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The demise of the G7 financial systems, currencies and economies continues
to march along as incomes collapse. The social welfare states and their banking
system's Ponzi finance-based economies are BROKE, their obligations and promises
irredeemable and unpayable.
A debt spiral is in full view, irreversible with policymakers unable or unwilling
and opposed to making the changes required to CREATE PRIVATE SECTOR INCOME
GROWTH and control SPENDING, and which must be done to avert the final CALAMITY.
The greatest transfer of wealth from those who store it in paper to those
who don't is unfolding. A Crack-up Boom approaches...
Awash upon a sea of trillions of Dollars, Yen, Pounds, Swiss Francs and Euros,
FIAT currencies are flying off the printing presses, printed out of thin air!
Markets are doing things which have never been seen before in HISTORY, and
it has only begun. Within as little as a year or as long as a decade, the G7
currencies will go to the intrinsic value of the paper and ink in which they
are constructed, as all the fiat currency and credit systems which preceded
them have done. This is a currency extinction event. A Crack-up Boom looms...
Everything is mispriced because NO ONE knows what the G7 currencies
are worth in purchasing power except as measured in GOLD. Volatility is
expanding, and volatility is opportunity for the prepared investor. Buy
and hold is DEAD. Absolute return investments with the potential to thrive
in up and down markets are the order of the day, as all markets (stocks,
bombs, er ... bonds, currencies, commodities, energy, natural resources,
etc.) price in the new realities of UNLIMITED money printing to substitute
for expanding income and economies in the developed world of the G7. Restoring
the functions of money combined with diversification into Absolute Return
sInvestments are the order of the day and the most important things to
do.
Stocks and bonds are priced for a boom, but buying them at this time for anything
but a trade is hazardous to your investing health. In many instances, they
are repricing to reflect the lower purchasing power of the currencies in
which they are denominated. To illustrate this fact, look at the adjusted
monetary base which has now BROKEN OUT higher, signaling why FINANCIAL ASSETS
are GOING HIGHER AT THE SAME TIME:
Helicopter
Ben has just hit the PANIC button AGAIN (in the week ending Oct 16th they dropped
70.69 Billion of , illustrating the next leg up in reserves as Fed Presidents
Bullard and Dudley have told us it will do (up to 3 trillion dollars by early
next year.) Banks are hemorrhaging $300 billion per quarter in losses and covering
them up with ACCOUNTING gimmicks, with the express help of the FDIC, the Treasury
and regulators at the Federal Reserve. This graphic from David Rosenberg of www.gluskinsheff.com illustrates
how M2, 3 and all lending to the private sector is in freefall:

And this is only the beginning since the BIG banks can no longer make money
from banking because the mounting losses are daunting. They may not tell you
and me about them, but they are fully aware that at some point, they WILL BE
RESOLVED, and they need all those reserves they refuse to lend against to COVER
THEM.
With
the Debt-to-GDP ratio at over 350% (over a thousand percent if unfunded liabilities
are added) and incomes PLUMMETING, defaults have only one way to go, so it
is off to the printing press to cover the lender's INDISCRETIONS. Read this
quote from 1930, during the rally which was a prelude to the next leg down:
"Cheap money is a stimulant, also an intoxicant. If the dose is large enough,
a substantial temporary effect can be brought about, but headaches follow.
If the matter really were that simple, everybody could be an economist, and
only the perversity of central banks would keep us from endless prosperity.
Merchants and manufacturers will not be induced to increase borrowings, since
interest on money borrowed is only one small factor in total costs. But if
merchants and manufacturers will not use cheap money, speculators will".
Benjamin Anderson, Chief Economist of Chase National Bank, New York Times,
April 1930
This could have been written YESTERDAY. Goldman, er...Government Sachs, JPMorgan
Chase and Citigroup have now all reported earnings, and guess what? Profits
and revenues from core banking activities are almost non-existent; profits
now come from speculation using GOVERNMENT money at zero interest rates. The
markets for securitized lending are closed so the banks can no longer pass
consumer and small business lending to third-party INVESTORS. They must hold
the loans on their books and for the most part they are REFUSING to do so.
So, instead of lending to Main Street, the big banks are borrowing overnight
from the Federal Reserve and buying Treasuries to absorb the huge budget deficits
and put a bid into the bond market with a wink and a nod from the Central Bank.
Take a look at the revenue streams from JPMorgan Chase.

Core Banking lending revenues DECLINED by one-third, and are set to fall further
as DEFAULTS mount, and more revenues come from trading-fixed income.
A close look at Government Sachs earnings are SHOCKING! Core businesses such
as Debt and equity underwriting, financial advising and M&A yielded a total
of $899 million dollars profits while trading and principal investments yielded
$10 Billion! They are now almost completely a hedge fund. The financial crisis
and close call with death was a blessing in disguise as now they are a COMMERCIAL
BANK, guaranteed by the federal government and the US taxpayer. Profits of
$17 billion year to date for a government sponsored enterprise. If only the
other GSE's could do the same. At the end of the earnings statement Goldie
CFO noted: "We operate as an independent financial institution that stands
on it own two feet. We don't have a guarantee." What a laugh; as readers of
this newsletter KNOW; 10's of Billions of dollars were shuttled thru AIG to
rescue Government, er....Goldman Sachs. If they fail in the future they are
in the "To big to fail" category. Obviously they have ramped up the leverage
for huge trading gains as they are now backstopped by YOU! OBSCENE, now you
know why Goldman runs the regulators and the US TREASURY.
At Citigroup, the highly profitable Phibro group (oil traders), which produced
average profits of $400 to $700 million per year after expenses (the Fed chief
poured a net $54 billion into the system in the week ended October 14th; no
wonder the asset market jerked higher,) was sold for a pittance because the
managers were OVERPAID according to the PAY czar (Phibro is POLITICALLY incorrect,
meaning you and I don't have to cover losses through government support). Now
you and I will pony up that money to cover unfolding losses, rather than having
it come from internal profits. ABSURD.
Governments DO NOT know how to run banks, but in retrospect, NEITHER do the
bankers. I would like to laugh, but it is a tragedy! The BIG banks are now
hedge funds or mortgage lenders with GUARANTEES from Uncle Sam. The BANKS are
taking very little or no risks (look at the plummeting lending to the private
sector), unless the risks are socialized and unloaded on the public. NOW WE
KNOW HOW THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS GOING TO FINANCE THE DEFICITS...
Borrow from The Federal Reserve at ZERO and lend to the treasury or federally-guaranteed
mortgage borrowers for a profit, What a great RACKET, with the bills sent to
the public if it BLOWS UP!!! IT IS A GUARANTEED CARRY TRADE courtesy of Helicopter
Ben and the US Treasury. Who's the patsy? You and I....
Got gold? Gold is interesting since it has broken out of a 1.5 year consolidation
pattern, up 15% since August in dollars (a loss of purchasing power and value
of every bond and dollar since that time). First, we shall show gold in dollars
(courtesy of James Turk and http://www.fgmr.com/index.html),
which is just breaking out after a year and a half of consolidation, base building
and restraint by those people who wish to KILL the canary in the coal mine
of dollar debasement:


Gold should now work higher, and extend as high as the pullback during the
consolidation. Whoopee... Now let's look at the gold chart in the top 10 currencies,
courtesy of Adrian Ash of the www.bullionvault.com:
What have we here? A completely different picture which is much more
BULLISH. A solid move higher andthe head-and-shoulder bottom disappears. This
is because gold is higher in those currencies where the central banks are too
busy to cover their money printing (they do this by selling short their best
reserve asset- Gold - for a soon-to-be worthless asset, i.e., paper money.)
The competitive devaluation raceway has been in HIGH gear since the financial
crisis accelerated in September 2008. Keep in mind this quote from my good
friend Clyde Harrison: "Currencies don't float; they just sink at different
rates." And they are IN UNISON, sinking in purchasing power at a rate
which boggles the mind, forcing FINANCIAL assets higher and providing HEADLINE
illusions for the paper pushers in Washington (serial counterfeiters) and Wall
Street (selling paper returns, not REAL returns.) The stock and bond market
rallies are just repricing in the deflation of the purchasing power of the
paper currencies in which they are denominated.
Just as the wealth of the world has rotated to those economies that produce
more than they consume (BRICs: Brazil, Russia, India, China and the rest of
the emerging world), from those that don't (G7), now the political power is
doing the same. The demise of the G7 and the ascension of the G20 is a testament
to this REALITY. The G7 economies and the purchasing power of their FIAT currencies
are IMPLODING under the iron fist of public serpents, crony capitalists, unpayable
obligations and their bankster masters (serial money printing to MONETIZE deficits
and fix bank balance sheets), who REFUSE to embrace the teachings of Darwin
and Nature: You must produce more than you consume, and let's not forget
'survival of the fittest'.
In order to thrive in life, politicians and financial systems must provide
the FISCAL (regulatory and taxes) and monetary policies which will allow their
countries and their citizens to do so. Failure to keep the economic fields
well-tended and fertilized will result in poor economic harvests in the future.
In the G7 today, locusts RULE the day and are allowed to FEED on the economies
in which they reside, increasingly destroying the private sectors in which
ALL WEALTH is produced. They will learn these lessons the HARD WAY and G7 constituents
will fall with them as well.
Many economists and public serpents believe Economics is NOT CONNECTED to
HUMAN behavior. The Austrian School believes they are inextricably linked.
In today's missive, we are going to explore why a deepening depression is
unavoidable. The current political and financial leaders are DELIBERATELY driving
the US economy off the cliff to precipitate the crisis which will allow them
to SEIZE what freedoms we have left, to SAVE you and pay for the ESSENTIAL
services they are providing you. It is right out of the SAUL ALINSKY playbook
for SOCIALIZING an economy and IMPOSING MARXISM. He was Ob@ma's mentor, and
may he ROT in his grave... The public servants in the beltway hate and loathe
the American people, and capitalism in general, because they cannot control
it, so they will extinguish it... Freedom and independence from government
is something they love to OPPOSE.
The Ab@mination of the US continues. The US Congress has gone on RECORD violating
their oaths of office to uphold the constitution, and to provide oversight
to the executive branch which is operating in an UNCONSTITUTIONAL manner. An
amendment was voted on to require oversight of the CZARS (over three dozen
socialist cowboys operating within the executive branch). The amendment was
voted down on a PARTY line vote, going on record to NOT DO THEIR SWORN DUTY
TO PROTECT THE CONSTITUTION. It is a brazen 'in your FACE' to the people who
elected them to do their sworn duty. These people work for someone, but it
is certainly NOT their constituents.
To add insult to injury, they voted down another amendment which required
that all legislation be posted online in its entirety for 72 hours, with a
full scoring of the costs. NO, they said, you should not know what your representatives
are doing, in your name and on your behalf, BEFORE THEY THEMSELVES VOTE ON
IT.
Look no further than today's vote on the Senate Healthcare Bill just passed:
a vague outline based upon absurd assumptions as to costs. They assume they
can cut waste fraud and abuse of Medicare by $60 billion OVERNIGHT. If this
was so, why hasn't it been done by now? They assume that doctors will lower
their fees by 25% in one year. Can you say ABSURD? Take a look at this chart
which exposes the TRUTH versus politically correct LIES, and shows true
scoring of the President's and Congress' nefarious SPENDING plans:
Those
deficits are the future earnings of you and your children. As Alan Greenspan
once wrote in 1996:
"In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from
confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. If there were,
the government would have to make its holding illegal, as was done in the case
of gold. If everyone decided, for example, to convert all his bank deposits
to silver or copper or any other good, and thereafter declined to accept checks
as payment for goods, bank deposits would lose their purchasing power and government-created
bank credit would be worthless as a claim on goods. The financial policy of
the welfare state requires that there be no way for the owners of wealth to
protect themselves.
This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists' tirades against gold. Deficit
spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in
the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists' antagonism
toward the gold standard."
That passage is from a time when Alan was still intellectually honest and
only partially in the grip of Public Serpents and Wall Street. What he describes
is directly in our futures and throughout the G7....
The Congressional Budget Office says the healthcare bill will save $89 billion
over 10 years and be revenue neutral. An absurd claim. PLEASE TELL ME JUST
ONE ENTITLEMENT or government-run program where budget projections have come
within 8% of projections over a 10-year period? Show me one that did not EXCEED
100% cost overruns.
From where is the money for this going to come? YOUR POCKET and your bank
account, as they PRINT the MONEY out of thin AIR and steal the purchasing power
out of your cash and bonds by DEBASEMENT! This is the definition of SOCIALISM,
misery spread widely and redistribution, while they PRETEND the dollar,
yen, euro, Swiss franc, and sterling are money. As Margaret Thatcher said, "Socialism
works until you run out of other people's money." They have, and now it's hi
ho, hi ho, off to the printing press they go ...
Upon close inspection: This is a tax bill, not healthcare reform. It
is a politically correct but practically incorrect solution which serves
no one but politicians, who can then sell favors to those affected in exchange
for shelter. The taxes start immediately, and benefits don't start until
2016. Anything that does not REFORM torts is a SHAM.
Of course, revenue neutral for them means a deficit in the accounts of the
public, private enterprise, small business, insurance companies, medical device
makers, Medicare, Medicaid, etc. They say they will tax Cadillac health plans
over $21,000, but fail to tell you that as a result of this legislation, estimates
of higher costs for families runs $5,000 over the next ten years, and that
they have not indexed the trigger level to inflation (not that it would
do any good, because OFFICIAL inflation and economic estimates are politically
correct and practically incorrect GARBAGE, see www.shadowstats.com.)
Thus, they are VIRTUALLY GUARANTEEING that today's healthcare plans will all
be CADILLAC PLANS when the legislation goes into effect, just as the alternative
minimum tax has ensnarled millions of small businesses because it was not indexed
to inflation. These serpents then passed much of the new costs to states that
voted REPUBLICAN, so they can subsidize Democratic states such as Michigan
and New York. From the web:
Let me get this straight. We're going to pass a health care plan written
by a committee whose head says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress
that hasn't read it but exempts themselves from it, signed by a president
that also hasn't read it, and who smokes, with funding administered by a
treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, overseen by a surgeon general who
is obese, and financed by a country that's nearly broke. What possibly could
go wrong?
Just like Chrysler and government motors CLOSED all Republican-leaning dealers
and left the Democratic-affiliated dealers open; we are witnessing political
corruption and Chicago GANGSTER politics on a grand, nationwide scale.
Zero bound and the Next Leg Down!
Ever since Bretton Woods II forever tore world currencies from reserve backing
(gold and silver) in 1971, politicians throughout the G7-developed world have
substituted misstated inflation, excess money supply growth' and deficit spending
in place of the fiscal policies (taxes and regulations) which provide the conditions
for economic growth in a capitalist economy.

In their place, they have installed EASY monetary policy (rates below REAL
inflation) and crony capitalism (where markets are allocated to political supporters
by mandates and regulation), which effectively short circuit and smother the
entrepreneurs who provide "more for less", and kill inefficient dinosaurs.
Asset-backed economies, which inflate assets in excess of misstated inflation,
create an ILLUSION of growth and increasingly create MALINVESTMENTS, which
in a normal interest rate environment cannot PRODUCE more than they consume.
This is the face of interest rates, malinvestments and asset prices FAILING
at lower and lower rates of interest since Paul Volcker began at the Fed, and
as regulations and taxes made the economy increasingly unproductive and unable
to produce more than it consumed (above).
An example of a malinvestment was recently detailed in a study at the University
of Chicago. They surveyed 50 commercial buildings that were purchased in
2005, based upon projections of revenues at the time; in all cases the purchase
price was financed with approximately 25% down. In 2009, ALL 50 buildings
were in foreclosure of one type or another. All had negative equity and NONE
produced enough revenue to service the mortgages.
Interest rates in the United States, United Kingdom and Euro Zone are now
at virtually zero, robbing savers of the returns they have earned by producing
more than they consume. While these activities used to be virtuous in the past,
now they are to be punished. With short-term interest rates at almost zero:
a 30-day $1,000 T-bill yields a $.01 cent return, a 90-day bill yields $.12
cents, a six month bill yields $.65 cents, a two-year note yields $8.90 cents
per year, a five year note yields $22.26 cents a year and a ten-year note yields
$33.32 cents a year. Throughout the G7 you can roughly see this same yield
structure.
In other words, YOU MAKE NOTHING when looking at the loss in purchasing power
of over 15% since AUGUST, 2009, as measured in gold. This is at a time when
the monetary base is erupting like a volcano, and the Federal Reserve is monetizing
trillions of dollars of mortgage, agency and Treasury debt.
Investments in bomb, er ... bonds (IOU's denominated in IOU's) or holding
CASH (IOU's of countries whose spending is near 10% in excess of GDP, compounded
annually) is hardly risk free or safe; in fact, they are riskier than any
investment on the face of the earth! You'd better learn how to fix your
paper currencies and restore the functions of money... The G7 governments
and their central banks are going to STEAL every bit of purchasing power
in them while it sits in your bank or brokerage account... and transfer
it to their "something for nothing" constituents and their banking masters.
The social welfare states increasing destruction of their private sectors
and never-ending expansion of regulations, entitlements, taxation and fees
to support them have now come to the point where the United States has NO
ability to create new income. While debt is spiraling OUT OF CONTROL, budget
deficits in the G7 are averaging nearly 10%, and reduction of the public sector
is not being considered, only the expansion of it. TO SAVE YOU!
The only thing that can save the day is spending RESTRAINT and reduction of
impediments to INCOME growth (reductions in taxes, regulations and entitlements.)
Instead, the socialists and "something for nothing" special interests are going
in the opposite direction. They are making the unfolding INFLATIONARY depression
UNAVOIDABLE and INESCAPABLE, as incomes continue to collapse and they substitute
the printing press and indirect taxation in its place. Then, on top of this,
they are going to layer on DOZENS of new direct taxes, such as a VAT tax, Cap
and Tax energy legislation (the taxman in disguise) and Healthcare, which is
a tax bill and nothing else. Here is a list of other NEW revenue sources for
the terrorists to REDISTRIBUTE to their special interest supporters in Washington,
DC:
Raise the top income tax rates; the top 10% of income earners already pay
90% of all taxes. Do you really think these people are going to invest when
the returns on their RISKY investments go to the monsters in the beltway or
G7 capitals?
Limit itemized deductions for individuals and small businesses (the backbone
of American wealth creation).
Increase capital gains and dividend taxes (destroying capitalism once and
for all as it does not pay to invest in the G7.) Once again, do you really
think these people are going to invest when the returns on their RISKY investments
go to the monsters in the beltway?
- Restore the estate taxes to 45% or higher for those evil wealthy (mostly
small businessmen and women) who only wish to provide for their children's
futures and hand family businesses to the next generation.
- Raise Social Security taxes (they have to, the $2.5 trillion they have
already stolen and SPENT for general government expenses is gone and worthless
promises to pay are left in their place).
- Tax YOUR employer-provided healthcare benefits, which will be passed through
to the public in one way or another.
- Tax drivers on their mileage driven.
- Raise taxes on beer, wine, liquor and soda.
Just to name a few. Want to see why we can't compete on a global scale and
why manufacturers are leaving? Look no further than this chart of corporate
taxes of the US versus the Euro zone 15:

There is no amount of currency debasement which can overcome the structural
headwinds imposed and being implemented by government. Now you
know why the President's attack on offshore operations is nothing less
than preying on the ignorance of the public, union workers and the corporate
employees.
Between taxes, regulations, mandates, and now the CZARs, private enterprise
will FALL to the locusts of the DC beltway. LISTEN CLOSELY: Corporations
DON'T pay taxes; their customers do in higher prices, and their employees do
in LOWER wages. The higher the rate, the less competitive they are and the
more pressure they face to REDUCE wages to offset the theft of income by GOVERNMENT. Now
let's look at capital flows into the United States, which has FALLEN off the
face of the earth, using the Fed's flow of funds data chart:

Capital is NO LONGER flowing to the US, in fact it is FLEEING, because the
terrorists in Washington are DESTROYING capitalism, just like Lenin, Hitler,
Mao and Stalin and their socialist supporters did in their respective countries,and
it has now come to AMERIKA.
This is a great big vote of NO CONFIDENCE in US political leadership by INTERNATIONAL
investors. They are voting with their feet and capital is taking a ticket "out
of town"; the destination: emerging markets and countries with the rule of
law and private property still intact such as Canada, New Zealand, Australia,
Switzerland, etc. These deficits can only be filled by BIG BANKS loaning to
the treasury rather than MAIN STREET.
Dozens of CZARS are implementing their socialist agendas and DESTROYING the
private sector in the United States, precipitating the final debacle collapse
of the only sectors of the economy which produces more than it consumes. Their
decisions do not take into account that for a private enterprise to thrive
it must make a profit (private enterprise must produce more then it
consumes or DIE;) but if you are the government or its children, Fannie Mae,
Freddie Mac, AIG, Citigroup, Bank of Amerika, Government motors, Chrysler,
etc. (and this list will grow) then you steal it from someone who does produce,
take it from stock and bondholders, borrow it and send the bill to you and
your children or steal it directly out of your bank account by printing it
As the middle classes have been impoverished by currency debasement and are
ignorant of history, they now, in their desperation, are turning to a similar
group of thugs and supposedly patriotic leaders known as public servants and
big business, aka Oligarchs, which support the government interests rather
than that of the public and their customers. The payoff to them is ENORMOUS.
They no longer have to compete and innovate to stay prosperous, as the public
serpents will just PASS A LAW dictating consumer purchases in the guise of
PROTECTING them.
Look no further than the BIG utilities such as Pacific Gas and Electric, Exelon,
GE, etc. who are pushing for the cap and tax bills, as they will be the beneficiaries
of BILLIONS of DOLLARS of new income with no expense from Washington DC in
exchange for their support. Every small business will be decimated by this
bill and will pay huge amounts which will then be indirectly transferred to
the CRONY capitalist CAMPAIGN supporters on CAPITAL HILL.
The demise of the United States and the G7 has been unfolding for YEARS as
I have illustrated to you (see Tedbits Archives). The financial crisis has
accelerated the unfolding financial and economic holocausts. As the policies
of Capital Hill and G7 public serpents are implemented, the deeper the crisis
will become. Socialism does not work because public serpents DO NOT KNOW how
to allocate capital to its best use. In fact, they allocate it to where it
does the least but pays them and their cronies the most. Absolute power corrupts
absolutely and the blind socialist ideologues currently in power will RAM MOST
of these things through, knowing full well that once passed into law they will
NEVER be repealed as the other side of the aisle is as power hungry as they
are.
Nothing will change the course of events until the final debacle, in which
they will either once again embrace free markets and capitalism where more
is produced than consumed and create wealth, or they will continue to impose
socialism and the welfare state in the G7. This is not a failure of capitalism,
it is a failure of socialisim and welfare-ism - which they pass off as capitalism
to the poorly informed. Until then, you can expect contracting economies,
lower incomes, misery spread widely and high inflation, as the printing press
substitutes for income.
Credit and Credibility
A fabulous new book, Credit and Credibility about the unfolding debacles
of the social welfare states of the G7, and the RISE of the emerging world
and the impact of FIAT currency and credit systems has just been released by
my friend Richard Karn. Normally priced at $350 I have been able to get a discount
for readers of Tedbits to $99.00. Richard does a fabulous job of outlining
the unfolding economic and financial problems and solutions for investors to
turn them into opportunities. Richard has allowed me to give you a copy of
the first five chapters (this is GREAT READING in my opinion).
To purchase the rest of the book at the discounted rate click here: http://www.emergingtrendsreport.com/product/16.aspx
I got a lot out of reading this book, and the first five chapters are an absolute
treasure trove of insights which will be useful in your personal affairs as
is the book in its entirety, I urge you to buy it.
In conclusion: The REDISTRIBUTIONISTS- Public serpents, crony capitalists,
CZARS and banksters - are angling to take almost $1.5 trillion dollars out
of the economy in one poor policy or another beginning in 2010 and hand it
to themselves in one form or another, out of an economy of less than $14 trillion;
G7 governments are on the same path. Economies will worsen as they do. As incomes
collapse and banks become lenders only to government or government-guaranteed
borrowers, Main Street will be left to die and fall into the hands of the predators
as they kill the private sector. This is deliberate destruction to impose their
socialist, redistributionist schemes.
Government policies result in only ONE OUTCOME: Less of everything for HIGHER
costs. With every policy they touch (Cap and Tax, Tarp, Healthcare reform,
expiration of the bush tax cuts,) and the costs for them and the CZARS, the
results are the same: HIGHER PRICES, money out of your pocket in one way or
another and you getting less. Hyper-inflation looms.
"This is exactly why the Founders said no central bank, no fiat money, no
income tax, etc. They well knew what most have long forgotten - the government
must be separated from the money at all cost or loss of freedom, terminal corruption
and total ruin as the system implodes will follow. I say this prophesy has
now run its course. The lumpen masses are notoriously slow to tumble, but when
they do there will be hell to pay." Gerald Celente
Mother Nature will prevail in the end, which means our leaders will bring
about the demise of our economies, banking and financial systems. A Crack-up
boom looms. Just as King Canute failed to stop the tides, modern day public
serpents will also fail.
Incentives matter and I don't mean government subsidies or payoffs. Until
the policies change to incentivize and revitalize the private, WEALTH-CREATING
parts of the G7 economies, growth will be an ACCOUNTING fiction based on government
and main stream media HEADLINE illusions and prevarications.
The only BRIGHT side to this is the enormous opportunities of which you can
take advantage. Volatility is opportunity and it will rise exponentially as
these issues work their way through the economy. This is a currency extinction
event. Just one more example of which we can see littered throughout history
without exception. Learn
how to FIX your paper currencys, restore the functions of money and diversify
your portfolios globally with absolute return alternative investments.
In the next two issues of Tedbits we will be covering the broad social trends
which are UNSTOPPABLE. How the "something for nothing" character flaw will
lead to the demise of the developed world as it has in every empire in history.
We are also going to conducting webinars for investors very soon where we will
outline the economic issues and solutions such as the indirect exchange. Don't
miss them. Thank you and may God Bless you...
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