A thermostat exists to tell you the truth about the room. It's uncomfortable when it reads 95°F but the discomfort is the point. It tells you to act. The Soviet planners didn't like what the thermostat said, so they taped over the screen and wrote in their own numbers. The room kept heating. The fake number stayed calm. Then the wiring melted.
Now watch the modern version.
The economy runs hot, debt is unsustainable, the thermostat interest rates, asset prices is screaming. We don't like the reading either. So the central bank tapes over its screen: holds rates down, props the numbers up, writes in a calmer figure. The dashboard looks fine. The room is still on fire.
Whoever tapes over the thermostat a commissar or a central banker burns down the same house. They just argue about the wallpaper on the way down.
Capitalism need endless growth. Which is impossible. And when the growth slows theyre forced to find shortcuts to maintain it at the expense of the stability of the system.