· General Overview of the Global
Economy
As the Global financial crisis rises to intense levels MAIN
STREAM investors and the public at large sit on the buffet table for the
predator classes known as Bankers, Crony Capitalists, special interest elites
and leviathan government. The depression continues to unfold in REAL terms;
nominally it APPEARS we are recovering. If you DISCOUNT OFFICIAL government
ministry of truth statistical lies and Keynesian illusions created by unsound
money. Developed world economies and living standards WILL continue to TUMBLE
into the abyss. There is no avoiding this OUTCOME.
"There is no means of avoiding the final
collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only
whether the crisis should come sooner as a result of a voluntary abandonment
of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the
currency system involved."
– Ludwig Von Mises
The POWERS THAT BE HAVE CHOSEN THE LATTER ROUTE as they have
throughout history. As my regular readers know the developed world is in an
unfolding currency and financial system EXTINCTION event. Nothing has changed
in 2012 as we are just FARTHER down the road to that OUTCOME. The
insolvencies are DEEPER in all respects.
Unsound money also known as FIAT currency and credit systems set the
developed world on this destination on August 15, 1971 when Richard Nixon
closed the gold window of gold convertibility for the US dollar.
Today’s mayhem was sealed on that date. It is only set to EXPAND in
2013 until the ultimate denouement.
This unsound money has funded the buildup of Progressive socialism
(welfare states), centrally planned economies, unlimited leviathan
government, publicly controlled schools (creating dumbed down useful idiots)
and Something for nothing societies (impoverished by unsound money as it
substitutes for real wealth creation).
Unsound money has created the ALL the INGREDIENTS which have collapsed
every empire in history and this time is no different. The world is sitting on a keg
of dynamite just waiting for someone to LIGHT a MATCH. The question
is not IF but WHEN this will happen and the global conflagration IGNITES and
many are immolated in the FLAMES.
That is what I call the WITCHES BREW. It is the recipe for a societal
and economic collapse which will DWARF any seen in the past and will be
studied for centuries into the future. I will be covering those INGREDIENTS
in the 2013 Outlook. This will be GLOBAL MACRO AUSTRIAN economic analysis at
its FINEST. I will be doing this as a series over approximately the next 6 to
8 weeks so don’t miss an issue (subscriptions are free at www.Traderview.com or www.tedbits.com). When the 2013 Outlook series is completed I will
do a special edition on APPLIED Austrian investing for SUBSCRIBERS only.
This is not DOOM and GLOOM. It is the reality facing the world today.
It is history repeating on an inconceivable scale due to globalization in all
its forms: Trade, communications, logistics, financial systems, central
banking, etc. It is MOTHER NATURE and Charles Darwin versus the POWERS that
be (banksters, crony capitalists, special interest
elites and leviathan government). Hint: in all of history the powers that be
have NEVER prevailed over Mother Nature over the intermediate term.
IT IS ALSO in my opinion the GREATEST OPORTUNITY in history if you
invest correctly using APPLIED Austrian economics and most likely your demise
if you look to the past and continue to FALL for the Keynesian ILLUSIONS and
Ponzi economies which are failing and will not be revived this time around.
(Author's note: In my opinion, this is NOT Doom and GLOOM, it is one
of the greatest opportunities in HISTORY. Invest properly for this outcome
and Prosper, invest looking in the REARVIEW mirror and your wealth will be
irreparably DAMAGED. Volatility is opportunity for the prepared investor. As
it is priced in and markets ZOOM higher or LOWER to price in collapsing
economies and money printing huge opportunities are created. Is your
portfolio structured to thrive? The greatest transfer of wealth from
those that hold it in paper and financial assets to those that don't is
UNDERWAY. Restoring fiat currencies to sound money and absolute return
alternative investments with the potential to thrive in all market (up, down
and sideways) conditions is what I do. If you have an interest in learning
more and working with Ty: CLICK HERE
Most of the BABY BOOMERS WILL NOT escape with
the wealth they have accumulated over their lifetimes.
The greatest transfer of wealth from those that hold it in paper to
those that don’t is underway. Fiat currency and credit systems die in
waves of insolvency and this episode has been and will be no different.
A number of quotes from the past tell the story the first and foremost
is from Mayer Amshel Rothschild:
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and
I care not who writes the laws"
The banks and those who control them COMPLETELY control the developed
world. It is they who pull the strings in ALL of the world’s most
powerful capitals. They have monopolies on the currency’s which you use
and store your wealth in. Governments long ago succumbed to the siren song of
WEALTH printed out of thin air. Creating currency monopolies in exchange for
unlimited funding of government and running the economies for the benefits of
the banks, selling the futures of the people they claim to serve. NOW the
developed world’s citizens are DEBT and tax slaves yoked to pay
tomorrows income for what their governments have consumed today.
Read this article titled the
Quiet Coup from Simon Johnson,
former Chief Economist of the IMF, for a full explanation!
“Extremely powerful institutions, both financially
and politically, undermine the long-term strength of our system and make us
look like a financial oligarchy,”
- Former Federal Reserve regional president Thomas Hoenig
The banks and sovereign governments are terminally INSOLVENT and the unpayable and inextinguishable debt and FUTURE
OBLIGATIONS begins at the heart of the Global monetary and financial systems,
aka the reserve currency of the world and its government, (courtesy of
www.zerohedge.com) behold the Jaws of death...er...debt:
The developed world’s economies are in death…er…debt spirals from which there is NO ESCAPE.
Trillion of dollars’ worth of deficits with no plans to end them.
In fact they are planning on EXPANDING them. The only thing these
predators are planning to cut is the private sector at the point of a
GOVERNMENT gun to fund their EXPANSION.
We have entered the age of PERMANENT fiscal crisis.
EVERY developed world GOVERNMENT is in this position to one degree or
another. To fund this deficit and that of other MAJOR economies we have most
of the central banks in QE to infinity operations. There is NO WAY to EXIT
once this has begun. The CENTRAL banks know this but in their minds it is
PREFERABLE to systemic sovereign bond market and financial system FAILURE.
As Gresham’s law (bad currency’s push out good currencies)
unfolds those Central banks that don’t print money soon will or be
destroyed as their economies and currency’s ascend to the heavens as
investors seek REFUGE from the printing press. Just as the Swiss national
bank about this? Take a look at GRESHAM’s law in ACTION:
Up 400% in 3 short years (see Chinese, UK and Japanese’s central
banks for similar balance sheet FINANCING of developed world BUDGET
deficits). THAT is unsterilized money printing; the Swiss franc is NO LONGER
the safe haven it once was except in the minds of idiots. They are using this
money to BUY debt issuance of countries like Germany and Australia and
calling them assets. It is check kiting pure and simple. On top of this the
Swiss banking system is at least 600 to 700% the size of the Swiss economy
and at least 10% of the assets are nearly worthless so the money printing has
barely begun.
Currency WARS are in FULL BLOOM! And they serve two purposes: it
devalues their currencies in relation to other countries and it FUNDS
DEFICITS (worldwide) with MONEY printed out of thin air since real economic
growth CANNOT DO SO!
The Federal Reserve’s BASELINE monetization consists of three
components: $45 Billion in treasury’s a month, $40 Billion
dollars’ worth of mortgage backed securities and reinvestment of the
toxic securities (they pretend to be paid) on its portfolio from the 2008-9
financial crisis equaling almost $90 to 100 billion per month (to put it in perspective
it is 90,000 to 100,000 million per month which is an ABSURD NUMBER) or $1
trillion plus per year. THIS IS NOT MONEY THEY ARE CREATING, IT IS DEBT AND
IOU’S MASQUERADING AS SOVERIEGN CURRENCIES. It can never be withdrawn
without crashing the bond and stock markets and every financial institution
in the nation. Why the crash you ask? BECAUSE EVERY FINANCIAL ASSET and many
tangible ones are MISPRICED MALINVESTMENTS.
“All of us learn by doing. To learn how to
ride a bicycle, we pedal. But money has been circulating for millennia, and
there is a voluminous monetary record. It is there to be read. Did the
chairman or his staff consult the wisdom of the ages before deciding to
muscle around the yield curve, manipulate asset values, materialize dollars by
the hundreds of billions and, in general, to short-circuit the price
mechanism?”
- Jim Grant
History is QUITE CLEAR how this ends (societal and financial collapse)
and the POWERS THAT BE are IGNORING it. EVERYTHING everywhere is mispriced
due to RUNAWAY destruction of the currencies they are denominated in and
UNLIMITED CREDIT EXPANSION. When these ASSET markets
WAKE UP and PRICE themselves accordingly (MARKETS CLEAR THE DISTORTIONS in
asset prices) it will be quite an opportunity or a disaster depending on
which side of the trade you are on.
The Bank of Japan with debt to GDP ratio of more than 200% and
counting. Prime Minister Shinto Abe was just elected on the platform of
unlimited MONEY printing to spur growth and INFLATION.
Just think what Japanese, U.S., UK and European GDP’s would look
like if they did not call growth of DEBT as GDP! Printing to prosperity is
now a GLOBAL phenomenon and a RUNAWAY FREIGHT TRAIN: UNSTOPPABLE until the
TRAINWRECK.
The Bank of England’s latest chief Mark Carney suggesting he
will print till he grows GDP, you can count on it happening (it was why he
was hired as well as his connections to Goldman Sachs and the BIS). Leaving
only Mario “Outright monetary transaction” Draghli
to KEEP HIS PROMISE” to save the Euro. Draghli
is playing coy with the printing press as he has not gathered enough power
from the respective miscreant countries in exchange for the money printed out
of thin air.
Thus FIREHOSES OF NEW MONEY for as far as the eye can see is spraying
into the global economies in GARGANTUAN sums. This money is NOT to stimulate
their economies as they say, it is to fund the insolvencies of sovereigns and
financial systems. The printing presses are rolling and firing on all
cylinders to rescue the moral and fiscal insolvency of the fascist welfare
states of the developed world!
When you look at these debts and deficits you must COUNT IT TWICE as
it is debt that the private sector must pay off in future earnings, TAXES or
debasement of that which they hold in the bank AND STORE THEIR WEALTH IN. And
a second time because US dollars (Pounds, Euros, and all currency’s
fall into the category of IOU’s) are IOU’s backed by the private
property of the respective countries citizens (US DOLLARS are REDEEMABLE in
PRIVATE property). Sovereign bonds are IOU’s denominated in IOU’s
throughout the WORLD. If one creditor doesn’t get you the other one
will!!! The question now becomes when will these worldwide dupes/victims of
the Developed world central banks and sovereigns WAKE UP and demand payment
in REAL terms?
The solutions to escape this outcome are absent. They are the policies of growth (producing more
than you consume in REAL terms), capitalism and free markets (more of everything
for less money from REAL competition) and private property rights are now
dead as the proverbial DODO bird. The powers that be would be destroyed if
this were allowed to unfold. In their place CENTRALLY Planned economies have
been substituted with corruption as the central outgrowth as wealth
creation fails and the money printed out of thin air was
substituted.
"The best way to destroy the capitalist system
is to debauch the currency. There is no subtler, no surer means of
overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. By a
continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and
unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens... The process
engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and
does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose."
- John Maynard
Keynes
We have entered an age of unlimited GOVERNMENT throughout the
developed world as poorly disguised fascist welfare states have eradicated
the free market economies that created the wealth in the first place and what
they once were. This collapse is not a failure of capitalism, we don’t
have capitalism. This is a collapse of centrally planned socialism from the
capitals of the developed world. The English language has become corrupted as
George Orwell predicted, socialism is called capitalism, prudence and virtue
is bad, irresponsibility is now virtuous, etc.
When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work,
because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half
gets the idea that it does no good to work, because somebody else is going to
get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation!
Something for nothing societies and their Governments unrestrained by
budget constraints because of BASELINE money creation, growing ferociously by
the year with basically unlimited funds for government expansion and
centrally controlled economies. The BASELINE money printing means there will
be NO REFORM of poor ECONOMIC policies, regulations and oppressive taxation
by public servants so the economic collapses will continue and accelerate.
“There are two ways to conquer and enslave a
nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.”
- John Adams
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those
who falsely believe they are free."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A Unholy
Alliance has emerged: Banksters, Big Business,
Trade Unionism, Main stream media and Government = Rampant entrenched FASCISM!
• Fiscal cliff bill nothing but a payoff of the
groups above ($1 billion in campaign funding = $10’s of billions in
payoffs)
• Small and medium sized businesses taxed (the
real private sector) and regulated OUT of BUSINESS and looted by central
government.
• The spoils redistributed to crony capitalists
and special interest supporters.
• Taxes and regulations rise for all but the
above and the public at large (this is no victory for the middle class)
• Main stream media manipulates Useful idiots
and the public at large
• 41 dollars of NEW revenues for every 1 dollar
of spending cuts (progressive governments definition of balanced)
• We have entered the age of UNLIMITED
GOVERNMENT!
• Centrally controlled economies and the
unlimited corruption that goes with it…
"You never want to let a serious
crisis go to waste."
– Rahm Emanuel, February 9, 2009
These groups gather power by a constant creation of Crisis after
crisis in which they put political solutions in place (which benefit
themselves) rather than practical solutions (which benefit their
constituents). They prey upon your FEAR to take your freedom and install
themselves as masters to SAVE you. Fleecing the public which are little more
than USEFUL IDIOTS as outlined by Vladimir Lenin. Useful idiots are created
by publicly controlled schools which teach that you can rely on government to
meet your needs and manage the economy. Rather than self-reliance which
create free society’s.
“When you see that in order to produce, you
need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing; when you see that
money is flowing to those who deal not in goods, but in favors; when you see
that men get rich more easily by graft than by work, and your laws no longer
protect you against them, but protect them against you...you may know that
your society is doomed.”
- Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged
Doesn’t this quote SUM up the DEVELOPED world governments and
economies today?
In Closing: It isn’t pretty out there but the opportunities
are enormous. Austrian Economic analysis is extremely PREDICTIVE as
it simply human behavior and HISTORY repeating on an inconceivable scale. The
secular psychology of the something for nothing society is working to destroy
empires as it always has in the past. The outcomes are UNAVOIDABLE but can be
harnessed for personal gain.
You will be challenged as never before to preserve and build your
wealth. Asset prices are all mispriced and those markets will reprice to reflect the reality of the situation
regardless of the actions of the POWERS THAT BE that are outlined in this
2013 outlook. The next crisis is the debt ceiling you can expect it to result
in less income for you and more for them, with absolutely NO reduction in
runaway government spending.
The collapse of the monetary, financial and economic systems is not
IMMINENT absent a black swan event of which there are many. They are pouring
gargantuan sums of money via the printing presses. You are the proverbial
frog in the boiling water. The world’s largest economies can be
compared to dinosaurs with governments pouring small caliber bullets into
them. Death is slow in coming as millions of bullets (taxes, bad policies,
fake money, destruction of private property and incentives to produce, etc.)
increasingly TAKE their toll.
(Author's note: In my opinion, this is NOT Doom and GLOOM, it is one
of the greatest opportunities in HISTORY. Invest properly for this outcome
and Prosper, invest looking in the REARVIEW mirror and your wealth will be
irreparably DAMAGED. Volatility is opportunity for the prepared investor. As
it is priced in and markets ZOOM higher or LOWER to price in collapsing
economies and money printing huge opportunities are created. Is your
portfolio structured to thrive? The greatest transfer of wealth from
those that hold it in paper and financial assets to those that don't is
UNDERWAY. Restoring fiat currencies to sound money and absolute return
alternative investments with the potential to thrive in all market (up, down
and sideways) conditions is what I do. If you have an interest in learning
more and working with Ty: CLICK HERE
In subsequent issues of the 2013 Outlook will running the gauntlet of
issues unfolding globally and what to expect. Crack-up Booms, policies of
insolvency, deleveraging, debasement, fingers of instability, currencies,
central banks, something for nothing society’s, Stocks and Bombs...er...bonds.
In the next issue will cover the Cloward Piven strategy and the planned COLLAPSE of the United
States economy, bond and currency markets as these issues are at the
epicenter of the UNFOLDING DEPRESSION in the next edition. Don’t miss
it. Subscriptions are free click here.
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