15 Signs That We Are Near The Peak Of An Absolutely Massive Stock Market Bubble

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    Bubble-Photo-by-Jeff-Kubina1-300x300One of the men that won the Nobel Prize for economics this year says that “bubbles look like this” and that he is “most worried about the boom in the U.S. stock market.”  But you don’t have to be a Nobel Prize winner to see what is happening.  It should be glaringly apparent to anyone with half a brain.  The financial markets have been soaring while the overall economy has been stagnating.  Reckless injections of liquidity into the financial system by the Federal Reserve have pumped up stock prices to ridiculous extremes, and people are becoming concerned.  In fact, Google searches for the term “stock bubble” are now at the highest level that we have seen since November 2007.  Despite assurances from the mainstream media and the Federal Reserve that everything is just fine, many Americans are beginning to realize that we have seen this movie before.  We saw it during the dotcom bubble, and we saw it during the lead up to the horrible financial crisis of 2008.  So precisely when will the bubble burst this time?  Nobody knows for sure, but without a doubt this irrational financial bubble will burst at some point.  Remember, a bubble is always the biggest right before it bursts, and the following are 15 signs that we are near the peak of an absolutely massive stock market bubble…

    #1 Bob Shiller, one of the winners of this year’s Nobel Prize for economics, says that “bubbles look like this” and that he is “most worried about the boom in the U.S. stock market.”

    #2 The total amount of margin debt has risen by 50 percent since January 2012 and it is now at the highest level ever recorded.  The last two times that margin debt skyrocketed like this were just before the bursting of the dotcom bubble in 2000 and just before the financial crisis of 2008.  When this house of cards comes crashing down, things are going to get very messy

    “When the tablecloth gets pulled out from under the place settings, you’re going to have a lot of them crash and smash on the floor,” said Uri Landesman, president of Platinum Partners hedge fund. “That margin’s going to get pulled and everyone’s going to have to cover. That’s when you get really serious corrections.”

    #3 Since the bottom of the market in 2009, the Dow has jumped 143 percent, the S&P 500 is up 165 percent and the Nasdaq has risen an astounding 213 percent.  This does not reflect economic reality in any way, shape or form.

    #4 Market research firm TrimTabs says that the S&P 500 is “very overpriced” right now.

    #5 Marc Faber recently told CNBC that “we are in a gigantic speculative bubble”.

    #6 In the United States, Google searches for the term “stock bubble” are at the highest level that we have seen since November 2007 – just before the last stock market crash.

    #7 Price to earnings ratios are very high right now…

    The Dow was trading at 17.8 times the past four quarters of earnings of its 30 components, according to The Wall Street Journal on Friday. That was up from 13.7 times its earnings a year ago. The S&P 500 is trading at 18.7 times earnings. The Nasdaq-100 Index is trading at 21.5 times earnings. At the very least, the ratios are signaling that stock prices are rich.

    #8 According to CNBC, Pinterest is currently valued at more than 3 billion dollars even though it has never earned a profit.

    #9 Twitter is a seven-year-old company that has never made a profit.  It actually lost 64.6 million dollars last quarter.  But according to the financial markets it is currently worth about 22 billion dollars.

    #10 Right now, Facebook is trading at a valuation that is equivalent to approximately 100 years of earnings, and it is currently supposedly worth about 115 billion dollars.

    #11 Howard Marks of Oaktree Capital recently stated that he believes that “markets are riskier than at any time since the depths of the 2008/9 crisis”.

    #12 As Graham Summers recently noted, retail investors are buying stocks at a level not seen since the peak of the dotcom bubble back in 2000.

    #13 David Stockman, a former director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Ronald Reagan, believes that this financial bubble is going to end very badly

    “We have a massive bubble everywhere, from Japan, to China, Europe, to the UK.  As a result of this, I think world financial markets are extremely dangerous, unstable, and subject to serious trouble and dislocation in the future.”

    #14 Bob Janjuah of Nomura Securities believes that there “could be a 25% to 50% sell off in global stock markets” over the next couple of years.

    #15 According to Tyler Durden of Zero Hedge, the U.S. stock market is repeating a pattern that we have seen many times before.  According to him, we are experiencing “a well-defined syndrome of ‘overvalued, overbought, overbullish, rising-yield’ conditions that has appeared exclusively at speculative market peaks – including (exhaustively) 1929, 1972, 1987, 2000, 2007, 2011 (before a market loss of nearly 20% that was truncated by investor faith in a new round of monetary easing), and at three points in 2013: February, May, and today.”

    As I mentioned at the top of this article, this stock market bubble has been fueled by quantitative easing.  Easy money from the Fed has been artificially inflating stock prices, and this has greatly benefited a very small percentage of the U.S. population.  In fact, 82 percent of all individually held stocks are owned by the wealthiest 5 percent of all Americans.

    When this stock market bubble does burst, those wealthy Americans are going to be in for a tremendous amount of pain.

    But there are some people out there that argue that what we are witnessing is not a stock market bubble at all.  That includes Janet Yellen, the new head of the Federal Reserve.  Recently, she insisted that there is absolutely nothing to be worried about…

    “Stock prices have risen pretty robustly,” Yellen said. “But I think that if you look at traditional valuation measures, you would not see stock prices in territory that suggests bubble-like conditions.”

    We shall see who was right and who was wrong.  Let’s all file that one away and come back to it in a few years.

    So where are stocks going next?

    If you had the answer to that question, you could probably make a lot of money.

    Yes, the current bubble could burst at any moment, or stocks could continue going up for a little while longer.

    After all, the S&P 500 has risen in December about 80 percent of the time over the past thirty years.

    Perhaps that will be the case this December as well.

    Perhaps not.

    Do you feel lucky?

    Michael T. Snyder is a graduate of the University of Florida law school and he worked as an attorney in the heart of Washington D.C. for a number of years. Today, Michael is best known for his work as the publisher of The Economic Collapse Blog and The American Dream. If you want to know what things in America are going to look like in a few years read his new book The Beginning of the End.

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      1. If I had the money, I think I’d short Facebook.

        • “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.”

          “I will also hold myself as president to a new standard of openness …. Let me say it as simply as I can: Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this Presidency”

          “If you like your health insurance plan, you can keep it.”

          “We are on our own, and have only our own reason and our judgment to rely on. “

          • All lies!

            I promise I won’t cum in your mouth mr. president….

            • If. We take this country back without thinning the herd. What will we do with the 50 million plus worthless eater.

              Serious question.. how do we do this and keep our hands clean.

              • Easy, “We” dont do it,,,
                Let the thing collapse and make sure you are in a good safe spot,
                When the dust settles most of the ” worthless eaters” will be dust!
                Then as you say we have survived its collapse and can then start making plans.
                There isnt enough food to feed everyone if the means of production halt.

                • Silly boys , when oh WHEN will you realize that this thing isn’t collapsing any time soon ……they have ALOT to do before they collapse the system …..for example , microchips , gun confiscations are the 2 main agendas and that’s gonna take YEARS so relax because this ride is FAR from over …..THINK about it

                  • Rich, I kinda agree with you but things are getting a little more tightened. I have been saying for some time, that bank holidays are what we look for. Locally, one credit union is having, supposed computer problems. They are limiting a max. of $100 withdraws and check transactions aren’t working nor deposits. Just a glitch? It has been going on for over a week. Don’t believe this is isolated nor just an unplanned fluke.

                  • @ RICH99. What you say is exactly what is the most frightening about a bubble financial explosion, the OTHER nightmares that helps cause it. Every bubble that continues to expand loses mass, the skin becomes thinner and thinner until it can’t retain the pressure any longer and BOOM. What will precisely be the catalyst that causes this is still up for debate.

                    I have been reading about these BO microchips for BO care. I can tell you something, I will die fighting before any of those MF’s puts one of those demonic devices into me. I ain’t no Borg, or some lab rat. I think most of the people here feel the same. There is something called quality of life, and having some device in your crosses that line of what is life. There are actual;ly imbeciles out there that WANT those chips put into them. This just freaks me out to think of some government, not just the US government, but any government chipping you. People talk about this being the mark of the beast, I call it RAPE of a person.

                    Then I think about the bumfaces like piers morgan that want to take every last firearm away from every last person. These f’ers want to take away your ability to protect yourself. These are the type of sickos that like to tie up inncoent women or children and torment me so they can’t fight back and defend themselves. I know I rant on about this often, but it is just so unfair evil that dolts out this injustice. It is is becoming more and more likely that this is soon ready to happen. So upsetting, thank goodness, and I say goodness agaisnt the evil, there are still people out there that respect freedom and understand how a human being without freedom is really and truly dead inside.

                  • “QE” to Infinity and Beyond!

                    All hail the Fascist States of America, and it’s Central Bank!

                    “Fucking the American people since 1913.”

                    Gotta problem with that???

                    “Well… we gotta drone for that.”

                    USA… USA… USA…

                  • No chip for me, someone puts one in ill dig that fucking thing right back out. As for the guns, they can try! Im at peace with the Lord, am ready to go whenever he calls me.

                  • I think Snyder has a misleading title for this article. Go back and look at #’s 1, 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15. He refers to people and their opinions. Nothing but opinions. And for every opinion that is negative you could find a positive one. As for #’s 8, 9, and 10, SO WHAT? Just because they are over priced or haven’t made a profit does not guarantee we are near the peak of a massive stock market bubble. Heck, Amazon didn’t show a profit for years and it is a viable company that the “profits” were reinvested back into the company and it’s growth. So that leaves #’s 2, 3, and 7 which may indicate a market top NOT a massive bubble bursting.

                    For more information on Michael Snyder and his analysis of the stock market see this article with his predictions for 2013. http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/50-predictions-for-2013 number 25 is far from the truth as the Dow Jones is up 22% as of today’s close. I really don’t know what the NASDAQ or S&P are up for the year. His article was printed on January 1, 2013.

                  • Rich99.

                    I think you are wrong, even though I gave you a thumbs up for somewhat critical thinking.

                    We will see the collapse relatively soon. By that I am talking, actually I am typing, anywhere from 18 months to at most 5 years.

                    Yes I believe the full blown collapse and possible martial law will occur within 5 years. Here is why….

                    Our economy and dollar value and work production has been eroding since 911. The first signs were in 2004 and became bigger in 2007-2008. We did not recover, therefore we are printing monopoly money until it becomes worthless.

                    By the printing press going from QE to QE-infinity is a very strong sign that they are giving up.

                    They are printing monopoly money to save themselves, not to save us. Once they have adjusted, we are toasted. Trust me, the wealthy are not putting their dollars into banks, they are putting it into tangible assets.

                    We The People will be left hanging when the Day comes. It is in a meltdown phase right now and would absolutely collapse if the printing press stops. So they will keep printing to make the collapse a smooth landing. A smooth landing for them, and a terrible hard crash for us.

                    We have $5T annual deficits. A number impossible to collect because there are not enough taxpayers to do so. So confiscation will be the way. At collapse, all debt will be on us and the UN Peacekeeper will be around to keep the peace….

                  • RICH99,

                    I wish you were right but the system is on its own time table now and no one can stop it. The psychos in charge have lost control because they are nothing but ignorant, greedy, corrupt idiots. Do you really think things are going according to their plan, no, this is a freight train that is overloaded, getting ready to scream down hill and the brakes aint working. They wish they could disarm the citizens first but the damage to this country is too severe to last much longer. The whole world is on fire right now so buckle up and look at everything realistically, it is getting very bad.

                    All I hear on the news lately is white noise and it is getting louder every day, eventually it will be silent and when the shock wears off it will be every man for himself.

                    Something is not right, I feel it and sense it, I hope I’m wrong but I can not shake this feeling.

                  • You guys just haven’t figured out: “The Plan”. Silly boys. If you read the prior article about the dollar and this one, it’s obvious. The Gov is so smart. If they put us all out of work, and crash the market, we will all be broke. Then when the dollar collapses, no harm ,no foul, since we won’t have any. Smart Eh.

                  • BI, the term I believe is transhumanism.

                    So sick that even spell check doesn’t recognize it as a word.

                  • The point is they collapse it when nobody believes it’s going to collapse! When the stock market collapses they want to be the only one’s making money off of it and the only way to do that is with everyone else’s money still in it. The collapse of the economy is just the first step. Remember “order through chaos” is their slogan. Once the economy collapses and we start killing one another or we die from disease/starvation then the people who are left are more easily controlled. Remember the Georgia guidestones. They want to limit the population so they are more easily to control and accept things like microchips and forced gun
                    confisication.

                  • It’s not so much “chipping” me. Go right ahead, it’s just a piece of silicone with a coil.

                    It’s the DATA. And who gets to read the data. And who gets to track the data. And who gets to bar me entry to commerce due to the data.

                    Hell, man, if I made my own personal chip to monitor my own heart rate while jogging and log it into my own computer and no one else could read it? No problem who cares.

                    Yeah except it’s not like that, is it?

                    Concentrating on the tech is sort of missing the really big point here.

                  • None of you seem to “Get” it. The end isn’t like a movie. There will be no scren shot of “THE END” followed by credits. In Iceland, Greece, or Spain, no one has said; OK this is it. If you were a Steel worker “IT” came and went 10 years ago. If you have a Detroit pension, IT came this week. Before you start predicting “When”; define; “What”? If the collapse of the dollar is what, then we started that 80 years ago.
                    IMHO the 3 Trillion dollar failure of the banks, 5 years ago was the big “IT”. (Actually from NAFTA and all the stupd trade policy issues, we were dead) From that point on, there was nothing that could be done. The Gov and the Fed decided the bankers, not the public must be saved. If you wish to define the failure of Food Stamps or SS Cheaks as failure fine, but make your definition before you argue.

                  • To the woman who’s military husband was killed overseas and is now trying to explain to her children why they are living in the back of a broken down station wagon the date of the collapse is irrevelent.
                    To the speculator that shorted the gold market and sees a rainbow of profit forever in his or her future, the collapse may seem irrevelent but he or she might just want to think about purchasing a station wagon.
                    — Miss Dee Dee

                  • They know at this rate it will take 28 years to confiscate guns. The Govt is taking about 2,000 guns a day from citizens 200 million guns in private hands. They will grab the people with those guns. I do not think they have any more time left. The economy is costing trillions to keep this world economy going.
                    They will have to go to plan “B” Crash the economy, USE FORCE and foreign troops to collect gun owners and your food, preps.

                  • There is an eb and flow to this madness. They create the crisis and just when you think its going to pop they back off just enough to settle everyone down. The problem is you get used to it so they can push harder and harder. Look at gas, when it went to $4 a gallon you were ecstatic to see it at $3.50 and you got used to it. The line in the sand just keeps getting pushed and not in our favor. When will it all blow up is anyones guess but I bet its further out than you think…

                • Sorry Kula….big thumb on a smartphone. Was supposed to be a ginormous thumbs up.

                  • The stock market bubble will not bust. The numbers will continue to rise so long as the fed is pumping a trillion a year into it. They have nowhere else to go.

                    Instead, the dollar bubble will bust first when al the overseas dollars make their way home, and stock prices will shoot to the moon priced in increasingly worthless dollars.

                    It may go up by 10% in a day, but the value of the dollar will drop 20% on that day. When a loaf of bread cost 20 FRNs, the stock market at 30,000 will see normal.

                    If it does bust by accident (bankster mistake), confidence in the mother of all ponzi scheme will evaporate and people will begin using the FRNs for toilet paper.

                    Nobody knows how the scheme will play out, even the schemers. When the banksters lose control, there will be a small window of opportunity for the people to take it back.

                  • No prob,

                    I sanded the very tip off my right index finger years ago sanding cabinet door details, so is flatish,
                    Can make the small keyboard on my iphone do funny things if im not paying attention! Cant even count the wrong thumbs ive made!!! I just sorta go oops! And slink away into the digital darkness,,,
                    ;0)

                  • Wilson: Oh, big mistake! You’ve employed logic, the enemy of the dogmatic minds here on this site. Their minds are made up and you can’t go around pointing out obvious facts because they fly in the face of their precious paranoid fears. How dare you speak the truth. I just surprised that you’ve received so few ‘thumbs -down’. Glad to see that there is another rational mind here.

                • Those ‘worthless eaters’ (parasites) are going to pose a very serious hazard to the health of those of us in the preppers & producers category, because once they die of starvation or of inter-parasite related gang violence, their corpses are going to become incubators for all sorts of bacteria, diseases, and plagues.

                  Can you just imagine – every major city that is chocked full of millions of these welfare leeches will become disease and rat infested death traps for anyone who is unfortunate enough to be caught inside them. Just trying to navigate your way out of these cities, will become a dangerous challenge – so, I’d suggest that everyone stock up on N-95 rated masks and nylon or latex gloves.

                  The stench of the rotting corpses of a few million leeches is not going to be a pleasant experience, I promise you.

                  • Dont forget a couple bottles of Vick’s vapor rub, disguises the smell nicely…

              • Your numbers are too low. We have more than that on social security alone.

                • Social zercurty are not useless eater on my list. But in a mad max collapse yes they chance are slim for 99% of them.

                  Useless eater are the one that just won’t do shit to help be a producer or even a labor for a producer.

                  • Is funny, in an AG newsletter I get they were talking to vegetable farmers in the south and the general concensus was that most Americans dont know how to put in an honest days work for an honest days pay and thats why they prefer the immigrant labor, is the same thing here in the islands, Mexican, Thai, Philipino immigrants are the best workers, good honest people for the most part, cant say the same about Americans that growers have tried to hire, i know i tried and gave up, decided smaller was better.

                  • Economics does not care about “YOUR” definition of useless eaters. Anyone that does not produce, is a useless eater. It makes no economic differance if that person was at one time a wonderful producer, or not. So many cans of beans are produced, so many eaten. Yes, I have no pity for those that never produced, just took, but in the crunch, pity won’t be very useful. Unfortunately, I’m getting old enough that I’m in the useless department. That’s why the basement is full. I have a little extra cash and can perhaps help others.

                • The market has been collapsing at least since the early 1970’s when I saw the first books on this subject (buy gold and silver). That was 40 years ago and it’s still ‘crashing’ any day, week, month, year now. Seems that at the same time all the televangelists and bible prophesy writers were saying that the ‘end was near’. Well that’s been at least 40 years too and you can still find some of these folks on T.V. still saying any day, week, month, year now when Armageddon is here. And folks are still falling for both of these stories as if they had just come ‘hot off the presses’. These guys have some special book or product that will give you all the necessary info to prepare for collapse or Armageddon, or both. Fear is the best selling product out there and they know it. Too bad you sucker don’t. 40 years later and they’re still scamming fools like all of you. You can still find some of these old failed prophetic books on line. Buy one or two for laughs and see if I’m telling the truth.

                  • how long did it take noah to build the ark? How long was ancient Israel a power? 40 years may seem long to u or I, but is a blink of an eye in the history of nations and less than a blink to He who created all. I wonder what all of noahs critics felt when the rains came, and did not stop.
                    There was a day before Nagasaki and a day before the market crash in ’29. There is always the day before when everythying seems fine. That is why we prepare.

                  • @Anon7,
                    Thanks for your comment (above). Sometimes I just like to stir the pot.

                • @Kula

                  We should all sand our fingertips off. One more way to escape government detection!

              • We hope that the person in charge doesn’t view you as a worthless eater ! Well at least you wont have to worry about keeping YOUR hands clean now will you ?

                • I all ready know my hand will be elbow deep in “dirty”. More that I do the lest my family will have to live with.

                  And just because I ask the ? Doesn’t mean I plan on deciding who is a worthless eaters ofthe world. But iI will if it goes that far be one who decides at my gate who is and who is not.

              • They don’t get much more worthless than yourself, Facebook Page. What you going to do about you?

              • BI. I direct the above ? To you. I what ever disaster we face. Unless it is global mad max. Many worthless eater will survive.

                What do we do with them. And yes letting them starve in mass is one of the answers. I like to see if you can “think” of another way. Or anyone.

                • It wont be the strangers that you will strugle with your decision to deny food. It will be your those you know begging. Assuming of course a total colapse. Maybe and preparing for that is prudent but more likely a slow erosion of values we hold dear. There is as the old saying goes, “More than one way to skin a cat.” The government along with the New World Order shitheads are using what we are already hooked on to identify and track not only us but our habits and likes. These blogs, the responses I’m typing now, our cell phones and tablets, our credit cards, all records entered electronically anywhere are all used to do the same thing as a bio chip would do. It is true that debt has to be repaid or cancelled but the system of borrowing and printing money by the those in control has no upper limit. The end of that will be by outside force (another country, a world shaking natural disaster, God deciding enough is enough, etc.) We the poeple could do it but we won’t because we are not united and we as a people have not felt strong common pain through out this land. Lastly I’m mostly scared not for me but my kids and grand kids that will not see the need to prep and get caught with the sheeple.

                • @ Facebook Page. I truly believe this with each and every Prepper/Survivalist. When a mega SHTF happens you should try your very best to stay isolated and away from the crowds. Not only is it the danger from those seeking food and supplies, but disease is going to be rampant. There are all sorts of bacteria disease that people can transmit to others that have caught them from basic filth and unsanitary conditions. Cholera and dysentary are a couple that come to mind. Without antibiotic treatment these diseases can make you very sick or kill you. Viruses are always a concern also.

                  I say this because many people still don’t understand just how hideous it will be when the regular trash pick-ups end, the toilets don;t work, filth and rotting fecal material and dead bodies breed death much more so that even nuclear weapons. Stay away from people as much as possible unless others in the community understand safe practice of keeping themselves as clean as possible.

                  RICH talks about this happening in the distant future, which could happen, but I don’t feel like it. The issue is the mega SHTF can happen in a flash. Could be the Sun decides to let loose a nice massive bubble of “gas”. Could be war as with war, events happen quick and expand rapidly. Could be a nuclear weapon let off somewhere. I could imagine what would happen to the stock market if smallpox turned up in a few spots. It is my firm belief that every single deadly human virus has a reservior somewhere else than the human beings themselves. With MERS they think it is camels and bats. With smallpox a hidden reservior could be some bird or other animal. I have been suspect that in very dry conditions where smallpox victims have been buried might hold the virus in a hibernating state. This is why these real estate developer might one day unearth a grave from someone that died 100 years ago from smallpox and it naturally starts up again. Could be frozen somewhere in some tundra region.

                  The point is that we should all prepare like the mega SHTF is going to hit tomorrow, because it could.

                  • But what do we do with useless eater that survive and are still around when a rebuild starts.

                  • FB…if they make it that far, my bet is that they will be far more receptive to a self-supportive/sufficient lifestyle.

              • wear gloves

              • Do Nothing, they will dispose of themselves when the govt can’t take care of them. Long after the Govt. gets nasty and tries to take everything from Americans who are prepared and sufficient.

            • Man that’s nasty. Know where that mouth has been? He swings both ways.
              Better to shit in his lying mouth.

            • can’t give you another green thumb wrong.

              cause Mac won’t let us vote twice here a shtfplan.

              he must not be a Marxist…but I love the comment!

          • The stock market is breaking records, and
            the country is falling to rack and ruin…..

            Sounds like the same kind of bubbles the
            kids blow when they fart in the bathtub.

            • The Second Leg Down IS coming and when the shoe drops many fools will be hurt. America has experienced these things before and it will experience these things again. We are probably looking at a Depression Era Downturn this time around, but hey! You are all prepared, right??

              Go to school on the market cycles and make your profit from them if it floats your boat. Just don’t get in at the top and out at the bottom.

              Sheep get sheared, pigs get slaughtered. Run to cash. Run to the Dollar! 🙂

              • the durango kidd says:

                Ya, it’s a zombie economy, but “Go to school on the market cycles and make your profit…”

                Hey DK, you sound like a NWO Globalist gloating over the Fed induced business cycle.

                “Sheep get sheared, pigs get slaughtered. Run to cash. Run to the Dollar.”

                Isn’t that an oxymoron?

                Translated: You’re gonna get “slaughtered” in the hills, but “Run” to the hills anyway.

                Isn’t that an oxymoron?

                The State wants you to “Run to cash.”

                The State wants you to “Run to the Dollar.”

                It’s all part of how the State controls and manipulates you.

                Think outside of the State imposed box.

                Channel Nancy Reagan, and “Just Say No!”

                • Yo mama: Big money always runs to the Dollar in times of crisis and this time won’t be any different. You are jealous because you don’t have any! That’s why its a zombie economy for you.

                  70% of Americans are doing well where I live. You just happen to be in the 30%. Is that from ignorance or stupidity? Maybe you should move or go back to school and get a skill that is marketable. A good education and an inquiring mind will help you navigate the pitfalls.

                  Kill the FED. Death to the New World Order. Engage your employees or be enslaved and impoverished by them, one euphemism at a time. 🙂

                  • Dollar isnt worth what it has been and it keeps getting worse. How can you say to run to the dollar in a crisis when the dollar isnt stable.
                    Do what the Chinese are doing.

                  • the durango kidd says:

                    “Big money always runs to the Dollar… You are jealous because you don’t have any! That’s why its a zombie economy for you.”

                    LOL

                    You rail on the “offshoring” of jobs and the destruction of our manufacturing base out of one side of your mouth, and then praise “Big money” out of the other side. You then write: “That’s why its a zombie economy for you.”

                    Q: DK, have we ever met? Do you know me, or what I do?

                    “70% of Americans are doing well where I live.”

                    You mean in North Scottsdale AZ?… Sure they are. But what about the rest of the valley? What about the rest of the country? How are they doing DK? The country is much larger than Zip Codes:

                    85255 (Scottsdale)
                    85259 (Scottsdale)
                    85260 (Scottsdale)
                    85268 (Fountain Hills)
                    85262 (Scottsdale)
                    85263 (Rio Verde)
                    85377 (Carefree)
                    85266 (Scottsdale)

                    Maybe you’ve lost sight of that fact while pontificating from your desert ivory tower!

                    “Maybe you should move or go back to school and get a skill that is marketable. A good education and an inquiring mind will help you navigate the pitfalls.”

                    Spoken like a true Establishment/Elitist POS.

                    You assume that because I criticize the status quo, the State, the “system”, and YOU… that somehow I am deficient of education, skill, and marketable talent.

                    LOL

                    Q: DK, have we ever met? Do you know me, or what I do?

                    That’s what I thought.

                    Back to the drawing board Punk.

                  • Yo Mama: No, I wasn’t praising Big Money, I was just explaining what it will do. What it always does in times of crisis.

                    Obviously, I am not a globalist and I will continue to rail against and work against the NWO; but by understanding what THEY do, in an economy that THEY run, under THEIR rules, I can stay one step ahead of them and avoid the crush. You should be so smart.

                    You should also live in North Scottsdale. Its a beautiful place. I earned it by hard work and lots of sacrifice, starting at the bottom. No has given me shit. 🙂

                  • Yo Mama; If you are doing so well, maybe you should pick up one of those vacant McMansions in 85262 on the cheap. Then you would be close enough to come over and use my indoor pistol range.

                    I’m running out of paper targets! 🙂

                  • the durango kidd says:

                    “You should also live in North Scottsdale.”

                    I did DK. Fountain Hills. 1993 ~ 2005. Area Code 85268.

                    I cashed out and left because of the the evolving AZ police state, (Sheriff Joe), immigration, and an understanding that living in AZ is gonna SUCK in a SHTF scenario.

                    Good luck to you DK.

                    BTW… Being a Libertarian, I take measure in knowing that I’m NOT sharing a bunker with Fascists.

                    It’s a personal thing.

                • OMG!!! NOT NANCY REAGAN!!!

            • Screw them. I spent part of the day making money… Well, I better clarify… Chopping and stacking firewood.

              I hope they have plenty of FRNs to roll and burn.

            • It is stealing from the rank and file to give to the connected. This is partly being done to keep quiet those that could actually put a stop to this. However as long as they are being bought off with the money being dumped in the market they stay silent and the game goes on. The debt for all the money printing will be left to the lower classes to pay for long after the wise guys have cashed out and enjoy their winnings.

        • i bought facebook when it became an IPO,,,,cheap…i just sold it …doubled my money…

          • you bought a lottery ticket and won. cool. can you do it again.

        • I have….

        • The real wildcard is China. How long will they continue to play along. They haved learned valuable lessons over the last 2 decades, are hording gold, and about to put a stop to the false gold pricing. They have already announced they are no longer going to hold dollars in reserve. China could crash the system tomorrow if they really wanted to.

          • They cannot crash the system. They need to keep selling junk to us or their people will be jobless and rioting. This like two scorpions locked in battle and neither can let go they will be stung.

            • China is ready to let this market go, they have gotten what they want. They know the debts to them will never be repaid.

              War with the US is high on the “6 Inevitable Wars” list they have just released. I’d wager they won’t be getting stung too bad…

          • China is now running up massive debt at the same time that they are escalating military efforts over islands claimed by Japan. I think they are about ready to change the game on everyone.

            • Agreed.

        • I am hording nickels, lead, seeds, and firewood. Should be able to barter with those items.

          • yes, i got all that shit and a LOT more too….but what will happen when you trade some of it and “they” find out where you are? i questioned selco a while back about having a “barter store”, and he for the most part said fuhgeeetttaboutit……..they’ll kill you for it. then a few days later he must have given it some thought and wrote an article about barter after SHTF……and i find MANY holes in his logic…..i just don’t see how it could be done with ANY degree of safety…..pretty effen disappointing, but it’s important to really THINK about it before you try to actually DO it…but what the hell do i know…i was once beaten by a chicken in a game of tic-tac-toe.

            • Well, start a store to play tic-tac-toe with chickens. Eat the winners and the losers. IMHO, which is worth exactly what I’m charging for it. A barter store is a good idea, but you need to do two things. 1. Wait. (The real mess cannot last very long. Yugo was a small place with lots of farmers and lots of foreign intervention. If it gets that bad here, it’s over soon. No one has the ability to do much here. Cities are dead in 6 weeks, roving bands don’t last much longer. Anywhere with bad winters is on the way back up in a year.) 2. Try to start a shop where you do something, not sell something. That way your inventory isn’t worth much,it’s your skill

        • i DID have the money….and i DID short facebook….boohoo for me

        • I can tell you why social media companies are yielding such high stock prices, without ever making a profit. It’s NOT the company that is so valuable—IT’S THE PERSONAL DATA EACH SITE COLLECTS.

          All of the data, shopping habits, browsing histories, contacts and, just raw personal info is what is valuable. Valuable to corporate AND government interests.

          They think we’re so stupid. I wonder why none of those aforementioned stock market experts couldn’t figure that out.

      2. Here it comes!! Hold on tight!

        • Is that just a geneal countinued feeling or are you going to date set.

          • After Christmas me think

          • ok page, i’ll bite….how ’bout the first quarter of 2014….by the end of the quarter obamacare will absolutely DEVESTATE america(ns)….they will find out just how bad things will be for them WELL BEFORE the end of the quarter. how the hell will we be able to survive this “tax them into submission” event that obama has foisted on america….no way do we have the money to pay for this without an absolute gutting and or starting all over with this ruinous law… the check’s on the TABLE with the waiter nervously tapping his foot…..time to dine and DASH is NOW! if you wait til the end of even JANUARY(when people have gotten their first bill) it will be way past too late! it’s imminent! SHOULD happen any day now…….ewww that smell…cantcha smell that smell?..ewww that smell, the smell of DEBT surrounds youuuuu…many thanks to lynerd skynerd(now where the hell’s my spellchick) for those so prophetic words

        • Sell on Jan. 13th the crash is on the 14th. 😉

      3. Smellin Yellin is nothing but a shill for the NWO snakes.

      4. stocks will rise until the fed tapers or until after the 2014 midterms.
        whichever comes first.

        • I don’t think the Fed is going to taper. In fact I wonder if they’ll increase QE.

          • Oh , they WILL increase QE.
            BUT , the free fall will be orchestrated.
            they need “taxpayers” or the game ends.
            its all about putting more people in a position where they are dependant.
            Slaves stand in line for free stuff .
            A total collapse would end the fun .

        • It use to be that the economy would lag about six to eight months behind the market. The stock market is no longer representative of the US economy. It the two were connected, real unemployment would be less than four percent, welfare would be well below where it is now and the government treasury would be over flowing……or…….the stock market would be hovering around 6000.

          I wont panic until the market get’s about 20% below what the US economy is doing, say 4800. If it keeps dropping below that then the SHHTF.

          • Just take a minute and think of a world where the djia went to 4800 in a 2 week time frame. Then make a post.

            • FB, good reply.

              Getting cut off from the off shored manufacturing facilities and products could make a 4800 market happen quicker than anything I can think of. It would also get you to that 5000 an oz for gold. China’s unilateral expansion of their air space and control zone is only a first step. They will not walk it back, they will not pivot. If their moon mission is a success, their national pride will be at a fever pitch. Nationalist propaganda will be everywhere in China. It seems like some serious posturing to me.

              A new large military, nationalist fever being pumped up, claims to territory and a need for more resources. Sounds very familiar to me.

              • @rick(BTW ..i’m a lakeside native)whenever i go to harbor freight to buy something i ALWAYS say to the cashier when i hand them the money, (even if it’s a very small amount of money) “you KNOW they’re going to make a TANK with that money and come back and KILL us with it, right”…….once in a while they throw a charity chuckle at me, but i know they’re CLUELESS for the most part.

                • Yeah, they probably don’t know the “tanks” are already built and pre-positioned…

        • Hammerhead: That is the conventional wisdom, but the market will “crash” when sentiment turns. No one should rely on the idea that no taper means no “crash”. What goes up must come down.

          When the outlet for forward earnings declines, the pros will exit and leave the average Joe and Jane to take the hit. 🙁

          • Outlook

          • “When sentiment turns.” Which is why you can’t pinpoint the top. Sentiment is subjective. Just when the brain chemistry will start to change en masse can’t be predicted with any precision. It often requires a trigger event, like a natural catastrophe or a war, but sometimes it’s just one bank admitting failure, as with Credit Anstalt.

            Anyway, there’s a fallacy about halfway down the article. Maybe 85% of the “individually owned” stocks are owned by 5% of the people, but almost everyone owns stocks indirectly, through their 401k accounts, IRAs, life insurance policies, medical insurance policies, etc.

        • will you cross that thin blue line, to the tyranny side?

          you do have a mind of your own, don’t you? you have eyes of your own, don’t you? are you always so afraid you always act out of fear? if so why are you doing this for a job than?

          • I almost want to send that video to all the cops i have email addys for, but i am not so sure i want to deal with the fallout,
            I would rather pick my battles than be at the head of some list!

            • Yeah I thought about anonymously sending it to all of my local dept thugs , They probably wouldn’t get past the first few seconds, you know how little their minds are and what short attention spans they have when its not on the agenda. They fail to realize we the people hold the power if they really decide to go full retard, at this current rate of a few jackboots a day .. not enough of the populace are fully awake, but its coming around, it wont take long or too many more incidents to where any possible low grade support they might have is slowly waning I see it, I read it..i hear it, its real.

              The longer they ride out the blinders the harder its going to be on those that didn’t heed the warnings

            • Better to let the sleeping dog lie.

              When he suddenly awakens, he always looks for those most loyal to him.

              I hope/bet that it is his family, his community and his creator.

              If it is his boss…well, lots of scenarios are possible.

              None of them good.

        • Nice hot prepper chick! Thumbs up and and a few other things. ha

      5. I’m holding my breath!…… Will we see it today?

        • Like Comet ISON in the weeks before perihelion, you can see it if you know where to look.

          • Thanks Coach!

      6. No worries SHTF readers. Bob Shiller and the rest of the economist named above won’t betray their new Fed. Queen and her comment below on the same topic:

        “Stock prices have risen pretty robustly,” Yellen said. “But I think that if you look at traditional valuation measures, you would not see stock prices in territory that suggests bubble-like conditions.”

        • And Greenspan says it’s not a bubble. I used to respect that guy, until I retired and could put more time into my old field of economics. Now I’m convinced that Reagan should have kept Volker on. One of the Gipper’s less better decisions!

          • Old Coach. Presidents are not the decision makers to elect the Fed’s chair. They are pre selected and the presidents just do the announcements. The main question is who does the pre selection of the fed’s chair and who’s interests being protected by these chair persons.

            • It doesn’t take a rocket surgeon to figure that out.

      7. I have a tendency to watch PMs, and look at where they’re are at, bottomed out. I have surmised that PM holders are cashing out and getting into the market scraping up on the highs. They’d better have their stop losses set pretty tight, it’s going to go lighting quick. Once the big trading houses get an idea they have sucked in a huge pile of retirement Capitol they’ll kill that market right now. Kiss your investment and earned Capitol good bye.
        However though, when it happens. Watch what happens to Gld and Slv. If you had ever wanted to buy PMs, nows the time, it won’t get much cheaper than it is right now. They can’t get silver out of the ground and refine it for what it is trading today.

        • Nevanda mines report. $12 cost of digging it up. Some area higher and some lower.

          • FACE – is $12 normal ?
            Or is there a game there as well ?

            • Hammerhead: The cost to mine an oz of gold is $1,000 per oz give or take a hundred dollars or so depending on the ore body. Silver is produced PRIMARILY as a “by product” from copper mining.

              The current cost of silver mining directly, on a silver ore body, does not justify its cost to mine. Producers are hedging their profit with 50% contracts for half of their production to keep their mines open and operating without a profit, hoping for an increase in price.

              Some silver mines in Mexico have closed or delayed their opening and the owners are also being intimidated by Drug Cartels for “protection”.

              Silver production is a fools game right now. 🙁

              • DK It is 680 and you should know that in AZ.

                And Hammerhead that is a true cost.

                BUT remember most older mines that produce silver produce it as a by product of say copper.
                In NV there is a huge copper mine that does all it can to by past silver when it was low. Then they like it at 40.

                Now as far as I know they are stock piling in in 1000 oz mine pours waiting for the next boom.

                • FBP: I don’t follow the cost to mine silver. The cost to mine gold that I quoted was a ball park figure. The true cost of any particular mine is going to have many variables that determines unit cost.

                  There are no operating silver mines in Arizona to my knowledge.

                  Invest in gold. Speculate with silver, and hoard your lead. I have been giving that advice here for a few years now. It is as appropriate today as it was when I first offered it.

                  Engage! 🙂

                  • Two were reopen in the last year. But with the drop I will bet they are closing again.

                  • Dk. Funny a story on zh about gold hitting bottom cash cost. Bullshit.

                    Except in a gold only produce African mind. Even then it mean a huge change in existing mines happened in the last ten years. A new mine from scratch. Hell yes proablly more. But from mine that have been producing and all ready producing the avg cost should be decreasing except for labor. And labor is being replaced by machine.

                    In the end it all screw with. And it worth what you can get for it.

                    In all stock bonds pm the rules seem to not apply any more.

                    Survive its death. I didn’t say give up on the system. But look at it with eyes wide open.

        • Hammerun, production cost means nothing. I may not be an expert like some on this site, but I can tell you I have been watching PM since the day they took silver out of our coins. My exwife thought I was crazy when I gave 15 cents for a few silver dimes, unfortunatly I wasn’t smart enough to hoard silver coins in 1964 when I could get them for face value. But let me say, what ever the cost of production of PM the market price can and has falllen below that many times and for long periods of time. I’m not saying, don’t buy, but be careful. Trekker Out. Si vis pacem, para bellum!

      8. I read an article that was pretty scarey which noted that given the continuous devaluation of the US currency; aka a 90% loss in purchasing power, combined with the “real” rate of inflation; aka 20%; and not the BS 2% numbers from the Federal Reserve which has gone on since Nixon closed the “gold” window, the DOW should be at 36,000. At 1600, this an indication of the enormous drop in this country’s standard of living, with the decline masked by a continuous propagandist cover-up by the by federal government which would make Joe Gobbels smile.

      9. I’m thinking that on December 19th at around 2:40 all hell is going to break loose.

        What happened to the dude that said Thanksgiving was going to be the day!

        • I am thinking either right before mid terms in 2014 if the demoncrates think there going to lose control. If it doesn’t happen then I would think for sure before the 2016 presidential election. That way there obozo can declare martial law and stay in power.

          • And if not by 2016 , surely by 2020 !!!! Yawnnnnn

        • Yental loss the bet and shall never return.
          Hint Bengal was all ready trying back up names when the bet was made.

          • I made that bet with Yental…..when will people start to listen to me …..I have stated EMPHATICALLY for years that this game would go on for at least 5-8 years !
            I also said we would NOT attack Syria
            Let me say it again …..it’s not gonna collapse in 2013 or 2014 …..I don’t want to get to far ahead because people have a hard time focusing so I will do this in increments

            • Shame. Yental took a shot at a guess and all of you
              want to run him off the site.

              What a crock of crap!

              I see RICH99 above my comment here just posted
              three predictions at once. What will he say if
              they fall flatter than a beer fart — Oh well…..

              Yental has given more to SHTF than he has ever
              stubbed his toe on, like most of us here.

              If we lose him, and more like him to these kind
              of childish antics, then we are the ones that
              lose, not him.

              Get it together, folks. We’re on the same side.

              • You can say what you want outwest but me personally would rather listen to people who have CONSISTENTLY been correct than people who just CRY WOLF !!!!
                Some people on here just want to spread their fear and I like to add a more sensible tone to the comments …..too many people comment on EMOTION and not THOUGHT !!!!
                They are now in the beginning phases of their eugenics program ( OBAMACARE) ….they haven’t gotten the guns yet …..they haven’t chipped you yet SO I ask you LOGICALLY not EMOTIONALLY …..WHAT would they benefit from collapsing the system at this point and time ????? Tens of millions of Americans are armed to the teeth and you REALLY think they are gonna pull the plug now ……get real dude and if someone on here who likes to ruffle people’s feathers with fear and dates i.e. THANKSGIVING in which I told him he wasgoing to be wrong , then so be it ……I’m not into the fear mongering and the ITS COMING bullshit ….let’s be logical !!!!
                Let me ask you one question and you answer it honestly ……how many years have people posted dates for this doom or that doom that NEVER happened ? According to many on this site , we should all be bartering for our needed supplies by now …….I rationalize on logic NOT emotion !!!!!

                • Speaking of the chip…
                  This model accomplishes BOTH tracking AND population reduction. How convenient. If a lone inventor created this one you can only imagine what the Obamascare RFID chips can do. Oh and it’s not fake Rich99…it’s as real as it gets.

                  Saudi inventor develops ‘killer RFID Chip’
                  http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-human-tracking-microchip

                  • …oh and let’s not forget this one.

                    Police State Technology: Implanting a GPS-microchip in the body of a human being, using a high powered sniper rifle.

                    The ‘collapse’ is already well under way and it is all around us. It is not always the sudden impact of hitting the ground from terminal velocity that kills you. It is also the slow, methodical crushing that slowly squeezes you until your bones crack and your organs pop. They know people will awake and see the danger if enough fall from the sky. Instead they crush us all, slowly until we all pop. If you are waiting for a date or timed event, you are too late. It is now and yesterday.

                    http://www.globalresearch.ca/police-state-technology-implanting-a-gps-microchip-in-the-body-of-a-human-being-using-a-high-powered-sniper-rifle/2034

                  • Google has THE chip. 🙁

                • RICH99 — I always answer honestly, sir

                  I can’t speak for the timetable of others,
                  whether it be an educated guess or just the
                  hair raising on the hackles of their neck.

                  The predicting of the weather falls into
                  this same arcane science of early warning,
                  but I pay attention just in case the time
                  frame may have merit. If nothing happens,
                  then all the better, but at least I was
                  given fair warning and not caught unawares.

                  You want to address everything in black and
                  white but disregard the hues of gray. That is
                  a choice you make, but it rather leaves the
                  third eye blind to impending dangers.

                  My Dad, God rest his soul, was a WW2 veteran.
                  He and I were tearing out a wall in an old
                  house to remodel, and there in almost perfect
                  condition was a newspaper from Sept. 1941.
                  The headline in very large letters said:
                  “NO NEARER WAR–FDR!”

                  My Dad read that and just shook his head.
                  He said everyone knew we were on the brink
                  of war, we just didn’t know it was going to be
                  December 7th, 1941.

                • “would rather listen to people who have CONSISTENTLY been correct”

                  So, you know a fortune teller do ya….

                  And while you’re yammering about everyone else on here being all emotional, you sound a tad wee weed up. Oh and don’t forget that you got all frothy at the mouth and claimed you were never coming back here. Guess you were wrong about that too.

                • I always thought the microchip would come after a.collapse when people were desperate. Why else would any American agree to it? In order to get food to feed your family you would all get implanted with a microchip and then be given access to food and water. Without the chip you would be turned down.

                  My guess is a collapse in 2015, but inflation picking up even more speed by the fall of 2014. That’s my 2 cents, which when adjusted for inflation makes my opinion pretty worthless. Oh well.

                  • Just ask yourself this question.

                    Why would the govt try to put a chip inside a person when they’ve already got you to accept external ones?

                    Electrical smart meter that can report specific appliance usage etc? refuse it and you get no electric co power.

                    your phone that tracks everywhere you go and a lot of the conversations you have. well gee, if it cant track you, you cant really use it.

                    Your car? The one they’re trying to put the lil black boxes in so they can track you and charge taxes by the mile. So what happens if you refuse those?

                    We’ve already accepted the chip…

              • Outwest:

                Yental will be sorely missed if he doesn’t return to shtf. Also, I believe the LoneRanger was predicting some pretty heavy stuff to hit the fan around Thanksgiving.

                I never saw a post that Yental wrote (I guess except for the one that Rich99 is talking about) that wasn’t right on the money.

                So please hurry back, Yental.

                • I agree with outwest and pog…we are on the same side. Withdraw consent, remember? Illegitimate government…..plurality….3%??? We are the only hope for the constitution to remain intact. We have to stick together and stop bickering over stupid stuff or we are no better than the two parties now.

                • Yental will be missed. He was/is very intelligent, honorable and a true Patriot to the Constitution/B.O.R

                  • Yental spoke real truth and much of it regarding a couple “Forbidden” Topics and issues. Thats why Yentals posts usually got many red thumbs. It seems our Misfortune, is to always be highly outnumbered by those folks that remain forever in absolute denial whenever “certain” issues are mentioned. It matters Not to that denials majority what facts are shown as yentals and others posts has so often proven.

                    Rich is correct, they make decisions based upon emotional “Feelings” most often. It is that Herd mentaltiy same as liberals possess, and no wheres does that Herd and emotional “feelings” based attitude show itself, as when folks like Yental mention those facts and issues regarding the “Forbidden” topics or issues.

                    THAT is the Main reason for americas demise. Too many stuck in Abject denial of certain issues.

                  • “Yental spoke real truth and much of it regarding a couple “Forbidden” Topics and issues.”

                    Good God Almighty!!! You just cant control your rabid anti-Semitism can you?

              • Yental came up with the bet if I remember right.

                Yental was so sure that it was post it will happen or I will leave. 99 Didn’t start the bet. And of course the FBP made sure no one forgot.

            • I hope your right Rich I would like to make it to at least the end of 2014 by then I should have a good amount of preps since I am new to prepping to longer away the better but I think I will be in good shape by then.

              • One day at a time. You will be able to make it no mater what day the world decides to come unhinged.

                Yesterday, I stacked firewood and received 50 lbs of popcorn from the neighbor. He was loading it out of his bins and he let me take the spillage off the ground. Today I will try to get it cleaned and bagged after setting forms for two concrete pours.

                Now I can check popcorn off the list. 5 year supply with some left over to barter. Never can have enough firewood.

                • Popcorn is a good prep. It can be ground into corn meal or into corn flour.

              • We will make it beyond 2014 ….just look how fast this year went …it felt like a few months ago that the Sandy hook incident took place and that was a year ago ……a year goes quick

            • RICH – the game could last indefinetly.
              But in reallity it is already over.
              Get a grip fool .

              • How is 99 a fool. 99 Is not been right about everything but does understand that if the players keep changing the rule it will keep playing out until a rule change doesn’t actually change anything. (Help Them)

                We have been in the collapse for a while now. Not heading towards it. That is where I Disagree with 99.

              • My parents told me to never call someone a fool.

                “. . . whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.” – Matthew 5:22

                Even someone you would consider a fool has knowledge to share. In the town I used to live in, there was a dishwasher who would talk to himself and seemed to be mentally deficient. I found that he was an authority on local history and could tell me a lot if I steered the conversation. Any book about the town published in the last 40 years has his name in the credits for supplying photos.

                So don’t call anyone a fool.

            • @99 – You also said you’d never be back here again. If you can’t predict your own future, why should anyone think you can predict the future of the economy?

              • Because as far as the economy collapsing , I stated back in 2011 that we have at least 5-8 years and we are going into that 3rd year so THATS WHY !!!!

            • @99 – You also predicted you’d never return here. If you can’t predict your own future, why should anyone believe you can predict the future of the US economy? Why should anyone believe you can predict gun confiscation?

              I sure don’t.

            • Rich99.

              The Syria prediction is not done yet. The USA has claimed it will bomb its Navy to rid of WMD. So it can still happen, but I hope your prediction is true.

              Rich, please take a sit on the collapse and I’ll explain.

              We have collapsed dude, we have. They are printing as much as they can and then buying back that debt to make the books look good. How long will that last before more cities claim bankruptcy?

              It is like a idiot sky-diver that jumps out of plane and the chute does not open. He laughs. He thinks, those idiots said that if chute doesn’t work then I’m dead. But here I am at 20,000 feet and fully alive. And he says it again at 15,000 feet. Then 10,000 feet he says I’m alive and gravity is a fraud. Those idiots. Why did I listen to them. Then 5,000 and then 3,000 and then 1,000 feet I’m still alive.

              Then comes 500 feet OH SHIT and splat !!!!

              It came.

              I think we are about 5,000 feet.

              • I’m simply telling you that this printing game will continue for YEARS …..not months !!!!

        • I don’t think anyone truly knows the day when the stock market will crash and start the dominos falling. Those who are awake see the many signs and prepare.

          “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
          – Benjamin Franklin

          • Stocks Retreat as Investors Watch Fed

            Market Also Weighs Mixed News on Holiday Sales

            “Some investors believe that the Fed could begin paring its $85-billion-a-month bond-purchasing program as early as this month, though other observers say a spring start to such tapering is more likely.”

            http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303670804579233421179423930
            (also posted on Drudge Report)

            • Yep…. I saw it!!!

              • Where the hell is Braveheart hiding?

            • I doubt it. Watch Japan. They’re printing proportionally twice as fast as we are, and their national debt is already 2.5 times GDP and growing like mad. Their plan being to devalue the yen so as to make their exports cheaper. John Mauldin thinks this is the opening shot of a currency devaluation war, because Korea, China, Singapore will all jump on that bandwagon to protect themselves. Then Germany, because that’s another economy that lives and dies by exports. The USA should be late to that game, since we can feed ourselves with plenty left over, while none of those countries can.

              BTW the Japan crisis has been accelerated by the loss of Fukushima. They’re having to import much more of their energy supply, which is killing their balance of payments. Look for them to go to war if necessary to hang onto those islands that China claims. Oil there.

              Only somewhat off topic, Venezuela’s power grid has been falling apart since Chavez took over. Regular rolling blackouts. Today Caracas and several other major cities are total blackout. Our future if the extreme left manages to stay in power for another ten years. Already killing coal plants.

          • KY Mom

            You are right. It cracks me up when I read a date or a month when things will melt down. Probably though someone will get it right just out of chance. That was my effort above at a specific date. Like playing the lotto I guess.

            Ever heard of Inez, Ky.?

            • wrong,

              Yes! It is a small town in eastern Kentucky. Why do you ask?

              • My mom was born there back in the 30’s.

                • wrong,

                  It is a small world! My husband has family near there.

                  • I have relatives near Louisa and a friend from Little Blaine. Small world.

                  • I lived in Louisa awhile, (across from Ft. Gay)

                • wrong

                  I saw a sign that sums up the lack of service
                  in our economy today:

                  “We fix manure spreaders,
                  but we don’t stand behind them.”

                  • I like that. Common since!

        • Why that day and time??

          • Because he was warned in a dream by the tooth fairy.

            • Serious stuff eh!

        • The NSA snuffed him out for giving up the collapse day. Now it is you exposing the new collapse day.

          • this is for WRONG about 20 posts up????

        • wrong, the same thing happened to the dude that said Thanksgiving was going to be the day, as the dude that said Dec.19th, just slip away keep your mouth shut and everyone will forget it. Everyone except the NSA. Trekker Out. Semper Paratus

        • Well….For my 60th Birthday Obummer gave me the NDAA…and I had told everyone that we would not get out of the year without getting bent over one way or the other…

          Now ….I get the feeling that I may get a Big Ole KY Jelly gift from the PTB on my Birthday Dec 31st….

          Everyone celebrates my Birthday….Happy Birthday to Me !!!

        • I’m thinking 4:20 in the White House on Jan 1

      10. HOW HIGH IS THE HIGH COURT??
        By Derry Brownfield
        I became aware of the lack of morals held by the United States
        Supreme Court in 1962 when the ruling came down stating it
        was illegal to pray in our public schools. The following year
        the court made it illegal for public school attendees to read
        from the Bible. Then on January 22, 1973 because of the Roe
        vs. Wade decision, it became legal to kill unborn children. In
        late June of this year the highest court in the land went on a
        rampage to continue destroying the morals of this, once God-
        fearing nation. First the court ruled that some races are “more”
        equal than others. Then the court ruled that the Constitution
        contains an invisible clause that says homosexuals have a right
        to practice their sexual activities; and lastly, the court destroyed
        a state’s right to make laws concerning the amount of time a
        state has to bring criminal charges in child sex-abuse cases.
        Many of the Internet news services carried stories of protest.
        Joseph Farah writing in WorldNetDaily suggested we impeach
        the Supreme Court. NewsWithViews carried a story by John
        Taft titled Five Supreme Court Thugs Pummel Constitution
        and an article by Kevin E. Abrams titled Supreme Court Self
        Destructs. Abrams states “rather than interpreting the Ameri-
        can Constitution, the Supreme Court has effectively under-
        mined and suspended the Constitution and the moral principles
        which have guided the American Ship of State since her incep-
        tion. The Supreme Court is no longer in honor, but dishonor
        and shame. There is a “sacramental” component to human
        sexuality; and homoerotic sexual conduct by nature is back-
        wards and up-side-down. The militant “gay” movement will
        soon reveal their true motives wherein all those Americans who
        stand for truth; justice and moral righteousness will become
        their targets. The top has been mostly corrupted. Only the
        masses of American people who still believe in America and
        the principles for which the Constitutional Republic stands can
        save the day. Essentially, there is no more United States Su-
        preme Court, only We the People.”
        Joseph Farah calls the court “political activists in black robes
        who actively taunt the American people. An out of control,
        renegade court that sticks its thumb in the eye of the people,
        daring us to act against this unaccountable ruling elite.” Farah
        goes on to say, “Americans need to understand the Supreme
        Court does not have unlimited authority to strike down laws it
        doesn’t like. Americans need to prepare a response. All serv-
        ing federal officials are subject to impeachment proceedings –
        even the Supreme Court Justices. These people have to
        go. It’s time to challenge the authority of the majority
        with an impeachment movement.”
        Woodrow Wilson said, “The war between the states estab-
        lished this principle, that the federal government is,
        through its courts, the final judge of its own powers.”
        Thomas Jefferson said, “If the federal government were
        ever to become the sole judge of the limits of its own pow-
        ers through its own courts, then there would eventually be
        no limits to those powers and the Constitution would ef-
        fectively become a dead letter.

        • Great post, Old Vet.

          • No its not a good post.

            Yes the supreme court is screwed up. But many of the points he made is what they are suppose to do

            Separate state and religion Protect minorities rights. Protect the individual right to do as they want to do in a republic.

            His just is mad because he wants it a different way the way he wants it.

            Republic mean being left alone and also leaving others alone too

            • Thomas Jeffersons quote in the Old Vets post says it all. The Supreme Court has been loaded with lib-progressives that is destroying the very fiber of this once great country.

              Republic does mean being left alone and leaving others alone. The leaders of this once great nation do not recognize America as a republic any longer. They recognize it as a democracy; the total opposite of a republic.

              • Impeach Earl Warren!

            • The Constitution does not say to separate state and religion. All it says is that the Congress shall not by law create an established religion.

              England had an established religion. If you were not Church of England, you could not vote, own weapons, work in the Government, be an army or navy officer, etc., etc.

              THAT is what establishment of religion means.

              What we are getting now is the establishment of The Church of There Is No God. In direct contravention to what the Constitution says. It’s beginning to look here like it did in 17th century Europe, where people were burned at the stake for being Anabaptists.
              We don’t burn at the stake anymore, but we do drive people out of business because their religious scruples keep them from taking renting to homosexuals in the other half of the duplex they live in, or funding abortions, or photographing gay weddings, or-or-or. A persecution of religion that is AOK as far as the SCOTUS is concerned.

              Just wait until Islam tales over. Then you’ll find out what “established religion” means.

            • Live and let live, freedom of choice.

              • Yeah That 95-Foot Tall Minorah erected On whitehouse front Lawn every winter, while ZERO Jesus Manger scene displays are allowed any longer, sure looks alot like “Islamic Sharia” has or soon will Hyjack America eh!

                Never knew a minoarh(devils pitchfork) display means sharia-muslim-islamic…..And remember its the us supremes that ruled Manger scenes Out as its too “religious” but the Same us supremes says that 95 ft Tall Minorah stand is NOT religious symbols!!

                Maybe the us supremes need to Notify the synagouges of Satan, nationwide of that discovery of whats religious symbols and what aint eh.

                Remain warm and Safe this winter season folks…And beware of All them sharia islamics overtaking america! One can recognize them islamics by their names….Finestien-Bloomberg-Schumer-Goldman-Silverman-Wienstien-Stinesky-Trotsky-etc ET AL….Yep sure sounds like sharia islamics to me!!

                Soon all usa citizens will be mandated to erect an Islamic Minorah on Their front Lawns if them mooooslims in fed govnt aint halted!

        • OldVet Thanks. Don’t know where you got this article by Derry Brownfield, but when I lived in Missouri I loved to listen to his radio talk show every morning. It was a Conservative talk show with a country flavor, and as Derry always use to say, Liberalism was Ignorance gone to seed! I sure did miss him when he passed away. He was just a good ole country boy that the common man could relate to. I thank God for men like Derry. Trekker Out.

          • MT: Me To! I found it in an old news letter.

            It’s your life—-Make it Count.

        • Never, never, NEVER try to time the market. It’s a fools game. And anybody publishing stuff like this fits the definition.

          “Bulls make money, bears make money, and pigs get slaughtered.”

      11. Yes, we all know this (or at least SHOULD) by now. What I want is more articles/information on what to do with the info – how to cover yourself in times like this. I’m forced into a 401K at work but I’ve got it all in cash (don’t feel like waking up to a 40% hit) and I’m doing other things; but some aren’t and are waking up.

        What to do, what to do, what to do…..

        I like the 12.19 @ 14:40 call….I’ll go with that.

        OH; are we at $5K gold yet too?

      12. It was just one semi bad “correction” of a day and the speculation is flying and the gloom is dooming. Let all the positive thinkers out there rise up and love humanity with all of its flaws and tomorrow will be a better day… Joy to all!!!!!!!!!!!!

      13. Facebook Page; Most of the “eaters” will kill each other off. As a group, they’ll be looking for food and fuel – and they’ll look at sources close to home at first, just like in Watts. As they find less and less to appropriate from their neighbors they’ll expand the search area into the suburbs.
        There they’ll find better pickin’s but more resistance and their numbers will be reduced. Eventually they’ll be reduced to a small enough force that they’ll be in no condition to move from the suburbs to the surrounding countryside. At that point they’ll either become civilized enough to be accepted as neighbors or summarily wiped out by the friends and relatives of those they’ve already killed.
        That won’t be the end of the fighting though. At some point the government will step in and try to set up shop. By that time very few of the survivors will be interested in what some idiot in D.C. has to say. Martial law will be declared, some foreign army will be brought in and then TSWHTF!

        • True in a complete grid down collapse. All unprepared will die.

          But what if it is just a currency collapse with a reset and our military keep other countries from cashing in. Most of the Useless will still just be there Maybe hungrier but still sitting there with their hand out. ANd who do you think will be at the front of the government handout lines. The expert will be.

      14. Another economic callapse article 🙁 I prefer opsec topics or how to _____

        But we got to pay the bills so I’m not hate’n Mac

        • Ok Indy. Don’t keep all your stuff in one location. Everyone I know has their stuff spread out with reliable people. Relatives, storage facility (temporary), etc. All close by and easy to get to. Sort of a network. In case of government raids, they won’t get it all in one sweep. Plus it runs the cost up for them and gives everyone else a chance to act.

          • good post maudy 🙂

          • Thanks maudy but when you barely have enough money to prep to begin with; I can’t easily spread out my resources.

            At some point I just have to say I’ve done my best to prep and if I get taken out, it’s GOD will. But I will go down fighting.

      15. Economic numbers according to the govmint look good today!Stock market dropped because they think the Fed may stop Pomo. Upside down country- will not be long now. Whenever they want to trot the swan out…

      16. We’re going to see a 1929-style crash.

        • really ?
          NO , i doubt it , we are already in a controlled decline and the bottom is near endless .
          Time will tell .

        • And a 1929 crash wont clean out the gene pool.

        • Going to see a 1929 crash? 2007 was 1929 and 2013 is 1930. 1929 and 1930 were high points of the market. It took 3 years to hit bottom. Everything is controlled and manipulated now, so will it take longer to go from top to bottom? Don’t know..

          But when it goes, people are going to be devastated.
          molon labe

        • Thats what my money is on, these donkeys have no more control than you or I do.

      17. The economy will not collapse for some basic reasons. The first is the vast quantity of money printing going on across the world, the second is technology, and the speed at which the markets can respond and adjust to demand, and the third is market manipulation – it is epic and means all prices etc. are directly manipulated back in line whenever they get out of whack.

        We are in a super cycle being driven by more and more of the world’s population gaining greater economic freedom and access to products and services. This will keep demand up, just maybe not in the US. In fact, the US can go down the crapper and the world will still prosper (all the manufacturing and innovation will take place in China over this next decade and the US is no longer needed). The US may have a future as a dystopic theme park – ‘Looney Land’, or ‘Cracker with a Gun Land’, or “Gang-banger Ville’ – but not as a manufacturing and innovation centre.

      18. For about 15 years now, when I get out of bed, I run to the tv and turn it on. Damn! It still hasn’t collapsed. Take the mag out of the rifle and put the rifle back in the safe. Stash the go bag in the closet and curse the news. It’s a real slow collapse, so far. It is actually getting worse, just real slow. It could pop all at once. No one can guess if or when. Maybe we should give it a nudge.

        • Dont wish for SHTF.

          • Why? You prefer death by a million pin pricks? Wouldnt you rather get it over and get it reset?

        • Maudy Fricket,
          And at the end of the day reverse the process, when it comes it will be without warning , swift and decisive. It’s better to be ready and stand down. Then to stand down and never be ready.
          I might wear out the PTR91 inserting and removing the mags at the begining of the day but at least the gear is ready to go incase some serious E and E is required.

          The warning signs are all there , police scanners that can no longer recieve commo in our area , police have all gone secure digital. Military equipment in police use. More and more people on EBT and aid , very little good paying jobs. MASSIVE PERSONAL DEBT. Courseness of society.

          Someday it will all reach crital mass then nothing on this earth will be able to contain it.

          Prepare your bug in location, but also prepare to be mobile.
          And to move swiftly , silently and unobtrusively.

          IMPROVISE ADAPT OVERCOME

          Do not be where every one else is , go the opposite direction.
          Our fate is what we make it , the future is unwritten.

          RESIST

          NO MATTER WHAT.

          III%

          Semper Fi 8541

      19. The biggest enemies of the market are interest rates which are sneaking up, and a black swan, like the Chinese dumping the dollar and US debt. Only the Shadow knows.

      20. Get your money into hard assets, have Grub, Guns, Gold, Ground. When it crashes, move your money into things that are actually making money…. (Coke, Pepsi, Ford, Energy, Food)… and enjoy the ride back up…. Works every time…. People made millions in the depression, my uncle has made tens of millions in the last two crashes….. just be ready and smart. PRAY, PLAN, PREP, FORM TEAMS…..

      21. I get lucky 2-3 times a week when the team comes home.

      22. ‘assurances from the mainstream media and the Federal Reserve that everything is just fine’…

        I just choked on my coffee.

      23. Sorry to go off topic but looking for some advice. To all the married people does your spouse prep with you or just go along with it. My wife is ok with me prepping but she would rather spend money on stupid shit and I want to spent it on the stuff we might need. Its still very new to her but its hard to get her to see whats coming. She struggles real bad with anxiety so she doesn’t want to think about a shtf scenario but sometimes I want to talk about different things we can do and I want her to know what to do if I am not around. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

        • My GF is the same way, but she has no say over how i spend my money, tricky subject though, and a good one, i have an understanding with her about my trying to stock necessities, so far is ok, she is a little freaked out with my weaponry but she will get over it,,,,, or not, hmmm

          Mac,,,
          Maybe this would be a good topic to do an article on?

          Prepping and significant others.

          • My husband used to be a pacifist lol. If I can turn his head around onto getting a gun, anything can happen.

        • My prepping started out as my boyfriends hobby in which he could be successful. We had a 5 day power outrage and four children to feed. We bought a camping stove, extra can openers, some extra canned food. We wouldn’t be in the same position. Then I started really researching reality and woke up screaming. my life has never been the same. I will always be able to provide for my children or die to protect them. We will not be stranded on a rooftop begging for help. Every month that goes by gives me the opportunity to store food for three months. He now says it’s enough. My mantra is, it’s never enough. it has given me such freedom and peace that I don’t stress that my company can hire someone cheaper to do my job. I’m happy at work, happy at home, and spend ever spare moment prepping, or sharing articles such as this site trying to weaken those that I care about and building relationships with like minded folks. Because I believe in plurality and withdrawing consent. That link that satori shared a few days ago was amazing.

          • Haha….trying to awaken!! Not weaken…

          • Hi IL, I feel just the way you do, it’s never enough. I will do my best to not be on that roof stranded with my kids as well. My husband and I woke up a year ago about food storage, watching black Friday videos.

          • IL Mom. What are some other sites like this where people are sharing info. One of my main problems is finding other people in my area that are like minded. I would like to build a network of people around my area but I don’t want to go shouting from the roof top that I am prepping. You make a good point about if you lose your job you will not have to stress about feeding your family maybe I can sell it to my wife like that as an investment.

            Kulafarmer..The weaponry is the one thing she likes she grew up with a older brother that has all types of weapons and she was always at the range with him so shes a pretty good shot.

            • I started with preparednesspro.com. kellene bishop has ten principles of preparedness to work on, such as food, shelter, security, spiritual, water, communication, etc. I learned how to can and preserve food as a city girl I never thought that would happen. Proper ways to store food. You name it, she has researched it. I also have learned a lot from ready nutrition link is here. I found this site and this one and the links here are the ones I use the mist now because of the community.

              • Thanks for the info I really appreciate it..

        • I’m blessed in that my hubby is willing to go along, even if he isn’t quite as gung ho as I am. He’s older and was raised in a different time and place, but if its really bad, he’s said we will leave the US…..he has lots of good ideas I haven’t thought of…

        • 4 year prepper

          A lot of us are experiencing those circumstances. It does not deter me from doing what I do. I am a Christian, read the Bible daily, pray, attend church, watch my favorite preachers on TV (on another TV), etc. My husband does not do these things and tells me I am preaching when I speak of these things.
          Do I stop because he is not on the same page? NO!
          Same with prepping. I prep, he frowns and tells me I have gone overboard. Do I stop? NO!
          Follow your own heart. I don’t stop being a Christian because he is not and I don’t stop prepping because he finds it foolish. Should we have a true SHTF crisis he will take full credit I am sure.
          This subject would be like discussing the Bible. There are just too many remarks people would make and disagree on that we would go full circle.
          If you feel good about being prepared, then go for it.

          My husband is a hard worker, and agrees about most things and knows how to do so many different things so well, so I can let him follow his heart also. His strength is my weakness and vice versa. We hold each other up.

          God Bless

          4 year prepper

        • I should write a blog post, rather than take up the page with my responses 🙂 It takes time for some to wake up. I woke up in 2003, my husband, just a couple years back. You could start with asking her to watch some black Friday videos, then ask her what she would do if there was no food, and if she had to fight like that for a can of soup. I understand having anxiety attacks, they are awful, but I somehow force myself to see the reality. To be honest, I’ll be scared to death if something happens, but then I’ll see I’m prepped and that will give me strength.

          All I can say is, expose things to her in small doses. Be patient. Make a compromise, that if she can buy this stupid shit, then you get to buy something for prepping? Good luck 🙂

        • I’m really not prepping, I just have 5 year supply of TP because I’m an A-hole. It’s how you word things that gets agreement.

      24. Everything’s fine. If it weren’t, our government would let us know and help us prepare.

        It’s ‘the roaring teens.’ Everybody party and have a ball. Happy days are just around the corner right past the green shoots.

        • Here’s a good record from 1932.

          “Just around the corner, there’s a rainbow in the sky,
          So let’s have another cup of coffee,
          And let’s have another piece of pie.”

          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syvLVpPTYEc

      25. I’m no “expert”, but after reading for years on these blogs that “the sky is falling, and our republic is doomed” I am somewhat dubious about a great many claims. Sure, it could very well happen…eventually, but I am reminded of the parable of the boy who cried wolf. But, I continue to prep.

        • You still must live and survival and life can coexist.

      26. HOW TO CONTEND WITH
        IMMIGRATION
        1. The US will apologize to the world for our
        “interference” in their affairs, past & present. You know,
        Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo, Marshal, Petain, and the rest of
        them good ole boys. We will never “interfere” again.
        2. We will withdraw our troops from all over the world,
        starting with Germany, France, South Korea and the
        Philippines. They don’t want us there. We would station
        troops at our borders. No more sneaking through the
        holes in the fence.
        3. All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs to-
        gether and leave. We’ll give them a free trip home. After
        90 days the remainder will be gathered up and deported
        immediately, regardless of who or where they are. France
        would welcome them.
        4. All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited
        to 90 days in America unless given a special permit.
        No one from a terrorist nation would be allowed in. If
        you don’t like it there, change it yourself, don’t hide here,
        asylum would not ever be available to anyone. We don’t
        need any more cab drivers.
        5. No “students” over age 21. The older ones are the
        bombers. If they don’t attend classes, they get an “F” and
        its back home, baby.
        6. The US will make a strong effort to become self-
        sufficient energy wise. This will include developing non-
        polluting sources of energy but will require temporary
        drilling for oil in the Alaskan wilderness. The caribou
        will have to cope for a while.
        7. Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries
        $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don’t like it, we go
        someplace else.
        8. If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the
        world, we will not “interfere.” They can pray to Allah or
        whomever, for seeds, rain, cement or whatever they need.
        Besides, most of what we give them is stolen or given to
        the army. The people who need it most get very little, if
        any, anyway.
        9. Ship the UN Headquarters to an island some place.
        We don’t need the spies and fair weather friends here.
        Besides, it would make a good homeless shelter or lockup
        for illegal aliens.
        10. All Americans must go to charm and beauty school.
        That way, no one can call us “Ugly Americans” any longer.

        • #11: A warning to all the other countries if you fuck with us and our way of life in any way you will be destroyed. This is your first and only warning…

      27. OK…here’s a test. You came home from work. The dollar crashed and the panic buying started. Martial law set it. It got so bad…there was nightly curfew and house to house.
        Crime is rampant.

        Limited commerce is going on.

        Me.. Shelter in place for many months.
        Then I’d pull all the silver for the safe…go buy some bank own property with the silver stash deep in the country. Take the massive amounts of tools I bought..
        I’d buy raw land… low taxes.
        Then I’d build a legal small cabin with a new septic and well.
        After the inspectors left..I’d open the door to a massive underground home I’d build.

        Then live peaceful and quiet like.

        Funny how folks think we’d go to mad max type times.
        Nope… folks still need to live life and get shit done.

        You’d have to go to the deep country….back up in some 4×4 only type roads.

        Yeah..the boom cars would never make it.
        Know what i mean stan? yo

        • You watch way too much sci fi or you need to adjust your meds

      28. People keep comparing the impending doom of this stock market crash to the 1930’s…and they couldn’t be more wrong. In the 1930’s there were still a lot of farmers and people who knew how to care for themselves (and others)albeit almost to the point of utter starvation and desolation. The coming crash will look nothing like the one in the 1930’s…it will be orders of magnitudes worse. Why you ask?

        -People today are NOT self reliant or strong willed…much the opposite. Weak AND pathetic.

        -The world as a whole was not as heavily invested in the dollar standard as they are today. Even though some countries are jumping ship fast the water will take the ship down with them in one big swirling swoosh.

        -There are over 7 BILLION people on the planet now. Back in 1930 there were approx. 2,073,363,421. That’s a lot more mouths to feed. All with less water and farmland to boot. I can show you the USGS data if you want.

        -In 1930 most people lived simple, straightforward lives. Most people today cannot function without cell phones, Xbox, Giant screen TV’s and other electronic leashes.

        -The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 was alive and well in 1930. Today it is past ripe and bloated beyond imagination.

        -Technology has expanded in leaps and bounds since 1930. Mankind’s humanity however, has gone quite the other direction in leaps and bounds.

        -Over HALF the U.S. population alone is dependent on Government assistance or handouts of one form or another. Some (or most)of these are people who largely contribute notta to the U.S. GDP or life itself…they simply exist to exist.

        -The U.S.(and global)police state is alive and well beyond anything that Stalin, Hitler or Mao ever dreamed of.

        I could type for 50 more minutes and not even run out of examples without repeating…but I have work to do yet.

        So…all you who keep comparing apples and oranges are in for a very rude awakening. This is going to be hell on earth and it is way overdue.

        We now return you to your regularly scheduled illusion or program…

        • Good post so-crates
          People are soft

        • Yep…..It is going to be one Big Ole ” Running of the Black Friday Tards !!! “…..

          We might as well be another Planet considering the difference in our world & society in contrast to the way it was back in 1929…My Grandfather told me that they did not know that there was a depression on until they went to town….Times are not the same.

          What we are going to have is one HUGE ” FUBAR “….

        • I agree: the population is of a lower quality in the Western countries today than 60 years ago. Today’s western population is, in the main, a population of bed-wetters, whiners, whingers, brain-dead welfare thugs and scum, and yuppie fairies. But this is not the case in the developing world. People in those countries are fighters and have to fight hard every day to survive. These are the people who will make the weather for the global economy. And they want a life just like they see in magazines and will fight hard for that.

          So, the best way to think about this is like this: a boxing ring with, in the left corner, Jim-the-Limp-wristed-pot-bellied-whiner versus, in the right corner, Wang-the-country-peasant-who-made-his-first-million-by-the-age-of-25.

        • You hit the nail on the head, Socrates. My grandparents used to tell me about how they survived the great depression, and it wasn’t by standing on a street corner with their hands out, crying about when FEMA was going to show up with their food, water, clothes, or gas.

        • Socrates…

          Much different, yes.

          Farming is no longer listed as an occupation in the census. It is now lumped in with “all other”.

          This is less than 1% of current occupations. These are the guys that feed us and some of the world.

          This is only possible through cheap and plentiful petroleum products for fertilizer, pesticides, combines and tractors, plastic packaging and reefer trucking.

          When the fracking bubble pops in a few years, this supply line will break. Many will starve and chaos will reign. We need to learn to supply our own food locally with small communities and tribes.

          1935: 6.8 million farms…127 million people.

          2007: 2.2 million farms…313 million people.

          • Don’t worry; the Chinese will send us good food to eat.

            • apparently they are sending back a shitload of gmo crap that we sent them…gives a whole new meaning to the word “ironic”…

      29. Keep your ears open for that popping sound….it’ll be sudden and surprising!

        • with a slight echo i.e. music hall acoustics

      30. These bozos are always running things right on the edge of failure. When will it bust? Who knows. Best to be prepared all the time and not pay the men behind the curtain too much mind.

        • Like your site

      31. how long did it take noah to build the ark? How long was ancient Israel a power? 40 years may seem long to u or I, but is a blink of an eye in the history of nations and less than a blink to He who created all. I wonder what all of noahs critics felt when the rains came, and did not stop.
        There was a day before Nagasaki and a day before the market crash in ’29. There is always the day before when everythying seems fine. That is why we prepare.
        Anyone who says “Well, nothing has happened yet”
        is betting on the kindness of strangers

      32. People are viewing this issue through the wrong prism. Yes, the US is in relative decline and this will just accelerate. It is a bummer for Americans but this is not the story elsewhere in the world. Elsewhere, people are experiencing rising living standards and increasing opportunities. They are on an up curve.

        This trend is vast and baked in the cake for the next 50 years. What can or should you do? You cannot fight trends like this: all you can do is ride them like a Bangkok whore. Get strapped in and lubed up and enjoy the experience.

        • Not exactly. The tax system is regressive against Americans. This drives demand for the rest of the world. If American people do like [formerly] American companies and expatriate their incomes then the USG and FRB pop. Bitcoin is still new, but portends the move ex-USA. When your AC repairman starts to take his payment in butcoins (or some other money not loaded with the anti-American tax system), then you know the game is up for the USG and FRB.
          Not sure if you’ll get what I’m saying. Let me make it clear. USA is world police. But only the neighbors in the USA are paying the tax to pay that police force. This is repeated repeatedly. China does not excel because of quality or innovation: simply cheaper. If Chinese had to pay for the USG and FRB loads which are loaded on the American back, then China would fade away on the world scene.
          China et al trying to jump the dollar might backfire. Without the ability to tax the world’s engine (Americans) then who will pay for the world police? nobody?

      33. In vain, I have desperately tried to warn my in laws of what is coming. They did not learn their lessons in 2008 when they lost 1/2 a million (their life long nest egg) in stocks. They never totally recovered from that, but luckily did not lose their home.

        THEN I find out that they have listened to some financial adviser that they met in 2010 and have invested once again. If they lose this time, I don’t know what will happen to them.

        I have also tried to warn other family members, but most of them wave me off and act like I’ve gone crazy.

        My husband and I do not have a lot of money, and we have managed to prep back 7 1/2 months of food this year on very little income. It was a huge struggle, but we did it. I love my family, but what am I to do if they come knocking? I will only have just enough for me and my family.

        When the next tax increase for Obama care happens, when SNAP is cut again (and it will happen, they are talking of it already), and gas goes UP more, I just don’t know how much longer it will take.

        I’ve been told to stop panicking, stop being ridiculous, nothing will happen, you’ll be fine, etc.

      34. The market is not going to crash anytime soon. The market is indeed bubbling but it is the only indicator doing well. Those with first access to the free money are making billions in the markets. We common folks not so well.

        What truly saddens me is the American people have bought into consumerism as their new God.

      35. Like I have said a few times in the past year. The stock market will continue to go higher so long as the fed keeps injecting money into the bond market. (QE) When they stop doing QE, everything, and I do mean everything, collapses. Isn’t it a lovely predicament we are all in.

      36. *****H7N9 UPDATE*****

        Hong Kong on high alert after first human case of H7N9 bird flu

        http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/03/world/asia/hong-kong-h7n9-case/index.html

        “Ko said that Hong Kong had raised its level of preparedness for an influenza pandemic to “serious.”

        hmmm
        over just one case ???

        *****MERS CoV UPDATE*****

        Three More Cases of MERS-CoV Reported to WHO

        http://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/news/2013/11/three-more-cases-of-merscov-reported-to-who.aspx

        “Globally, from September 2012 to date, WHO has been informed of a total of 160 laboratory-confirmed cases of infection with MERS-CoV, including 68 deaths.”

        some in health care are saying that the ACTUAL # of cases
        is probably 5-10 greater than what is being officially reported

      37. Dollar survival behind US-China tensions

        http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/12/01/337581/real-reason-behind-uschina-tensions/

        “The escalation of military tensions between Washington and Beijing in the East China Sea is superficially over China’s unilateral declaration of an air defense zone. But the real reason for Washington’s ire is the recent Chinese announcement that it is planning to reduce its holdings of the US dollar.”

      38. Too many people have more faith in the market than God.

        Too many people have all their monetary assets tied up in the market and when it crashes, they will and have nothing stored for a rainy day and you will hear of suicides as we did in 2008 and prior market crashes.

        I would not invest now if I was an investor.

        I would get out now. It is not worth the worry.

        Of course, they want you to invest, your financial adviser receives a commission on your investment.

        When the market crashes, it will not return as we know it
        and probably will within the next 24-36 months,if that long.

        China is buying a a large quantity of gold. It’s intention is to make its currency the world’s reserve, I believe to under mind the West.

        It will temporary .

        Because something else is about to occur that is going to take the air out of that plan I believe.

        On this site we discussed and prepared for when the SHTF to include a monetary collapse. What you do have in you name, paid for, you will lose.
        When the SHTF and all your money is gone, you have not and prepared for the hard times, you are in a world of S…

      39. Hey B I we had a lil 3.9er south of gilroy yesterday
        Any clues?
        Just got back from Idaho picked up another pup
        17 gun shops 2 cabelas 3 states and no 22 I did
        Score some 9m 🙂

        • Nino’s
          Same on the east coast , Some 5.56 , 7.62 NATO, no 22 and when you find it it’s $40.00 for a 325 rd pack! No 9’s either. We you see it you have to buy it.
          Arms are still selling out even in a gun unfriendly state like N.J. Never seen anything like it.
          Even web gear and mil surplus is getting scarce.
          If you do not have it by now you are going to be hurting.
          There is no way what we are in now is sustainable.
          Learn as much as you can now , Train with a competent tactical instructor ,
          Prepare to the best of your ability. Form LIBERTY teams
          And when it goes down never surrender of your own free will if you have the means to resist.
          There is a Storm coming that likes of which we have never seen.

          RESIST NO MATTER WHAT

          III%

          Semper Fi 8541

          • Horatius

            Then out spake brave Horatius
            The Captain of the Gate:
            “To every man upon this earth
            Death cometh soon or late.
            And how can man die better
            Than facing fearful odds,
            For the ashes of his fathers,
            And the temples of his Gods.

            And when above the surges
            They saw his crest appear,
            All Rome sent forth a rapturous cry,
            And even the ranks of Tuscany
            Could scarce forebear to cheer.

            With weeping and with laughter
            Still is the story told,
            How well Horatius kept the bridge
            In the brave days of old.

            Thomas Babington Macaulay

            Semper Fi 8541

      40. This is totally off topic but I just had to share this with you. If only we were really rich we could have a bunker just like this one. Courtesy of J.R. over at survivalblog. On the surface it looks like an ordinary cabin in the mountains but underneath is a bunker made from an old silo. Incredible! I would just love, love, love to have this! http://www.viralnova.com/apocalypse-house/

        • Before price or anything else, my wife said she wouldn’t live up north.

          If I had that kind of money, I’d build something a little smaller where I’m at.

      41. If the head of the Federal Reserve Janet Yellen says there is nothing to worry about , I think the time to start to worry has long since past .
        — Miss Dee Dee

      42. Alrighty. Going to get a few “thumbs down” with this one but what the hell –

        I have my preps in place, actually in several places. I can bug-in or bug-out. I am well stocked for up to a year of 100% off the grid living. I have food, weapons, ammo, solar, gas, water, books and games, sharp sticks, you name it. And now that I have all this in place, I am stepping away and bellying up to the trough of plenty.

        I am going on a spending spree. Buying nice, expensive clothing, eating out at the most luxurious restaurants, travel, maybe even buy a second vehicle. Something that goes 0-60 in less than 5 seconds.

        Any why would I do this? Because I f**king can. I want to spend my money while it is still worth something. I want to have lived the high life that my salary allows for before that is not possible anymore.

        F**k the poor, the meek, the weak, the ignorant feeding and breeding masses. There has been and will ALWAYS be these kind of people. I was born poor and have made MYSELF into what I am today: Educated, upper middle class, healthy, well-traveled and successful. I care not for those not capable of lifting themselves out of the circumstances of their birth.

        They will be crushed under the boot heel of history and I say good riddance. The weak will perish. ALWAYS.

        -Heel out

        • Darwinism–natural selection.
          Go for it!!

        • What car you looking at, just curious, i like the new Audi wagon, i know, a mom car, they are bad ass though, and fast.
          My dream wheels would be a brand new Unimog, 4door, those things will run forever, flashy cars are nice but i learned my lesson a long time ago that i need a car i can run off the road and not wreck it! So the mog from Mercedes is where its at for this farmer.

          • 2014 Maserati Ghibli

            • Spendy wheels, would definitely be cool though, hey if you can why not! Only live once.

        • Best post today! I totally agree: had most of my preps in place by 2008 as I saw the writing on the wall around 2005. Did nicely out of the collapse in 2007/2008 and have been riding high since. But, yes, since the preps are already in place and have been for some time, I took the decision to spend well with a portion of the existing wealth while it still can get something.

          So, it is eat well, travel, dress well and not look like the burned out slobs I see around me, help family and friends and generally enjoy life. Was surfing last week and just enjoying the babes on the beach. Did let a flash of image come into my head of some sad sack on SNAP shivering on the streets of Detroit and how they are trapped in the hell that is modern urban America, but then this babe just decided to sunbath topless. Oh, well.

        • Been there done that. Cl600 macareln. Worth every penny. You earn go fucking spend it. You deserve it. Do forget a boar. And ATVs. And show off at any reunion.

        • Green thumb from me as well Heel.

          A day at a time brother…and as far as that Mas goes…Drive it like you freaking stole it!!!!!

          Just a person recommendation from lms…make sure you are armed to the teeth. Guns and ammo will help your spending in the long run.

        • i started out with NOTHING, and still have MOST of it left!

      43. The Electronic Privacy Information Center reports that the court just granted the government more time to decide whether to release the kill switch plan. It now has until January 13.

        This month, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that the Department of Homeland Security must make its plan to shut off the internet and cellphone communications available to the American public. You, of course, may now be thinking: What plan?!

        • Ain’t it the truth
          — Miss Dee Dee

      44. KY Mom and Masgrande, ever heard of Muddy Gut on Arkansas Creek near Prestonsburg, KY? I may be a TX Hillbilly now but not always.

      45. PARTY LIKE IT’S 1939!

      46. The MSM has gone beyond propaganda. They have been engaged in “indoctrination” now for some time. Don’t help them make a living. Refuse to be interviewed on any topic. The weather, sports, prepping or politics. Screw them. And when the shtf, remember them in your actions.

      47. Earlier I posted that a currency problem could cause the market a big problem. Just read that the Chinese Yuan has passed up the Euro as the number 2 currency used in trade. Second only to the US dollar and gaining. Reserve currency and petro dollar status are key to wether or not this country goes on for much longer.

      48. The Chinese are going for it: they know you don’t offer a helping hand to a rival and enemy when they are down on the ground, you grab a dagger and ram into their throat. America is broke, exhausted, riven with conflict, getting stupider by the day – its infrastructure is falling apart so significantly, it can’t even maintain its advantage in the things like communications and hi-tech.

        2015 is the big deadline when the yuan goes fully into global convertibility and becomes a true global trade currency. That is the hammer drop: the dollar will collapse and be relegated to secondary status along the lines of the British pound.

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