“An Unavoidable Global Recession”: The Warnings Get Louder As Worldwide Economic Numbers Continue To Deteriorate

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    This article was originally published by Michael Snyder at The Economic Collapse

    Economic numbers all over the world continue to get worse, and as you will see below, even New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is now warning of “an unavoidable global recession”. Unfortunately, most Americans still have absolutely no idea that this is happening. Most ordinary citizens are still under the impression that everything is going to be just fine, but the numbers suggest otherwise. The Baltic Dry Index just plummeted to the lowest level that we have seen in three years, and this is yet another indication that the global trade war is causing widespread economic pain. And according to Bloomberg, global economic growth has now dropped to the lowest level that we have seen since the Great Recession…

    The global economy’s loss of momentum has left expansion now looking like its weakest since the global financial crisis, a development that’s already sparked a dramatic shift among central banks.

    A UBS model suggests world growth slowed to a 2.1 percent annualized pace at the end of 2018, which it says would be the weakest since 2008-2009.

    Unfortunately, it appears that things are getting even worse during the first few months of 2019. In North America, Europe and Asia, signs of a major downturn are seemingly everywhere

    Unfortunately, there hasn’t been much sign of that. China car sales dropped in January, and data last week showed U.S. retail sales posted their worst drop in nine years in December. In Europe, where the slowdown has been particularly marked, sentiment indicators continue to weaken, and the latest OECD leading indicator has also declined.

    The numbers coming out of China are particularly striking. Experts were stunned this week when it was announced that Chinese car sales had plunged 17.7 percent

    Car sales in China continued to decline in January after their first full-year slump in more than two decades, adding to pressure on automakers who bet heavily on the market amid waning demand for cars from the U.S. to Europe.

    Passenger vehicle wholesales fell 17.7 percent year-on-year, the biggest drop since the market began to contract in the middle of last year, while retail sales had their eighth consecutive monthly decline, industry groups reported Monday.

    That is an absolutely disastrous number, and it is a sign that this will be a very, very tough year for the global auto industry.

    Meanwhile, German industrial production is falling at a pace that we haven’t seen since the last global recession

    “Unexpectedly,” German industrial production fell 3.9% in December 2018 compared to December 2017, after having fallen by a revised 4.0% in November, according to German statistics agency Destatis Thursday morning. These two drops were steepest year-over-year drops since 2009.

    Even during the European Debt Crisis in 2011 and 2012 – it hit Germany’s industry hard as many European countries weaved in and out of a recession, with some countries sinking into a depression — German industrial production never fell as fast on a year-over-year basis as in November and December

    But as bad as things are in Germany, they are even worse in Italy.

    Italy’s economy has already fallen into a recession, and their debt problems continue to grow with each passing day.

    Watch Italy, because it is going to be a key to the drama that is currently unfolding in Europe.

    Here in the United States, we are still doing relatively better than much of the rest of the world, but our economy is slowing down too. U.S. retail sales just suffered their “biggest drop in more than nine years”, and the stunning bankruptcy and liquidation of Payless ShoeSource has made front page news all over the nation

    Payless ShoeSource confirmed Friday that it will close its 2,100 stores in the U.S. and Puerto Rico and start liquidation sales Sunday. The company is also shuttering its e-commerce operations.

    The closings mark the biggest by a single chain this year and nearly doubles the number of retail stores set to close in 2019.

    So what does all of this mean?

    What all of this means is that this is the beginning of the end for the global economic bubble. It is time to start getting serious about the economy again, and it is time to get prepared for the tough years that are ahead.

    At this point, even the most clueless pundits in the mainstream media can see what is coming. For example, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is now warning that we are heading for “an unavoidable global recession” either at the end of this year or the beginning of next year

    Professor Paul Krugman has warned a series of isolated downward economic trends around the world will spiral into an unavoidable global recession towards the end of 2019 or the beginning of next year. Mr Krugman said there is not “one big thing” prompting the stark forecast but instead blamed a number of incidents happening at the same time. He said a slump in the eurozone combined with the long-running US-China trade war, President Trump’s tax policy and world leaders’ lack of preparedness are increasing the risks of a worldwide economic slowdown.

    If even Paul Krugman can see what is happening, then you know that time is short.

    Prior to the Great Recession of 2008 and 2009, most people never would have imagined that we were about to enter a terrible global economic downturn. Here in the U.S., it seemed like the economy was buzzing along quite nicely, and the vast majority of us had absolutely no idea what was really going on behind the scenes.

    Similarly, right now most of us are conducting our lives as if nothing is going to change. To most people, the system seems to be functioning normally and there appears to be no cause for alarm.

    Unfortunately, things are not that simple.

    Rubber bands can keep stretching for quite a while, but if you put too much pressure on them they will eventually snap. At this point there is an enormous amount of pressure on our global economic bubble, and someday it will “snap” too.

    It is just a matter of time.

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    Michael Snyder is a nationally syndicated writer, media personality and political activist. He is publisher of The Most Important News and the author of four books including The Beginning Of The End and Living A Life That Really Matters.

    GetPreparedNow-MichaelSnyderBarbaraFixMichael 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 is coming and what you can do to prepare, read his latest book [amazon text=Get Prepared Now!: Why A Great Crisis Is Coming & How You Can Survive It&asin=150522599X].

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      15 Comments

      1. Just read an article over the weekend that copper price is set to gain 60 pct over the next ten years, due to the new “green” push.

        • Didn’t someone here say, 3-4 months ago, while the stock markets were soaring that the SWHTF after the first of the year ??? Who was that masked man ???

          Yeah, its in the archives. 🙂

        • Oh spectacular… /sarc

          Thaaaaaat’s great.

          Great.

          Looks like I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue…

          I’ve done a lot to move my company’s products away from using brass but unfortunately there’s still some reliance going on there. Terrific. Well… sigh… survivable with some thought probably… if I can get my greasy mitts on the rest of the designs… but what isn’t survivable is a 25% tariff…

          • I have a small production job shop.
            I’m kicking ass because of the tariffs

            • you manufacture ass kickers ??

              • He’s busier than a cat trying to cover shit on a marble step.

      2. As Maggie Thatcher said back in THE DAY: “It’s just time”…so get those beans, peppers and potatoes stocked up!

      3. Copper gonna rise due to need for ammo.

        • Si’

      4. TWO MORE WEEKS! TWO MORE WEEKS!

        Then we get to see if he’s right or wrong about the China thing.

        Seriously I don’t see him backing off.

        Get ready to watch the world crumble in slow motion.

      5. “Roads? Where we’re going… we don’t need… roads”

        TENDS TO MEAN SOMETHING A BIT DIFFERENT NOW HUH?

      6. Peep are broke!
        2-4 smart phones every home @ $1200+ per, plus service
        Healthcare
        Cable TV/Internet
        New truck $80K or less, Escalades $95K
        Insurance for the above
        Few jobs
        Don’t want to work
        Prospects for the future are dim…they want Bernie!

      7. The global economic crash is planned. When it happens it will coincide with the revealing of antichrist. The new economy will be electronic and no man may buy or sell without taking the worshipful mark first. Then a couple years later the SHTF when the world realizes they have been had. No pre trib rapture. Endure in Christ to the end. Without the mark you can’t pay your property tax on your bugout location. You will have to trust in God to provide your way just as the hebrews did when they left egypt. Take the mark and you loose your soul.

        • GOD bless you, Sean.

          30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.
          Proverbs 11:30

          And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
          1 Peter 4:8

          The word translated as charity is agape in the Greek and it’s more like altuism through Christ.

          • God Bless you Marantha, these are dark times but the fields are white for the harvest.
            So good to be encouraged by fellow believers. We must lift each other up in these times and have joy in the knowledge that God is with us to the end.

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