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16 Signs That The Economy Has Stalled Out And The Next Economic Downturn Is Here
Submitted by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,
If U.S. economic growth falls any lower, we are officially going to be in recession territory. On Wednesday, we learned that U.S. GDP grew at a 0.2 percent annual rate in the first quarter of 2015. That was much lower than all of the “experts” were projecting. And of course there are all sorts of questions whether the GDP numbers the government feeds us are legitimate anyway. According to John Williams of shadowstats.com, if honest numbers were used they would show that U.S. GDP growth has been continuously negative since 2005. But even if we consider the number that the government has given us to be the “real” number, it still shows that the U.S. economy has stalled out. It is almost as if we have hit a “turning point”, and there are many out there (including myself) that believe that the next major economic downturn is dead ahead. As you will see in this article, a whole bunch of things are happening right now that we would expect to see if a recession was beginning. The following are 16 signs that the economy has stalled out and the next economic downturn is here…
#1 We just learned that U.S. GDP grew at an anemic 0.2 percent annual rate during the first quarter of 2015…
The gross domestic product grew between January and March at an annualized rate of 0.2 percent, the U.S. Commerce Department said, adding to the picture of an economy braking sharply after accelerating for much of last year. The pace fell well shy of the 1 percent mark anticipated by analysts and marked the weakest quarter in a year.
#2 If you strip a very unusual inventory buildup out of the GDP number, U.S. GDP would have actually fallen at a -2.5 percent annual rate during the first quarter…
The only good news: the massive inventory build, the largest since 2010, boosted GDP by nearly 3.0%. Without this epic stockpiling of non-farm inventory which will have to be liquidated at some point (and at a very low price) Q1 GDP would have been -2.5%.
#3 Our trade deficit with the rest of the planet is absolutely killing our economic growth. According to the Reality Chek Blog, U.S. economic growth would have been a total of 8 percent higher since the end of the last recession if we actually had balanced trade with other nations…
As of the new first quarter figures, the worsening of the trade deficit has reduced the cumulative real growth of the U.S. economy by 7.99 percent since the current recovery began in the second quarter of 2009.
#4 According to numbers that were just released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in one out of every five American families nobody has a job. So how in the world can the “unemployment rate” be sitting at “5.5 percent” when everyone is unemployed in 20 percent of all families in the United States? It doesn’t make any sense.
#5 The rate of homeownership in the United States has just hit a brand new 25 year low. How can anyone claim that the middle class is “healthy” when the percentage of Americans that own a home is the lowest that it has been in more than two decades?
#6 Back in 2013, 31 percent of all Americans said that they did not anticipate buying a home “for the foreseeable future”. Just two years later, that number has risen to 41 percent.
#7 The student loan bubble is clearly bursting. According to Bloomberg, only 37 percent of all student loan borrowers are actually up to date on their payments and reducing their balances…
With borrowers increasingly struggling to repay their student loans, Moody’s Investors Service is warning it may take investors longer than promised to get their money back. The credit grader said this month it may lower rankings on $3 billion of top-rated debt as investors face the threat of slowing principal payments or even receiving no interest.
The concern underscores the fallout from a record $1.2 trillion in U.S. student loans that’s spreading to everything from the housing market and consumer spending to taxpayers. As a sluggish economic recovery forces borrowers to miss payments or tap relief programs, only 37 percent are current and reducing their balances, according to a Federal Reserve Bank of New York presentation this month.
#8 Procter & Gamble has announced that it will be cutting up to 6,000 more jobs from their payroll. Why would they be doing this if the economy is “getting better”?
#9 McDonald’s plans to permanently shut down 700 “poorly performing” restaurants over the course of 2015. Why would they be doing this if the economy is “getting better”?
#10 It is being projected that half of all fracking companies in the United States will be either “dead or sold” by the end of 2015.
#11 Retail sales in the U.S. have not dropped this rapidly since the last recession.
#12 Wholesale sales in the U.S. have not dropped this rapidly since the last recession.
#13 Factory orders in the U.S. have not dropped this rapidly since the last recession.
#14 Credit requests are being declined at a rate that we haven’t seen since the last recession.
#15 U.S. export growth has gone negative for the first time since the last recession.
#16 As the U.S. economy begins to head into another downturn, most Americans are completely unprepared for it. In fact, one recent survey discovered that 62 percent of all Americans are currently living paycheck to paycheck.
Don’t let this next recession take you by surprise.
Back in 2008 and 2009, millions of Americans suddenly lost their jobs or businesses because of the sharp economic downturn. Because most of them were living paycheck to paycheck, all of a sudden a whole lot of Americans could not make their mortgage payments and foreclosures surged to unprecedented heights. Millions of families that thought they were operating on a solid foundation saw their middle class lifestyles evaporate in just a matter of a few months.
That is why it is so vital to prepare yourself financially, mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually for the great storm that is coming ahead of time. Over the past couple of years, I have been working on a new book entitled “Get Prepared Now” which talks about how to make these preparations. On Wednesday, it was finally released to the public. I hope that you will check it out.
The past few years have been a period of relative stability for the U.S. economy. A lot of people have been lulled into a false sense of security during that time. These people have become convinced that our problems have been fixed. But they haven’t been fixed at all. In fact, our problems are far, far worse than they were just prior to the last financial crisis.
When the next great financial crisis strikes, we are going to see a spike in the suicide rate just like we did during the last one. Millions will be blindsided by what is coming and will give in to depression and despair. But that doesn’t have to happen to you. It is empowering to know what is coming and to understand why it is coming. It is empowering to get prepared in advance for turbulent times. It is empowering to have a plan for the years ahead.
Even though I write about all of the horrible things that are coming to this country every day, I live my life with no fear, and that is what I want for all of you as well.
Do you want to know who will be giving in to fear and panic when things start to go really crazy?
It will be the people that had no idea what was coming and made no preparations whatsoever.
Yes, the times ahead are going to be extremely challenging, but they can also be the best times of your life.
It is all going to come down to how you respond to a world that is going completely insane.
The choice is up to you.
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The cops are arguing with each other over who has the best fairy tale. Meanwhile, more video footage is coming in from bystanders contradicting the stories of both the cops and other witnesses.
The guy, "the witness", in the van went public today to discredit what the cops leaked to the media about his story. He says he HEARD banging, like Freddie's head banging on the van. Besides that, we know the van made at least one unscheduled stop. We have no idea of the truth beyond Fred is dead.
Can anyone find another example of an individual severing their own spine while in cuffs and in a tight space like a van? After all, it isn't like he could get a run at a brick wall or anything like that.
Well, now that Al Sharpton is on the scene they will need more time to get their stories straight. He needs to coach the mayor in how to achieve maximum destruction while making it whiteys fault.
Was at this funeral in a small African village near Enugu State in Nigeria when someone asked if i cared for a drink. Does the Pope shit on little boys in the woods? It was 90 degrees in the shade and i was melting like a chocolate bar as these events unbeknown to me involved around 10 different preachers/ sermons. 50% of the mourners were catholic and 50% ( excuse my ignorance) folks who shouted after the preacher said ' praise the lord ', hallelujah.
Was amusing to see folks united to celebrate their sister's death but divided down the middle in response to the 2 , can i call them sects.
Back to the drink. Was expecting the guy to jump into the house and fetch me a bottle of guinness ( they brew a very potent one in that country much more so than in ireland ) or a can/tin of heineken BUT nope, the guy shins up a tree with a white plastic canister and taps out what is palm wine. was a bit hesitant at first but it turned out to be very sweet , delicious and fairly potent. Moral of the story is that some folks around the globe will never know a recession.
"Without this epic stockpiling of non-farm inventory which will have to be liquidated at some point (and at a very low price)... "
Why would anyone buy anything that isn't for farm use? Slowly increasing my own stockpile, all of it useful, none of which will be let go, for any price.
Great story and in regards to the guy with the funny hat, only on days that end in "y".
I saw somewhere else in comments someone saying you won't be able to hide from global recession by moving to some remote part of the world in a relatively undeveloped country.
This story and your moral is exactly why that is (at least somewhat) untrue. In so many parts of the world, people have learned to make do with what their environment has to offer. If we make the move now (with the added benefit of some first world resources), it is a very viable alternative to sitting in the US waiting for the Titanic to hit the inevitable iceberg.
so why are they drowning to get to europe?
Once again it is Teowaki all day on ZH. Sometimes I can't get enough and others it is too much. It's not all bad news. Maybe Bernie can give the Hillary a run for her money. It doesn't take long (if you can take a few days off) to remember that the sky is not falling. When the US and ZH are long gone, the sun will still rise in the east and a rose is still a rose.
Speaking of Bernie Sanders, I'm sitting here enduring Jimmy Fallon's monologue where Sanders gets skewered along with Ted Cruz. This little betabitch twit is what Merikans think is sharp edged comedic intellect? He's hackneyed right out the box.
Bernie is somewhat aged. My odds on him having a heart attack will run parallel with his poll numbers against Clinton. Any takers?
Radioactive Ashes Fall on Belarus and Kiev, Chernobyls Revenge With a Deadly One Two Punch
Hot particles of Plutonium go up in smoke.
stock here:
Internal Plutnium has a danger weighting value of 112,000 times higher than your "average" radiation.
Internal Cesium is 20 to 100 times worse than basic radiation.
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pretty powerful video also
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2015/04/radioactive-ashes-fall-on-b...
Poroshenko says that by doubling up on your chocolate intake symptoms from the fallout will be negligible.
All this great news has no effect on Americans. Must be something in the water...
Come on September!!
Make sure to get a good case of beer before the show starts!
"I live my life with no fear, and that is what I want for all of you as well." -- Michael Snyder
Of course Snyder isn't afraid... his favorite superhero is returning to the earth plane any year now to set things to right and cast into the eternal hellfires any fully-brained human who chooses not to build his or her life philosophy around a blatantly immoral, easily corrupted, absurdity-laden ancient mythology. After this second coming -- an event that has been on "any minute now... you'll see" status for the last two thousand years -- Snydie gets to go to Happily-Ever-After Land, holding hands with his fellow brainwash victims and skipping across cloudtops as they sing hymns of religious indoctrination until the end of time. How could anyone be afraid with a future so bright?
...Of course, it is fear -- of mortality, meaninglessness, and eternal damnation -- that is the one true thing on which his entire ideology is based, so to say he lives "with no fear" is an outright lie. What Snyder truly wants is for all of us to adopt his religion and subsidize his enterprise.
There is more documented evidence of Christ than ANY subject you can bring up. What year is it? That's right dumb ass, it is 2015! Is it 2015 just in the USA? NO. How did the whole fucking world come to adopt this calander year? Think about it fuck nuts...
You live in an era where the Rapture has been stressed more and more. Even the scripture you believe says it is unkown, people feel the time is soon. You have been led to believe that, same as any religion implants ideas in its subjects.
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More of Michael Snyder's puerile bullshit. It reads like a high school newspaper.
Why is this nut's garbage posted here? Did Paul Craig Roberts suddenly retire?
ZH sure isn't what it used to be...
might I suggest you head over to Media Matters? everything is rosy over there.
Never bought a smartfone - Razr smokes - fuck NSA/USG
and. . . it's gone.
Happy May Day comrades!! Workers of the world unite. You have nothing to loose but your chains!
For those of you who doubt what .gov and human nature is capable of, this appeared in yahoo this am.
http://news.yahoo.com/mauthausen-camp-no-return-built-third-reich-032556883.html
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