The next wave of the greatest financial crisis may soon be upon us.
When the music stops, and loans everywhere on cheap and easy credit are called, far too many nations, businesses and individuals will be suddenly and violently unable to repay their debts — particularly in the developing world.
The results are likely to be catastrophic, and the weight of the bad debts may well be enough take down the rest of the world with it. This is no small problem, and it is not clear if there is a solution.
London Guardian writer Will Hutton issues a stark warning that “the world economic order is collapsing and this time there seems no way out.”
According to the Guardian:
Europe has seen nothing like this for 70 years – the visible expression of a world where order is collapsing. The millions of refugees fleeing from ceaseless Middle Eastern war […] Yet there is a parallel collapse in the economic order that is less conspicuous: the hundreds of billions of dollars fleeing emerging economies, from Brazil to China, don’t come with images of women and children on capsizing boats. Nor do banks that have lent trillions that will never be repaid post gruesome videos…
Capital flight and bank fragility are profound dysfunctions in the way the global economy is now organised that will surface as real-world economic dislocation.
[…]
The heart of the economic disorder is a world financial system that has gone rogue… banking’s power to create money out of nothing has been taken to a whole new level… cash generated out of nothing can be lent in countries where the economic prospects look superficially good. This provokes floods of credit, rather like the movements of refugees.
The false boom that follows seems to justify the lending. Property prices rise. Companies and households grow overconfident about their prospects and borrow freely. Economies surge well above their trend growth rates and all seems well until something – a collapse in property or commodity prices – unravels the whole process. The money floods out as quickly as it flooded in, leaving bust banks and governments desperately picking up the pieces.
It is clear enough that the whole thing is a farce, perhaps meant to collapse. There is not one honest broker, or one responsible guardian in the whole lot of them.
Borrowing countries used cheap credit to offer absurd promises to their people, or cover other losses, while bankers and other vultures have been all too happy to prey upon these vulnerable nation-states on the way up and down of this crisis.
Interestingly, analysts break this financial crisis into three acts, with 2008 just a prelude to the more recent trouble in Europe — with the collapse of third world part of the spectacular and terrible finale:
Andy Haldane, Bank of England chief economist, describes the unfolding pattern of events as a three-part crisis. Act one was in 2007-08 in Britain and the US. Buoyed for the previous decade by absurdly high inflows of globally generated credit that created false booms, they suddenly found their overconfident banks had wildly lent too much…
Act two was in Europe in 2011-12, when it became obvious that the lending had been made on the incorrect assumption that all eurozone countries were equal. Again, money flooded out and Europe only just held the line with extraordinary printing of money by the European Central Bank and tough belt-tightening measures in overborrowed countries such as Portugal, Greece and Ireland. It might have been unfair, but it worked.
Now act three is beginning, but in countries much less able to devise measures to stop financial contagion and whose banks are more precarious… Turkey, Brazil, Malaysia, China, all riding high on sky-high commodity prices as the China boom, itself fueled by wild lending, seemed never-ending.
It was never meant to last. The collapse is its own bubble, feeding off of the desperate hopes of those who furiously borrowed to bail out their other problems.
The big banks today have more wealth and power than they did before the 2008 collapse, and the Federal Reserve has taken extraordinary measures to enable their power grab.
The world is in shackles, just waiting for the hammer to fall…
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As long as the dollar is king the system will continue on down the road to disaster. Don’t get me wrong, it is coming and it is coming fast, but not just yet. There is still time to make preparations.
BigB
Big B,
I agree it is coming and getting faster every day , but something it not the way they want it yet, so it will be here soon , but NOT tomorrow, I think we all are ready for it to be tomorrow, BUT just as usual, THEY ( scumbags, NWO ) are NOT co-operating! imagine that!!
there seems to be more time to continue to get better prepped.
@ apache54,
When it does come I do believe it will be an overnight scenario catching most if not all people by surprise. It is all manufactured by the banksters and they are not going to let it fail until they have sucked up everyone into their Ponzi scheme.
BigB
Wonder how much more will be “discovered” in the months to come? “Creative” accounting only works for so long.
Fed Quietly Revises Total US Debt From 330% To 350% Of GDP, After “Discovering” Another $2.7 Trillion In Debt
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-11/fed-revises-definition-total-credit-unexpectedly-discovers-another-27-trillion-debt
Well imagine that.
We are making everyday products here up in Maine and it’s catching on, vote with your dollars!
Try the Birch and fir salve, the deodorant all make here in Maine.
http://palemoonfarm.com/home/general-store/
No one who has been coming here should not be surprised.
However, I think we can expect a series of severe down trends then the big fall.
Speaking of down falls, there is a posted story on The New York Post regarding pension plans going bust. It especially called out plan in New York and New Jersey, as much as a 60 per cent reduction in pay outs. The Central State Pension Plan and government plans and they are probably not the only ones. The president and Congress gave them permission to restructure last year.
An interesting story, should read. http://nypost.com/2015/10/10/when-pension-funds-go-empty-all-bets-are-off/
Sometimes you don’t hear about issues like this, it seems that the focus is mostly on the market with some comments on 401k’s, like the government is going to take yours.
FEAR PORN DU JOUR…
@Chris
Would you care to expound on “FEAR PORN DU JOUR…”?
Bing bang, hammer with my hammer, jingle jangle cutting with my saw. If it’s devised by man, something will go wrong and has done just that.
We are seeing a textbook Cloward-Piven strategy at work…
This is NOT sustainable and the government KNOWS that. They are overwhelming the system to crash it.
Sanctuary cities explode to 340: 9,295 illegals released from jail, 6,460 still at-large
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/ice-sanctuary-cities-explode-to-340-9295-illegals-released-from-jail-6460-still-at-large/article/2573683
41 NEW sanctuary cities in just 4 months
http://www.wnd.com/2015/10/41-new-sanctuary-cities-in-just-4-months/
Obama’s agenda: Overwhelm the system
“Obama is following the plan of Cloward & Piven, two professors at Columbia University.
They outlined a plan to socialize America by overwhelming the system with government spending and entitlement demands. Add up the clues below. Taken individually they’re alarming.
Taken as a whole, it is a brilliant, Machiavellian game plan to turn the United States into a socialist/Marxist state with a permanent majority that desperately needs government for survival … and can be counted on to always vote for bigger government.
Why not? They have no responsibility to pay for it.”
http://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/obamas-agenda-overwhelm-system
Spot on!!!!
But here’s what everybody seems to be missing; without a viable medium of exchange to lubricate the machine we call a society, it will all grind to a halt! It’s just like taking the oil out of your engine and then going for a trip. You won’t even make it off your street before it seizes up. Once the USD goes into hyperinflation mode, the electrical utilities won’t be able to buy fuels to burn so they can generate power and they won’t be able to pay their workers enough to keep them on the job. When the lights go off, it will be game over for the USA. Without electricity, no bills will be paid because virtually all exchanges are settled by computers talking to each other. ALL computers require electricity to run, and the phone system is run by computers, so therefore no one will be able to call anyone else when the power goes off.
do you believe hyperinflation is a possible scenario? scary stuff there. Can you explain just a bit for me why this would happen, please, what to watch for, any signs, I don’t like trying to figure out where the banking/political complex is taking us, what they are doing, that why I come to pages like this, to see what people with more knowledge of it than me are reporting. Thank you.
Big point. I haven’t even considered that aspect if the zionists game.
Sanctuary cities. Does that no hunting allowed? Sometimes I like what I hunt like I prefer my eggs….poached.
Well said. And now that the traitor in thief has declared last April that the USSA will have 190 refugee centers across the USSA in predetermined cities, the demand in government resources will only grow. And find you also find it amusing that the traitor in thief declared this last April BEFORE there was an internships refugee crisis??? HMMM
The kids filed into class Monday morning. They were all very excited. Their weekend assignment was to sell something, then give a talk on salesmanship.
Little Sally led off. “I sold Girl Scout cookies and I made $30” she said proudly, “My sales approach was to appeal to the customer’s civil spirit and I credit that approach for my obvious success.” “Very good”, said the teacher.
Little Debbie was next. “I sold magazines” she said, “I made $45 and I explained to everyone that magazines would keep them up on current events.” “Very good, Debbie”, said the teacher.
Eventually, it was Little Johnny’s turn. The teacher held her breath. Little Johnny walked to the front of the classroom and dumped a box full of cash on the teacher’s desk. “$2,467″, he said.”$2,467!” cried the teacher, “What in the world were you selling?”
Toothbrushes”, said Little Johnny. “Toothbrushes”, echoed the teacher, “How could you possibly sell enough tooth brushes to make that much money?” “I found the busiest corner in town”, said Little Johnny, “I set up a Dip & Chip stand and I gave everybody who walked by a free sample.”
They all said the same thing, “Hey, this tastes like dog poop!” Then I would say, “It is dog poop. Wanna buy a toothbrush? I used the President Obama method of giving you some crap, dressing it up so it looks good, telling you it’s free and then making you pay to get the bad taste out of your mouth.” Little Johnny got five stars for his assignment. Bless his heart.
Get out there coward pussy Zombie filth and fly that vile evil disgusting filthy fascist American flag, the Central Banking psychopathic criminal monsters love to see the Zombie coward filth flying that disgusting evil symbol of Corporatist Fascism, it confirms how brain dead and dumbed down the ignorant chemically altered American Zombie cowards truly are to the monsters controlling them.
It is not coming, it is already here. Equity in the system is all we have left. Down here in Northern Mexico (Texas) the oil field layoffs have gutted the economy. Most restaurants report a 50% reduction in revenue. Businesses are closing left and right and high paying oil field jobs are being traded for unemployment benefits. Once the benefits are used up then what? Latest guestimate for a revival in the fields in 5 to 7 years. Good luck, because the economy is what is being used to squeeze middle class America out of their homes. Those coming here from south of the border and other countries are used to getting along on much, much less than we are and will fill in the void we leave with much, much less paying jobs. It’s all orchestrated, so relax and enjoy the music.
taxdn2poverty,
We have seen the same thing happen to the economy here in eastern Kentucky.
I believe it is all part of a plan, to weaken and destroy the middle class.
To be blunt the middle class is somewhat (though not entirely) complicit in it’s own destruction.
They keep voting for hippy dippy NIMBY bullshit.
They keep not sharing resources in the family. All they do is the kids all move out and everyone divorces = separate rent / mortgage / utility payment for each and every single little family member…
I’m not saying “El Border Del Sur” is how we should live… not THAT low… but they do get a lot of things right, much unlike ourselves. Such as STICKING THE FUCK TOGETHER for openers…
There is a war on the middle class.
“..One of the hallmarks of all socialist countries is the is the absence of an independent middle class.
From the Bolshevik experiment in Russia to socialist Venezuela today, it is necessary for communist leaders to eliminate that class of citizens who are not dependent on government for their welfare.
Political theorists from Aristotle to Locke understood that a truly INDEPENDENT AND PROSPEROUS MIDDLE CLASS WAS ESSENTIAL TO THE COLLECTIVE WELL-BEING OF ANY SOCIETY.
The middle class has always, in every society, been characterized by qualities of social restraint and economic realism — a shrewd and skeptical conservatism that serves to restrain the grandiose plans of utopian revolutionaries and embittered reactionaries alike.”
“It is an ominous sign that the political left, with the loyal support of more than a third of our population, is intent on its destruction.”
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/03/obamas_war_on_the_middle_class.html
One-fifth of U.S. workers were laid off in past five years, study says
“One in five U.S. workers was laid off in the past five years and about 22% of those who lost their jobs still haven’t found another one, according to a new survey that showed the extent Americans have struggled in the sluggish labor market…”
“Nearly 40% said it took more than seven months to find employment and about one in five of laid-off workers said all they could find was a temporary position.
Almost half — 46% — of the estimated 30 million layoff victims who found new jobs said they paid less than their old ones, according to the survey of 1,153 U.S adults done over the summer.”
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-layoffs-unemployment-jobs-economy-20140924-story.html
Yet, despite the sluggish labor market and many thousands still unemployed, Obama gives executive amnesty for illegals.
“The Center for Immigration Studies reports 100% of Employment growth in the U.S. since 2000 went to immigrants.
On a population adjusted basis, the numbers look horrific. Population-wise, native US citizens account for two-thirds of the working-age population growth, yet FEWER work today.
Here’s the harsh reality: 17 million working-age native US citizens were NOT working in the first quarter of 2014 than in 2000.”
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2014/06/100-of-employment-growth-since-2000.html
New Record: Foreign-Born Job-Holders Break 25 Million
“The number of foreign-born individuals holding jobs in the United States hit a record high of 25,019,000 in September, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).”
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/ali-meyer/new-record-foreign-born-job-holders-break-25m
Does anyone think it will happen this year.
I believe the government has gone to enormous lengths to PREVENT the BIG crash.
All it would take is a trigger to start the dominoes falling.
It won’t happen overnight. I believe there will be a trigger. Probably a missile or a major false flag op that will start shtf. Most here will understand within 2 days what’s going on but the majority won’t see it even when transportation is locked down. Which will be quick, maybe couple weeks to couple months. It takes time for our illustrious leaders to push all the right buttons to trap the population.
On a sidenote, Mac, you really need to get back to articles dealing with after shtf. This economic banking crap sucks. A few of us have been here from the start and will answer anything the starting preppers would like to know. Sometimes easier to ask than search..
Molon labe
I agree
Well, I don’t know what anyone else is going to do but I’m going to make sure the banking system has an ” accident”. I’m going to serve it ” lead nutrients” from my ” ventilation team”. Every bank dies but not every bank really lives. Bankheart is my favorite movie. Got to go now, so many doorknobs to shake, so little time.
The way this article starts is just like every other article on this site “….may soon be upon us”. For goodness sake! We are ALL well aware of the could, should, might, and possibly’s of this world! Enough hash and re-hash! Print some REAL articles!!!
Ppod.
This is more of an intellectual site, discussing the ins and outs of banking and politics mostly. I use the sites on the left to gather more “hands on” information. You can ask any question and you will get an answer. On occasion the thread gets Hijacked and gets more interesting.
A little more time. A few more preps.
Used one of the sponsor links to buy some supplies for my sick fish:) Talked to their rep on the phone- super nice person.
Now that September and all the major scares are in the rear view mirror, emergency food should be easier/faster to get. Canned meat is next on the list for us. After tasting the canned bacon, my confidence in these products is way up. I tapped into some of my Sam’s canned chicken and made a wonderful chicken salad dinner for the local ladies. I love having these items on hand for regular occasions like church suppers and game nights. Chili Mac anyone? It should cool down enough by December to make that appealing…
Climate chaos for us down in the lone star state means October days over 90 degrees.
The canned chicken from Sam’s is good to have, but it’s pretty tasteless compared to home cooked. So whenever we boil chicken for soup, chicken and pastry, or chicken salad, we freeze the extra stock. Then we can use that and some canned chicken to make soup.
My philosophy is simple. When something is beyond my control I acknowledge it, and I get on with what is within my ability to manage. Getting out of personal debt. Having a “business” of my own, separate from the system. A sideline that can bring in cash, goods, other’s services.
I went to a place of business where I met a Vietnamese woman. She took me to her house. There she manicured my hands and feet. She created a for cash sideline that was something the government could not take nor could she be laid off.
While I was there I was privy to one of the most amazing display of cooperative family survival that I have ever seen. The entire extended family lived under one roof. They had a rice dispenser that held fifty pounds of rice. The husband mopped the kitchen floor. He prepared the dinner. He supervised children and managed the household while his wife engaged in the business that brought in the dollars (me). As the evening progressed adult children, nieces, nephews, and an army of workers returned from well paying jobs. They came in nice new cars. And they proceeded to line the floor with mats and sleeping bags.
The home was to be paid off, after which another house was bought and either rented out or someone would now have their own bought and paid for house. These people understood the opportunities and the stupidities of the American way of life. I am sure they are all millionaires by now.
I have seen similar entrepreneurial dedication by European immigrants. I have seen almost none by my American born friends and when I suggest things like letting your adult children work and pay for home improvements or stay home until they save some money to buy a house. I get comments which quite honestly amaze me with the depth of stupidity and mind control the average American is mentally stunted with.
American People are brainwashed into a mentality that keeps them in perpetual slavery. When you point out the door that leads to freedom, they look up apathetically and say things like “yes, but that would never work in my house”. They can’t even imagine walking over to the door and opening it.
The policies taken in recent years have helped hasten this change.
Top 0.1% Of US Households Own As Much Wealth As The Bottom 90%
“If it wasn’t for Ben “the Hero” Bernanke’s courage to print like a drunken Keynesian madman, none of this would have been possible, and by “this” we of course mean that the net worth of the top 0.1% of Americans is about to surpass the wealth of the bottom 90% of US households.”
Zerohedge
Direct link…
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-12/top-01-us-households-own-much-wealth-bottom-90
I have studied human history and human nature with great fascination all of my long happy life, and to sit here and watch the collapse of this country, to watch the complete takeover of our country by psychopathic fascist Central Banking criminal monsters, to watch the softkill genocide taking place before our very eyes from poisonous toxic GMO filled, FAKE FOOD/fluoridated and chemical filled water/poisoned air/vaccines/and every other poison the monsters can pump into our systems, to watch the dumbing down and chemical altering of an entire population of coward Zombie trash living in complete insane denial, who have sold their souls to a society of materialistic consumption and mindless entertainment driven decadence, to watch an evil NWO Corporatist fascist controlled criminal government that causes death and destruction around the world like no other government in history to further an agenda of greed and complete insane hegemony psychopathic madness, to watch a country of close to 300 million coward Zombies who have NO ABILITY to wake up and see the TRUTH of the softkill genocide and other crimes of their fascist evil Corporatist controlled government, to watch the stage being set for WWWIII by the fascist evil monsters who know their fiat money controlled FEUDAL SYSTEM is rapidly coming to an end, to watch all this HISTORY taking place right now before our very eyes….I have to ask how many of you still knowing the horror, evil, and danger before us…..How many of you also find it fascinating and feel truly fortunate to be alive at this most dangerous point in HISTORY????????????
Ron Ahrens.
Sure said a mouthful.
Fascinating to see if people run like cattle to the slaughter house.
RH
I don’t think anyone ever has put our demise in better words. Would be poetic if it weren’t such truth.
Can’t say I feel fortunate knowing I’ll be here……but even as a young child I knew I would be here to see the end of life…..perhaps as we know it. Can’t explain such knowings….. just that they existed and I remember the moment as if it were yesterday.
I never saw how anything would happen……only the horror of the aftermath.
The unexplained visions of a child who wasn’t even double digit yet is dubious to be sure, but it is truth.
Thank You for your awesome input and insight.
You are welcome, and thank you for being awake and aware of what is happening to the collapsing Orwellian Fascist Police State shithole of the world.
Dear Sir,
You have stated it truthfully. But did you know that it truly IS “fortunate” for us to be living in these times of the end?
The conditions you point to reflect the very conditions which preempt the return of the Lord. Things will get even worse first. Read the “Great Controversy” by E.G. White written over a century ago and see for yourself. It is an inspired book, intended to inform those who have faith in Christ regarding these events, and those to come.
I hope you will take this seriously,
Yours,
Ray
But, if you don’t participate in the system to their satisfaction, the state will send it’s enforcers to force you to or kill you.
“We’re sorry. It’s not us. It’s the monster. The bank isn’t like a man.”
“Yes, but the bank is only made of men.”
“No, you’re wrong there…quite wrong. The bank is something else than men. It happens that every man in a bank hates what the bank does, and yet the bank does it. The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It’s the monster. Men made it, but they can’t control it.”
The tenant farmers are pushed to anger at the blamelessness and absurdity of their situation.
“We’ll get our guns, like Grandpa when the Indians came. What then?”
“Well, first the sheriff and then the troops. You’ll be stealing if you try to stay. You’ll be murderers if you kill to stay. The monster isn’t men, but it can make men do what it wants.”
——————–The Grapes of Wrath——————
I created a classified ad website. It would be nice to see postings for SHTF planning (prepping) on it. Its free. here is the website. http://www.tucsonexchange.com Thanks
The banking system failed back in 2008 and we have been getting by on smoke and mirrors since then. The tricks will only last so long before reality kicks in.
I have membership in two credit unions.
I read their reports.
People produce “stuff”
They are all financially sound.
They could stop tomorrow, but
short of a really bad
nuke war, I don’t think so.
Even if 350 million American people
stop living tomorrow,
I’m certain I will have
shelter, water, and my
own resources to survive.
And even then I have
Plan “B”.
If you depend on a bank, gold or silver
to stay alive, you should re-think your
strategy.
Im just going to sit back and gauge this when i see and hear the bodies hit the floor .. I know plenty have done the “swine dive” ( yes that is spelled correctly) lately ,, but thats only a good start , i will take this seriously when it becomes an epidemic
Believe in all the good things
That money just cant buy
Than you wont get no belly ache
From eatin humble pie
I believe in rags to riches
Your inheritance wont last
So take your Grey Poupon there banker, and shove it up your ass
Believe in all the good things
That money just cant buy
Than you wont get no belly ache
From eatin humble pie
I believe in rags to riches
Your inheritance wont last
So take your Grey Poupon there banker, and shove it up your ass
It will happen when they’ve mixed up the pot to their harts content with illegal immigrants and Muslim refugees. Then those responsible will play deathly ill and vanish, like your wealth with your wealth.
It is best to judge intentions by outcomes.
I just bought 16 one-pound packages of sausage for the freezer. I didn’t quite buy all the store had. The local grocery store has purified water on sale at $2 for a case of 24 bottles, so I bought more of that also. The sweet potatoes were on sale, so I bought a bagful to have for Thanksgiving and Christmas. This was a yuppy store with usually high prices, so I only shop there when they have a sale with really low prices.
Keep stocking up. It’s better than money in the bank. And everyone I talk to agrees with me when I explain it to them.
It would be good idea to can that sausage and sweet potatoes. will last a long time that way.
I worked with two guys from Ghana Africa. Both Muslim wouldn’t drink water all day Ramadan .I asked them how they got the money to get here.They told me people help you . They got a free boat ride to Mexico then a non stop truck ride to the US then food and clothes and instructions.for food stamps and everything .They didn’t say who the people who helped them were .I don’t think they knew.I told them that we worry about the gov. giving them federal police uniforms and sending them house to house to confiscate .And one of them yelled I’ll do it .I told him again that that’s what we don’t want you doing and that’s what we are afraid will happen . He just looked at the ground and went back to work. I’ll swear on the bible this happened .The were day labor .from a labor service.Who is spending millions to bring these people here and why.
Whoever comes out richer when this is over are the ones that made it happen .we won’t need trials . To find the guilty.
The World’s neck is in the noose awaiting the trap door to open. Most are blissfully unaware of their impending fate, while others are on their tippy-toes hoping to extend their life just a fraction second longer. It all ends the same. Best to not even be on the platform because you had an escape plan…
All money comes into existence by using the birth certificate. The birth certificate contains a legal name or artificial entity which must be used to tap the money associated with the birth certificate/bond. Here is the problem: The birth certificate has a copyright holder called the CROWN corporation. The CROWN owns all that is registered by means of copyright. Therefore it is illegal to use the birth certificate or the legal names info upon it. People are learning about the birth certificate fraud or legal name fraud and electing to opt out of using those legal names. All use of the legal name/birth certificate is illegal and makes one subject to all legal policy. CROWN copyright in the information age 1998. See page 29 (bottom right) and 31 (bottom right) for evidence that the CROWN holds copyright to the birth certificate:
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/advice/crown-copyright/crown-copyright-in-the-information-age.pdf Google: legal name fraud.