Thursday, May 1, 2014

The Big Bang Is Inevitable? GDP Growth Is Collapsing Everywhere From Europe, Russia, And Into China

The trigger for the last meltdown (2008-2009) was liquidity starvation which led to a credit crunch (banks/financials and other holders of chattel paper assets were caught swimming naked with poison well assets and deteriorating balance sheets & couldn’t re-collateralize).
The catalyst for the arriving crisis will be the real rate of inflation (already massively, adversely impacting the average barely shopper) on things such as necessities (gas, groceries, utilities, property taxes, higher income tax rates, higher medical care costs, etc.) coupled with the dawning realization on the part of corporations and “investors” that’central bank monetary policy since 2008 has now created the largest divergence between the perceived and real fundamental prices (the ask, which affects the bid for whatever actual demand there may be) on assets (i.e. price distortion – this extends to everything from real estate to stocks to bonds, including sovereign bonds).
Is A Crash Inevitable? The Spiral Vortex Of Debt And Corruption
The economy will decline in the USA following 2015.75 and will have several important impacts that will shape our future. The Big Bang is inevitable – YES! The outcome is to be determined. This is why I do what I do. I too have a family and fear for their future. I am not 23, so my shelf time is expiring thank God so I do not have to live in this age of tyranny too long. Nevertheless, all I can do is try to educate as many people for if they understand how things work, then when it comes time for the rebuilding, perhaps we can choose freedom over more authoritarian-tyranny…
So my concerns are for our future – not to sell bullshit. This is far more important. Unfortunately, the primary impact will be:
The USA is the only economy holding up the entire world right now. GDP Growth is collapsing everywhere from Europe, Russia, and into China. Once the USA turns down, the civil unrest will rise in the USA as well. The Occupy Wall Street was a dress rehearsal.
Governments will find it increasingly harder to sell their debt. This trend has already hit both China and Russia. We will see it hit Europe, Japan and then the USA. This will drive the trend to raise taxes further as governments will assume that they need to restore confidence within their debt structures. As they do this, the global economy will turn downward into a spiral vortex.
While governments claim to be mad at the NSA, behind the curtain there is legal swapping going on….
Japan and China threaten Asian economic growth – IMF
Asian growth will remain steady at 5.4 percent in 2014, however a steeper than expected slowdown in China and a failure in Japan’s “Abenomics” program could derail the region’s economic progress, says the IMF.
Asia also faces risks from outside the region, including improving growth in the US, which could raise global interest rates the new IMF study said.
Bouts of capital flow and asset price volatility are likely along the way, with exchange rates, equity prices, and government bond yields affected by changes in global risk aversion and capital flows,” the IMF concludes.
‘Almost every asset is overvalued’: Apollo pro
Just because many forecasters predict the U.S. economy will continue to grow doesn’t mean it’s easy to make money.
“The quantitative easing and the excess money and the low interest rates have driven pricing up of almost all financial assets to beyond what their intrinsic value might be,” Joshua Harris, co-founder and chief investment officer of $161 billion private equity firm Apollo Global Management, said Monday at the Milken Institute’s Global Conference in Los Angeles.
For those that must keep some fiat in a bank, no more than 100K per bank for sure. Ominous tea leaves all around.
Michael Lewis cites Ron Morgan and Brian Levine, Goldman Partners and co-heads of Goldman’s global stock markets, who said that
“Unless there are some changes, there’s going to be a massive crash, a flash crash times ten.”
The rising cost of a trip to the supermarket
Fed taper to cause ‘severe recession’: Economist
The Federal Reserve’s move to eliminate its monthly asset purchasing program will cause a “collapse in asset prices and a severe recession,” according to economist Michael Pento….
Very soon the amount of QE will be close to, if not exactly at zero. And without banks supporting asset prices by consistently creating new money at the behest of the Fed, stocks and home prices have nowhere to go but down.
I anticipate the reduction of the wealth effect to intensify as the taper progresses. Since the economic “recovery” was predicated on the rebuilding of asset bubbles, a long delayed and brutal recession will start to unfold later this year…..
 
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