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Fake Money Collapse: How Bad Will Things Get In the West? (Part 3)
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“Free” social benefits: the cheese at the center of the trap:
At first blush, all these welfare state benefits appear wonderful. Like money from heaven. Who could say no?
Who could be upset with saving a baby’s life, using the miracles of modern medicine? Making sure our grandmothers have the best health care, convalescent housing, and endless entertainment in their retirement years?
Socialism is seductive. For a while, every day seems like Christmas. You can spend more than you make. Consume more than you produce. Give out more in benefits than you ever paid for in taxes.
Pretty soon people forget they are getting much more in “benefits” than they paid in. They come to expect these benefits as their right.
And that is just the direct government handouts. Never mind the indirect subsidies I pointed out to you earlier. Roads. Water systems. Electricity. Sewage systems. Phones.
Even the damn weather systems — the rings of satellites that give us global communication, TV and internet — are almost COMPLETELY government subsidized.
So much mortgage and consumer debt was issued the past ten years, many people with modest jobs lived in modern-day marble palaces. With a swimming pool. Two-car garages filled with SUVs, jet skies, motorcycles, 4×4s. All the toys.
Every two years, they could buy a new car of their choice. The sky was the limit. They didn’t need to save money. They could get it all on credit. In fact the equity in their home was their own personal ATM machine. That was the new paradigm.
Same with businesses. They, too, seemed to defy the laws of economics and physics. They got something for nothing.
They could build magnificent shopping centers, and stock them with billions of dollars of Chinese (slave-labor-made) inventory. All these shopping centers were government subsidized. All financed by our banker buddies, with municipal bonds that will never be paid back.
Even corporations were on the global welfare system. They became no more efficient or productive. Yet the masses bought their new shares of stock, by the trillions.
So stock prices soared to the moon, as stock market ownership through retirement funds became the “investment” of choice. Even though the companies made no more profits.
This gave public companies trillions of leveraged dollars to play with. And play they did. Corporate pay shot through the roof. Never mind the perks like jets and yachts.
This great windfall was unearned. Nothing real backed it up. It was all a bubble. But with accounting black magic all this borrowed money — all these newly issued shares of stock (in reality, debt) that soared in price –- could be made to look like profits.
That is why corporations bought (and buy) other dead-broke corporations at such sky-high prices. They could make their own losses appear like profits.
Remember again the key thing. This huge orgy was built on the biggest debt creation in history. Debt that cannot be sustained. Debt that will bury the masses for generations to come. They will be strapped with low-paying jobs and taxes that strangle them for the next 100 years.
Junk bonds are debt of the most risky businesses. That is why their debt is rated as junk. Of all debt it has the greatest chance of never being paid.
Yet junk bonds give a yield that is not much higher than the yield of the sovereign debt of the U.S. government — the safest, highest-rated debt in the world…debt that for sure, without a doubt, will be paid in full. Insanity!
How can this be? The answer is simple and sad. Again our banker buddies have convinced the stupid money to go for high yield. So millions of people are taking on the vastly greater risk of junk bonds -– for just slightly higher potential reward. In reality they are buying the debt obligations of dead-broke monster corporations.
I repeat my often-stated refrain to you. In a debt wipeout the debt obligations of other are WORTHLESS. So get out of debt! Don’t invest in it not a penny of it. Because it is not a asset. It will be your undoing.
There is one exception to this: U.S. government debt. That may puzzle you. So let me tell you why you can lay in your bed at night, sure of two things.
One the U.S. government will pay its debt. Two the yield will plunge, in my opinion. Making the zero coupon bonds I recommend to you soar in value.
The reason is simple. The American people will be worked and taxed to death (literally), to make sure our government’s debt is paid. IT WILL NOT BE MONETIZED OR INFLATED AWAY!
Americans will give up their homes. Their cars. Their “benefits.” All to pay back this debt.
It will be UGLY! You’re already seeing this begin, with the record number of people losing their houses.
In the old system (that is coming to a end) endless debt meant the politicians didn’t have to worry. They could finance their great social experiments. They could hand out their endless mass giveaways to get votes. All financed by long-term government debt.
Now government debt is financing losses at banks, instead of government giveaways. That change will turn the world upside down. It is a new world order and not a very nice one. In fact it will usher in another dark age.
So you are clear here, we are at the “party’s over, penniless-debt-slaves” stage of the game now. Isn’t this clear? People are losing their homes, businesses and jobs. At rates never seen before.
You want a growth industry? Try flop houses, homeless shelters, prisons and food pantries. This will last for decades.
Remember that the mindless debt orgy didn’t last just five or ten years. It lasted three generations. Six decades. A hell of a lot of chickens are coming home to roost.
That has changed the world. And not in the way our clueless leaders promised either. Billions of people have been born, who know no better. They expect all these privileges -– the things people used to work, struggle and die for — as their right. And all for free.
To their minds, it all comes with their birth certificate. Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness -– plus education, health care, a home, a car, retirement.
They don’t realize everything around them is so cheap, because it’s so heavily subsidized on massive debt and slave labor.
The good times are now over. I know the politicians and Wall Street promise you otherwise. They say the green shoots party has started again. They want people to go out and borrow even more money. To stimulate the economy.
My friends, that is crazy. The WORST thing you could do is to go into MORE debt. It’s like telling a junkie trying to go cold turkey to take more heroin, so he will not feel so bad. The very solution they propose — spend more on credit — is the heart of the problem to begin with.
The depression is the price we pay for the debt addiction. Nothing can stop it. Kicking and screaming all the way, we will pay off all this senseless debt.
Individual personal debt has soared to levels unimaginable just 10 years ago. It far surpasses the ability of people to pay it back. And that debt keeps going higher.
This is why bankruptcies and foreclosures keep setting record highs. Along with poverty and homelessness. You know what I mean if you have ever been caught on the loan-shark/credit-card-debt- from-hell treadmill.
Corporations are no better. Don’t let their lying balance sheets fool you. They are broke, getting broker by the day. Which is why they can’t bring new stock issues to market. Why they can’t write their corporate bonds. Why they can’t do their IPOs to raise cash like they used to.
The suckers are out of money and credit. The ball of yarn has finally unraveled.
The bankers financed this endless credit orgy. They also are broke, losing more each quarter. Why do you think they needed trillions in bailouts -– and still can’t show real profits?
They use criminal schemes to disguise their vast debt. That’s what derivatives do. They let bankers hide debt and risk — and package it as an asset! Even though they know that debt will never be paid.
Government aids and abets them in this fraud. Why? Because the bankers aid and abet government. They give government the credit it needs , to try and buy off the masses. They were all in bed together, in the great debt lie.
Wall Street convinced over 100 million Americans to chase yield. To buy into the “high-yield, debt-based assets” b.s. They are clueless about the crap they really bought. This stuff gets more worthless by the day. Same with the “assets” that supposedly guarantee the debt. They also are dropping like a rock.
Just ask anyone who is unfortunate enough to hold mortgage paper. After the foreclosure and the final liquidation of the hahahahaha asset, they find they have lost their ass. The mortgage debt they bought as a “high-yielding investment” is only yielding huge losses.
These people did not buy high yield. They bought themselves their very own personal wipeout.
All so Wall Street and the bankers could roll the dice in the derivatives casino, rule the world, and pay themselves billions in bonuses each year.
You know what? All their gamesmanship -– all the phony-baloney accounting, their “pretending it’s a recovery” nonsense — doesn’t matter.
Because even with all their manipulations, the bankers’ incredibly sleazy instruments are still blowing up in their faces. The day comes when the gig is up. The Ponzi scheme is over. That day has come. We are at Judgment Day.
Every week we get more proof of this. One day retail sales drops further. A few days later, new home sales shock economists by falling again. Then consumer confidence crashes to new all-time lows. Unemployment, that was supposedly getting better, suddenly soars.
The bad reports never end. Of course not. It’s a depression. A deflation. Prices are dropping. Economic activity is slowing down. B.S. spin from government can’t change that.
And now for the coup de gras. Governments themselves — the source Perrier for borrowed money — the original unlimited charge cards — are going broke. En masse.
This is true in Greece (where the rioting on the street has already begun) in England. In Spain. In Portugal and Italy. It’s even true in that miracle of modern communism, China. (They do a good job hiding it.) It is spreading around the world.
Banks in these countries have lost tens of trillions of dollars or more. And that’s just for starters. The World Bank says the dead-broke banks have only gotten rid of or dealt with 25% of their bad paper. i.e. the worst is yet to come.
The past two years, governments have taken trillions of these losses off the bankers’ balance sheets. They have moved those losses over to the governments -– to the taxpayers. That is what the bailouts do.
But the losses are too great. Government cannot cover the bankers’ butts any longer. Which is why the “too big to fail” banks will be allowed to fail.
Most people know government is choking on the debt from its vast giveaway programs. This is getting worse. Millions more people are showing up at the welfare windows. These programs have reached the breaking point. Which puts government under even more pressure to come up with even more money. Money it does not have.
And most people do not know (unless they are Insiders) an even more frightening fact: government is also choking on the debt it has taken over from the dead-broke bankers. Its partners in the biggest financial crime ever committed.
So now the world’s biggest private AND public entities are wiping out. Nothing can stop the carnage that is about to spread around the globe.
The debt wipeout is upon us.Aka The Great Depression II.
Before you take a bungee jump off a bridge without the cord, let me tell you the extraordinarily good news in this. In the coming weeks, months and years, we could make a fortune.
In principle, it’s not hard to know what to do. We take the opposite side, of the very derivatives that got our economy into this mess to begin with.
Remember, derivatives let the banks leverage their balance sheets to the moon. Now things are falling apart. So that leverage is working the opposite way. It is leveraging their losses.
Which means it has the potential to leverage our profits. This is our key to potentially making a king’s ransom.
I have already given you derivatives reco’s (i.e. ETFs), that let you get at the stock market. At the real estate REITs (real estate investment trusts). At the dead-broke banks. Gold. Oil. At the vast debt markets.
These are great trades,in my opinion. They will take some time to unfold. The way I see it, they are well worth the risk. If they do what I expect, we could make a series of incredible killings from them.
And now we could potentially raise that to a whole new level. We could get at the sovereign states as they go broke. Blood -– the real stuff — has already started flowing in the streets. This is just the start. You ain’t seen shit!
You might say, “wait a minute. I haven’t seen the wipeout.”
Yes you have. We already traded the first phase of this wipeout. Now we are positioning ourselves for the second.
Phase two is the ongoing banking wipeout. It will follow the “fake-them-out/recovery” rally-back. The sovereign debt crisis is your wake-up call for round two. It is starting as we speak.
“I have only seen the stock market go up,” you might say. “Same with oil and gold.”
Really now. Well, you should have been here when we traded the markets that went down so hard last year. And the year before.
Yes, gold and stocks have rallied since last March’s lows. Like we told you they would. Before that, they made historic crashes. Also just like we said they would.
These recent rally-backs give us another chance to whack the bastards again. The rally-back you have witnessed in stocks, gold oil and interest rates are, in my humble dishwasher opinion, a trading gift form GOD.
Ask yourself this question. What is different since last year at this time? What has happened to change the nosedive the world financial system is in?
Is the economy better? Are more people working? Has the hahahah housing market recovered?
Are people suddenly paying their mortgages? Have the alleged “buyers” suddenly come back into the housing market?
What a remarkable time. So many smart people have gotten suckered. They believe the biggest lie of all: that the worst financial crisis in history has played itself out, from start to finish, in less then 18 months. They are sheep headed for the slaughter.
My newest tape in production now is our latest offering in Current Recommendations. I wanted you to see this background information first. Current Recommendations will soon be posted on the Insiders website. It deals with the incredible specific opportunities presenting themselves, due to the sovereign debt wipeout and the ongoing, spreading depression.
Many of these opportunities are brand new. Almost no one understands them. As usual, the financial press is about six months behind the curve. And lying their asses off when they finally do catch up.
These trades let you potentially cash in, as nation after nation wipes out in Europe. As the Asian “miracle” turns into a fiery dragon collapse, straight from the pits of hell. This is especially true of China.
In closing…
You and I are incredibly fortunate. We are living in an unprecedented time of financial history.
You just don’t get lucky like this that often. You could go through a lifetime of trading, and never see one-tenth the opportunities we have right now.
Flash Email Alert
Blood in the Streets
March 05, 2010
Dear Subscriber,
Don’t get me wrong. I hate to see blood in the streets. Especially if it’s mine or my subscribers.
But in any great catastrophe, blood must flow. The Riots in Greece are just the start. Better its their blood being shed than ours (momentarily). And we are entering the greatest financial catastrophe ever. Rivers of blood will be flowing all over the globe. This will get to the point of oceans.
Too many people bought Wall Street’s b.s. About the stock market: “A sure-fire long-term investment, that will let you retire a millionaire.”
About real estate: “It can never go down in value. So buy now before we run out.”
About you can borrow your way to prosperity and government will support you.
About the “too big to fail” banks: they must be saved, so they can save the economy by giving us even more credit.
About The Great Depression II, “which we never had, and even if we did, it now is over.”
The masses insist on getting taken in by this bullshit. So don’t blame us for picking off incredible bargains. Bargains that are cropping up all over America, Europe and the developed world.
Current Recos do exactly that. They explode market myths. Myths designed by Wall Street, to take the suckers’ money. (God must love the suckers, because like the poor people, he sure made a lot of them.)
More important, Current Recos is where you learn how we could turn those myths into big fat paydays for ourselves. (And through the years there have been a lot of those too.)
It’s an incredible time. I have never seen anything like it. The whole world is in denial. All we have to do is sit back, wait, and hope we are right in the fact that the world is living in the ultimate fool’s paradise.
Once again the masses are getting cashed in. The “why rent when you can buy” lemmings are learning the truth. They can’t buy a house anymore: no credit or savings, not enough income, and prices still are way too high. And now they are running low on money to rent, too.
One of the world’s biggest cheerleaders for real estate is the Royal Institute of Charter Surveyors (RICS). The RICS just surveyed 430 of its members in 25 countries. It found 85% of them expect distressed property sales to soar in 1st quarter 2010, compared to 4th quarter 2009.
Don’t forget, distressed property sales set a record last quarter. Even though banks are doing everything possible to stall foreclosures, and cook their books. And now the Royal Surveyors are telling us the all-time record in foreclosures is about to set an even bigger record.
RICS senior economist Oliver Gil Martin said, “it is the major real estate markets of the world, namely the U.S., Ireland, England, Spain and Japan, where agents expect the strongest growth in distress sales in the 1st quarter 2010.”
You must understand who these RICS guys are. The pompous, blue-blazer prep school pricks. They wouldn’t utter the word “shit” if their pants were filled with the stuff, right up to the top of their back pockets.
They were big-time spin doctors for booming real estate sales. Even when the boom was long dead and buried. All last year they blew blue sky up our butts. Prices have bottomed and will go up. The worst is over. Signs of a recovery are everywhere, they said.
Hmmmm. Is there no end to people in high places, who use their positions to feed us full of bullshit? I get sick and tired of it.
Now the RICS says foreclosures will soar. DAHH! Astonishing. They finally figured it out. That means one of the industry’s major trade groups is NOT predicting “recovery.” They are predicting more catastrophe.
I bet that was really hard for them to admit. Which tells me things are about to get a LOT worse. They are trying to get in front of the bad news, so they don’t lose what little credibility they have left.
Remember, the average guy is struggling to pay his mortgage. His property is worth far less than he paid for it. He is hanging on to the desperate hope (hope always springs eternal) that there will be a haha turnaround.
You know there will be no turnaround. I know there will be no turnaround. Now the average Joe is finally starting to figure it out. Too late!
In reality, the wipeout gets worse by the minute. The biggest financial crisis in the history of the planet gets more severe — more deadly — as mankind’s major investment (real estate) falls deeper and deeper into the pit.
And as the NICS just said, the worst for real estate is still ahead of us. All I can say is, what took you guys so long — to own up to the mess you and your members created and denied for years?
Socialist utopian dream now a nightmare
Now on to one of the great socialist lies.
The masses have been brainwashed. They now believe, heart and soul, the liberal fantasy: “I breathe. Therefore I am entitled to food, shelter, education, health care, work, car(s), sex, drugs and endless rock and roll. All paid for on the backs of someone else.”
It doesn’t matter if they work a bullshit job. If they give bullshit effort. It doesn’t matter if they screw off as much as they can.
They believe life entitles them to every exotic medical procedure. To a fine house. A new car. Endless entertainment. And don’t forget the obligatory summer vacation.
They are entitled to full retirement. Preferably on some tropical island. The grateful natives must serve them drinks with fruit stuck on a little umbrella, as they lounge on the beach. Again all paid for by other people.
These people, with their pina colada beach dreams, are in for the shock of their lives!
Life guarantees you nothing. Reality promises you even less. The world -– especially the developed world -– is about to relearn that lesson.
Our prosperity is not a right. It’s a privilege. One that, if taken for granted and not earned on a daily basis, can be easily lost.
No man is promised a nice life. In fact, not even a good one. Half the planet can attest to that. They have no guarantee of regular meals. Of clean water, a place to live or even freedom or a peaceful existence.
To put it bluntly, the masses of the northern hemisphere have been spoiled rotten. For 60 years we have lived an unsustainable lifestyle. All financed by enormous sums of private, corporate and government debt.
That debt will never get paid back. Never mind the new debt it will take to cover the latest batch of promises, fantasies and social engineering. Or the mega-banks’ losses, that our asshole Wall Street buddies shifted to the public sector, with the bailouts.
The free lunch is over. Now it’s time to pay the piper. The masses are about to get a devastating reality check. Prosperity is leaving the world they know. I call it the Africanization of America and Europe.
What is the difference between Europe, the U.S., and sub-Saharan Africa? Europe and the U.S. have been allowed to amass debt of over a thousand trillion dollars. Derivatives alone account for $900 trillion. Government debt is hundreds of trillions more.
The poor bastards in Africa can’t borrow. So they don’t have the privilege of living an unsustainable lifestyle, financed by other people’s money (usually from the future). They are at bare sustenance level.
The masses in Africa haul water from a dirty water hole, where what few scrawny cattle they have left shit in it. They use a stick and an ox to plow their rock-hard soil. They plant a seed, and hope that between the droughts, their neighbors and the endless revolutions, something will grow. Then they and their children might be able to eat.
It’s not a pretty picture. And it behooves us to pay attention to it. Because much of that lies in our future as well — if we are not damn careful and get it right.
Not so very long ago (100 years) most people in America lived on a farm. 54.4% of all Americans to be exact. Farmers or not, most everyone planted gardens. They canned their food for winter.
Electricity is a hundred year experiment. Before that, you might have had gas lights, if you lived on a city -– and were lucky. Most people used candles and lanterns for light. They went to sleep when it turned dark, and woke up when the sun rose.
They heated and cooked with wood. Hot water was boiled and poured into the bath tub. Giving the old meaning of “hot tub.”
They hauled water from the well, in buckets and pitchers. The kitchen sink had a hand pump. A toilet was a hole in the ground. When you were done, you threw some lime on it.
We believe we are past those times. But who says that is so? Where is it written you must have plumbed water? Electricity? An indoor flushing toilet? Paved roads to drive your car along? The latest million-dollar medical treatments?
Truth is, in today’s world no one pays anywhere near the true cost of their lifestyle. For example, we pay a fraction of what our water system really costs. And most water systems are so old they leak over half the processed water they provide.
Sewage systems and flushing toilets are one of the great bargains of our life. But they are in need of constant maintenance. We can’t afford that anymore.
In fact our sewage systems leak like sieves. Raw sewage flows into the ground water systems. That is why we are abandoning more and more underground water supplies. They are too dangerous to use. We are turning to surface water and recycled sewage water for supplies. In many cases, this water is not fit to drink. Hence the bottled water boom.
Electricity is the most subsidized utility there is. Power grids average 50 years old. Generation systems built in the 1950s are not only outmoded. They still have not been paid for. The money needed for upgrades has been used to refinance and patch together the old systems. Also to subsidize escalating costs, that tariffs don’t begin to cover.
Roads and bridges are too expensive to build and maintain. So we pay for them over 100 years, with ultra long-term financing. We constantly refinance them. Problem is, by the time their useful life has ended, we still owe on them.
Police, hospitals and fire department systems cost vastly more than we can afford now. So municipalities finance these CURRENT expenses for 30 years into the future. The mountain of debt compounds for decades. Now even the interest payments have to be financed.
For 100 years we have gone an endless borrowing orgy. Borrowing from the future, to pay for today’s infrastructure. To subsidize our unsustainable lifestyles. Now two things have happened.
One, the existing systems (still not paid for) are crumbling. 90% of America’s infrastructure needs wholesale maintenance. That alone would cost us tens of trillions of dollars. 70% of our systems will need to be replaced in the next decade.
Two, we can’t fix them. We can’t build new systems. We don’t have the money or credit.
And guess what? Our society is in denial. About all this.
2000 years ago, the Romans had plumbing. They had a vast system of paved roads, bridges and aqueducts. Then their society collapsed. The fall of Rome.
1900 years passed before the world got paved roads, flushing toilets, and hot and cold running water again. Think about that.
Now we face the fall of America and Europe
It’s a brand new ball game. A new way of doing things. Not just for the ultra-poor nations. For the developed world, too.
People won’t like it. The services they take for granted are dying in a sea of red ink. Real soon now, these services will be no more.
Prepare yourself for a new world. Pay as you go. Pay for it NOW with cash. Or you don’t get it.
There will be no such thing as a social safety net. Unless you consider work camps as your “welfare rights.”
You really, really need to grasp this. Our entire way of life is based on two things. Both are about to change forever.
First, our entire infrastructure was built generations ago, when labor was dirt cheap, on the backs of starving immigrants. We financed these systems with endless debt, at 1%.
We can’t pay back that debt: we already have borrowed all the available money. We can’t refinance it. We have maxed out our credit card. D-day is coming.
Second, most everything we consumers buy in today’s world is manufactured by SLAVES. I repeat, the things that surround you carry an enormous price subsidy. They were made by slave laborers, who were paid almost nothing for their work.
They are the poor masses who work in the slave sweat shops of China. Of Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. They make a dollar an hour. At most.
Without them, we could not afford our clothing. We couldn’t buy clothing, our appliances. Our electronics. The toys for our children.
Not even our cars. Cars may be assembled in the U.S. and Europe. But the parts come from the slave labor colonies of the planet.
Rome’s infrastructure was built on slaves, too. Rome crumbled when it could no longer control those slaves. The northern hemisphere is crumbling for similar reasons.
We can no longer borrow to support our unsustainable lifestyle. And more and more, our slaves -– the billions of Asian workers — are not willing to put up with their extreme poverty. With their greatly lesser lot in life.
They aren’t satisfied working for a bowl of rice with a fish head in it… sleeping 20 people in a 400 square foot rickshaw “apartment”…and riding a bicycle.
A new system is about to force itself on the western world. It goes like this: don’t work, don’t eat. Grow old, get sick, you die.
No longer will people not work, and still get full benefits for years on end. They will not receive government health care, where they spend $300,000 of someone else’s money. All so tubes, high-tech machines and needles carrying exotic drugs get stuck into their veins — maybe keeping them alive another six months — in a money-losing, subsidized, institutionalized setting — where it’s a good day when they change the diapers within four hours after a bowel movement.
We will have to pay the true costs of our homes. Our roads. Our electricity. Our cars, appliances, medical treatment and retirement. Or do without. Not with funny money, financed by heavily-leveraged derivatives, that supposedly don’t come due for 30 or 50 years. We will have to pay with cash.
Workers in the west will get paid about the same as everyone else on the planet, who does the same kind of job. Which means the slaves in Asia and India will see slight wage increases. People in the “developed world” will see their pay and benefits get slashed. Over and over.
It was a nice fantasy. A great party. It lasted 60 years. 60 years of the most incredible, opulent lifestyle the masses have ever enjoyed. All bought to you by mortgaging our future on endless debt.
It’s only been 60 years since mass starvation, homelessness, and joblessness last appeared in the U.S. and Europe. People forget that. In the not-too-distant past, America had to cope with an ugly world. Funny how soon people forget the lessons of history.
I am here to tell you — like it or not, believe it or not -– that life is back. To many of you, that may sound ridiculous. But go to your nearest homeless shelter. Or check out the local free medical clinic or food pantry.
You will meet plenty of people there, who till now never had to take a handout. I think you’ll find they wholeheartedly agree with me. Our prosperity is leaving us to never return.
Try walking the inner city, if you dare. Tell me we are not going back to an uglier, more dangerous world. What do the spreading growing ghettos, gangs and poverty tell you about the future?
We are entering a new dark age
Do you really expect the politicians to tell you this? That we are starting a new dark age? That the masses are about to become impoverished slaves?
Just the opposite. The sharpest minds in the world are working day and night, figuring out how to put you there. As they take your money and your freedoms. That is what Wall Street and its puppets in Washington do.
You may wonder why governments bailed out the banker whores, with trillions of your tax dollars. Why they gave them countless billions in bonuses. With almost no questions asked, and even fewer answered.
These assholes bankrupted our nation. They stole your money. They trashed the value of your home, wiped out your “guaranteed” retirement investments, and threw tens of millions of Americans out of work.
How could they get so much public money –- the greatest sums of taxpayer dollars any government ever gave any special interest group? With little more than a phone call?
Simple. They own our government. Bought and paid for. For shockingly little money, too.
But that’s not all. They also own us. They own our businesses. Our homes. Our cars.
They own anyone who needs their money to survive. Anyone who takes their credit. Which is basically the entire western world.
You and I being debt free isn’t enough. We are still beholden to them for the credit (financing) on our roads. Our sewers. Government, Our electricity. Our water sanitation services. All the basics of life, that we all take for granted.
Not much longer, I hasten to add. You better figure out how to unhook from the water meter. How to supply yourself electricity.
The bankers ‘gave’ the world 30-year mortgages. They gave us our hahaha retirements, annuities and stock market mutual funds. Their insurance companies (also a bunch of dead-broke, whore thieves) supplied our oftentimes rationed health care.
The bankers financed our cars for 48 months. Our motor homes, jet skis and exotic vacations. They let us build our airports and 100 million dollar jet liners. All on credit, that will never be paid back.
Let give you an example. The aviation industry has never made a profit. It’s been a loser since we took up our first paying passenger, Orville Wright, in 1903 at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
The masses have been able to fly for only one reason: airlines (and airports) were able to take on vast debt, and then roll that debt over and over. The airlines have lost far more money than they have ever made.
Massive government and banker debt supports the entire industry. Planes. Their maintenance. Airports. Air traffic control systems. All subsidized.
This debt keeps swelling. Both in amounts and terms. The date it must get paid back keeps getting moved further and further into the future. Now it stretches into the 22nd century. In reality, it will never be paid back.
Every major airport in the world is banker/government subsidized. And every one is a money loser. Same thing with the ground transport systems to the airports (roads, parking lots, trains, buses). Same with the air traffic control system, fire rescue, security systems. All government subsidized. NOT reflected in the ticket price.
These are just a few examples of the hidden unpaid debt that subsidizes our modern lifestyle. It’s that way in everything from roads to trucking to shipping. Even manufacturing.
This should help you understand why the bankers got these unbelievable government bailouts. With virtually no questions asked.
By pulling every dirty, illegal trick in the book, bankers managed to keep the whole bubble debt orgy afloat. Now it’s come to an end. The debts have grown too large. The losses from derivatives have gotten out of control. We can no longer finance (borrow) our way out of this. It’s curtains!
The theme for the next 100 years will be a much poorer world. A world where the masses are reduced to virtual slaves. They and their children will work their whole lives, to pay all this debt back.
No, we will not monetize it. We won’t inflate it away or simply default. That is another myth. A lie straight out of the pits of hell, to try and take more of your money.
Say the U.S. tried to do this. The second the world got wind of that shit, they would shut down our society. The fleeting credit we need would be gone. The lights would go out. The Homeland Security guys would not have gas for their helicopters, payroll or bullets.
So don’t kid yourself. Every stinking last dime owed will be paid in full. Including the compound interest.
We would need vastly greater amounts of new debt to support our kingly lifestyle. That money is no longer available. As a society we have borrowed all we can. Now it’s payback time.
That is why you see pay cuts right and left. Service cuts. Less and less of everything.
Even our cities are shrinking. There is not enough money to provide services to all neighborhoods. This will get worse and worse in the coming years.
The crisis the world faces is DEFLATION. You damn well better understand and prepare yourself for it. Everyone gets less.
Look, you have no excuse. You can’t say you weren’t warned. You can’t say you didn’t see it. Everything is deflating (becoming less) all around you.
Banker debt: the key to the modern welfare state
Maybe the worst thing the banker whores did was to buy, resell and finance government sovereign debt.
That gave birth to the great modern socialist welfare states. It let these states exist and thrive. It made government the biggest single employer in the U.S.
Look at our nation for the past 80 years. People have been given far, far more than they produced. There is no such thing as a free lunch. So how did we do it?
The answer is obvious. Credit. We borrowed the money. So it was not a free lunch. It was a borrowed meal. And eventually you run out of credit. You must pay back ALL that borrowed money you owe.
We dumped all the hard part -– all the repayment — on FUTURE generations. On people not even born yet. Which means those people — the ones unfortunate enough to pay back our free lunches — end up getting less.
That “getting less part” is called a deflation. GOT IT? You better!
With each passing year, government’s socialist giveaway programs have grown bigger and bigger. They have compounded their vast debts for the past 40 years, 60 years or more. That is why they owe hundreds of trillions of dollars.
Over half the world’s population is on government socialistic welfare. From education, to housing, to food, to health care, to retirement. The majority of citizens in our modern democracies receive DIRECT government handouts.
Always financed by out-of-control debt. i.e. other people’s money. It’s going to be an ugly world indeed when their largesse is cut off for lack of money.
Think what the world will look like, when that happens in country after country.
“Free” social benefits: the cheese
at the center of the trap
At first blush, all these welfare state benefits appear wonderful. Like money from heaven. Who could say no?
Who could be upset with saving a baby’s life, using the miracles of modern medicine? Making sure our grandmothers have the best health care, convalescent housing, and endless entertainment in their retirement years?
Socialism is seductive. For a while, every day seems like Christmas. You can spend more than you make. Consume more than you produce. Give out more in benefits than you ever paid for in taxes.
Pretty soon people forget they are getting much more in “benefits” than they paid in. They come to expect these benefits as their right.
And that is just the direct government handouts. Never mind the indirect subsidies I pointed out to you earlier. Roads. Water systems. Electricity. Sewage systems. Phones.
Even the damn weather systems — the rings of satellites that give us global communication, TV and internet — are almost COMPLETELY government subsidized.
So much mortgage and consumer debt was issued the past ten years, many people with modest jobs lived in modern-day marble palaces. With a swimming pool. Two-car garages filled with SUVs, jet skies, motorcycles, 4×4s. All the toys.
Every two years, they could buy a new car of their choice. The sky was the limit. They didn’t need to save money. They could get it all on credit. In fact the equity in their home was their own personal ATM machine. That was the new paradigm.
Same with businesses. They, too, seemed to defy the laws of economics and physics. They got something for nothing.
They could build magnificent shopping centers, and stock them with billions of dollars of Chinese (slave-labor-made) inventory. All these shopping centers were government subsidized. All financed by our banker buddies, with municipal bonds that will never be paid back.
Even corporations were on the global welfare system. They became no more efficient or productive. Yet the masses bought their new shares of stock, by the trillions.
So stock prices soared to the moon, as stock market ownership through retirement funds became the “investment” of choice. Even though the companies made no more profits.
This gave public companies trillions of leveraged dollars to play with. And play they did. Corporate pay shot through the roof. Never mind the perks like jets and yachts.
This great windfall was unearned. Nothing real backed it up. It was all a bubble. But with accounting black magic all this borrowed money — all these newly issued shares of stock (in reality, debt) that soared in price –- could be made to look like profits.
That is why corporations bought (and buy) other dead-broke corporations at such sky-high prices. They could make their own losses appear like profits.
Remember again the key thing. This huge orgy was built on the biggest debt creation in history. Debt that cannot be sustained. Debt that will bury the masses for generations to come. They will be strapped with low-paying jobs and taxes that strangle them for the next 100 years.
Junk bonds are debt of the most risky businesses. That is why their debt is rated as junk. Of all debt it has the greatest chance of never being paid.
Yet junk bonds give a yield that is not much higher than the yield of the sovereign debt of the U.S. government — the safest, highest-rated debt in the world…debt that for sure, without a doubt, will be paid in full. Insanity!
How can this be? The answer is simple and sad. Again our banker buddies have convinced the stupid money to go for high yield. So millions of people are taking on the vastly greater risk of junk bonds -– for just slightly higher potential reward. In reality they are buying the debt obligations of dead-broke monster corporations.
I repeat my often-stated refrain to you. In a debt wipeout the debt obligations of other are WORTHLESS. So get out of debt! Don’t invest in it not a penny of it. Because it is not a asset. It will be your undoing.
There is one exception to this: U.S. government debt. That may puzzle you. So let me tell you why you can lay in your bed at night, sure of two things.
One the U.S. government will pay its debt. Two the yield will plunge, in my opinion. Making the zero coupon bonds I recommend to you soar in value.
The reason is simple. The American people will be worked and taxed to death (literally), to make sure our government’s debt is paid. IT WILL NOT BE MONETIZED OR INFLATED AWAY!
Americans will give up their homes. Their cars. Their “benefits.” All to pay back this debt.
It will be UGLY! You’re already seeing this begin, with the record number of people losing their houses.
In the old system (that is coming to a end) endless debt meant the politicians didn’t have to worry. They could finance their great social experiments. They could hand out their endless mass giveaways to get votes. All financed by long-term government debt.
Now government debt is financing losses at banks, instead of government giveaways. That change will turn the world upside down. It is a new world order and not a very nice one. In fact it will usher in another dark age.
So you are clear here, we are at the “party’s over, penniless-debt-slaves” stage of the game now. Isn’t this clear? People are losing their homes, businesses and jobs. At rates never seen before.
You want a growth industry? Try flop houses, homeless shelters, prisons and food pantries. This will last for decades.
Remember that the mindless debt orgy didn’t last just five or ten years. It lasted three generations. Six decades. A hell of a lot of chickens are coming home to roost.
That has changed the world. And not in the way our clueless leaders promised either. Billions of people have been born, who know no better. They expect all these privileges -– the things people used to work, struggle and die for — as their right. And all for free.
To their minds, it all comes with their birth certificate. Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness -– plus education, health care, a home, a car, retirement.
They don’t realize everything around them is so cheap, because it’s so heavily subsidized on massive debt and slave labor.
The good times are now over. I know the politicians and Wall Street promise you otherwise. They say the green shoots party has started again. They want people to go out and borrow even more money. To stimulate the economy.
My friends, that is crazy. The WORST thing you could do is to go into MORE debt. It’s like telling a junkie trying to go cold turkey to take more heroin, so he will not feel so bad. The very solution they propose — spend more on credit — is the heart of the problem to begin with.
The depression is the price we pay for the debt addiction. Nothing can stop it. Kicking and screaming all the way, we will pay off all this senseless debt.
Individual personal debt has soared to levels unimaginable just 10 years ago. It far surpasses the ability of people to pay it back. And that debt keeps going higher.
This is why bankruptcies and foreclosures keep setting record highs. Along with poverty and homelessness. You know what I mean if you have ever been caught on the loan-shark/credit-card-debt- from-hell treadmill.
Corporations are no better. Don’t let their lying balance sheets fool you. They are broke, getting broker by the day. Which is why they can’t bring new stock issues to market. Why they can’t write their corporate bonds. Why they can’t do their IPOs to raise cash like they used to.
The suckers are out of money and credit. The ball of yarn has finally unraveled.
The bankers financed this endless credit orgy. They also are broke, losing more each quarter. Why do you think they needed trillions in bailouts -– and still can’t show real profits?
They use criminal schemes to disguise their vast debt. That’s what derivatives do. They let bankers hide debt and risk — and package it as an asset! Even though they know that debt will never be paid.
Government aids and abets them in this fraud. Why? Because the bankers aid and abet government. They give government the credit it needs , to try and buy off the masses. They were all in bed together, in the great debt lie.
Wall Street convinced over 100 million Americans to chase yield. To buy into the “high-yield, debt-based assets” b.s. They are clueless about the crap they really bought. This stuff gets more worthless by the day. Same with the “assets” that supposedly guarantee the debt. They also are dropping like a rock.
Just ask anyone who is unfortunate enough to hold mortgage paper. After the foreclosure and the final liquidation of the hahahahaha asset, they find they have lost their ass. The mortgage debt they bought as a “high-yielding investment” is only yielding huge losses.
These people did not buy high yield. They bought themselves their very own personal wipeout.
All so Wall Street and the bankers could roll the dice in the derivatives casino, rule the world, and pay themselves billions in bonuses each year.
You know what? All their gamesmanship -– all the phony-baloney accounting, their “pretending it’s a recovery” nonsense — doesn’t matter.
Because even with all their manipulations, the bankers’ incredibly sleazy instruments are still blowing up in their faces. The day comes when the gig is up. The Ponzi scheme is over. That day has come. We are at Judgment Day.
Every week we get more proof of this. One day retail sales drops further. A few days later, new home sales shock economists by falling again. Then consumer confidence crashes to new all-time lows. Unemployment, that was supposedly getting better, suddenly soars.
The bad reports never end. Of course not. It’s a depression. A deflation. Prices are dropping. Economic activity is slowing down. B.S. spin from government can’t change that.
And now for the coup de gras. Governments themselves — the source Perrier for borrowed money — the original unlimited charge cards — are going broke. En masse.
This is true in Greece (where the rioting on the street has already begun) in England. In Spain. In Portugal and Italy. It’s even true in that miracle of modern communism, China. (They do a good job hiding it.) It is spreading around the world.
Banks in these countries have lost tens of trillions of dollars or more. And that’s just for starters. The World Bank says the dead-broke banks have only gotten rid of or dealt with 25% of their bad paper. i.e. the worst is yet to come.
The past two years, governments have taken trillions of these losses off the bankers’ balance sheets. They have moved those losses over to the governments -– to the taxpayers. That is what the bailouts do.
But the losses are too great. Government cannot cover the bankers’ butts any longer. Which is why the “too big to fail” banks will be allowed to fail.
Most people know government is choking on the debt from its vast giveaway programs. This is getting worse. Millions more people are showing up at the welfare windows. These programs have reached the breaking point. Which puts government under even more pressure to come up with even more money. Money it does not have.
And most people do not know (unless they are Insiders) an even more frightening fact: government is also choking on the debt it has taken over from the dead-broke bankers. Its partners in the biggest financial crime ever committed.
So now the world’s biggest private AND public entities are wiping out. Nothing can stop the carnage that is about to spread around the globe.
The debt wipeout is upon us.
Aka The Great Depression II.
Before you take a bungee jump off a bridge without the cord, let me tell you the extraordinarily good news in this. In the coming weeks, months and years, we could make a fortune.
In principle, it’s not hard to know what to do. We take the opposite side, of the very derivatives that got our economy into this mess to begin with.
Remember, derivatives let the banks leverage their balance sheets to the moon. Now things are falling apart. So that leverage is working the opposite way. It is leveraging their losses.
Which means it has the potential to leverage our profits. This is our key to potentially making a king’s ransom.
I have already given you derivatives reco’s (i.e. ETFs), that let you get at the stock market. At the real estate REITs (real estate investment trusts). At the dead-broke banks. Gold. Oil. At the vast debt markets.
These are great trades,in my opinion. They will take some time to unfold. The way I see it, they are well worth the risk. If they do what I expect, we could make a series of incredible killings from them.
And now we could potentially raise that to a whole new level. We could get at the sovereign states as they go broke. Blood -– the real stuff — has already started flowing in the streets. This is just the start. You ain’t seen shit!
You might say, “wait a minute. I haven’t seen the wipeout.”
Yes you have. We already traded the first phase of this wipeout. Now we are positioning ourselves for the second.
Phase two is the ongoing banking wipeout. It will follow the “fake-them-out/recovery” rally-back. The sovereign debt crisis is your wake-up call for round two. It is starting as we speak.
“I have only seen the stock market go up,” you might say. “Same with oil and gold.”
Really now. Well, you should have been here when we traded the markets that went down so hard last year. And the year before.
Yes, gold and stocks have rallied since last March’s lows. Like we told you they would. Before that, they made historic crashes. Also just like we said they would.
These recent rally-backs give us another chance to whack the bastards again. The rally-back you have witnessed in stocks, gold oil and interest rates are, in my humble dishwasher opinion, a trading gift form GOD.
Ask yourself this question. What is different since last year at this time? What has happened to change the nosedive the world financial system is in?
Is the economy better? Are more people working? Has the hahahah housing market recovered?
Are people suddenly paying their mortgages? Have the alleged “buyers” suddenly come back into the housing market?
What a remarkable time. So many smart people have gotten suckered. They believe the biggest lie of all: that the worst financial crisis in history has played itself out, from start to finish, in less then 18 months. They are sheep headed for the slaughter.
My newest tape in production now is our latest offering in Current Recommendations. I wanted you to see this background information first. Current Recommendations will soon be posted on the Insiders website. It deals with the incredible specific opportunities presenting themselves, due to the sovereign debt wipeout and the ongoing, spreading depression.
Many of these opportunities are brand new. Almost no one understands them. As usual, the financial press is about six months behind the curve. And lying their asses off when they finally do catch up.
These trades let you potentially cash in, as nation after nation wipes out in Europe. As the Asian “miracle” turns into a fiery dragon collapse, straight from the pits of hell. This is especially true of China.
In closing…
You and I are incredibly fortunate. We are living in an unprecedented time of financial history.
You just don’t get lucky like this that often. You could go through a lifetime of trading, and never see one-tenth the opportunities we have right now.
Of course Wall Street says we are wrong. What a shock. Who the hell is going to admit we are in a depression -– a wipeout of biblical proportions? Especially when they got stocks to sell and mutual fund retirement accounts to strip clean?
Let’s get real. Suppose the masses could figure it out. Would they really be losing their homes en masse? Would their life savings have crashed by half or more?
First they invested in dot.com’s. “For the long haul.” Predictable they lost their asses. Then they moved over to real estate. Wall Street told them to buy that stuff now, because they aren’t making any more of it.
Real estate collapsed, too, to no Insiders surprise. It still has a long, long way to fall. People are getting their asses handed to them.
Since then did the masses all of a sudden take a smart pill? You believe now they suddenly got it right? That buying gold, getting ready for hyper-inflation, is the right play now?
Sorry. I don’t believe that for a minute. The facts say gold is another sucker play, a colossal money loser.
I say we are in a depression. We will be in a depression for the next ten years or more. Anyone who trades for a recovery — that will supposedly create thirty million new jobs, bring on shortages in oil and commodities because of soaring consumer demand -– that will send gold to the stratosphere because of debt monetization and Chinese buying -– is going to wipe out even more.
Just look at the track record of these people. They have been on the wrong side of every major move for decades. I do not believe for a minute they finally got it right this time.
We have incredible opportunities before us. I have never seen more startling proof of the spreading economic wipeout.
I’m Nick, I’m still at your service…. especially in these very difficult times,
Nick DISHWASHER Guarino
Convicted felon, banned trader, and gagged market analyst. But it is a fair fight. Because with my two hands tied behind my back, in the ring with these pompous asses, brains and truth still wins…..
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Fake Money Collapse: How Bad Will Things Get In the West? (Part 2)
Posted by: | CommentsI am here to tell you — like it or not, believe it or not -– that life is back. To many of you, that may sound ridiculous. But go to your nearest homeless shelter. Or check out the local free medical clinic or food pantry.
You will meet plenty of people there, who till now never had to take a handout. I think you’ll find they wholeheartedly agree with me. Our prosperity is leaving us to never return.
Try walking the inner city, if you dare. Tell me we are not going back to an uglier, more dangerous world. What do the spreading growing ghettos, gangs and poverty tell you about the future?
We are entering a new dark age:
Do you really expect the politicians to tell you this? That we are starting a new dark age? That the masses are about to become impoverished slaves?
Just the opposite. The sharpest minds in the world are working day and night, figuring out how to put you there. As they take your money and your freedoms. That is what Wall Street and its puppets in Washington do.
You may wonder why governments bailed out the banker whores, with trillions of your tax dollars. Why they gave them countless billions in bonuses. With almost no questions asked, and even fewer answered.
These assholes bankrupted our nation. They stole your money. They trashed the value of your home, wiped out your “guaranteed” retirement investments, and threw tens of millions of Americans out of work.
How could they get so much public money –- the greatest sums of taxpayer dollars any government ever gave any special interest group? With little more than a phone call?
Simple. They own our government. Bought and paid for. For shockingly little money, too.
But that’s not all. They also own us. They own our businesses. Our homes. Our cars.
They own anyone who needs their money to survive. Anyone who takes their credit. Which is basically the entire western world.
You and I being debt free isn’t enough. We are still beholden to them for the credit (financing) on our roads. Our sewers. Government, Our electricity. Our water sanitation services. All the basics of life, that we all take for granted.
Not much longer, I hasten to add. You better figure out how to unhook from the water meter. How to supply yourself electricity.
The bankers ‘gave’ the world 30-year mortgages. They gave us our hahaha retirements, annuities and stock market mutual funds. Their insurance companies (also a bunch of dead-broke, whore thieves) supplied our oftentimes rationed health care.
The bankers financed our cars for 48 months. Our motor homes, jet skis and exotic vacations. They let us build our airports and 100 million dollar jet liners. All on credit, that will never be paid back.
Let give you an example. The aviation industry has never made a profit. It’s been a loser since we took up our first paying passenger, Orville Wright, in 1903 at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
The masses have been able to fly for only one reason: airlines (and airports) were able to take on vast debt, and then roll that debt over and over. The airlines have lost far more money than they have ever made.
Massive government and banker debt supports the entire industry. Planes. Their maintenance. Airports. Air traffic control systems. All subsidized.
This debt keeps swelling. Both in amounts and terms. The date it must get paid back keeps getting moved further and further into the future. Now it stretches into the 22nd century. In reality, it will never be paid back.
Every major airport in the world is banker/government subsidized. And every one is a money loser. Same thing with the ground transport systems to the airports (roads, parking lots, trains, buses). Same with the air traffic control system, fire rescue, security systems. All government subsidized. NOT reflected in the ticket price.
These are just a few examples of the hidden unpaid debt that subsidizes our modern lifestyle. It’s that way in everything from roads to trucking to shipping. Even manufacturing.
This should help you understand why the bankers got these unbelievable government bailouts. With virtually no questions asked.
By pulling every dirty, illegal trick in the book, bankers managed to keep the whole bubble debt orgy afloat. Now it’s come to an end. The debts have grown too large. The losses from derivatives have gotten out of control. We can no longer finance (borrow) our way out of this. It’s curtains!
The theme for the next 100 years will be a much poorer world. A world where the masses are reduced to virtual slaves. They and their children will work their whole lives, to pay all this debt back.
No, we will not monetize it. We won’t inflate it away or simply default. That is another myth. A lie straight out of the pits of hell, to try and take more of your money.
Say the U.S. tried to do this. The second the world got wind of that shit, they would shut down our society. The fleeting credit we need would be gone. The lights would go out. The Homeland Security guys would not have gas for their helicopters, payroll or bullets.
So don’t kid yourself. Every stinking last dime owed will be paid in full. Including the compound interest.
We would need vastly greater amounts of new debt to support our kingly lifestyle. That money is no longer available. As a society we have borrowed all we can. Now it’s payback time.
That is why you see pay cuts right and left. Service cuts. Less and less of everything.
Even our cities are shrinking. There is not enough money to provide services to all neighborhoods. This will get worse and worse in the coming years.
The crisis the world faces is DEFLATION. You damn well better understand and prepare yourself for it. Everyone gets less.
Look, you have no excuse. You can’t say you weren’t warned. You can’t say you didn’t see it. Everything is deflating (becoming less) all around you.
Banker debt: the key to the modern welfare state:
Maybe the worst thing the banker whores did was to buy, resell and finance government sovereign debt.
That gave birth to the great modern socialist welfare states. It let these states exist and thrive. It made government the biggest single employer in the U.S.
Look at our nation for the past 80 years. People have been given far, far more than they produced. There is no such thing as a free lunch. So how did we do it?
The answer is obvious. Credit. We borrowed the money. So it was not a free lunch. It was a borrowed meal. And eventually you run out of credit. You must pay back ALL that borrowed money you owe.
We dumped all the hard part -– all the repayment — on FUTURE generations. On people not even born yet. Which means those people — the ones unfortunate enough to pay back our free lunches — end up getting less.
That “getting less part” is called a deflation. GOT IT? You better!
With each passing year, government’s socialist giveaway programs have grown bigger and bigger. They have compounded their vast debts for the past 40 years, 60 years or more. That is why they owe hundreds of trillions of dollars.
Over half the world’s population is on government socialistic welfare. From education, to housing, to food, to health care, to retirement. The majority of citizens in our modern democracies receive DIRECT government handouts.
Always financed by out-of-control debt. i.e. other people’s money. It’s going to be an ugly world indeed when their largesse is cut off for lack of money.
Think what the world will look like, when that happens in country after country.
Fake Money Collapse: How Bad Will Things Get In the West? (Part 1)
Posted by: | CommentsDon’t get me wrong. I hate to see blood in the streets. Especially if it’s mine or my subscribers.
But in any great catastrophe, blood must flow. The Riots in Greece are just the start. Better its their blood being shed than ours (momentarily). And we are entering the greatest financial catastrophe ever. Rivers of blood will be flowing all over the globe. This will get to the point of oceans.
Too many people bought Wall Street’s b.s. About the stock market: “A sure-fire long-term investment, that will let you retire a millionaire.”
About real estate: “It can never go down in value. So buy now before we run out.”
About you can borrow your way to prosperity and government will support you.
About the “too big to fail” banks: they must be saved, so they can save the economy by giving us even more credit.
About The Great Depression II, “which we never had, and even if we did, it now is over.”
The masses insist on getting taken in by this bullshit. So don’t blame us for picking off incredible bargains. Bargains that are cropping up all over America, Europe and the developed world.
Current Recos do exactly that. They explode market myths. Myths designed by Wall Street, to take the suckers’ money. (God must love the suckers, because like the poor people, he sure made a lot of them.)
More important, Current Recos is where you learn how we could turn those myths into big fat paydays for ourselves. (And through the years there have been a lot of those too.)
It’s an incredible time. I have never seen anything like it. The whole world is in denial. All we have to do is sit back, wait, and hope we are right in the fact that the world is living in the ultimate fool’s paradise.
Once again the masses are getting cashed in. The “why rent when you can buy” lemmings are learning the truth. They can’t buy a house anymore: no credit or savings, not enough income, and prices still are way too high. And now they are running low on money to rent, too.
One of the world’s biggest cheerleaders for real estate is the Royal Institute of Charter Surveyors (RICS). The RICS just surveyed 430 of its members in 25 countries. It found 85% of them expect distressed property sales to soar in 1st quarter 2010, compared to 4th quarter 2009.
Don’t forget, distressed property sales set a record last quarter. Even though banks are doing everything possible to stall foreclosures, and cook their books. And now the Royal Surveyors are telling us the all-time record in foreclosures is about to set an even bigger record.
RICS senior economist Oliver Gil Martin said, “it is the major real estate markets of the world, namely the U.S., Ireland, England, Spain and Japan, where agents expect the strongest growth in distress sales in the 1st quarter 2010.”
You must understand who these RICS guys are. The pompous, blue-blazer prep school pricks. They wouldn’t utter the word “shit” if their pants were filled with the stuff, right up to the top of their back pockets.
They were big-time spin doctors for booming real estate sales. Even when the boom was long dead and buried. All last year they blew blue sky up our butts. Prices have bottomed and will go up. The worst is over. Signs of a recovery are everywhere, they said.
Hmmmm. Is there no end to people in high places, who use their positions to feed us full of bullshit? I get sick and tired of it.
Now the RICS says foreclosures will soar. DAHH! Astonishing. They finally figured it out. That means one of the industry’s major trade groups is NOT predicting “recovery.” They are predicting more catastrophe.
I bet that was really hard for them to admit. Which tells me things are about to get a LOT worse. They are trying to get in front of the bad news, so they don’t lose what little credibility they have left.
Remember, the average guy is struggling to pay his mortgage. His property is worth far less than he paid for it. He is hanging on to the desperate hope (hope always springs eternal) that there will be a haha turnaround.
You know there will be no turnaround. I know there will be no turnaround. Now the average Joe is finally starting to figure it out. Too late!
In reality, the wipeout gets worse by the minute. The biggest financial crisis in the history of the planet gets more severe — more deadly — as mankind’s major investment (real estate) falls deeper and deeper into the pit.
And as the NICS just said, the worst for real estate is still ahead of us. All I can say is, what took you guys so long — to own up to the mess you and your members created and denied for years?
Socialist utopian dream now a nightmare:
Now on to one of the great socialist lies.
The masses have been brainwashed. They now believe, heart and soul, the liberal fantasy: “I breathe. Therefore I am entitled to food, shelter, education, health care, work, car(s), sex, drugs and endless rock and roll. All paid for on the backs of someone else.”
It doesn’t matter if they work a bullshit job. If they give bullshit effort. It doesn’t matter if they screw off as much as they can.
They believe life entitles them to every exotic medical procedure. To a fine house. A new car. Endless entertainment. And don’t forget the obligatory summer vacation.
They are entitled to full retirement. Preferably on some tropical island. The grateful natives must serve them drinks with fruit stuck on a little umbrella, as they lounge on the beach. Again all paid for by other people.
These people, with their pina colada beach dreams, are in for the shock of their lives!
Life guarantees you nothing. Reality promises you even less. The world -– especially the developed world -– is about to relearn that lesson.
Our prosperity is not a right. It’s a privilege. One that, if taken for granted and not earned on a daily basis, can be easily lost.
No man is promised a nice life. In fact, not even a good one. Half the planet can attest to that. They have no guarantee of regular meals. Of clean water, a place to live or even freedom or a peaceful existence.
To put it bluntly, the masses of the northern hemisphere have been spoiled rotten. For 60 years we have lived an unsustainable lifestyle. All financed by enormous sums of private, corporate and government debt.
That debt will never get paid back. Never mind the new debt it will take to cover the latest batch of promises, fantasies and social engineering. Or the mega-banks’ losses, that our asshole Wall Street buddies shifted to the public sector, with the bailouts.
The free lunch is over. Now it’s time to pay the piper. The masses are about to get a devastating reality check. Prosperity is leaving the world they know. I call it the Africanization of America and Europe.
What is the difference between Europe, the U.S., and sub-Saharan Africa? Europe and the U.S. have been allowed to amass debt of over a thousand trillion dollars. Derivatives alone account for $900 trillion. Government debt is hundreds of trillions more.
The poor bastards in Africa can’t borrow. So they don’t have the privilege of living an unsustainable lifestyle, financed by other people’s money (usually from the future). They are at bare sustenance level.
The masses in Africa haul water from a dirty water hole, where what few scrawny cattle they have left shit in it. They use a stick and an ox to plow their rock-hard soil. They plant a seed, and hope that between the droughts, their neighbors and the endless revolutions, something will grow. Then they and their children might be able to eat.
It’s not a pretty picture. And it behooves us to pay attention to it. Because much of that lies in our future as well — if we are not damn careful and get it right.
Not so very long ago (100 years) most people in America lived on a farm. 54.4% of all Americans to be exact. Farmers or not, most everyone planted gardens. They canned their food for winter.
Electricity is a hundred year experiment. Before that, you might have had gas lights, if you lived on a city -– and were lucky. Most people used candles and lanterns for light. They went to sleep when it turned dark, and woke up when the sun rose.
They heated and cooked with wood. Hot water was boiled and poured into the bath tub. Giving the old meaning of “hot tub.”
They hauled water from the well, in buckets and pitchers. The kitchen sink had a hand pump. A toilet was a hole in the ground. When you were done, you threw some lime on it.
We believe we are past those times. But who says that is so? Where is it written you must have plumbed water? Electricity? An indoor flushing toilet? Paved roads to drive your car along? The latest million-dollar medical treatments?
Truth is, in today’s world no one pays anywhere near the true cost of their lifestyle. For example, we pay a fraction of what our water system really costs. And most water systems are so old they leak over half the processed water they provide.
Sewage systems and flushing toilets are one of the great bargains of our life. But they are in need of constant maintenance. We can’t afford that anymore.
In fact our sewage systems leak like sieves. Raw sewage flows into the ground water systems. That is why we are abandoning more and more underground water supplies. They are too dangerous to use. We are turning to surface water and recycled sewage water for supplies. In many cases, this water is not fit to drink. Hence the bottled water boom.
Electricity is the most subsidized utility there is. Power grids average 50 years old. Generation systems built in the 1950s are not only outmoded. They still have not been paid for. The money needed for upgrades has been used to refinance and patch together the old systems. Also to subsidize escalating costs, that tariffs don’t begin to cover.
Roads and bridges are too expensive to build and maintain. So we pay for them over 100 years, with ultra long-term financing. We constantly refinance them. Problem is, by the time their useful life has ended, we still owe on them.
Police, hospitals and fire department systems cost vastly more than we can afford now. So municipalities finance these CURRENT expenses for 30 years into the future. The mountain of debt compounds for decades. Now even the interest payments have to be financed.
For 100 years we have gone on an endless borrowing orgy. Borrowing from the future, to pay for today’s infrastructure. To subsidize our unsustainable lifestyles. Now two things have happened.
One, the existing systems (still not paid for) are crumbling. 90% of America’s infrastructure needs wholesale maintenance. That alone would cost us tens of trillions of dollars. 70% of our systems will need to be replaced in the next decade.
Two, we can’t fix them. We can’t build new systems. We don’t have the money or credit.
And guess what? Our society is in denial. About all this.
2000 years ago, the Romans had plumbing. They had a vast system of paved roads, bridges and aqueducts. Then their society collapsed. The fall of Rome.
1900 years passed before the world got paved roads, flushing toilets, and hot and cold running water again. Think about that.
Now we face the fall of America and Europe:
It’s a brand new ball game. A new way of doing things. Not just for the ultra-poor nations. For the developed world, too.
People won’t like it. The services they take for granted are dying in a sea of red ink. Real soon now, these services will be no more.
Prepare yourself for a new world. Pay as you go. Pay for it NOW with cash. Or you don’t get it.
There will be no such thing as a social safety net. Unless you consider work camps as your “welfare rights.”
You really, really need to grasp this. Our entire way of life is based on two things. Both are about to change forever.
First, our entire infrastructure was built generations ago, when labor was dirt cheap, on the backs of starving immigrants. We financed these systems with endless debt, at 1%.
We can’t pay back that debt: we already have borrowed all the available money. We can’t refinance it. We have maxed out our credit card. D-day is coming.
Second, most everything we consumers buy in today’s world is manufactured by SLAVES. I repeat, the things that surround you carry an enormous price subsidy. They were made by slave laborers, who were paid almost nothing for their work.
They are the poor masses who work in the slave sweat shops of China. Of Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. They make a dollar an hour. At most.
Without them, we could not afford our clothing. We couldn’t buy clothing, our appliances. Our electronics. The toys for our children.
Not even our cars. Cars may be assembled in the U.S. and Europe. But the parts come from the slave labor colonies of the planet.
Rome’s infrastructure was built on slaves, too. Rome crumbled when it could no longer control those slaves. The northern hemisphere is crumbling for similar reasons.
We can no longer borrow to support our unsustainable lifestyle. And more and more, our slaves -– the billions of Asian workers — are not willing to put up with their extreme poverty. With their greatly lesser lot in life.
They aren’t satisfied working for a bowl of rice with a fish head in it… sleeping 20 people in a 400 square foot rickshaw “apartment”…and riding a bicycle.
A new system is about to force itself on the western world. It goes like this: don’t work, don’t eat. Grow old, get sick, you die.
No longer will people not work, and still get full benefits for years on end. They will not receive government health care, where they spend $300,000 of someone else’s money. All so tubes, high-tech machines and needles carrying exotic drugs get stuck into their veins — maybe keeping them alive another six months — in a money-losing, subsidized, institutionalized setting — where it’s a good day when they change the diapers within four hours after a bowel movement.
We will have to pay the true costs of our homes. Our roads. Our electricity. Our cars, appliances, medical treatment and retirement. Or do without. Not with funny money, financed by heavily-leveraged derivatives, that supposedly don’t come due for 30 or 50 years. We will have to pay with cash.
Workers in the west will get paid about the same as everyone else on the planet, who does the same kind of job. Which means the slaves in Asia and India will see slight wage increases. People in the “developed world” will see their pay and benefits get slashed. Over and over.
It was a nice fantasy. A great party. It lasted 60 years. 60 years of the most incredible, opulent lifestyle the masses have ever enjoyed. All bought to you by mortgaging our future on endless debt.
It’s only been 60 years since mass starvation, homelessness, and joblessness last appeared in the U.S. and Europe. People forget that. In the not-too-distant past, America had to cope with an ugly world. Funny how soon people forget the lessons of history.
Iceland leader vetoes bank repayments bill
Posted by: | CommentsIceland’s president has refused to sign a controversial bill to repay $5bn (£3.1bn) to the UK and the Netherlands.
President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson said he would instead hold a referendum on the bill, following public protests.
The legislation was designed to compensate governments forced to bail out their savers with Icesave accounts following Iceland’s banking collapse.
Opponents argue the terms of the payments will unfairly hurt Iceland and its recovery from economic crisis.
Some reports say those opponents form a large majority of Icelanders – some 70% are said to be likely to vote “no” in a referendum.
Legislation to repay the money was approved by Iceland’s parliament in December, but the approval of the president is also required before it can be passed into law.
It is now up to the government to decide how to proceed. It must consider whether to go ahead with a referendum or whether to withdraw the bill and reopen negotiations with the UK and the Netherlands about a repayment schedule.
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Final Year For A Western Economic Era?
Posted by: | CommentsThis time a year ago, the world was reeling from the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the multi-billion dollar rescue of Merrill Lynch and insurance firm AIG.
But for Joern Schuetumpf, a German publisher, life was looking up.
Mr Schuetumpf, director of Karl-Dietz, was revelling in the increase in sales of one of his books which was now selling at seven times the usual rate.
That book was Marx’s Das Kapital, the founding text of communism.
On television and radio outlets across the world, Marxists, socialists and anti-capitalist groups seized the moment in the post-Lehmans-world, to declare that the Western economic era was over.
Even before the crisis there were warnings. In March 2007, American writer and journalist Tom Wolfe said “we may be witnessing the end of capitalism as we know it”.
Then in September last year, the British political philosopher John Gray said that “the era of American global leadership is over… in a change as far-reaching in its implications as the fall of the Soviet Union, an entire model of government and the economy has collapsed”.
‘The great story of our time’
But now, a year after, as the polemical dust settles, do leading commentators believe that we are at the brink of a new financial world order?
Shadow Statistics: The Government’s Flawed Economic Stats?
Posted by: | CommentsThe U.S. economic and systemic solvency crises of the last two years are just precursors to a Great Collapse: a hyperinflationary great depression. Such will reflect a complete collapse in the purchasing power of the U.S. dollar, a collapse in the normal stream of U.S. commercial and economic activity, a collapse in the U.S. financial system as we know it, and a likely realignment of the U.S. political environment. The current U.S. financial markets, financial system and economy remain highly unstable and vulnerable to unexpected shocks. The Federal Reserve is dedicated to preventing deflation, to debasing the U.S. dollar. The results of those efforts are being seen in tentative selling pressures against the U.S. currency and in the rallying price of gold.
What lies ahead will be extremely difficult, painful and unhappy times for many in the United States. The functioning and adaptation of the U.S. economy and financial markets to a hyperinflation likely would be particularly disruptive. Trouble could range from turmoil in the food distribution chain to electronic cash and credit systems unable to handle rapidly changing circumstances. The situation quickly would devolve from a deepening depression, to an intensifying hyperinflationary great depression.
For more information please see the report called Government Statistics Hyperinflation
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- The Debt Collectors Gone Wild Team
Dubai Real Estate Wipeout Kicks off Stage 2 of the Global Depression
Posted by: | CommentsDubai Real Estate Wipeout Kicks off Stage 2 of the Global Depression
December 2, 2009
Nick note: You will find lots of pictures in this report. They show you the influence peddling, incredible waste and opulence created in Dubai. It is the world’s greatest bubble economy – it was built with your money – and it has now wiped out. And it will continue to wipe out don’t be fooled.
Dear Subscriber,
In my travels around the world, I’ve noticed something that seems to universally hold true. You may have noticed it too.
When their is row after row of construction cranes reaching into the sky, as far as the eye can see, you know its a bubble and is doomed. It must be some kind of pagan symbol, that angers the gods and brings on a great curse. Ultimately those places wipe out.
I saw it in New York in the 1960s. Houston in the 70s. Japan and Los Angeles in the 80s, and Russia in the 90s. More recently in most of the U.S., England, Ireland and Spain.

Now — just when most people thought the economic crisis was over and we are in a “green shoots recovery” — it’s happening all over again. This time, on a scale never seen before.
Dubai, home of the world’s most expensive real estate…tallest building…$1.5 billion Formula 1 race track…the would-be jewel and symbol of opulent wastefulness of the Middle East…is dead broke and not paying on its aw-sum debts. This time like other bubbles bursting it’s taking the world financial system with it.
With virtually no accounting disclosure, Dubai was given endless derivatives loans to spend through it Sovereign Wealth Funds. It used the leverage from those derivatives to buy major assets the world over — to create centers of decadence and waste around the globe. Incredible bubbles, with one central them… money losing.
Dubai World is one of Dubai government’s investment arms. Through subsidiaries, it is engaged in five business segments:
1) transport and logistics, 2) dry-docks and maritime, 3) urban development, 4) investment and financial services, and 5) energy and natural resources. Click on the links I have included below if you would like more information on the subsidies. Its an amazing story.
Dubai Ports is the logistics and transport arm of Dubai World; it is the holding company for DP World and Economic Zones World.
DP World operates and manages container terminals. It handles 46.8 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) worldwide, as of 2008. Economic Zones World operates and develops free trade zones. It trades on teh NASDAQ ticker symbole DUBAI. they Operate ports in over 21 countries including the US and Great Britain.
Drydocks World provides repair, maintenance and shipbuilding services in the UAE, Singapore, Indonesia, Sweden and Japan.
Dubai Maritime City provides infrastructure, services and regulation for the maritime industry in Dubai.
Dubai World divides its real estate business into three independent entities. Nakheel, Limitless and Leisurcorp. Nakheel develops real estate mixed-used and community developments in Dubai. Limitless undertakes projects in Dubai, Malaysia, Indonesia, Russia and other countries. Leisurecorp develops tourist venues like golf courses in Dubai and in the United States.
Istithmar World is the financial and investment arm of Dubai World and the holding company of three subsidiaries: Istithmar World Capital which provides private equity investments; Istithmar World Ventures, a venture capital company in the areas of technology, media and telecom, life sciences, education and agribusiness and Istithmar World Aviations invests in the aviation sector.
Dubai Multi Commodities Centre is directly owned by Dubai World, as a free trade zone center for gold and precious metals, pearls and colored stones, steel and base metals, diamonds and other commodities exchange.
Dubai World established Dubai Natural Resources World as a holding company for Dubai Energy World, Dubai Mining World and Dubai Agriculture World. The companies invest in mining, oil and gas, alternative energy, agriculture, water, carbon trading.
Wall Street wants you to believe the collapse of these companies is some small isolated event in a remote corner of the globe. As I will show you in this report, that is 100% FALSE.
Dubai is a central player in the world economy. It is the mother of all sovereign wealth funds. (Sovereign wealth funds are run and backed by sovereign national governments.)
Dubai’s failure has kicked off the next phase of the global depression. Projects the world over have racked up incredible debt. They are going belly up. This will end in disaster, especially for people who dodged the first bullet a year ago.
Here’s another characteristic that spells disaster for the big booms. Someone always builds a world-famous skyscraper. They barely finish it. From day one it is a money hole. For the next 50 years it loses money.
The Empire State Building is one example. It was started in 1929 and finished in the 1937 Great Depression. It never made money. Chicago’s Sears Tower is another. And of course the World Trade Center, which the New York, New Jersey Port Authority owned managed and leased out. Even before the 911 tragedy, the WTC was constantly in the red.
Below is the tallest building in the world. The Dubai Tower. It is not finished yet. They have not paid the U.S. engineering and architectural firms for over 3 years.

Two other ingredients spell disaster. One, movie stars and celebrities start going to these places en masse. Remember the jet setters in Houston during its boom.
In Dubai, we have had the likes of Michael “lethal injection” Jackson. Tiger “my wife (didn’t) beat me” Woods. The golden couple of Hollywood, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. David Beckham and his famed anorectic Spice Girl wife. We even have one of the world’s most expensive golf courses — designed by Tiger Woods — not finished and indefinitely postponed. See the golf disaster below.
The final kiss of death is when they run endless commercials in the popular media. The networks do their breathless “news shows” about the great economic miracle. Maria Bartiromo and Christiane Amanpour give haha “impartial” interviews with the fat cats. They swoon all over them, handing out the accolades and who knows what else in darkened hotel rooms.
The free press does not exist in the Middle East. But news channels like CNN tripped all over themselves to open bureaus in Dubai because they are HUGHE advertisers. The Dubai government strictly screens all their stories. It puts incredible restrictions on what they can report. Reporters risk jail for telling the sordid truth. Yet the media outlets like CNBC all flock there en masse.
Why give credibility to this Arab hell hole? It is against everything the free press stands for. Simple its the money Dubai is a major advertiser. To become part of the publicity spin for the UAE means mega bucks.
My friends, while I’ve seen the boom cycle many times, Dubai takes the cake. Nothing else comes close, in excess, waste, awful business decisions, or trillions lost and exploitation of the workers. It is the grand slam, all-time promotional, star-lit skyscraper, construction-crane, over-hyped bubble house of cards.
It is also far more serious than that. Dubai was supposed to showcase the rise of Islam into the modern world. Instead, it got so over-leveraged, it has undermined what’s left of the global economy.

One of Dubai’s many multi-billion-dollar flop resorts above
The past several years, Dubai reached its arms into every key aspect of the world financial and business system. No one threw more money at major international banks or investment companies. No one bought more key retailers. No one put more capital into shipping companies, cruise ships, major ports or manufacturing facilities.
For example, Dubai owns P&O Ports. The largest operator of container ports world wide. You may remember that hotly contested project a few years back. They wanted to take over America’s P&O operation. It put several of America’s biggest ports under the control of our Arab “friends” in the Middle East.
Dubai bought more commercial airliners than everyone else combined. In fact, Dubai contracted to buy the majority of production from both Boeing and Airbus for the next ten years. These are the two biggest airplane makers in the world. No wonder the Dubai air show was a must for everyone in the industry.

World’s biggest and most expensive yacht – owned by Dubai sheik
Dubai bought major properties from the U.S. to Europe to Asia. It is a major owner of the money-losing MGA Mirage in Las Vegas. The Mandarin Oriental, a Westin hotel in NYC. The Fountainbleau resort in Miami Beach. It controls the upscale retailer Barney’s New York.
The kingdom’s investments -– from Bombei, Bejing, Moscow and London, to New York, Las Vegas, Paris, and Los Angeles — all have a common hallmark. Big luxurious, over-the-moon projects. All deeply in debt, that never had a chance of making money. Like the Las Vegas Mirage pictured below.

Dubai’s crown jewel -– the image it chose to show the world — is Dubai itself. They tried to build the most opulent, expensive playground on earth for the super-wealthy.
One problem its a major money loser.
Dubai has nothing but space and desert. I was shocked when they spent tens of billions of dollars, on the world’s biggest dredging operation. Just so they could create islands shaped like palm trees — and then build mansions and luxury hotels on these islands. Talk about insanity. Now you can have your pick of them for 20 cents on them dollar. They built the world first 100 billion dollar deserted islands.

Palm Tree Islands dredged in the sand with multi million dollar mansions selling for 10 cents on the dollar above
Dubai is not a major business center. It looks like Manhattan but the occupancy rate of the offices you see below is less then 10%.

Yet it built the world’s tallest skyscraper. The final kiss of death. Five weeks from now, the world’s tallest (but still unfinished) building may open. You can go to the observation deck — if they get the elevators working — and look down on half-finished buildings that litter the entire landscape. Over 400 projects, worth over $300 billion. All shut down. Another first, They built the worlds fist trillion dollar ghost town. All financed on derivatives.
Want to know how they paid for these vast money losing excesses? I will give you the answer in four words. They didn’t…you did. Wall Street gave Dubai a blank derivatives check. Your money backed it all. And as you can see they cashed in that check big time.
This is where your pension money has gone. It’s where your money market accounts are being squandered away. Where your banks and investment firms have thrown trillions of your dollars. They used highy-leveraged derivatives, to finance insanity unprecedented.

More derivatives “investment”: Dubai’s indoor JOKE ski slope above
Dubai the world’s biggest real estate bubble -– 100% financed by derivatives — has popped. Property values have fallen 60% in Dubai so far. Which is good news. It means they only have 55% more to fall. Don’t be fooled they will never pay their debts.
A year ago, the banking wipeout struck the western world en masse. Two things were supposed to save the global economy. One, a billion Chinese slaves, who would turn into massive consumers. That never happened. Two, the sovereign Arab investment funds would use their vast oil wealth, to bail out the banks.
Remember the buying? It seemed like they were taking over Wall Street. They bought into AIG. BA. Citi. Lehman Brothers. Goldman Sachs. Even GM. They bought the stocks of these companies, at or near their all-time highs.
I remember the interviews with the sheiks. They were hailed as the new business and investing geniuses. America’s white knights. They explained how they would make massive investments and save the western world. I wanted to puke all over myself.
They are probably experts in camels. They may know lots about beating their wives (plural); and stoning or cutting off the body parts of people who violate Islam’s Sharia law. But their economic system is left over from the middle ages. They have little to no investing or business experience. And free enterprise does not exist.
Yet all of a sudden, we were told they are business/financial experts. Great entrepreneurs and builders and investors out of the heart of Islam. What they are is the oppressors of the masses, like Feudal lords from the dark ages. Torture chambers, dungeons and all.
They were only too keen to speak of their new found love for democracy and free markets. I laughed my ass off. Reality was 180 degrees the opposite. For example, it is against the law in Dubai to report on any money-losing project. You can’t even question the solvency of any of Dubai’s institutions, much less analyze their books. Competitions does not exist. While they don’t pay their debts or even their workers for that matter they readily jail and torture any one who owes them money and does not pay. The implicit guarantee of oil money to pay their debts unwritten is and was a joke.
Wall Street knew all this. It should have raced away from Dubai and the Arab sovereign wealth funds at light speed. But it was in love with their supposedly endless oil wealth. It gave Wall Street untold trillions in derivatives to create and sell on their behalf all for big fat juicy fees. SOUND familiar.
All was not paradise there. I remember when Dubai workers went on strike because they didn’t get paid. They were jailed, tortured, and then deported. Most common labours when their contracts expire go home penniless. By the time they pay job placement “fees” rent, food and clothing they end up owing their employers money. They are kept and treated like modern day slaves.

Unpaid workers in Dubai on strike. They were jailed, tortured and deported
Dubai’s princes could not cover many of their bills. In that Islamic hell hole, if you can’t pay your debts, you go to jail. Unless you are a member of the royal family. Then you can keep buying new Ferraris every month. (Not surprisingly, Dubai became home to the world’s largest Ferrari dealership.)
To make a long story short, this Mohammed wet dream has finally come unglued. Over the long Thanksgiving weekend, they announced they are dead broke. They can’t pay on the money they owe.
(They also waited for the Eid al-Fitr to make their announcement. That is the 3 day religious holiday in Dubai and the musilem world where they stone the “devil”.)
Bottom line, the Arabs done did it again. In the 70s, they drove oil from $5 to 25 a barrel, and spent themselves broke. And screwed to the wall everyone stupid enough to do business with them,
This time they drove oil from $10 a barrel to $80 (and temporarily $150). Again they have again pissed away their trillions in profits.
As a foot note oil will go to under $10.00 a barrel and the vast majority of Arab oil will stay in the ground because their will be no buyers for their oil. Remember you heard it here first.
How could they not screw everyone in sight? They grow up in a world out of the feudal dark ages. The elite few live lives of unimaginable wealth. The masses starve. How can they co-exist with a modern entrepreneurial system? It’s not possible. They can literally in their kingdoms do anything they want to their subjects. Including killing them for dark ages torture chamber evil fun.
Dubai government just refused to honour its loan guarantees.
No one leveraged more money in the derivatives market than Dubai’s sheiks and middle east wealth funds. They did this through the Sovereign Wealth funds of the middle east. Incredibly, they did not have to disclose ANY financial information to get these derivatives.
No balance sheets. No income statements. Nothing on the maze of cross-holding entities.
Instead, the world was told not to worry. All this debt was “guaranteed” by the governments of the oil rich gulf states and its endless oil revenue. Problem is you can wipe your ass with the guarantee and the endless oil revenues are coming to a end. The middle east is no longer the worlds largest oil producer Russia is. And the biggest supplier of oil to the US is no longer the Saudis but Canada. And the largest proven oil field in the world is no longer the middle east Arabs but Iraq. And with little fan fare Iraqi oil exports grow each and every month. Less then 10 years form now they will be the world largest oil producer far surpassing the Saudis and Russias combined.
Any way another bubble popped, over the past Thanksgiving weekend, the banking and financial world was shocked. Dubai’s government announced it is NOT responsible for Dubai World’s debt! And the rest of the Emerts said they would not make good. So much for highley leveraged sovereign funds implied guarantees.
If that were not enough to cause a banker to lose his Thanksgiving feast, the news got even worse. The other emirates announced they will not bail out the vast losses either.
Western banks gave trillions to Dubai. Now the bankers know the “guarantees” were lies. They will be left holding the bag for these trillion-dollar boondoggles. Not just in Dubai, either. Because Dubai has underwritten similar bubbles the world over.
Read the following statement from Dubai’s government. It lets our banker buddies know who the real turkey was on Thanksgiving day:
The Dubai government said it is not responsible for the debts of Dubai World, dealing a blow to creditors’ assumptions that the Arab emirate would guarantee the conglomerate’s liabilities.
“Creditors need to take part of the responsibility for their decision to lend to the companies,” said Abdulrahman al-Saleh, director general of Dubai’s Department of Finance. He went on to say just in case their was anyone left who did not figure it out “They think Dubai World is part of the government, which is not correct.”
CNN may not tell you what’s going on, they would go to jail if they even wanted to. Don’t worry, I will. Dubai is broke and so is their sovereign wealth funds. They owe trillions the world over. They will never pay it back, even if they could or intended to. And they can’t and wouldn’t. This is another nail in the coffin of the global financial system.
The so-called oil “wealth” fooled Wall Street and the bankers. Don’t let it fool you. As I’ve told you before, most of it is worth nothing. The vast majority of Middle East oil will never get pumped. It will stay in the ground, worth as much as the sand around it.
Oil will fall to $5 a barrel in this depression. The world will turn to better, more efficient, more abundant, cheaper and cleaner sources of energy: natural gas (which is clean burning and abundant in most every country of the world)…nuclear (where major advances have eliminated the safety issues)… oil tar, oil shale and oil sands. Not to mention solar and wind energy, which as adjuncts can supply partial energy needs in many parts of the world..

Empty office buildings and hotels in Dubai. Notice the vast number of uncompleted projects. They will never be finished!
The Dubai crisis is worse, though. Suppose the Dubai sheiks and princes could pay back their trillions in derivatives debt which they can’t. They would not do so anyway. Because they are not playing by the rules. They do not solve their problems the capitalist way.
In the capitalist way, you sell assets when you go broke. You liquidate properties. One way or another, you pay your debts.
Dubai isn’t doing that. Instead, they are forcing the world to give them a debt standstill. Here’s how this works.
Dubai is saying “screw you” to the capitalist system. Screw debt liquidation. Screw the rule of law. We aren’t paying you.
We aren’t giving you the assets we pledged on these loans. We will keep our world’s biggest yachts. We will use the old “I’m the king, and screw you” way. We ain’t paying you and their ain’t shit you can do about it. It will be couched ion the kindest terms and their will be endless promises of payback, but it will NEVER happen.
Dubai’s ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, who is also the United Arab Emirates’ vice president, prime minister and defense minister, said the global reaction had shown “a lack of understanding.”
“We have the determination and will power to face all challenges, including the ill-intentioned media challenges,” Sheikh Mohammed said, according to a statement from his office. Released Tuesday.
This is not according to our lordship a credit problem. The fact they can’t and won’t pay their vast debt is not the problem. Its not the fact they have taken on to much debt, yes even trillionaires can borrow more then they can pay back. His ROYAL Highness Sheikh Mohammed says it because of “ill intentioned media (from the infidels)challenges. What can Wall Street and our banking buddies do? Answer Nothing! Not a damn thing! As they are about to learn, you cannot take assets from a sovereign entity. It is like diplomatic immunity for wealth funds. You will only get paid if they can pay you which they can’t they borrowed far more then even their oil production can cover. And you can only reposess the underlying assets if the ISLAMIC kingdom lets you. And what do you thing the chances of that happening are you Zionist-Christian pig. Try ZERO and NONE. And they both left town.
The last few months, contractors and creditors asked Dubai to sell some holdings and pay the bills it owed them. Dubai refused. So the creditors were not able to pay their own debts. They were then threatened with jail if they did not pay even though they had not been paid. So many left town with the clothes on their back, leaving behind homes, cars and businesses. That’s how things work in Mohammad land.
Do you see how this works? The Dubai princes don’t have to pay you. But if you don’t pay your debts, you go to jail.
I know many people who were forced to leave with the clothes on their backs. They packed a suitcase, and flew back to the civilized world, dead-broke and wiped-out in Dubai.
Banks still count their trillions in Dubai loans at full value!
Here’s the most interesting part. Banks loaned Dubai and its sovereign wealth funds trillions of dollars. Again, with not even a financial statement, never mind an audit. That money is gone forever.
Yet the banks still count this debt on their books at full value! They say it is still backed by real collateral they can collect!
What total b.s. In reality these loans might be worth 25 cents on the dollar. At most. Another Obama-type fantasy of what the world is really like, has now been shattered.
I am here to officially notify you. The next phase of the bubble real estate wipeout has started. It will bring down the rest of the world financial system.
Dubai admits $150 billion have wiped out. That grossly understates the real figure. On top of which, they heavily leveraged that money. Remember sovereign wealth funds play by another set of rules altogether. The hallmark is the complete and total lack of disclosure. And remember their creditors can’t sure them. Try suing a government in a democracy and see how far you get. Now imagine trying to sue a Midevil king. What you will get is your head dropped into a basket.
So trillions of dollars in derivatives are in peril and have no chance of being paid back. In major banks, businesses and projects around the world the cat is out of the bag. This is a global crisis, not limited to the pleasure palaces of Dubai. And it will bring down the world financial system. The biggest bubble in the world has burst and the myth of Arab Sovereign wealth funds have been exposed for the over leveraged deep in debt entities they really are.
I reported to you that a massive flight to quality took place the past few months. Not to gold, which is the joke of the decade. But to the U.S. dollar. To U.S. government debt.
The past few weeks, that flight to quality picked up even more steam. Investors and central banks bought so many U.S. government securities -– so many 3-month and 6-month T-bills — the yield went negative.
Recent U.S. Treasury auctions have been four times oversubscribed. That means demand for T-bills was four times greater than supply. A new record high. And that was despite huge record breaking offerings from the U.S. government. i.e. supply was huge, but was still swamped by demand.
Now you see why. The smart money knew Dubai was coming unglued. They knew Dubai’s wipeout pushes the rest of the world financial system off the edge of a cliff. So they got their own money into the world’s one and only safe haven. The place I’ve begged you to put your own money. U.S. dollars and U.S. government securities.
The Wall Street experts keep telling us the U.S. government is monetizing debt. Supposedly it will have to print money to cover these massive losses.
Total bull. The U.S. government is successfully selling the most debt in world history. At the lowest interest rates ever. These rates keep dropping lower and lower. Still demand for the T-bills, T-notes and T-bonds grows and grows.
Wall Street tells us the dollar is crashing. More bull. The dollar is merely settling down from the flight to quality that took place a year ago, when the banking crisis hit.
This Dubai crisis just gave gold a great test when the crises first came to the light of day gold got hit hard. Now the investment bankers regrouped, but fear not gold, oil and the stock market have a date with destiny. Was the Fed really monetizing debt? Was the world abandoning dollars, for the supposed safe-haven sanctuary of gold? Once again, we learn the answer to all this spin is “bull shit.” Guess who with the help of their Wall Street investment banks is at the heart of the most recent stock market, gold and oil bubble? You got it our Highness the Sheiks of the Sovereign Oil cartel wealth funds.
When news of the the Dubai wipeout hit, gold got banged. Stock markets around the world fell hard: they crashed in the Middle East. The dollar jumped. Those on the inside bought U.S. government securities with both hands. Which means they bought dollars with both hands as well.
No one is abandoning the dollar. Just the opposite. When the shit hits the fan, they flock to it. Soon the next wave of this wipe out will hit. Right now they are spinning the fact they have defaulted on their debt as Dubai’s ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, said is the result of “ill-intentioned media challenges,” Sheikh Mohammed said, according to a statement from his office.
Now you know why they censor the media in those Islamic hell holes they created. Under the penalty of death no one can questions the credit worthiness of their dead broke deeply in debt institutions that are wiping out before your very eyes.
This is the most bizarre time to be alive. All these banks, brokers, investment bankers, politicians and major corporations blow b.s. like snow in a blizzard. They want you to believe the biggest lies of all: that they are making money, and that we are in recovery.
They do this by a) not paying their debts, and b) pretending that trillions in derivatives losses are actually profits!
As I’ve told you over and over again, they can’t do this forever. No matter what Wall Street and the gold bugs want you to believe. Because eventually you can’t pay the workers or even the electric bills. That’s the stage Dubai has reached.
It’s official. Part 2, the next phase of the debt wipeout has begun. It will be bigger than part 1. Dubai, the poster child for sleaze, has kicked off this next round. They literally can’t pay their electric bills. They can’t meet their payrolls. Lights out. All construction has stopped, because they ain’t got no money.
I’m preparing for you another Special Report tape on this. I should have it posted on the Insiders Website in 24 hours.
I’m also preparing a special report on gold. You will see that — in the middle of this huge drive to manipulate gold — demand for the yellow metal has not risen. In fact, it is plunging. Goldmines that normally sell their production forward in anticipation of higher prices in the future. Guess what they have pulled all their hedges. Meaning the producers think the price is so high they are selling all they can as fast as they can into the market. And you should to! Gold sales are down 30% year over year, falling even further. I’ve never heard so much b.s. about a market that, in 18 months, only managed to go up 10%.
This latest bubble wipeout ends the fantasy of Islamic finance. Don’t get taken in by the spin. HSBC Amanah is the Islamic arm of the Britain’s HSBC Bank. Amanah has outstanding Islamic finance debt of over $1 trillion. That doesn’t count the leverage.
GE, Boeing and AirBus are owed huge sums of money by Dubai. That’s for the hundreds of planes they sold them on quick, easy credit. Thise plains will nevr be delivered and the ones they got will never be paid for. This only underlines what we’ve been screaming about. The stock market has put the most bizarre valuations ever, on companies the world over. These companies are dead broke and mired in a global depression. They will soon crash. Just like Dubai has.
On October 9 of this year, I watched the Formula 1 race in Dubai.
They had just finished building the world’s biggest, most elaborate race track. It cost $1.5 billion. The track is a death trap. First of all the track gets to hot in the desert sun and is a disaster for the tires on the cars that can’t take that kind of heat. Also sand blowing from the desert is a problem.

The opulence was astonishing. The track snaked under one of the world’s most luxurious hotels, past the mega-yachts in the harbour. I’ve never seen such wanton greed and waste. To get out of the pit area race cars have to drive up a VERY narrow tunnel. If the car in front of your crashes everyone in caught in the tunnel dies. They won’t have a chance as the fireball consumes everyone.
They have built a modern day Babylon in Dubai.
I saw the UAE Ruler, his Highness Mohammed bin Rashid, watching the race from his private viewing box picture below. At the very same time he had stopped paying his workers, contractors and investors on the massive debt he owes. His mega-yacht (an ocean liner) was docked at the far end of the race course, for all to see.

I also saw the sheiks of the royal families of the middle east, in full war dress. Saluting their opulence, patting themselves on the back for their business brilliance. This at the very time they were planning their latest debt default.
All this opulence paid for with Wall Street derivatives. That is what your money -– America’s money — has gone to.
In many parts of the world, legitimate, real businesses have real products. They are efficient and make profit. Yet they go begging for money.
While these gold-leafed fantasies in the sand — that never had a chance of making profits and leaked money like a sieve — were given trillions of dollars. Without so much as a financial statement.
The cameras at the Formula 1 race in Dubai panned the largest Ferrari dealership in the world. One of my favorite sayings came to mind. “He who the gods are about to destroy, they first make crazy.” My friends, we are seeing lavish opulent go crazy. On an unprecedented scale.

I’m going to repeat to you. Gold north of $1200 an ounce, the stock market banging around 10,400, and oil that is now south of $80 a barrel, are the greatest bubbles the world has seen. Created by the bubble blowers from the New York investment banks and their co-conspirators from the dead-broke Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds. (Stone cold broke when you count the liabilities as well as the assets.) thats something new for Wall Street accounting.
They will come unglued shortly. Despite all the b.s. they are blowing, like a sand storm in the desert. I believe this insanity represents the greatest money-making opportunity of our time.
It’s critical you understand: we’re not in a recovery. We are in an ongoing depression. The Dubai debacle is simply more proof of the spreading debt wipeout and bubbles bursting funded for by the still ongoing derivatives insanity.
N Guarino
PS: Look at who world leaders are swapping spit with Mohammad. This is known as influence peddling.Mohammed bin Rashid is ruler of Dubai, and a key architect of Dubai’s investing “strategy.” One of the most wasteful men on the planet. He has exported his model of wanton wastefulness and opulent consumption the world over. All on debt.

Gordon Brown, prime minister of England, is seen in this picture sucking up to Rashid. That may be because some of Britain’s largest banks -– HSBC, Barclay’s, Lloyds and Royal Bank of Scotland to name a few –- arranged much of Dubai’s biggest derivatives loans. They are owed trillions, that will never be paid.
Now those banks are going bust. Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) was nationalized by the British government, and just received another 75 billion pound bailout. On Tuesday, just 48 hours before Dubai announced its wipeout, Barclay’s Bank had a 25 billion pound rights offering. That’s where they forced their shareholders to give them more money. (Or see their shares diluted).
Lloyds received another 20 billion pounds from government, to stay afloat. At that exact time, Prime Minister Brown announced, “British banks are well capitalized.”
Remember, Dubai issues no official numbers of its debt or its holdings. I can tell you most of the outstanding debt, is due to be paid back in the next three years. Now they have reneged on it. By rights, the payback must be accelerated. They are in default! Every institution that holds it must declare it as non-performing on its books. That is a death warrant for the global economy.








Dubai, Life After the Oil Crash, Peak Oil and Beyond
Posted by: | CommentsHere is a great website by Matt Savinar that will focus on Peak Oil and beyond:
http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/BreakingNews.html
The Dubai Crisis and Peak Oil / Dubaikrisen och Peak Oil
One year ago I was preparing the article ”Aviation fuel and future oil production scenarios”, (now published in Energy Policy) och i in November 2008 I was invited by IATA to Shanghai to a conference on the future of aviation fuel. In my presentation I discussed tourist aviation in the future and I mentioned that nations that invest heavily in expansion of air tourism, e.g. Dubai, would have considerable problems.
The company Dubai World is completely dependent on tourist travel to Dubai. The investments in projects such as artificial islands (shaped, among other things, to form a map of the world) and gigantic skyscrapers, were meant to be inhabited by rich tourists and business people that travel to Dubai by air. Even if the neighbouring emirate, Abu Dhabi, that has oil and money, gives new guarantees for Dubai’s debt, the fact remains that Peak Oil means that aviation cannot expand in future.
The investments that have been made in Dubai are based on prognoses similar to those that the International Energy Agency (IEA) makes every year. In this case what is important is not the latest edition of World Energy Outlook but the prognoses made 5 years ago. In 2004 the IEA considered that oil production in 2030 would be over 120 million barrels per day. The reality that we have now published in Energy Policy in our article The Peak Of The Oil Age is a maximal production of 75 million barrels per day in 2030.
In the future we will probably see many mistaken investments based on the overoptimistic prognoses from the IEA. The question is whether Dubai will be first of a long list.
Why “Gold Hoarders” are Considered Nuts
Posted by: | CommentsFor years I have wondered at why some people who look at so called “gold bugs” as tin foil hat conspiracy theorists.
When I started my education into all things economic, the history of money, types of money, the way different types of currencies were used throughout various cultures and empires, the cycles they tend to follow, as well as how that has evolved into the economic system of global settlements and currency flows today, I heard these comments now and then that always seemed to position people who were bullish on gold as conspiracy nuts.
Today I finally see why this may be the case.
The gold bug intarweb is currently ablaze with people running in circles and screaming the sky is falling because of a recent article alleging that an LBMA depository in Hong Kong was found to have 4800+/- bars of LBMA 400 ounce good delivery bars to be filled with tungsten instead of gold.
To read more of Thrace’s work, go here:
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