Wow... that's incredibly wrong.
Article writer clearly unaware of negative interest rates then.
Also refers to inflation as an issue in the 70s/80s, yes it was. However the outlook for the next few years is negative inflation (or deflation) due to falling oil prices, cheaper food prices etc. But at the moment, this would just be a "good" deflation, in that people will have more surplus money to spend. If it became a long term thing however this would be really damaging to the economy.
The author of this article really needs to stop writing unfounded bullshit and putting it over as fact. The US economy is actually in a much better position than it has been for a long time.
Whether it could withstand a global meltdown is another matter. But nobody at all knows how that is going to pan out right now. Russia's economic woes have been manufactured by Western Sanctions and are intentional. China is a concern. But the article is written making a lot of assumptions of how things will go and deciding there is only one outcome.








