The Whole German Economy is Slumping into Recession https://youtu.be/u2AoS5bPh2k

The Whole German Economy is Slumping into Recession https://youtu.be/u2AoS5bPh2k

Not Just DeutscheBank - The Whole German Economy is Slumping into Recession Germany's Federal Statistics Office announced recently that Germany's GDP contracted by 0.1% quarter-on-quarter in the April-to-June period. This has raised concerns that the country may be headed for a recession. Economists define a recession as two consecutive quarterly contractions. The German economy is on a knife-edge between a recession and small growth. Like Japan, Germany is famed for making automobiles and making that a large part of their overall economy, so when the demand for cars drops significantly, the whole German economy goes down the drain. Imagine what driverless and electric cars will do to the German economy. Besides, German cars have now lost their good reputation. They are expensive to fix are over-engineered, and many have plastic parts that break in a few years. When the U.K. and U.S. tariffs go into effect , Germany's auto industry will be crippled and unable to repair itself. This following on from the fake emissions and autotests the manufacturers submitted, resulting in jail time for many. From another side , the demographic crunch is putting significant financial and manpower strains on the German economy. And every day it gets a little bit worse. Add to this, two million immigrants and counting are using many resources without contributing. Welcome to The Atlantis Report. The Euro has fallen to its weakest level in almost seven years as weakening manufacturing puts Europe's largest economy into recession. On top of this bad news, it appears the European Union is finally moving towards crunch time with the U.K. Boris Johnson has taken the stand the U.K. will exit the union, deal or no deal. Clearly, low-interest rates and easy money have not cured Europe's problems, and the area continues to face growing anti-EU sentiment. Early this year or later this year, it will happen. German businesses are increasingly pessimistic about the economic outlook. The head of Ifo, Prof Clemens Fuest, forecasted that Germany's GDP would shrink this quarter, having already contracted by 0.1% in the previous three months. That would put the economy into a recession for the first time since 2013. "Everything we see at the moment means there are ever more indications of recession in Germany, meaning two-quarters of negative growth," he told CNBC. Germany's industrial sector has been badly hurt by the US-China trade war, with exports falling in the last quarter. Manufacturing output has contracted, as factories have been hit by falling orders. The slowdown has now spread to Germany's service sector. Companies in the industry have reported a deterioration in business conditions, making them more skeptical about growth prospects. "This is terrible news indeed," Fuest said. "It's not just manufacturing where the decline continues, but we now see that the weakness is really affecting the services sector, which is large and important for the German economy." Frederik Ducrozet, a senior economist at Pictet Asset Management, said Germany's manufacturing sector was already in recession territory, which has led to "spillover" effects in the rest of the domestic economy this summer. He tweeted: Mikael Sarwe, the head of the market strategy at financial group Nordea, said the Ifo survey was giving a clear recession warning Fresh figures suggest that Europe's biggest economy may be heading for a recession, as its growth slowed in the second quarter. Calls for more fiscal stimulus are growing louder, but the government sees no need for it. Amid a global economic slowdown, US-China Trade War, persistent trade tensions between the United States and the European Union, emerging markets weakness, a temporary increase in oil prices, and the risk of Brexit without a deal. Britain's departure from the E.U. without an agreement is also impacting the outlook for German manufacturers. The German economy is highly dependent on the car industry. If they can't manage the transition to electric vehicles, then vast areas of Baden-Würtemberg and Lower Saxony are in big trouble and might become a rust-belt. There is a shortage of some critical skills that the companies need to fill urgently, in particular in I.T. The demographic crisis does not help. This could develop into a big problem. The Chinese have a new strategy to walk up the value chain and go from commodity manufacturing more into high-end areas. That is where Germany is today. There is a risk that the Chinese government/economic complex could simply steamroll Germany and out compete or undercut our companies, leading to widespread unemployment. New figures show the U.S.-China trade war is hurting Germany — Europe's economic motor. There is a global fallout to the trade war between China and America, and that's reducing the demand for German cars. Plus the global warming issues have reduced demand for cars, especially diesel, so that's also affecting the German car industry even further. Germany is already in a recession, and it's going to get deeper with a no-deal Brexit. Hence Merkel's recent flexibility towards Johnson. Germany, Europe's largest economy and a key trade partner of both the U.S. and China. Exports amount to almost half the German economy — 47 percent, according to the World Bank — as its companies play a dominant role in global markets for luxury autos and sophisticated industrial machinery. Supply chains from Germany extend into neighboring eurozone countries as well, while German profits are often invested in factories in places like Slovakia, Hungary, and Poland.All great when the trade is booming — but it means Germany remains more vulnerable than less open economies such as Portugal or France to a slowdown in global trade in goods and services. Germany has been an anchor of financial stability, while other eurozone members struggled with massive debt and deficits. The Eurozone grew by just 0.4% throughout 2018. The German economy is now vulnerable. A slowdown in international trade is the critical reason for Germany's economic downturn. Germany's export positioning makes it susceptible to any trade tensions; US-China & EU-US trade war. Weakness shows the fallout from the trade war between China and America, two of Germany's biggest trading partners. The United States will, in 2019, decide whether to raise tariffs on European cars. China is another important factor. It's Germany's third-largest export market. China's economy, a key engine of global growth in recent years is in sharp slowdown due to trade issues with the United States. German Automobile manufacturer, Volkswagen, has been hurt by weaker sales in China. Trouble in Europe's largest economy, Germany, will deepen worries about slower global growth in 2019. Risks negatively impacting the global outlook include the ongoing US-China trade war and the impact of U.S. interest rate hikes on emerging markets, and the U.S. Dollar. Europe's biggest economy is going through a soft patch as its export-oriented manufacturers cope with trade friction, struggling car industry, and uncertainties over Britain's planned departure from the European Union. In its tenth successive year of growth, the economy has been relying on healthy consumption as exports weaken, which resulted in a second-quarter GDP contraction of 0.2 percent. Particularly the strength of private consumption remains important anti-recession insurance for the economy. From the past year, Europe is facing a lot of crises just because of the Brexit case. Many of the countries are being affected by the current situation, and officials of different countries are waiting for the situation to resolve on an immediate basis. Germany seems to have been adversely affected by global legislative issues and potential forthcoming issues with foreign exchange. The vehicle business, which adds up to a large piece of the assembling segment, has backed off inferable from an absence of worldwide interest and development joined with issues over the outflows and administrative changes that have been acquired as of late. As Germany is the biggest economy inside the Eurozone, this is a genuine worry for the cash, and this is the reason we saw the Euro debilitating against both the Pound and the U.S. Dollar amid exchanging sessions. Along with this issue, Italian banks are also under immense pressure. Italian banks have by and by gone underweight after reports that the European Central Bank has told their moneylenders that they should cover all their terrible credits inside the following seven years. This implies the banks included will likewise need to expand their capital sums, and this made various Italian banks lose an incentive on their offer costs. Just Monte Dei Paschi di Siena has uncovered its financial record to the ECB with the others still yet to go with the same pattern. Inflation is a crucial worry for any Central Bank and with swelling having fallen since November 2018, this could dishearten the European Central Bank from rolling out any improvements to their current money related approach . Yet in the event that anything this could cause Euro shortcoming as it implies that as swelling is falling . Then this means the ECB won't raise financing costs from their memorable low at any point in the near future. This clearly shows that the foreign exchange market will be affected in the coming days as well. Germany's economy is on the brink of recession , after business confidence plunged to its lowest level in seven years. The Ifo Institute, a Munich-based research group, said: "Worry lines among German business leaders are getting deeper and deeper." Its monthly confidence index fell to just 94.3 points in August, down from 95.8 in July, the weakest reading since November 2012. In the latest sign that Europe's largest economy is struggling, the survey of nearly 10,000 German companies found that managers were gloomier about the current economic situation and more pessimistic about the outlook over the next six months. Western Europe hasn't been immune to the global economic slowdown currently underway. Germany, with its export-oriented economy, is one of the countries that has been most affected. ING Chief Economist Carsten Brzeski said that the Q2 drop in output came as no surprise. "The point is that the German economy has more or less been in a state of stagnation since the summer of 2018. "This in itself does not mean that there's reason to panic, but it surely means that a golden decade has come to an end in the country. The crucial question now is whether the German government will leave everything in the hands of Donald Trump and his trade policy or step into the action itself and offer some fiscal stimulus." Industry leaders worried . These concern is shared by a number of German industry leaders, including representatives of the Federation of German Industry (BDI). "The government's balance-budget policy should now be called into question in this economically fragile situation," BDI Director General Joachim Lang told the Experts. Put the quarterly drop in growth down to a slump in exports, with the nation's manufacturing sector taking a severe blow over uncertainties related to the outcome of the protracted US-China trade conflict and the expected impact of a hard Brexit. Exporters are confident that the German economy would face additional problems if a no-deal Brexit from the European Union by the U.K. actually materialized . What analysts view as particularly worrying is that a long-term pillar of the national economy, which is domestic consumption, may now also start to crumble. Brzeski called for a level-headed approach to get out of the current slump. He noted that the second-quarter drop was anything but pronounced and wasn't really reminiscent of what the German economy experienced about a decade ago. The German economy is clearly running out of steam and needs a fresh impulse to take off again. Although the German economy may be teetering on the edge of recession, the government currently shows little resolve to act. Chancellor Angela Merkel brushed aside domestic and international calls for more fiscal stimulus, insisting there was : no need for a stimulus right now. Economy Minister Peter Altmaier acknowledged, though, that the most recent growth figures were "a warning signal" and showed that simmering trade conflicts had taken their toll. He told the Bild newspaper on Wednesday that in order to avoid a recession, more investments in future-oriented technologies and digitization had to be made. He also mentioned the possibility of lowering corporate tax in order to support companies. The German government is under increasing pressure to respond to the slowdown by borrowing more to support spending. Germany's "debt brake" law compels politicians to draw up a balanced budget, but some economists argue that Germany should now launch a stimulus program. Big Downturn is coming. The recession will happen despite the central banks because it is due. Poor old Germany will struggle more because they are used to being wealthier. Southern Europe like Greece; is already intimately involved with the idea of a contracting economy - Germany just put it off a little longer. How can Germany still grow, when all its customers are shrinking or at best static? Perhaps someone will work out that endless restrictive practices, regulations, and directives actually hamper trade and commerce. It's not just Germany, South Korea, Japan, China. In fact, the whole world is slowing down. The reality is growth is finite; the world simply can't keep consuming more every year without reaching a limit. Our economic system requires constant growth. No growth, and it collapses. Germany is collapsing, and so is everyone else.

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America will Print Indefinitely until the System Implodes https://youtu.be/IGvz8NV9gHM

America will Print Indefinitely until the System Implodes https://youtu.be/IGvz8NV9gHM

Paper Money The Scam of All Scams -- Global Currency Reset Looming -- Cash is Trash Fiat currency has no intrinsic value. This means the piece of paper or coin itself has no value. This approach to money varies from other forms of money whose value is derived from some physical good. It is usually gold or silver, and this is called commodity money. Banks make the majority of their profits on interest-rate spreads called "Net Interest Revenue." Globally, governments have created negative interest rate bonds, and banks can essentially borrow money at negative rates. Then, the banks go out and loan to consumers and other businesses at a higher, positive rate. Why would you save it and work for it, if they can print it faster than you could work for it. Why you keep saving when they are printing it. The Rich do not work for money. The Federal Reserve can always print more money. However, they cannot build houses or create companies to invest in. You need to exchange your cash for real assets! Cash is Trash. Printing paper money and buying gold with it. It will go down in history as the scam of all scams, an unprecedented wealth transfer. Welcome to The Atlantis Report. Fiat money depends entirely on the belief that it has value. The Indians who sold Manhattan Island for Wumpum (beads and seashells) thought the same about their money. The intrinsic value of all fiat currencies is the same - zero. Because all that money is created by issuing an equal amount of debt - MEANING THAT EXPONENTIALLY GROWING CHART REPRESENTS DEBT AS WELL AS MONEY. It is literally a zero-sum game. This is all public knowledge. That and the money is being concentrated into the Money Power Monopolist Mega-Corporate Empire while the debts are being consolidated into the debt-money serf classes. When Nixon took us off the gold standard in 1971, gold was official $ 35.00 an ounce. At the approximate price of gold at $ 1,458.00, this would mean a compounded rate of 8.14% for 48 years. Based on $ 1,458.00, the dollar has lost 97.7% of its value against gold. If gold went to $ 2,000.00, the compounded rate would be almost 8.8% and a loss of 98.25% for the dollar. I think that is a pretty good showing for gold. That is a pretty good indication of the rate of inflation - the loss of value of the dollar over time relative to the amount of gold. These are not organic events but carefully crafted policy decisions by the money changers in the temple. When all hell breaks loose, bread and water will inevitably outpace the delusional value of money. Money is based on debt. THE ONLY WAY TO "SHORE UP DEBT" IS TO ELIMINATE THE MONEY IT WAS USED TO CREATE. "If all the bank loans were paid, no one could have a bank deposit, and there would not be a dollar of coin or currency in circulation. This is a staggering thought. We are entirely dependent on the commercial Banks. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have inflow, cash, or credit. If the Banks create ample synthetic money, we are prosperous; if not, we starve. We are absolute without a permanent money system. When one gets a complete grasp of the picture, the tragic absurdity of our hopeless position is almost incredible, but there it is. It is the most important subject intelligent persons can investigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may collapse unless it becomes widely understood and the defects remedied very soon . The monetary system will fail because the debt-based system relies on continually expanding debt. But the more the debt grows, the lower the value of the currency unit. Eventually - the limit is reached. As debt goes exponential, the currency value goes to zero. No currency system ever survives. They all die the same way. It's no secret our economy is artificially synthetic in a complicated bizarre way, and as such, requires a frequent stimulus to keep things afloat. Unfortunately, the economy becomes immune and requires a forever supply of new creative solutions to prevent collapse. Imagine that! So in keeping things afloat, we better never run out of creative ideas. Maybe the fed has a website to submit creative ideas because this will be an all-hands effort. Going off the gold standard means that ; We can buy all we want from foreign countries and run up trade deficits until the cows come home. The problem is, we either have to print money to make up for the wealth in dollars that left the country, or we have to hope those foreign countries will recycle them back into the U.S. through treasuries. It seems we have to count on BOTH of those now as we monetize the debt and count on foreigners to fund our lifestyles through Treasuries at some point. Game over! The time will come when the U.S. dollar will collapse and be worth no more than the scrap and/or collection value of its cotton-paper and dross coins. We are coming to a period I call "the Global Currency Reset." As talks about an economic collapse are heating up among economic experts, some believe that it might even trigger a Global Currency Reset. Basically, the Global Currency Reset refers to a process where the U.S. dollar will eventually lose its place as the global currency. Instead, gold or some other instrument will be used as the new standard. In 1944, the allied countries came together to establish a new global monetary system. Called the Bretton Woods Agreement, they decided to ditch the gold standard and use the U.S. dollar as the global currency. The U.S. benefited greatly from this new currency system, and the dollar made its way into central banks around the world. In time we left the fixed-rate system. Richard Nixon stopped backing U.S. dollars with gold globally in 1971. This was known as the Nixon Shock. Since then, the dollar and all other currencies in the world exist without any support from a hard asset like gold. After the 2008 financial crisis, experts started predicting that the current financial system was on its last legs. Since the Federal Reserve was created in 1913, the dollar has lost 95% of its value – its worth eroded by inflation. The U.S. debt currently sits at over $22 trillion and grows daily. In 2011 Standard & Poor, a rating agency downgraded U.S. sovereign debt from A.A.A. to a lowly A. The 2009-2008 financial crisis & stock market crash which started in the U.S. through the sub-prime mortgage debacle. That was another flag to the rest of the world, signaling a move away from the dollar toward other currencies. The American people actually showed resistance against central banks for a long time. Before the F.E.D. was established, three central banks were shut down by the Americans. In 2019, global debt hit $250 trillion. Encouraged by lower interest rates, governments went on a borrowing binge as they ramped up spending, adding $3 trillion to world debt in Q1 alone. It reverses a trend that started at the beginning of 2018, of reducing debt burdens, when global debt reached its highest on record, $250 trillion. "The I.M.F., the World Bank, one after another, are warning of a recession." Last week, a central bank said gold could serve as a "trust anchor" for a renewed international monetary system, in the event of a "global reset." In an article on its website, the De Nederlandsche Bank boldly claims, "If things go wrong, prices may fall. But, financial crisis or not, a gold bar always holds value." We're not sure when the global currency reset will happen, or what will be the trigger – i.e., a corporate debt time bomb that could crash the global economy. Almost 19 trillion dollars of debt is owed by companies that don't earn enough to cover interest payments. We are absolutely sure the Global Currency Reset will happen, and gold will play a crucial role in the transition to a new world currency. Do you know about N.E.S.A.R.A.? N.E.S.A.R.A. is the National Economic Security and Reformation Act. It was to be announced on the morning of September 11th, 2001. N.E.S.A.R.A. provides significant financial benefits to American citizens, including: #1) end of income taxes. # 2) forgiveness of credit card and mortgage debt as a remedy for bank frauds. #3) U.S. Treasury Bank System, which absorbs the Federal Reserve and new precious metals backed U.S. Treasury currency. #4) restoration of Constitutional Law, and much more. The day is approaching with an inevitable economic collapse & stock market crash. When the currency is created as debt, which it is, it REQUIRES an ever-expanding currency supply forever. Say they print a million bucks, and that's the only money there is. At 2% interest, that million bucks requires $1,020,000 to be paid back. Where's the extra $20 grand come from. It doesn't exist, so it has to be printed too. And you can't actually pay off the million, because then there'd be no money in circulation. So you have to reprint the million-plus 20 grand. Now, if you want the economy to grow, that million dollars has to grow too. Otherwise, you'd have 0% G.D.P. growth. So 1 million becomes 2 million. Well, now you owe 40 grand in interest. This has been the way the siren works for over a century now. External debts and our currency and our economy are all linked. Now for the real kick in the nuts. If you want the economy to keep growing at the same rate, the debt MUST grow at an exponential rate. If society is used to the growth rate from 1 million to 2 million, you can't just go to 3 million next time. From 1 to 2, it was 100%. From 2 to 3 would only be 50%. So you have to grow it from 2 to 4 million. Of course, then you owe 80 grand in interest. And the next printing has to go from 4 million to 8 million. And on and on it goes. Any attempted slowdown in the growth leads to economic contraction. That's what the Q.T. over the last year did. So now we see the economy slow. So they have to print more. And even if they save the economy again, next time they will just have to print even more. This is the real crux of it all. The debt is literally REQUIRED to grow not at a linear rate, but at an exponential one. The average human mind has trouble comprehending exponential growth, but we've reached the point where either we have the economy slow, or our debt goes full-on hockey stick at this point in the graph. Or, we get a new monetary system and currency and start over. Those are literally the only choices. Professor Laurence Kotlikoff in 2012 estimated the U.S. Government's future commitments of the net present value of over $222 billion. Kotlikoff said 222 TRILLION, not billion. No one can know what the exact figure is for future government liabilities, of which welfare is an increasing component. " No one is allowed to know the real state of government spending thanks to the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board rule 56, promulgated this year. Add that reality to the $21 trillion of "unsubstantiated adjustments," i.e., missing/presumed stolen, from twenty years of using the Pentagon credit. The federal government will probably collapse, zeroing out all the liabilities, But meanwhile, the criminals will still have $21 trillion or the assets bought with it.

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Fed Interest Rate Hikes will cause Massive Recession in the next 12-18 Months. https://youtu.be/EXSX3XsGxsE

Fed Interest Rate Hikes will cause Massive Recession in the next 12-18 Months. https://youtu.be/EXSX3XsGxsE

Are we going to get an argentinian style recession in 2022 👉Top 3 Reasons a Recession in 2020 Could Happen . Recessions are normal, cyclical, and healthy. They are also temporary. For the first time since President Trump was elected, more voters say that the national economy is getting worse than getting better, with 37 percent saying it is getting worse, 31 percent saying it is getting better, and 30 percent saying it is staying the same. So is a recession coming in 2020? Fears have increased in recent months in the midst of an enduring trade war with China, pullbacks in corporate hiring and investment, and a manufacturing sector that has already slipped into contraction. Key indicators already indicate that the U.S. is "very late-cycle," and unless there's more policy stimulus into the market, the country looks like its headed toward a recession. The global economy is already in the worst distress that we have seen since 2008, and it appears that the global slowdown is actually picking up pace as we head into 2020. The recession snowball is rolling. The majority of bankers also predict a recession in 2020. We've got several recession indicators flashing orange. When a country gets itself in a ridiculous trade war, runs up the most prominent national deficit of any country in human history and has an erratic leader who alternates between hand-modifying weather reports and trying to bully the Federal Reserve into Argentina-style monetary policies, well, it doesn't inspire massive investor and consumer confidence. Welcome to The Atlantis Report. The criminal Federal Reserve Bank will bring this global recession. There is nothing Federal about the Federal Reserve Bank. It is a private bank incorporated in 1913. They print money out of thin air; it is Monopoly money that has no real value. The Federal Reserve creates booms and busts, so they can robe the people of their assets. It cost the Private Federal Reserve bank $230.00 in ink, paper, and labor to print 10,000 bills of any denomination, 1,5,10,20,50, and 100 dollar bill. They then lend it to the Federal Government for face value plus interest. We have a fake debt to these criminals. They are the biggest counterfeit ring in the world. This upcoming recession was discussed as far back as 2014 from what I remember. It's based on calculations of countless business/political/economic/world events and is pretty accurate. The recession began in 2019 and will start to ramp up. Expect another housing crash as prices in places like the Bay Area of California are grossly inflated by Chinese buyers and Silicon Valley. Prices are $200k over real value, and this is the peak. Only idiots are buying homes right now, as the value will crash and level out, and you'll be in the hole. This recession will likely last until 2025. Expect 2022 - 2023 to be the worst of it. The economy always crashes every 18 years, and the most influential factor in this is land values, they rise on hope value then crash when we cannot afford the land and borrowed too much to get access to land. A mid-cycle dip every nine years - so next year 2019/2020 a dip and the big crash in 2026. Barring wars and natural disasters economies have followed this pattern for hundreds of years. This is well known to Georgist economists, and the 2008 recession was well predicted by economists like Fred Harrison. The economy expands and contracts at the will of the shareholders of the Federal Reserve bank, which is a privately owned institution. The Oligarchs take profits from the markets during both expansions and contractions while the US Citizen suffers during the contractions. A US President is a scapegoat to be cast out of the Wall Street temple tent into the wilderness to carry off the sins of the Oligarchs, which happens right before the high priests of the FED slaughter the kids of America upon the fiery altar of corporate warfare with great fanfare. It's the banks that are the real problem, and until you wake up to that fact, they will ever so gently continue to squeeze your balls until you don't even have a dime left. They are blood-sucking vampires. And they own your property if they foreclose. Nobody can predict the future. But we can learn from the past. The stock market has virtually gone nowhere over the past 19 months — not a good sign. Freight-hauling companies like railroads, truckers, and airborne, have all reported that freight quantities are declining — not a good sign. The "smart money" has been fleeing the stock market since last September or so, and has made a ton of money betting on bonds over stocks in that time. Not a good sign. The thing to remember is that economies and stock markets move glacially. They may flash signals that indicate possible event months, sometimes years in advance. The trade war has, to this point, targeted Canadian lumber on 1/1/2018; lumber prices in the US went up 41% (the tariff was 21%), steel and aluminum (GM and Ford both reported that the tariffs cost them $1 billion in lost profits), and the 25% tariff on components, and now, the 10% tariff for consumer products. The recent tariffs targeted the not so easy to spot goods, where the imported components were not the majority of the finished goods. So the effect of tariffs was marginal. The 25% tariffs are directly going to affect consumer goods, meaning you'll likely see iPhones ratchet up in price by 10%. The concern, and it's significant and legitimate, is that Trump will ratchet those tariffs up to 25% in the not too distant future, and that will be noticeable to American consumers, who in spite of what the President keeps repeating, actually do pay the tariffs, and not "China." Will that lead to a recession? If we get a recession sometime in the next 18 months, people will look back and say that the beginning occurred in early 2018 and just continued to deepen, and they'll cite those factors I did before. You have to understand that markets and economies are macro devices that turn about as slowly as the Queen Mary, and unless you're watching closely, you never even see, detect, or notice the elements leading up to a recession, except in retrospect. The trick, if there is one, is to study history, especially the history of market crashes and economic debacles to see what the advance signs were, and from that, learn to see them in the present. They don't always lead to a recession, but all recessions start with them. Forewarned is forearmed, and those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it. Yes. I do believe a recession will likely take hold early next year. Why? Three reasons: #1. The Fed has already started cutting rates — a great indicator from some very smart people that something is amiss. #2. At more than 120 months, the current business cycle is now the longest on record in U.S. history: America's economic expansion is now the longest on record. #3. The stock market has been flat for more than a year and a half and Trump's ill-advised tariffs, just like his tax cut for the rich (and the stunning amount of national debt created by those cuts), are proving to be yet another blunder from a man who thinks he knows everything about everything. The Fed starts to cut the Fed funds rate just before a recession. The Fed just cut the rate by 0.25 points, though there were several Fed members who thought that should be 0.5 points. Say what you want to ,about the Fed ; but those guys are smart; and they know what they're doing. Even Janet Yellen, the previous Fed chief, was broadcasting that a cut was needed. Powell, in his follow-up press conference, did everything but say that a recession is very likely (he called the cut a "mid-cycle adjustment" to keep financial markets from freaking out). Wall Street sees even more Fed rate cuts ahead with Morgan Stanley predicting a return to zero. As of July, the business cycle has already passed 120 months. The stock market is a "discounting mechanism," and it will start discounting U.S. stocks because they are too expensive. Walmart has said that its prices will be impacted. 70% of the American economy is consumer goods, and if people stop buying those because companies are passing on the cost of the tariffs, then that will be the catalyst for a quick drop in GDP growth, leading to a recession. Every Economic expansion is fueled by easy credit and low-interest rates. Every Economic contraction happens when the bills come due, and spending has to be curtailed to service the debt. When the Federal Reserve reduced interest rates to zero and increased the money supply by buying $4.5 Trillion in bonds and MBS, it created massive inflation, but not in the consumer goods measured in the CPI. It was "asset inflation" in stocks, bonds, and housing. It didn't work as a stimulus very well because of the counter-effect of Dodd-Frank's over-regulation of the banks, especially with regard to the small business sector. Most of that $4.5 trillion of the increased money supply were lend to publicly traded corporations, including the big banks, to buy back their own stock. 72% of the stock market gains over the past decade are attributable to stock buybacks. Trillions more were borrowed by selling corporate bonds rated "BBB Investment Grade" when they didn't deserve it. Moody's, Fitch, and Standard and Poors are still selling undeserved BBB ratings for high fees -- a practice that contributed to the Financial Crisis. Next economic downturn, many of those publicly traded companies will file bankruptcy on their debt, stiffing their own stock and bondholders, while the CEO's who made millions on their stock options will take their golden parachutes and retire in Aspen with no accountability for what they've done. Small businesses had a long history of getting a business line of credit from their local bank, where the loan officer knew them personally, knew their workers and their customers, and was familiar with their balance sheet and income statement. He was willing to provide a line of credit to finance payroll and inventory against accounts receivable and the business owner's history of meeting his obligations. Dodd-Frank made that illegal. It required the business owner to put up iron-clad collateral equal to 125% of the line of credit. If they had it at all, it was in their home equity, and the reason they all formed LLCs or Subchapter S corporations was to protect their home in case of business failure. Dodd-Frank killed small businesses, the largest employer in the country. A few years ago, the CEO of Wells Fargo said, "We employ 10,000 people just to keep us out of trouble with Dodd-Frank. Small banks and businesses can't afford to do that. Dodd-Frank is killed small business in this country." Since Dodd-Frank was implemented, the top six bailed out banks increased their profits by 600-800%, and now control 70% of the assets of the entire banking system. Meanwhile, there are far fewer state and local banks. The Fed painted itself into a corner it can't get out of without crashing the stock, bond, and housing markets. Anyway, in a fiat corporatist financialized system (like we have basically globally now), any reasonably wise person would always be "preparing for a recession." Real economic activity is irrelevant to the whims of a politically managed economic system. And you never know for sure what the agenda is (impossible to know for sure actually). The trade deficit with China ballooned by more than 20% just in the first year of Trump's term, when Trump finally caved in and declared a phony "win" we already lost hundreds of billions. The Economic downturn IS COMING. The question is whether Trump can delay it until after the election. Buckle up. I am. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst, not the worst strategy in life. This was The Atlantis Report. Please Like. Share. And Subscribe. Thank You.

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The Inflation Crisis Is Worse Than Admitted https://youtu.be/t-sF4CVTWzs

The Inflation Crisis Is Worse Than Admitted https://youtu.be/t-sF4CVTWzs

Alert : The FED Starts Stealth QE4 , Repo-Calypse !! Almost $23 trillion in debt. $75 billion a day in REPO money printing . QE4 to the moon and back . Lets manipulate Yield Curve. Complete silence from the talking heads. When will some leader in the world, just say "Stop it!" It's beyond a joke now. The not so great USA nation and its banks are insolvent. We truly live in a post-truth world. The USA is worse off than Argentina in financial terms, by any measurable metric. The world is ignoring obvious insolvency and obscene money printing. Placing valuations on companies that bare no relation to reality. That strategy would result in balance sheet growth of roughly $180 bn a year and net US Treasuries purchases by the Fed (the sum of the red and grey bars) of roughly $375 bn a year over the next couple of years.' That's the strategy. Welcome to The Atlantis Report . I just listened to Powell. The Fed plans to purchase (finance/print/monetize) almost HALF of the US budget deficit for at least two years! In other words, expect more central bank bubble blowing while they ignore inflation! I was shocked that he spoke of inflation as a virtue! That's nuts! About 4 years ago, they changed the way they measure both inflation and GDP. The new measuring stick grossly UNDERestimates inflation, and it OVERestimates GDP. That's intentional , and criminal . I went back and calculated the GDP with the new measurements, and it INCREASED the GDP by 50% -- using exactly the same data. They seek to mislead, not inform . It's QE infinity ,It's theft ,No cop will enforce the law to stop it . Don't call it QE4, call it , Raping the wealth of America .Complete with runaway inflation , Stocks of Zombie Corps at an all time high, And more Fake Credit if you wanna continue to be a banker's slave. This Everything Bubble will eventually burst again, and when it does, it will be even more calamitous than the last time . There is enormous inflation. You just need to remove the problem areas from the calculation in order for it make it look like there is no inflation. When assets deflation ie housing and stock market and the bond bubble bursts, one would have no alternative to preserve other than by gold and silver . In the absence of the gold , there is no way to prevent confiscation of savings through inflation. The issue is that they want inflation to reduce the debt load but at the same time cost-of-living adjustment COLA to Social Security will go through the roof with high inflation. It's a tight rope they have to walk with and hence why we will go splat soon enough. We're having inflation rates of 9.5% this year alone, QE4 will create even more at faster pace and will be the final killer of the middle class. This is the QE that will never end. And it is going to hurt a lot of people. QE isn't going to get banks to lend. It is going to get them to do what they did before: borrow from the market and lend to the government. This is why it isn't helping the people, only the cockroaches. And so, in just two months QE , pardon the Fed's open market purchases of Treasurys, will return after a 5 years hiatus. Just don't call it QE, whatever you do. "Open market purchases" into infinity. The FED will debase the dollar to the point of worthlessness . Our country is hoarding itself to death. Fiat bugs will get wiped out in the ensuing carnage. And expect all sorts of heroic efforts to save the stock market. Saving the economy is not as big of a priority. The economy is already rotting from the bottom. There is no way to save the economy. The problem is the pursuit of perpetual economic growth and inflation. There are no benefits to central bank driven inflation. The central banks are not allowing unproductive debt to be cleansed from the economy via recession and depressions. Link the rate of change of private sector debt to the interest rates so the rate changes are market driven. If only the sheeple understand what this is doing to our currency and economy .You can print all you want but you will not be able to fix value of currency going down , hence the purchasing power . Debt Monetization is where they borrow money against your student loan, car loan, mortgage, etc... This further devalues the monetary system which is clearly already a house of cards about to fall. QE is purely monetary theft / financial fraud / Currency Manipulation or Devaluation, etc QE is Perpetual Poverty for the working class and perpetual wealth for the printing class. The FED lied. It will NEVER reduce its balance sheet. It will continue to debauch the currency at a rate it sees fit to cover bonus', hookers, blow, mal-investment, and political spending. Sociopaths doing their worst. No one actually expects the Fed to tell the truth about anything at this point. Even if they told the truth, people would second guess it as psyops. People are actually investing, or gambling on how much they believe other people will believe the Fed. You can't even call this a free market, or an economy. What we have is :Fake Money,Fake Banks,Fake Laws,Fake Markets,Fake Everything . The FED already has 3.6 ish trillion of securities on the book, now it needs some more for 'smooth operations' . Abandon ship, I guess . I have a strong belief that the entire U.S. economy since the dot com bust has been a make work net loss economy to keep the sheep employed and food on the table long enough to prepare for what is about to bust loose all across the realm . America's greatest enemy is not China or ISIS or Russia ,it's the United States Federal Reserve. Jerome Powell is the real Joker.

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Inflation Off, Recession On : It's not The Strongest Economy in The World https://youtu.be/eGGvOakAFBg

Inflation Off, Recession On : It's not The Strongest Economy in The World https://youtu.be/eGGvOakAFBg

Repo Market is Costing every American $183 Per Day So this Not QE” Is Costing Every Man, Woman, & Child in America a whopping $183 Per Day. Fed is on track to commit $11.5 trillion in gross cumulative support. Minsky - Moment comes when stability begets sudden instability. This hundred and eighty-three dollars a day every man woman and child in America is paying; that's this QE4 or what Powell called not QE. Thanks to the benevolent powerful steering committee at the FOMC, the federal open markets committee. So we have established the price of peace; we have found the price of calm at this moment: sixty billion dollars a month, roughly two billion dollars a day. And again if that seems like an expensive habit or you know what it would take to kind of maintain a perpetual buzz. You just look at that national addiction divided by every man woman and child. It's a measly hundred and eighty-three dollars a day every day. That's what's costing every and each American citizen. Which at some point, if we're not careful is merely gonna be the cost of a cup of coffee. Nothing called free is free. Free is something you get for nothing, but somebody else pays for it. Everyone is going to be working to pay the interest on all the loans. No wonder the banks rake in so much money. Banks screw up a system. The government bails out Banks with taxpayer money. Banks continue to act irresponsibly. Government prints money to give to banks to directly inject into the stock market. Banks screw up the stock market with the taxpayer, money bailout, and QE money printing. And probably steal half of Americans 401K by the end. Welcome to Atlantis Report. It looks like the balance sheet of the Fed grew by 260 billion, and it is growing. Remember, the balance sheet was only 800billions before the crisis and grew to over 4 trillion with the promise that it will be unwound. Well, it didn’t, so they monetized just over 3 trillions of debt. Why isn’t the Fed using the discount window to lend to those entities that can’t manage their cash flow? Why are they getting free money from the Fed? If I don’t have enough cash to do my payroll at the end of the month, no one will make me a 1% interest loan. So why is the Fed subsidizing those speculators? And who are they? One question that remains unanswered is what sparked the Repo panic. I still believe a block of cash left the market and has not yet returned. Well, who took the cash? Was there a robbery? Were the police called in to investigate JP Morgan Chase? The banks had a good thing going, squeezing the repo borrowers. The fed stepped in and took away their rice bowl. Big banks are the Fed. Now figure it out yourself. The banks own the FED. The FED does what the owners tell it to do. It's funny to watch these big banks extort the Fed. The Big banks ARE the Fed. They're being bailed out as we speak. That's what the repo madness is: a bailout. Could it be Deutsche Bank that is the black hole that's sucking liquidity? Banks can take the Fed hostage now since the world banks are all intertwined. These are not overnight loans anymore. Some of them last weeks. And some of them that have already come due have been given extensions. What was once an occasional infusion of liquidity on a 24-hour basis is now a continual process with no money or time limit for payback. It is a rolling bailout of immense proportions. A filthy mess that is being kept under wraps. Wall Street knows. We all know what that means. Banks are holding the Fed hostage now. Give us liquidity (free money) or else. The corollary to that is that some banks don't trust other banks for an overnight loan, even at loan-shark rates. And their fears are substantiated when the Fed extends the repayment time. There are a lot of rotten apples out there. A bank in China can say to the Fed, "give us liquidity in dollars, or we will crash the financial system"! All crisis is every time is a lack of liquidity; that's what financial crisis always is. So what they do; they just create out of thin air the liquidity. But what bothers me is; we're not talking about side joint kinds of countries. We're talking about the two most powerful countries in the world, the United States and China. both countries now are scrambling to provide enough liquidity. The Chinese they're also involved in their own repo and reverse repo market. I think it's fascinating that we have got the two most significant contributors to global GDP; The US and China. They're both actively influencing the credit markets, and they want to facilitate calm. Many have argued why the market went wrong so fast. The Federal Reserve was so freaked out that it did not wait for answers before intervening. The central bank’s gross cumulative support for the market — which allows banks and investors to borrow cash in exchange for Treasuries and other high-quality collateral — will top $11.5 trillion by the end of January, according to estimates. The Fed did not just stabilize the repo market. Now, it is the repo market keys to the kingdom. It is a de facto nationalization. Whether it's sixty billion dollars a month in QE, which is not QE. Or that eleven point five trillion dollars de facto nationalization of a part of the lending markets. We are coming up with what I would describe is the price for oblivion. Oblivion is defined as the state of being unaware or unconscious of what's happening, and that is precisely the state which is being funded by the Fed. What is the price of oblivion ? A 183 dollars per person per day. Repos were once the liquidity-providing plumbing of the financial system. Now, they have taken on another role because post-crisis rules demand that financial institutions hold far more significant balances of safe assets — at a time when yields on such assets are low or even negative. The repo market symbolically reminds me of the East India Company of Britain, which ruled a vast global empire with its private army, exceeding the power of Britain. The FED armies are the Banks and other affiliated financial Institutions. Fed became the market-maker of last resort, lowering rates whenever equity markets trembled. So FED is active in Money begetteth Money, so as to spread the virtual currency and to conquer the World. We don’t have free markets and free enterprise, and hence, the entire understanding of our system is now false and existing political frameworks redundant - which is why we have populism. The decision-makers are trying to stave off a downturn/depression, but as prices get higher, the serfs give up hope of returning to normal and fair, realizing they can't win. And are indeed getting poorer by the month now as prices continue to rise. Say hello to inflation. Markets are now addicted to Hopeium. The rigged market never looked better. So the banks/cash bundlers colluded to raise rates by keeping cash out of the repo churn. They sucked at least $150 million out of the borrowers, and then the Fed stepped in. This means there is no repo market but rather a churn and burn manipulated screw palace. So REITs and other shadow borrowers should soon be disclosing these losses on their reports to investors? The only thing preventing this collusion from happening again is the Fed shoveling cash into the repo market. This means that the Fed is permanently a daily interventionist now in the repo market as it is in the stock market, as it is in the bond market - and wherever the next crack in the dam appears. Markets are dead. No downside risks because the Fed will bail you out. Soon they will be limiting the upside. The financial system is speed surfing down the slippery slope of government-controlled everything, i.e., socialism has taken over the commanding heights of the financial system. Creating money from nothing by the Trillions. Imagine buying up every asset on the planet using colored toilet paper. This system is broken in so many ways. It is crumbling under its own weight, and it will implode like a massive star. Nature's laws rule this earth, and only human's stupidity thinks they can defy gravity. Historical lessons will be learned the hard way again and again and again. Greed has always been the Achilles heel for humans. The Fed will (obviously) continue to use its magic Dollars wand to plug the forming holes in the financial infrastructure. That is clear. But the Fed doesn't realize that they are zombifying the markets. No reasonable venture with good connections will go without a cash market from which to borrow at low rates. But the Fed is now on subconscious autopilot to blanket the world with Zero interest-rate. And, contrary to their published intentions, lower and lower interest rates don't lead to inflation anymore. Ultra easy money has unleashed hyper-competition, where the growing number of respective segment participants are all driving down the price of their goods to gain market share. Watch the price of oil as an indicator of these deflation pressures that the Central Bankers are slowing unleashing as the pall of Zero interest-rate spreads. Banks do not lend from deposits. Banks do not lend anything. They create computer digits that represent an amount equal to the remaining value of the collateral. They evaluate the borrower as to whether the customer can provide income to the bank that is equal to the value of the computer digit, which represents the remaining value of the collateral. Also, they evaluate that if the borrower quits giving the bank income, that the collateral can be sold in the real world and provide income to the bank when the borrower wouldn't be taking over the collateral and selling it for income. The bank gives you a computer digit, and you give the bank your income or your house. At closing on the property, the computer digit from the lending bank electronically transfers to the digital account of the seller's bank. When the seller wants to take cash out his account, the cash does not come from the loan, but from cash on hand at the bank. There is no such thing as a non-performing loan because there never was one. There was only ever a computer digitized entry at the lending bank. There is non-performing income when the buyer does not meet the contract agreement, and the amount of the computer digit does not get reduced because there was no income payment. The bank did not lend gold equal to the amount that the borrower needs to purchase the collateral. No, because that would be a real loan, and that would be a real risk to the bank. The bank didn't even give currency equal to the value of the collateral. That also would have some semblance of risk and of actual real things being exchanged that the bank might never see again. In the computer era, it is difficult to separate what is the physical world of actual risk and what is a digit floating in the ether. All those digits floating in the ether represent someone's investment, so as the reserve requirements. Once a bank run begins and all those investors come looking to collect their digits, it all becomes very real. 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We Are about to Hit The Motherlode of Mass Layoffs https://youtu.be/TFE4WamX2go

We Are about to Hit The Motherlode of Mass Layoffs https://youtu.be/TFE4WamX2go

QE for People, not Financial Markets -- You need to be Fed Up with The Fed !! The Federal Reserve System has taken the most extraordinary actions in its 102-year history since the 2007 - 2009 Great Recession, maintaining a key interest rate near zero-percent for seven years while creating $3.6 trillion in bank reserves. This initiative, dubbed Quantitative Easing or QE, has become the most important Fed policy of our generation. Quantitative Easing is largely responsible for the dramatic increase in stock prices since the Great Recession. The US and other nations have become addicted to QE as they attempt to avoid another drastic fall inequities. Welcome to The Atlantis Report. This idea, known as QE for People, is gaining support among economists. QE for People would do much more to sustainably boost the productive economy, reduce inequality instead of increasing it, and provide us with the investment we need. People's Quantitative Easing is a policy that was first proposed by the socialist Jeremy Corbyn. The idea is that the Bank of England should create money to fund government investment. The idea has been highly criticized, and some called it "economically illiterate". The idea has been used on Bernie Sanders's website and endorsed by Yanis Varoufakis. In the UK, the Labour Party has proposed a “People’s QE,” whereby the central bank would print money to finance direct fiscal transfers to households – rather than to bankers and investors.' There's a world of difference between, on the one hand, 'printing' money and giving it to households, and, on the other hand, using it to finance investment, especially in public infrastructure. With the latter, if there is a crash, at least we emerge from it with a more solid basis for sustainable recovery and growth. We might do a little damage, but at least we have something to show for it - unlike the current, failed, vogue for Quantitative Easing. The case for a National Investment Bank is unanswerable. In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, central banks created trillions of dollars of new money, and poured it into financial markets. Central banks have become the go-to institution of modern economies. They injected trillions of dollars of liquidity – through a process known as quantitative easing – first to prevent financial meltdown and later to stimulate the economy. The untold story behind these measures, and behind the changing roles of central banks generally, is that they have come at a considerable cost. ‘Quantitative Easing’ (QE) was supposed to prevent deflation and restore economic growth. But the money didn’t go to ordinary people: it went to the rich, who didn’t need it. It went to big corporations and banks – the same banks whose reckless lending caused the crash. This led to a decade of stagnation, not recovery. Irresponsible bank lending caused the crisis of 2008, and increased inequality dramatically. Bernanke's Quantitative Easing rewarded banks, and increased inequality further. In spite of such historically rapid and massive Fed intervention, the economy was still sinking toward — if not more in-depth into — recession. Since September The Fed had responded with a quarter of a trillion dollars to save the economy from what it claimed was a mere blip. Since then, the recession-causing Repocalypse has roared around the world, forcing the Fed to amplify its response again. The Fed’s planners just cannot outrun the little monster they created. It is growing as quickly as they increase their running speed. The repo crisis has multiplied like a virus through the financial system. Bear in mind that the Fed is continuing to add $60 billion more new money on top of that each month all the way to April and that several times since September they’ve already had to increase what they said they would do, so may have to increase it more still. By the time we are done, based on the Fed’s schedule for its new QE, the Repo crash will have turned out to be so massive that the Fed will have flooded the economy with, at least, HALF A TRILLION dollars just to prevent the crisis from happening again and causing major banking/credit problems . These new repos are only supposed to aggregate to an additional $55 billion, but there we go again with the Fed having to add more and more ammo to combat something it continues to say it has under control. It is again stretching the term length of repos to new terms because shorter-term repos to banks are endlessly rolling over but not doing the job. The little monster is growing as quickly as the Fed increases its responses. This is extraordinary in the truest sense of the word. We’ve never seen anything like it in the repo market. News of the Fed’s constant failure to fully appreciate and address the scale of the funding shortage that began in September keeps pouring in so fast that I am scrambling just to keep up with the news of the Fed’s new steps as I research and make videos about what it has already done! QE has failed. QE failed to address the central problem -too much private debt- making recovery impossible. This was a massive bust of an extended credit cycle, not a business cycle. More debt will not help. Virtually nothing has yet been done to fix the problems revealed by the Great Recession of 2007-2008, caused in part by failures at the central bank level. That failure to act essentially guarantees we will eventually see the same problems return, possibly even worse for not having dealt with them properly a decade ago. The government should have given the money to individuals to spend the economy to health, rather than giving it to corporations who used most of the funds distributed to complete "stock buybacks". In this video we make the case for a ‘people’s QE’, in which the money goes directly to ordinary people and small businesses. This is the fairest and most effective way of restoring crisis-hit economies and helping to solve the long-term challenges of ageing populations, automation and climate change. People's Quantitative Easing (PQE) is a policy proposed by Jeremy Corbyn during the 2015 Labour leadership election, which would require the Bank of England to create money to finance government investment via a National Investment Bank. Corbyn proposes to have the Bank of England create money to invest in housing and public transport, described by Corbyn as "People's Quantitative Easing". This would aim to turn the UK into a high-skill, high-tech economy and to build more council houses in order to lower long-term housing benefit costs. To achieve this, the Bank would purchase bonds for a state-owned "National Investment Bank". The policy is based on ideas put forward by the political economist Richard Murphy. Murphy argues it is a policy designed for use in 2020, in the event the economy remains flat despite traditional quantitative easing, with low inflation, low interest rates, high unemployment and low wages. If the economy is growing actively, People's Quantitative Easing would not be needed as increasing tax revenues would pay for necessary investment. Difference with helicopter money. Economics professor Simon Wren-Lewis explains that the difference between People's QE and Milton Friedman's helicopter money (which some people also call "QE for the people") is that instead of central banks distributing newly created money directly to individuals, creating consumer demand without involving government, People's Quantitative Easing finances investment projects that are initiated by government. Therefore, according to Wren-Lewis, the government could be inclined to pressure the Bank of England to QE, thus impinging on central bank independence. Every round of QE must increase in size in order to sustain the debts created in the previous round. The US repo funding problem was partially due to the huge US deficit. It was becoming very difficult to fund it and also roll over the other debts. The next recession will result in $2 Trillion deficits in the US and what do you suppose that is going to do to investor, individual and business confidence. The junk hitting the fan is much closer than most people realize. Changing the way Central Banks apprehend monetary policy, and the toolkit they use is increasingly important. Vital, in fact. And Central Banks being very conservative institutions, are naturally reluctant to embrace radical change. Yet it must be done, and the sooner, the better. Central banks may have become independent of governments, but have instead become worryingly dependent on financial markets. The Central Banks are a cabal of unelected academics who made decisions without the slightest understanding of the real world, just a slavish devo­tion to their theoretical models. In a world rendered unsafe by banks that were too big to fail, we came to understand that the Fed was simply too big to fight. What really happened to our economy after the fateful date of December 8, 2008, when the Federal Open Market Committee approved a grand and unprecedented ex­periment: lowering interest rates to zero and flooding America with easy money. As feared, millions of individuals, small businesses, and major corporations made rational choices that didn’t line up with the Fed’s “wealth effect” models. The result: eight years and counting of a sluggish “recovery” that barely feels like a recovery at all. While easy money has kept Wall Street and the wealthy afloat and thriving, Main Street isn’t doing so well. Nearly half of men eighteen to thirty-four live with their parents, the highest level since the end of the Great Depression. Incomes are barely increasing for anyone not in the top ten percent of earners. And for those approaching or already in retirement, extremely low-interest rates have caused their savings to stagnate. Millions have been left vulnerable and afraid. Perhaps worst of all, when the next financial crisis arrives, the Fed will have no tools left for managing the panic that ensues. And then what? Let's propose Modern Monetary Theory, helicopter money, anything, except fiscal policy. Fiscal policy remains anathema despite the evidence that fiscal policy does not crowd out private investment or increases inflation or interest rates. It should be reconsidered as a bona fide option in the policy arsenal. Central banking around the world has become a growth industry, populated with PhD economists and a few former investment bankers. These unelected men -- and a few women, most notably Yellen -- control the world's economic system. They are arguably more powerful than the world's political leaders chosen by voters. And what's outrageous is that the Fed continues to rely on models created by hundreds of elitist PhD economists even though those models are wrong more often than they are correct. They've done great economic harm to the taxpayers of this country. Every American must understand this extraordinarily powerful institution and how it affects his or her everyday life, and fight back. You need to be Fed Up with The Fed.

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The Great Crash Of 2022 https://youtu.be/B1KQWDWGp5M

The Great Crash Of 2022 https://youtu.be/B1KQWDWGp5M

The wealthy are now dumping assets before the recession so they can buy them back at 50% later. Today we have the news of yet Another Hedge Fund Giant Biting the Dust . Louis Moore Bacon is stepping away from Moore Capital Management, which will return money to investors . Bacon made his name exploiting the discrepancies between global interest rates and bond yields. But if the world’s major central banks are moving in lockstep and bond yields are becalmed at low levels, there’s less opportunity to make money. World’s Largest Hedge Fund Manager Ray Dalio also believes the U.S. is at risk of a recession in 2020 .From his side Hedge Fund Manager Seth Klarman, who has been called “the next Warren Buffett,” is warning that both the U.S. and global economies were at risk of a recession. Klarman, who runs Baupost Group, which manages $27 billion in assets, voiced concerns about rising debt, global tensions, and the widening political divide in the U.S. and other countries in a note to investors. Quote: “It can’t be business as usual amid constant protests, riots, shutdowns, and escalating social tensions,” he wrote. “The seeds of the next major financial crisis (or the one after that) may well be found in today’s sovereign debt levels.” end of quote . Hedge fund manager , founder and chief investment officer at Hayman Capital Management , Kyle Bass , from his side sees a shallow recession potentially in 2020 . Also adding that he thinks U.S. interest rates will follow the global interest rates all the way down to zero. Kyle Bass told the Financial Times that he believes that U.S. interest rates will plummet toward zero in 2020 as the country’s economy heads for recession and the Federal Reserve slashes borrowing costs dramatically more than expected. Welcome to The Atlantis Report. One of the most basic recession indicators is the stock market itself. When the stock market experiences a bear market (a decline of 20% or more), that is typically a sign that the economy is rolling over into a recession. It can unravel very quickly due to how inflated it currently is. They are going to run the system until it blows and then have a gigantic default around the globe. This will be affecting too many people. It will be very bad. People need to prepare and do not listen to Mainstream Media . With central banks easing again, it’s no surprise that hedge funds are getting ready for a recession. With the world economy in a coordinated funk, central banks are once again easing monetary conditions. The Fed has cut borrowing costs three times this year. The ECB has driven its deposit rate even more in-depth into sub-zero territory, and has resumed bond purchases. Negative yielding debt is once again above $12 trillion, albeit down from a peak three months ago of $17 trillion. Financial repression is alive and kicking. The system is deeply rigged. 25 trillion printed since 2008 and it hasn’t worked.mere socialism for the rich. In a sane world, less than 4% unemployment would call for higher wages. It’s simple supply/demand economics. The very fact that wages have NOT gone up and in some cases went down relative to inflation. If jobs were plenty, employers would try to attract workers with higher wages. Is that happening? NO! . as governments and central banks deliberately promote specific indicators “to present a rosy picture of the economy” while ignoring a whole host of other fundamentals that do not fit their “recovery”narrative” . And if their “chosen indicators” begin to tell a different story … they then rig the numbers in their favor . like simply lying that the inflation is 2% when it is actually 10% . We all see were we are headed but too many just bury their head in the sand not to notice. We are going to War, we are going to Zero Interest Rates, we are going to QE to Infinity and we are going to a Zimbabwe Economy Traders See a looming Recession Ahead Due to Inverted Yield Curve as Interest Rates on Short-Term Treasuries Exceed Returns on Longer-Term T-Bonds; for First Time Since 2007 on Eve of Subprime Panic. Massive Flight to Safety as Long Bond Yield Hits Record Low of 2.015%. Canada and UK Bond Yields Inverted. German 10-Year Rate Goes More Negative! The Contraction of Real Economy is global . After the UK , Germany Posts Decline in GDP. China Reports Worst Industrial Production Performance in 17 Years. Macy’s Leads New Phase of Retail Apocalypse. Dow Transportation Stocks Fall on Dwindling Freight Volume . Frantic Trump Attempts to Blame Fed’s Powell, but Gets Little Traction. Fox Business Talks Need to Fire White House Trade War Hawk Navarro, Hypes Emergency Rate Cut to Prop Up Bubble. Hysteria of Financial Analysts: “This Time It’s Different” . The global economic slowdown is worse than the "official" numbers parroted by the what Gerald Celente used to call Presstitutes. This recession will continue to be expanded until it explodes like Mises warned: “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 the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.” The hard numbers are there. From plummeting home prices in boom town Australia , to riots in the home of the western bank’s Asia headquarters, Hong Kong . The economies are going down and the China vs West money war has begun. Germany’s Gross Domestic Product went negative, fueling recession fears sweeping across Europe. The UK is teetering on recession and its pound is plunging. Rich poor, developed or underdeveloped, the global economy is melting down. Wall Street feels it and the Central Banksters will do all they can to keep the money addicted White Shoe Boys running. The Federal Reserve is a suicide bomber and their rates hikes have already intentionally set us on a trajectory for a market crash and the destruction of the U.S. economy later this year, and next. Would the Fed have any reason to lower rates? They have already done their dirty work and are now spinning the narrative in order to shift the blame elsewhere. Keeping rates where they are, and continuing to remove liquidity until sometime this Fall, will assure the deliberate destruction of our economy, which was their plan all along. Everyone who knows about negative bond yields, negative/zero interest rates, quantitative easing. knows the Bankster Bandits will invent any scheme they can dream to postpone the economic meltdown. Nothing has been addressed for quite some time now with respect to global economic conditions and causes. Instead, the global financial structure has been merely Papered Over with Debt prolonging the inevitable. In essence, the sills of the structure are termite-infested that have been in dire need of replacement, yet no one has the political will to address the matters, unfortunately. Thus, we continue to witness massive Fraud; Corruption; Lies; Cheating; Stealing (and worse). And the most significant transfer of wealth in human history, globally, while those partaking in the Heist keep the masses misdirected and placated. As economic pain grips more nations, oil demand keeps going down while supply has dramatically risen. Markets will crash as economic turmoil increases and as geopolitical violence escalates around the globe. We see riots protests and unrest across the globe — Iran, Venezuela, Syria, Libya, Iraq, Algeria, Sudan, Yemen,chile , ecuador , iran,colombia, etc. — the war climate is worsening. And the worst is yet to come. Apparently, China is now starting to shut out US companies from bidding on projects as retaliation to Trump's tariffs. When do you suppose Trump will admit that to the public and how many ways will he twist that news, or better yet, which news media that reports it will be accused of "fake news"? How many hours do we have left before one of the multinationals goes Lehman, and starts knocking down the dominos! Bond yields and a resilient $1450 gold price are signaling something is very wrong somewhere. I'm panicking very quietly so as not to disturb the herd. He who panics first panics best. The deficit spending runs 6-800 billion to a trillion a year now routinely. Treasuries are issued and the money is spent, and even though so much is wasted it enters the economy. if they say the economy is 18 or 19 trillion, then the addition of 1 trillion yearly to spending adds 4% growth right off the bat. They adjust for 2% inflation and you get 2% growth [which is a fake number]. The average 'American' is already in recession and has been for quite a while. Soft depression for 18 years. It sounds like its time to start a war to erase the debts. The scary part is that Russia thinks we are going to start a war. So does Iran. So does China. So does North Korea. And so does Venezuela. And probably Syria. Where there is smoke, there is fire, and it looks like we are seeking to start a hot war somewhere, anywhere, that will result in the ability to ‘erase debts.’ Trump’s trade war could quickly turn into a hot war. Go back to what triggered 1941 and Japan’s aspirations, and how the US denied them access to natural resources. The US effectively started that war. Its been a warmongering scoundrel ever since. The US has no desire to dislodge itself from the middle east. Trillions spent, and millions have died, mostly on the opposite side. But they are dead. If you are every other country, you fear the US, at least from a citizen perspective. Sadly, I would say the odds are better than 50%, that the US gets into a major hot war prior to 2025. The seeds have been planted for one, even if Trump doesn’t actively seek one. Apparently, the US government would instead let our enemies eat our lunch, dinner, and next day’s breakfast, and keep losing manufacturing jobs, wages stagnate, because that keeps the international corps happy as long as they can profit from it all. They can’t inflate away the debts, so ultimately, there is only war that is in the minds of people who ‘decide’ these things. Don’t get me wrong. China has massive debts too. So the logical outcome is that China would get into a war with the US since both countries want to rid themselves of massive debts. It might start through a proxy’ however, such as North Korea, or Iran, or Venezuela.

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Watch out for The Coming Black Swan Event !! https://youtu.be/kzfcFjvqxYw

Watch out for The Coming Black Swan Event !! https://youtu.be/kzfcFjvqxYw

The Financial Markets At Very High Risk Of Black Swan Event !! Financial Markets At Very High Risk Of Black Swan Event As systems become more complex, there's greater opportunity for things to break down. More complex equals more fragile. There are so many things that could go wrong with catastrophic results, the kinds of things we talk a lot about here are : – Financial meltdown. – Pandemic. – Massive/coordinated terror attack. – Widespread domestic unrest leading to martial law. – Foreign conflict leading to war or the threat of war. – Food shortages. – AI or other system malfunctions that take down the grid or banking or other systems and lead to chaos. Because so many people rely on social media or corporate news for their info, most people don't have a clue. We all know it wouldn't take much to start a chain of events that could be devastating. Welcome to The Atlantis Report. The banking system is failing. The US Fed has injected close to $4T to keep it functioning thus far. They are now buying treasuries with fresh liquidity. The Repo market is increasingly full of bad credit and no longer provides this ability to keep the markets growing. Expect a 'blow-off top' followed by panic selling once banks have begun to unload these treasuries and own repurchased shares. Sadly, once again, the public has become too complacent that the US markets will rise forever. They will be wiped out while they sleep. WATCH THE BOND MARKET for any sign of a sell-off that could take mere seconds. The Fed has indicated that it will keep the banks (i.e., treasury markets) supplied with new money for three more weeks; then, what happens if the Repo market is still broken and can't buy more treasuries? Remember, bankers no longer serve the best interests of the public; only to enrich themselves - DON'T TRUST THEM!!! Nassim Nicholas Taleb defines a "black swan" as a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable than it was. The success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/11. Black swans underlie almost everything about our world, from the rise of religions to events in our own personal lives. An example of a black swan event is AI or other system malfunctions that take down the grid or banking or other systems and lead to chaos." Right there, this one issue can set the entirety of our Nations' connectedness' into a tailspin — automation and robotics…the world of AI and IT. The Federal government (and States) rely very heavily on cloud computing now. All financial records, biometric data (citizens and non-citizens), agency and government data, medical data, criminal records, tax/IRS data are stored by electronic means using cloud technology. The majority of our Federal information systems are using third-party cloud systems — even the Dept of Defense and DHS have gone outside of the government for these services. We talk of and worry over the JIT (just in time) delivery system. None of us mention the JIT information system. Failure with our JIT information technology (I call it JIT-IT) will shut down our Nation faster than the JIT of our needed goods. It wouldn't take that much to create a man-made black swan event that would disable our financial system. Our automation is advanced enough and connected enough that the near-instantaneous transfer-of-funds or financial-evaporation of trillions of dollars can be implemented through the convenience of cloud technology. A black swan is an unpredictable event that is beyond what is normally expected of a situation and has potentially severe consequences. Black swan events are characterized by their extreme rarity, their severe impact, and the practice of explaining widespread failure to predict them as simple folly in hindsight. A Black Swan event is "an unforeseen event that may have catastrophic consequences." Though the definition reads "unforeseen," I would add that some who are acutely alert may "foresee" a so-called Black Swan (or a form of it) coming. But they have no voice of significance to warn or change what may be happening. So it's unforeseen by the vast majority, though perhaps foreseen by a few. One example might be some of the 'preparedness-minded' who are highly aware of the catastrophic consequences of a significant grid-down event. If a Black Swan event occurred, such as a disastrous CME (coronal mass ejection) from the sun – zapping our power grid – it would not be unforeseen by them. But certainly unexpected by all the rest. Why? Because most suffer from normalcy bias, or simply don't know or care about the systemic threats around them. To them, it's a Black Swan. What's worse, a Black Swan event that's genuinely unforeseen by ANYONE. An event that we haven't even thought of yet (including by those who think about such things!). I recently read about a group of "global security experts" getting together to discuss this very issue. Organizers said the following: "The time has come to ask: are we doing the kind of hard-nosed vulnerability assessments that are necessary for our increasingly complex and fragile infrastructure systems?" "How do we build fault-tolerant technological and human systems that can withstand or help us better recover from catastrophic failures caused by 'black swan' and 'perfect storm' events." "How do we do smart risk management in a world of sudden, unseeable, and unforeseeable threats." "The panel will discuss how the world's internet and AI-controlled systems will cope in the event of a black swan." "We take for granted that these technological systems will continue to function without interruption." World on the brink of unavoidable 'black swan' apocalypse, security panel warns Taking it for granted. I don't know how many times I have addressed this here on this channel . However, it is continuously relevant. It is SO EASY to take it for granted – the modern systems that enable us to survive as we do. We figure that there's really no risk. At least none that are significant. That's how most people think. But sure as I'm sitting here typing this, one day, something unforeseen is going to happen that's going to scare the hell out of the masses, Or worse. So how in the world do we prepare for something like that? How To Be Prepared For A Black Swan Event . It's both easy and hard. Easy in that it's not difficult to start down the road of preparedness. Level 1 and Level 2 are not hard. It is being prepared for weeks up to a month. However, Level 3 and beyond is where it gets challenging. This is preparedness for truly catastrophic happenings. The thing is, although seemingly unlikely, there are events that could happen – events that would require you to be prepared up to Level 3 for a reasonable chance of survival. An uncomfortable truth. Preparedness Level 1 – 4 Series Overview. The good news is that if we're prepared as best, we can, then we will be so much better off with our chances of survival (or less pain to deal with) than most everyone else because most everyone else is not prepared at all. So Are Black Swan events becoming increasingly likely and dangerous." Yes, I believe, though, seems highly improbable. They actually may become more likely given the increasing modern technological complexities in life's systems. And, therefore, more dangerous as dependence increases. There always seems to be that one little thing that can break the big machine. I wonder what the next thing will be. Once you understand the exponential function works and how our monetary system works, you'll realize that depression or even outright collapse is all but guaranteed. Often, this leads to war. The question is, what kind of war ! 1776? 1861? 1939? All are on the table. If you have noticed: The time periods between the dates I have listed are about 80 years. The generational studies outlined in the Fourth Turning expand and expound on this time sequence, and the significance of it. If you notice, you can add 80 years to the third turning, which is 1939, and you are at, stay with me now, 2019. There is no such thing as coincidences. The sequence of events: Debt fueled boom . Minsky moment . Balance sheet recession . We were using economics that didn't consider debt, so no one realized what was happening. China was the lemming that saw the cliff edge (Minsky Moment) before it went over. The Australian and Canadian lemmings will be going straight over the cliff. They haven't got a clue what they are doing. Japan shows how long the balance sheet recession can last, and this is why the global economy is stalling. China was growing by adding more and more debt, but it can't do that anymore (well, they shouldn't be). It's a no-growth global economy. Japan has been in a balance sheet recession for thirty years, and they have had plenty of time to study it. There are ridiculous levels of bank reserves built up by the FED, BoE, ECB, and BoJ that can't get into the real economy due to a lack of borrowers. QE can get into stock and real estate markets inflating them. After 2008, we saved the banks but left the debt in place. The banks were ready to lend, but there were few who wanted to borrow. We have spent ten years relying on a solution that could never really work. One of The Biggest black swans will be a Chinese military intervention. The time is ripe. And it is inevitable, but is it imminent? The Chinese have the power to disrupt deep-space satellites, and when those are affected, America doesn't operate. The next Big Black Swan will be manufactured by the Oligarchs to kill off 7 billion people. Global war, fast-spreading disease, or total financial collapse will be the method. As the world has Peaked in energy production, things will get terrible, really fast if 8 Billion people are all competing for the remaining resources. The "order out of chaos" boys are saving this meltdown for a special occasion. When this bad boy blows, there's gonna be hell to pay. They want to be sure they can swoop in quickly and implement the next stages of control. A few more technological surveillance schemes, some more advancement in digital currency, and they will be ready to spring the trap. They don't have to be perfect; they just have to be sure you can't run while they perfect the "system." A new boogie-man to blame it all on would be preferred. Can't have the anger of the sheeple focused on the real culprits. If the real problem is never realized, then there can be no practical solutions. It'll come, and when it does, watch how quickly they implement controls to keep the sheeple from getting out of hand.

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This is How Big Is the Derivatives Market https://youtu.be/n5bOnb2DpIQ

This is How Big Is the Derivatives Market https://youtu.be/n5bOnb2DpIQ

How Big Is the Derivatives Market? The visible or measurable size of the derivative market, if you include options, futures, swaps, forex spreads etc, is more than $300 trillion. But there is an invisible or not easy to measure component, which is probably 3 times larger than 300 trillion. So those 2 added together, the size of the derivative markets is approaching $1200 trillion or 1.2 quadrillion . The total size of the world economy itself is less than $73 trillion. In other words, the derivatives market is more than 10 times larger than the size of the world economy. The derivatives market is, in a word, gigantic . So how can that be ? Well largely because there are numerous derivatives in existence, available on virtually every possible type of investment asset, including equities, commodities, bonds and foreign currency exchange. Some market analysts even place the size of the market at more than 10 times that of the total world gross domestic product GDP. However, other researchers challenge these estimates, arguing of the size of the derivatives market is vastly overstated. Figuring the Range of Estimates Determining the actual size of the derivatives market depends on what a person considers part of the market, and therefore, what figures go into the calculation. The larger estimates come from adding up the notional value of all available derivatives contracts. But some analysts argue that such a calculation doesn't reflect reality – that the notional value of a derivative contract's underlying assets, the financial instruments the derivative is pegged to, does not accurately represent the actual market value of derivative contracts based on those assets. A quick refresher: Derivatives themselves merely contracts between parties; they are speculations, bought or sold as bets on the future price moves of whatever securities they're based on – hence the name 'derivative.' So derivatives' prices are dependent on the prices of their underlying assets. An example that illustrates the vast difference between notional value and actual market value can be found in a popularly traded derivative, interest rate swaps. The large principal amounts of the underlying interest rate instruments, although usually included in the calculation of total swaps value, never actually trade hands. The only money traded in an interest rate swap is the vastly smaller interest payment amounts – sums that are only a fraction of the principal amount. According to the most recent data from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the total notional amounts outstanding for contracts in the derivatives market is an estimated $542.4 trillion. But the gross market value of all contracts to be significantly less: approximately $12.7 trillion. The Bottom Line is , When the actual market value of derivatives (rather than notional value) is the focus, the estimate of the size of the derivatives market changes dramatically. However, by any calculation, the derivatives market is quite sizable and significant in the overall picture of worldwide investments. Derivatives ,as the name suggests, they are "derived" products - built upon existing assets and other derivatives. As of now there are thousands of such product categories ranging from simple swaps, futures and options to complex, exotic ones which would give you a good headache trying to figure out what exactly they are. Basically, it's just a huge gamble by the financial community, a bet if you would like. How is the size larger than the entire world economy? Counting the value of the same asset multiple times and using the notional value of the underlying asset rather than the value of the actual transaction. Consider the below: Current oil (brent) price is at say $100/barrel. And let's assume there is only one barrel oil in the world. Person A believes the price will go up to $120 in a month. Person B assumes it will go up to $130. Person A gets a "future" contract to buy it at $115. He pays $1 for the contract rights. Person B gets another at $125, pays $1. Actual value of oil = $100 Value of oil derivatives = $115+$125+$1+$1 = $242 (2.42x) Consider another example - interest rate swap. You take a loan of $1000. Interest rate is base rate + 2%. Assume base is 8% currently. So you will be paying 10% effectively. However, there is a risk that the base rate may go up, thus making you liable to pay more. So you find someone with a higher risk tolerance and do a "swap". He agrees to pay the variable rate (base + 2%) and you agree to pay fixed 10%. If the variable goes up, he loses. If it goes down, you lose. Assume at the end of year one, base is up to 9%. Now the other person needs to pay you 11% and you have to pay him 10%. Obviously the transaction would be a "net" and he will pay you 1% i.e $10. But the calculated, summed "notional value" of the contract would be 11%+10% = 21% = $210. So, multiple people own "rights" over the same underlying assets at the same time and at different points, notional value is used instead of the actual value of the transaction and (BAM!) the value of the derivatives market is bigger than 50 times the world economy.

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This Is Worse Than Anyone Realizes -- Stock Markets Horror on The Horizon https://youtu.be/nnYk4qm3feA

This Is Worse Than Anyone Realizes -- Stock Markets Horror on The Horizon https://youtu.be/nnYk4qm3feA

Repo Market gone on Steroids -- The Mother of all Financial Crisis Explained. REPO Madness is beginning to make the 2008 financial crisis look like a walk in the park. The FED is backstopping the panic for liquidity in the overnight REPO market with more than $1 Trillion. The panic money printing is happening NOW. With all the misinformation circulating around about this Repo Crisis, one should question, can they really be that dumb? This is truly the Mother of all Financial Crises, which will affect the whole nine yards of what it touches. This will make the 2008 financial crisis look like a trial run. There is no politician who will come up and talk about this crisis, nor will they brave to even ask pertinent questions for fear of what will be uncovered. This Repo Crisis is just part II in the lead-up to Big Bang that nobody apparently understands is currently unfolding. This is the Sovereign Debt Crisis on steroids. Whatever they could have done wrong, they have done with absolute accuracy. The expected losses for institutions will range from 40% to 60% of assets. Whoever is caught holding will not be bailed out this time around. This is the combination of the 1998 Liquidity Crisis and the 2008 Financial Crisis. So hang on to whatever you can grab ahold of. You will need it for this one. Welcome to The Atlantis Report. Ten years of QE created a financial system that depends on the Fed monetizing debt in massive quantities forever; so that billionaires could swap dollars to skim profits from QE Forever. Unsaid, but likely, is that since both the ECB and BOJ are deep into endless QE, then the Fed needs to get in step. Coincidentally, there's an FOMC meeting in play just in time to save the world from the financial crash these billionaires will cause if they don't get free money under their terms. Banks have oodles of US Treasuries debt that need to go at a profit, and the Fed is the only buyer dumb enough to buy it, so the banks earn a profit. REPO is just another banking Ponzi scheme that works with the FED's banking Ponzi scheme. The Fed feeds the monster markets, the hedge funds, the algorithms boyz, and the high-frequency traders. Once an institution to be there in a pinch, they create webs of financial complexities and central plan, preventing free market forces and normal market cycling that flushes excesses. They feed the pot when the pot is about to go empty. They remove the discipline of the market place. The FED needs to print more because the universe will collapse without the speculator bailout. I say F the speculators and end the FED. This is the most significant theft of all time. Why call it banking when it is just plain stealing. The Bankers own the world, and they own you too. Take it from them, but leave them the ability to print money out of thin air, and they will buy it back the next day. This REPO frenzy that we are witnessing was designed by the big banks as a trap for the large hedge funds. The Forex swap market is dying. And the banks want the large hedge funds to take the hit. It makes sense that someone would try to paint this as a GSIB issue when, in fact, it has nothing to do with it. It's all a big boys' game of musical chairs now where Citi and JP Morgan are walking in circles with Citadel and even Blackrock. The Forex swaps were the reason for the Fed not being able to target even lower rates because of the required liquidity needs. Now, as all foreign participation has dried up, it has become a war between banks and hedge funds. The Fed will do what they always do, back themselves with new rules biased in their owners' favor, so don't wait for QE but rather new guidelines for collateral definitions. Erasing the line separating reserves from collateral, they will kick the can for themselves while hedge funds are being trapped. Once the Fed introduces new reserves and collateral guidelines, may be relaxing the eligibility criteria also for corporate and municipal bonds. They will have opened up new swap line funding avenues for the banks but not for the hedge funds. This should not come as a surprise to anyone. It's how banks have always operated - if they are somehow not the biggest winner, they simply change the rules until they are. The truth is, dishonest players are saying, "give us what we want, or we'll blow you up." There is no internal or external economic shock to explain the change in the behavior of users of Repos. That means those users decided to take planned action, a strategy, to 'break' the repo market. That means regulating that market is either inadequate and/or not being enforced. We really need to regulate that market. Being 'held up' by manipulators and speculators is certainly, not a good thing. A different set of eyes needs to look at this and identify the perps. The strategy seems obvious — profit off-market turmoil. We are going to buy put options big, and we're going to sell naked call options big, then crash the market by 'breaking' the Repo operation. The more details I read about how things actually operate in the underbelly of this corrupt system; the more it becomes apparent there is so much sleight of hand; distraction; intermediaries; multiple layers of re-hypothecation; 3-card Monty; musical chairs; rube Goldberg-like non-sense; going on that no one really understands how it all works. This means when this thing finally does implode; all the so-called experts will be wringing their hands; spewing excuses like no one could have predicted this; and will have absolutely no idea how to recover from it. The only thing we can be sure of, the banksters will be bailed out, and the plebes will foot the bill. The FED is pumping and printing. Is there a problem with the Fed buying all the assets using monopoly money? Aside from the hyperinflation and all the laws being broken. It seems like they get all the assets, and we get all the debt. The FED may never become insolvent, but that doesn't mean it isn't Bankrupt. When you give digital zeros to banking institutions, you are a criminal organization. The fractional reserve system is Fraudulent. The FED's REPO market is killing us all. Slowly, slowly, slowly. It is the back end of a highly politicized Fed attempting to force an economy to do what it wanted it to do, and we will all pay for decades for the ignorance or arrogance depending on your point of view. A perfect example of insanity being the impossibility of reason. These bankers; hedge funders, guru investors, etc. Don't give a damn about what's going to happen to Americans or the country when this Ponzi scheme implodes and takes down every aspect of the economy. They only care about returns and the short term. Who cares about the national debt or the future young people who will have to deal with this fallout. The politicians are all too busy diddling back and forth over Trump to even bat an eye at the financial ruin that is brewing on Wallstreet. Yet ALL of them are going to claim nobody saw it coming, and they will ALL have their grubby hands out for a government bailout. And we will rinse and repeat this nonsense until America doesn't exist anymore. Reserve banking; the amplifying banking model has proven to accelerate profitability significantly. The model works great with ample cash liquidity. When cash reserves are thin, because of leverage, the risk increases exponentially. How long the model can keep working without blowing up the money markets again,is anyone's guess. Can the swipe of a computer key continue to keep everything together?. With my understanding of the intricacies of these markets and their dynamics, I could not second guess this current situation by a long shot. There Is Definite Hanky-Panky Going On”: The Fantastically Profitable Mystery of the Trump Chaos Trades. These US Markets are for suckers only. And being used by the corrupt US elite super-rich to get richer and richer ; while the middle-class in the entire world gets poorer and poorer and disappears. This is corruption on steroids. And of course, are being promoted and supported by the FED; SEC; White House; US Treasury; and so forth. It is the most significant transfer of wealth on the planet, and it happens every single day. The short coles notes of this all is a. There is not enough liquidity on the planet of willing buyers of government debt that includes euro banks leveraging their reserves for a 1.5% T-bill over a 0% euro coupon. b. This level of Zimbabwe type monetization should, in a year, equal expansion of money of $6 Trillion if they do not stop; Against GDP of $20 trillion, it is between 20-30% inflation. c. Expect excess reserves to flow to the stock market, which has currently averaged 7% per year. So if the market goes up 15%, but price inflation is 20%, guess what you still have lost 5% of net worth. and, d. Housing ironically will stall then fall as banks realize that MBSs or mortgage-backed securities are high risks, leaving only the federal reserve as the last buyer. Things are getting quiet. Too quiet. So equities will nosedive to increase liquidity, the trouble is the losses by some banks (as financial stocks sink) will exceed their minimum reserves. So you have QE-Infinity, but the Fed and the US Treasury is still going to have to bail them out. At least in the short run, until they get enough of the extra liquidity to rebuild their cash reserves. By estimation, the Fed balance sheet will increase beyond 85 billion a month (QE3) probably by a factor of 1.5 even during the Not QE phase - perhaps 120 or 125 billion per month. They might not even stop there - they might go full speed and start pomo on equity purchases in the Dow, S&P, Nasdaq. At what point do folks get that light-bulb - that the Fed is working for the big banks of the world, it isn't working for Americans. It is inflating asset prices, while also bailing-out zombie banks, and doing so primarily by monetizing sovereign debt. Waiting for the blocked artery and ensuing heart attack. The market is freezing up because the so-called collateral to support repos is garbage, and everyone knows it. There are millions of zombie mortgages held by banks without a mark to market write-down where no payments have been made in years. Banks are protected by accounting rules, but the collateral is still garbage. Circling the drain. They know what they are doing. #1. Define money as debt and blow the worlds biggest credit bubble. #2. When the bubble reaches its apex, pop the bubble, leaving the debts while siphoning off the money supply. #3. Leave the masses in tens of trillion of dollars in INEXTINGUISHABLE DEBTS, all while pretending to be clueless. #4. Asset strip Earth and claim ownership over it as the Money Power Monopolists become de facto Earth Emperors. You really can't wrap your mind around reality? Oh, and they are so stupid, they made YOUR HOME AND VEHICLE COLLATERAL FOR THE GOVERNMENT DEBT. BUT NOT THEIRS! Go ahead, ask your property taxing authority whether this is true, and demand a legally binding written and signed letter. Or cower from the truth and play "pretend they are dumb and not evil because evil would scare me!" This was The Atlantis Report. Please Like. Share. And Subscribe. Thank you.

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