably at non-bubble prices) that massive insolvency event has been artificially delayed by governments printing money Each time they do Quantitative easing they claim t will be the last time they need to do it before the market returns to 'normal' but this news item confirms what anyone with a functioning brain knows : QE4 has commenced in earnest