Because keeping it afloat indefinitely creates a fake value that does not correspond to real situation on the ground. That reality will eventually burst the bubble and because the bubble appears to encompass just about every asset class, it will hurt everyone.
Not really. They happen when whoever holds power gets weak and there is discontent simultaneously. As long as you are strong, the gap can be arbitrary large.
Many dictators have been deposed not because they were weak, but because their subjects grew tired of lies and life under their rule.
Gadaffi, Sisi, Ceau?escu, Romanovs were not weak by any objective measure, they were happy to suppress dissent and kill their subjects and still had a functioning security apparatus when deposed, ordinary citizens just refused to cooperate. If almost the entire civilian population refuses to cooperate, regimes cannot function.
Why?
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