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The almighty dollar is looking less mighty these days. By almost every measure, the purchasing power of the US dollar is in precipitous decline.
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Yeah funny how Romney's strongest supporters are the Ponzi scheme Social Security and Medicare takers of the 47%. SS pays out even money after like 13 years, and Medicare pays out $3 for every $1 put in. Keep yer Socialist hands off my entitlements!
Assault on Wall Street...if that isn't a signal I don't know what is. Wonder why Bernenake is cashing in his chips. Wonder no more check it out. Justice is the greatest fear of bankers.
I feel bloated. Bitchez
When the euro goes tits up, all u dollar haters will be in shock. I buy New Zealands and Swissies
The ponzi €
The trade weighted chart is driving me " NUTS".
Though he never strays very far away from his usual talking points...
in BigJim Willie's latest interview http://financialsurvivalnetwork.com/2013/05/jim-willie-the-us-land-of-th... ...
he somehow just cuts right to the chase and sews it all together with such seamless ease... that you'd have to be a total retard to not get the msg.
@10:00 discloses actual reason for leaving Amerikastan.
I think those who can... should leave...
@11:00 hurdles when applying for US passport... .gov requirement listing of doctor for your circumcision.
18:40 starts on the new, two US$ program. In Amerikastan your $ will be worth a fraction of what the external $ value is.
The talmudist terror is not waiting for you to get it together. Though Jim is forbidden to mention by name who the financial terrorists be...
he has described your options... to leave - with your assets...window now almost completely closed. ...or stay and be defrauded of all that you own(ed)... and then herded into re-education camps... if your bones are not already bleaching in some KillingField of the Big Circle K Ranch n Abatoir.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWMIwziGrAQ&list=PL82E6C6BE95C08D76 ...Larry Grathwohl's testimony as to the ultimate mission of Obama and his bolshevik handlers is being packaged into a counter-intelpro narrative by those very same bolshie talmudist dual citiiZens now... and spewed by their dupe lackeys on these very pages! ... do not be deceived by the retards and their 'radical muslim' phony terrorerrornarratives... it's always been the talmudists behind the kosherkillerklown death camp project!
And don't fall for the sionazi "last redoubt" scam either... we'll pull this out as a core of survivors outside the gulagzones of the fallen lands... their greatest fear is that some of us Europoids escape their nets... and pursue them with our usual implacable revenge.
Just get her in an Audi and be done wit it.
Excellent interview with Jim Willie, Joyful. Thanks for the link! I'd forgotten about him. A lot of VERY relevant pieces of the jigsaw and the sequential timeline in there.
However, it's a shame that both he and the interviewer think the collapse is all either 'accidental' or "caused by poorly thought out interventions* by the US government" ... even after listing all the deliberate actions taken by international banks (on behalf of a certain political power based out of BOTH Rome and Tel Aviv) to bankrupt American, British and European savers and businesses! None of it is local to America...just more visible/obvious there.
It's also a shame that Jim was cut short in order to add on 3 fucking minutes of self-promotion by the interviewer!
* I'll expand my thoughts in another thread later.
thanks for the link JOYFUL, truthful comments as well, and spot on i-dog
whether by censorship.. or ignorance.. point well made... it is statistically impossible that so many "mistakes" and "bad judgements" or "stupidity" led to this condition..
should be screaming EVIDENCE of conspiracy.. plenty of documentation.. whether the 50's Dowd commission, RIIA-CFR founding docs, etc...this has always been purposeful. Lowering the west and slightly raising the 3rd world...
and honestly.. I sincerely believe the end state.. Is absolute Monopolization. everything else is means to that end. "Political movements" etc just junk .. means...
those born into the control - power class..are bred to believe they are superior..and they continue the plans.. to have us all.. As W Va Coalminers... work in the mine, sleep in the co housing, shop in the co store = $.99 of every $ earned goes back into the co coffers
thats the evidence based understanding of where we are going. Absolute control, absolute slavery
Keep in mind.... Jimbo is not able to get to grips with the major motion...
that part of the interview where the host is inviting comment about Venezuelan gold repatriation... and Jim dims the lights...
that's a giveaway to his self-censorship... he's forced to tone it down.
Really it's the same deal with the Tylers; everybody is forced to somewhat toe to the talmudist line...
it's a matter of degree. And a matter of time...
till we kick out the jambs...and fight to be free. Agin!
JOYFUL
Thank you from me as well for the most interesting link.
My pleasure. Did you catch what Jimbo threw in at some point about the health care system and -"go to Bogota if you want a cure for cancer...40 days and it's done"/// muy interesante... know anything bout what that's about?
of course tehre are many healthcare solutions we will never see.. being owned by the main stream big pharma...
JOYFUL.. check this site... www.cheniere.org MUCH good education available there... Colonel Tom Bearden's research into a lot of tesla technology....
Willie is correct about cancer being used as a slow and painful political assassination weapon by the Jesuits - but, from his description, he obviously doesn't know how they do it. So, I'll tell you:
Cancers are caused by viruses* (NOT radiation!) ... and they can therefore be administered through the respiratory or digestive systems ... or vaccines....
They can also be treated with natural agents, but the pharmaceutical cartel and their captive licensing system are able to successfully suppress any widespread or advertised cure. His quoted figure of "40 days in Bogota" would be in the ballpark...depending on the cancer (some quicker, some longer).
Exactly the same situation applies with the various new [man-made!] flu viruses ... where our product has been proven effective by the WHO against ALL tested strains, while Donald Rumsfeld's 'Tamiflu' has been proven by the WHO to be ineffective against ANY strain! - yet governments around the world are spending billions of dollars on Tamiflu 'vaccines' while we are absolutely prohibited from advertising or claiming our natural products as treatments until after millions of dollars have been spent going through the licensing hoops. Our products are therefore sold through pharmacies as 'dietary' and 'cosmetic' supplements ... and Codex Alimentarius will shortly be used to shut even that avenue down.
I have heard mention of a clinic in Mexico (or somewhere nearby, from memory...one of the lawyers on ZH mentioned it about 2 years ago) successfully using a dietary regime...which indicates to me that they may be onto the actual effective natural cancer cure (either knowingly or accidentally).
I have even written to a couple of prominent individuals on the international stage who had suspiciously contracted organ cancers - offering free treatment. But their handlers rejected the offers. Now I just put family, friends and staff onto our products (and a competing natural 'cosmetic' product, where it is cheaper and more effective against skin cancer) and allow word of mouth to work its wonders for those who care. Some very prominent individuals in the Middle East do use our product. However, I can't be more specific here as I don't wish to bring the global authorities stomping down on 'the professor' for "unauthorised advertising" (the penalties are quite onerous).
* I have a business relationship with a decorated biochemist who has developed a proven and patented cancer cure, but he/we have been unable to raise the many millions of dollars required to go through the international licensing hoops (with no guarantee that the cartel won't find another way to sabotage the exercise). Before I met him, he did get a major multinational to buy the exclusive right from him to develop it...but they then proceded to bury it!! I later helped him to get the rights back through an equally devious legal manoeuvre.
We know, at the molecular level and through protein sequencing, how and why the cure works. It's not just an "old wives' tale" remedy.
equally devious legal manoeuvre....
that is the stuff! Definitely a ***** for you Dawg... nuthin they hate more than bein outfoxed.
Country in which my micro-nation is currently nestled has had a law on the books since 2010 making it impossible to import any medicinal substances...remedies...homeopathies...etc.etc. without a [witch]doctors {pre-scription}...
have had several shipments turned back at customs or ...more lately...lost in the mails. Uber-bummer. If I understand you correctly, you've got a product on the market and have it sailing under a food flag to get around the code nonsense. Would like to know more bout it.... possible?
All countries in the WTO must comply with Codex Alimentarius, which came into full force and effect against almost anything that isn't frankenfood on 1/1/12. We'll talk further about this offline.
Jena wins the speculative episode of this thread. I won't speculate< the Bitch has game<
This stuff is ? I'm going to short Asia. We're all toast. Long [MREs']
Yen come to chat bro.
I respectfully decline/ I'll converse after stf. I have slept 3 of the last 72 hours. I have made just under 30k.
No thanks . Been there done that. That was my personal account.
In real terms?
I'm converting my procedes into silver.
CHUMP CHANGE/ I'm donating my proceDES. i,M THR EVIL SPECULATUR
Sounds like you're wearing a few too many hats there yen, or juggling a few too many balls. Don't get exhausted, i'll do some driving.
Show me who gets paid in 1913 salaries and I'll show you an idiot.
Salaries crept up as well.
We could argue about the spread between increases in prices (as not measured by CPI) and increase in wages. That would be a more interesting discussion. But this is just bad advertisement.
'Americans' put the world on the path of depletion of resources.
In an abundant environment, as the one 'americans' were handed down after staging their coup masquerading coercion for freedom, propaganda and fantasy for truth and injustice for justice, you are given plenty of options like:
-consuming enough to support yourself
-consuming much more than you can actually handle.
In an environment on the path of depletion, you are in for less options, many revolving around spending a lot of hours gathering few resources.
All currencies will buy less and less as there will be less and less to buy.
Yet that propaganda about some mismanagement of currencies is only an 'american' trick to hide the fact that 'americans' operated the transition from an abundant world to a depleted world.
The way 'americanism' works.
You are a complete fucking asshole punk. Your comments are the product of an infantile mind. You write as though Americans act as some type of "netowrk" and move in unison. Negative ghostrider idiot.
Again: YOU ARE A FUCKING RETARDED IDIOT PUNK FUCK.
If I were looking at a reason for the situation America is in, I would look not much further than Israel.
Inflation is a good thing because it makes us richer
- said no one with a brain ever!
Looks like Colorado is preparing to defend the bunker at the Denver airport:
Colorado volunteers to fill its skies with domestic drones Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/10/colorado-volunteers-to-fill-its-skies-with-domestic-drones/#ixzz2SzjZk3o1Aurora, bitchez.
This article is way off. USD has lost half its value since 2008. Price of all things with steady demand has doubled. Only things with declining demand have remained steady or dropped, like housing, and its due to economy sliding into depression (there's been no recovery).
In 2007 dollars Dow is 9,000, still way below the 2007 high. Without trillions of printed dollars poured into stocks Dow would be around 7,000 (in 2007 dollars), rising just 400 points in five years.
When you're rapidly printing currency, giving it to bankers, debasing your currency in the process, all financial indicators look good. Zimbabwe stocks showed enormous gains while their curency was collapsing. Japan is doing the same thing and will see the same results, currency collapse. Same thing is happening in America and the end will be the same, currency collapse, and in our case, loss of reserve currency status.
I believe it's more than "race to the bottom". I believe they want to kill the dollar completely. It explains everything they're doing, open-ended QE, funding all the debt Treasury wants to issue (no Fed pressure to cut spending), bailing out foreign banks (buying their trash too).
USD collapse and loss of reserve status might just happen on Bernanke's watch.
Gold bugs inflation brainwashing, in the early 1950s, the average American spent roughly 20% of their income on groceries. In 1982, they spent roughly 13%. And last year, they spent less than 9%. One day technology will make food for free.
I'm reading "We the Living" ,, Ayn Rands first novel before she got so preachy ,, semi-autobiographical novel giving EXCELLENT detail as to living conditions in Russia after the revolution... lots of starvation , lots of irrational fantasy about things turning around ... you could become very wealthy with a canned ham to trade...
My father was an inspector/quality control management type for lend/lease and shipments to Europe after WW2 based out of the Brooklyn Navy Yards ... quite literally you could buy the nicest piece of 16 year old ass in London WITH THE PARENTS PERMISSION for a pound of bacon,, and do her all night in her parents house... if only he traded a few hams for artwork I'd be set now...
Ayn Rands,next to the marvel heroes section.
Since when is the documentary section next to the comic books?
So my minimum wage which would buy three loaves of bread in 1980 now will buy four and a half, while gas remains the same. In 1940 my dad made .25/hr pumping gas (now it's 7.50) Today that buys 3-4 loafs. I wonder if in 1940 he could buy a loaf for .06 cents. I'm certain he could buy more gas at today's valuation then he could then.
According to Deutsche Bank:
The lack of confidence in final demand that seems to justify corporate reticence has a mirror image in the financial sector’s liquidity trap – the fact that corporates prefer to save and not to leverage and invest. And it seems reasonable to justify the lack of confidence in the context of ongoing and unresolved fiscal tightening; household savings rates that are “naturally” capped not to go to zero or below this time; and a global sector that seems decidedly weaker. In other words, of all the Keynesian circular flow of income external drivers there are none doing any driving except corporate investment. But the Catch 22 is that corporate investment itself is restrained by the fear for the lack of the other drivers! The answer might be waiting for a pick up in the external sector; it might be seeing through the fiscal austerity and or at least suspending or reversing some of it; or it might be further improvement in the household balance sheets via housing. However all of these likely need time.
In this context we can then handicap central bank reaction functions. While we wait for something to give positively in favor of a stronger recovery, policy stays unusually easy. This then creates the dichotomy of buying more time in the near term through easier policy to deliver a proper recovery whilst potentially running the risk longer term of too much inflation the other side. The pent up monetary stimulus that exaggerates a liquidity trap now becomes a challenge to control on the other side. This schizophrenia has been played out numerous times since 2008. And it defines the unusual dislocation between ultra low real yields and high inflation expectations (inflation risk premia) that is also known as financial repression. Financial repression being one of the metrics that is supposed to encourage more risky lending and to break the liquidity trap.
The consensus of course is that after a certain amount of financial repression, the world will sufficiently improve and central banks have the tools to contain inflation so that the bulk of financial repression is contained to ultra low real yields rather than ultra high (realized) inflation. In this spirit Bernanke and now Kuroda are extremely confident. However we would actually go one stage forward. In the current low growth equilibrium there is a good chance that there is jolt to higher growth because the fiscal dynamics can never be resolved. This is particularly true for peripheral Europe and Japan; less true for the US but then partly depends on the willingness to address structural contingent liabilities. Absent that, the US might well be in the same boat as the others. In this case, the only solution is for the central banks to end up holding the majority of government claims and to consolidate their balance sheets with the government. In one fell swoop, cumulated deficits that may stretch back several years are ex post deficit financed. This would almost certainly break the liquidity trap in that it would represent a massive relief to expected fiscal tightening for the private sector. The central banks would quickly need to use their “tools” to contain a splurge in lending and control inflation. Ex post however there is no reason why inflation would materially rise, as long as liquidity was tightened commensurately with the debt relief implied by consolidated balance sheets of the central banks and the government. Moreover if G3+ acted synchronously, at least for the currency majors there may be little fall out.
So the interesting question is why not? Is there any cost of consolidation when we are otherwise in an eternal liquidity trap? The answer is, unfortunately yes. This would have to be a one shot game. Going forward governments’ would unlikely be able to borrow from the private sector for a long long time precisely because it threatened financial repression, even if only in the kind of negative real rates ex ante rather than even more negative ex post. Instead, government would be obliged to run balanced budgets. These authors don’t think this is necessarily a bad outcome. However it does mean that if and when consolidation comes, as much as possible needs to be consolidated otherwise fiscal policy would be on a perpetual tightening path to run the extant liabilities down. If you are going to consolidate, do it big because you are likely to have only one chance. It may seem extraordinary to think about consolidated balance sheets but there are plenty of examples in history, particularly during wars, of deficit financing. And however outlandish and non consensus it is, remember that a few years ago we talked about QE never ending, which at the time was also outlandish. Consolidation sounds an anathema to consensus but it is a logical conclusion to the liquidity trap and the probability rises each day that growth disappoints.
The honorable 'Federal Reserve Banking System', Chairman Paul Volcker appointed by Carter, [Dem/ Austrian Economic-Hayek/ Inflation Hawk] was a closet flip-flop lover?!
*By the late 50's, the 'Golden Era' of the United States economic renaissance was beginning to feel the harsh realities of a burgeoning trade deficit tethered to a balloning budget deficit', where inflation was now eroding the very U.S. hegemonic foundation of [a]the Int'l Monetary System based on Gold, Fixed Exc. Rates, and a strong U.S. Dollar!
First recruited to DC by the Kennedy's treasury[?]... and onward, and forward to Nixonian camp--
Volcker played a dual role with Nixon's Connally [Sec.of Treasury & Nixon Shock] to break the link between the dollar and gold! Volcker's strategy prodded by Connally or vice versa was to push literally[?] and figuratively[?] the country and the world to a system that broke all ties to Gold... thus allowing all currencies [incl the $] to float freely? on all? currency exchanges.
After Carter's [Volcker raised interest rates three full [3] percentage points... weeks before the 1980 election?] loss to Reagan... [years later Volcker sutbly hinted his dissaproval of the Carter economic policy]--
Reagan understood budgets and inflation, being the Gov. of Calif., and was well aware, above all of it's political and economic imperative's. Volcker, being reappointed as Fed Chairman by Reagan, quickly abandoned his skepticism about 'Monetarism' and convinced [as in Brenanke, the decider?] the Fed's Policy Cmte., that the only way to fight double-digit inflation was to 'control-the-supply-of-money',... rather than 'raise-interest-rates'! In all candidness... Volcker was never really a hard-core orthodox believer in 'Monetarist Theology'?!
Thus the 'Flip-Flop/ Floppity-Flipper', Volcker... hidden in a monetarist cloak with ones own under-garb fabricated by a clandestined fiscal policy-- that's out of sight in a gentlemanly fashion? Quite British?
Lastly,... Volcker's endorsement of Greenspan [via humongous credit/ real estate bubble right under his nose] didn't end well, nor... 'Mr. Quantitative [Card Blanche/ Free Pass to politicians running unsustainable large deficits] Easing'... the unapproachable Ben Bernanke,... needs no fiscal-tutalage reiteration?
Final Note: It was Volcker that destroyed the 'Gold Standard'... period!!! It was Volcker that brought us 'Greenspan',... and it was Volcker's Greenspan that brought us Bernanke... --- Who's Bernanke gonna bless us with, in the long line of 'King Maker's'?!
a goyim ?????????
http://simongoldie.blogspot.com/2010/02/hayek-on-monetarism.html
you can puzzle it out, if you look inside?