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There Is No Solution To The Crisis
Via Darren Krett,
A long ,long time ago...
it was the 16 September 1992, Black Wednesday, when the British Government was forced to withdraw the pound sterling from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism(ERM) after it was unable to keep the pound above its agreed lower limit in the ERM. A certain Mr.Soros, made over £1 billion profit by short selling sterling while costing the Treasury £27billion of foreign currency reserves trying to prop up the Pound and a tidy £3.4 billion loss.
Fast forward to now and one of the upshots of the 2008 crisis was that central banks eunuchized the commercial banks through Dodd Frank and other such regulations, for such embarrassing situations could never be repeated for a central bank. So they took full control without impunity.
Now initially I believe that it was with good intent. Too big to fail was something unacceptable. That governments should not have to foot the bill for the ineptitude of banks and hedge funds who invested in other funds because they had a good "name" (a nice name with words in them like "enhanced" or "high", not because they were of reputable background),without the faintest idea of what they were investing in was indeed a joke.
And it could be argued that the Fed and ECB were correct in hiding all the problems from the general population. The idea being that the economy is entirely built on sentiment.
Tell people every day that things are OK, fudge economic numbers and plaster over the cracks in the hope that eventually it will all rectify itself, then people will actually start believing ,spending and therefore improving the economy and that the debt can be repaid via tax receipts. This coinciding with a technology boom where there is a serious lack of talent and available staff and it would be tempting to think that this may have possibly worked. That the central banks have saved us from a perilous depression....however, as it has been said...with great power comes great responsibility.
As is the case with many movies...our hero always faces a tipping point, where the area between good and bad becomes very grey and the choice is which path to choose...the light or dark.....unfortunately it would seem that our heroes at the Fed and the ECB have most certainly chosen the path of the dark side...and they know it too....
Something, something dark side....
Recently the ECB began their own QE program. These purchases will be paid for “with the printing press,” or more technically, an expansion of the monetary base. This comes on top of the Bank of Japan’s own stepped-up money-printing scheme.
It has not been very well appreciated that the Fed’s own QE program, was largely offset by a similar size contraction in the ECB’s base money supply during the same time period. This was caused primarily by the runoff of the ECB’s “long-term refinancing operation” direct bank lending.
The US annual deficit should total $468 billion for the 2015 fiscal year however the improving deficit numbers are temporary. Budget deficits are projected to begin going up again in 2018, and to nearly double by 2024 as retiring baby boomers strain the health and retirement systems, the economy grows more slowly and interest on the nation’s outstanding debt rises.
The federal government is expected to spend $277 billion on interest on the debt in the current fiscal year. That’s projected to soar to $827 billion by 2025. As a percentage of the economy, it would more than double from 1.3 percent in 2015 to 3 percent in 2025.
Simply put, it will cost the government more to borrow in coming years to pay bills already incurred. Consequently, the $13.4 trillion in debt held by the public projected for 2015, which would be akin to 74 percent of the overall economy, is projected to swell to $21.6 trillion by 2025, when it would total 79 percent of the economy. As recently as 2007, before the Great Recession (this term has been used a lot lately, as if it was something of our past not our present, which is in itself laughable), it was equal to about 35 percent of the economy.
It’s as if for every $100 you earn, you have outstanding debts equal to almost $80.
The end result of Fed policy appears to be to keep us in perpetual economic malaise, to keep us all confused. They keep interest rates low masking the huge structural issues of huge federal budget deficits and whenever the economy appears to be picking up a bit, they threaten to take away the government props of QE and low interest rates faster thereby slapping down the economy. All this happening while the ticking time bomb of huge Federal Debt accumulates more potency.
But if they know this ???
With all this information at their fingertips are they unable to do anything about it or is there something darker afoot...
So lets see what they are doing to help us...
More than a fifth of property sales in Central London are now being secured by wealthy foreign buyers. Houses and apartments are increasingly being sold to Russian, Italian, French and Middle Eastern owners.
Since 2008, around 30% of condo sales in large-scale Manhattan developments have been by buyers with overseas addresses or through secretive LLCs.
Gold and other physical assets are being repatriated more and more every day.
At Cheyenne Mountain the Pentagon is beefing up its communications setup inside a hollowed-out section of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains less than a decade after it had largely abandoned the site.
The chess pieces are being moved around the board in preparation for what may come,it is as if they have already given up....
So the reason this time it WILL be different us that all the world's economies are so closely intertwined. Previously with such events as the South Sea Bubble, the Dutch Tulip bubble and even the great depression, to a certain extent, we were not as "global" as we are now.
So how will it end then spoiler-boy?
There are alternate endings.....
1. There will be massive defaults at all levels of society including individuals, corporations, municipalities, states and finally the Federal government itself. They all have too much debt to pay back and it will be defaulted on.
2. They can default by not paying the loans back and we get a sharp and painful, but not endless period of deflationary debt collapse where all the bad decisions of the past Fed induced business cycles are finally accounted for. It is easy to forget that Germany’s government, like the governments of the U.S. and Britain, printed money to fund World War I for five years, 1914-1919, and suffered no particular adversity as a result. It worked great! Until it didnt!
3. World War III....as scaremongering as this may sound there are many historical precedents for this and we are not exactly in the most stable geopolitical arena.
The Oligarchy will not do what is best for the people. This is still about trying to retain power as is and protecting their own.
I will leave you with a quote from president Lincoln;
“The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, and more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes. I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the Bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe.”
Lincoln then prophetically added:
“I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my Country. Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the Country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the People, until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic is destroyed.”
There is no solution to the crisis, merely a choice of which roads to choose, a deflationary debt collapse, or a hyperinflationary dollar collapse or World War III. Pick your poison...
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Fractional Reserve Banking creates the following problems.
-people spend more every month than they earn.
-people need to spend more every month in order for prices to rise , so wages rise, so that more money is printed through transactions so that they can get more money to pay off the short-fall every month
Its a vicious circle.
People always say deflation is bad.
This isn't true.
Deflation is bad for people who aren't willing to work for a living, like bankers and people who expect to be handed everything for free (politicians who live unicorn land)
Deflation is the way the economy purges itself of the useless eaters that steal the labor of the productive class.
Fractional reserve banking fraud can't exist or operate in a deflationary state, it quite litterally begins to fall apart unless massive injections of counterfeit money enter the banks balance sheets (hence bailouts).
So you are stuck with a system where people who work for banks eat off your back while providing no value to you.
Finance provides a very mininal value to consumers of financial products, while the costs are very high to society in general.
There are no solutions for the short term, but there are definitely solutions for the long term. Solution #1 - hang the bankers responsible, after a fair trial, of course...
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There is no plan B, and there is no exit strategy.
I chose door #4. What ever Dennis Gartman does.
I thought the bad guys took contol WITh impunity ;-)
At any rate, there is always an inherent solution to any crisis. Every crisis comes with it's solution in tow.
If excess liquidity is a problem, why is choking the liquidity spigot not the solution?
That there is a Q...
This here is what I think is a very important tell, about language, such the basis of our existance, do take a listen....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTot6Wcz3-g
Yeah, the back up plan is to get out of the way of the shit as it flies down-range from the fan.
Reading Lincoln quotes where he bemoans the future of "his" country and the future of the republic is the most repugnant experience I have had today.
Lincoln is to blame for the current trouble in Baltimore.
Calm down lady. Should Lincoln refer to it as your country? You lost. Get over it and move forward. Carrying that anger will eat you up inside.
....uh...I thought we were all IN against whatever Gartman does?
Then there is their solution which has been used for hundreds of years.
Get rid of serfs like you or me and replace them with new serfs. A serf is a worth a dime a dozen.
Or, instead of new serfs, robots!
Soon, my friends, soon.
When such robots are ~90% perfected, look for a series of deadly plauges to sweep the planet.
Perhaps 500 million will survive ...
This IS the time to launch the Butlerian jihad...
"There is no solution to the crisis"
first off, there is no "crisis" -- this is a time of peace and prosperity and technological advance leading to a quality of life beyond the wildest dreams of previous generations
second, the article identifies 3 very good solutions to any such "crisis" that may one day develop.
but there are all sorts of other good solutions, including the Special Drawing Rights as reserve currency.
and, of course, DigitCoin and its many knock-offs (LoveCoin, FreeCoin, FreedomCoin, etc).
the brightest people in the room have prudently navigated the turbulent waters of financial markets that sometimes require a steady hand at the tiller
hugs,
jimRickards 'n' Krugs
The crisis is that the bankers demand fresh injections of FRNS or they will burn the world down.
The crisis is that banks are terrorists organizations holding everyone in the world hostage with make believe paper.
Actually man has been in a constant state of crisis since it has been recorded. The state of piece is the minority of time.
True, but we all need a "piece" now and then;)
here, here, a Toast Mr. Safely Graze, indeed to the all knowing omni-wise KrugsHerder of the Sheople, we all shall be safely ashore soon, rest assured, as the Mighty Kruggy guides to safe harbor... No Crisis, indeed - Bottoms up !
As history teaches; The solution is either we eat cake...
Deflation is bad because the true *original* definition is a reduction in the amount of debt money in the system (no new loans, previous loans paid off). Inflation is an increase in debt money (new loans, previous loans serviced instead of paid off).
Just as with any other pyramid scam, no new money = collapse.
Definitions were changed from the amount of debt money to pricing so that they could be hedonically adjusted.
I believe most of us now know that it is a leveraged buyout of Amerika and there is only one outcome in the pump and dump scheme.
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Of course, historically fascism is how society purges itself from deflation.
We may get all three: deflation, inflation and war.
"We may get all three: deflation, inflation and war. "
Not may: we are and we will continue to experience surges of deflation, inflation and war..
...oh....and don't forget the defaults, crashes, confiscations and bail-in/outs...
Yes, those were also my first thoughts when I read the article above ...
For those who are still relatively nearer the SOURCES of the "money" being made out of nothing as debts, in order to continue to "pay" for strip-mining the planet, then things may well appear to be better than ever ...
BUT,
the more one knows, the worse it gets:
http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/NWO/silent_weapons_quiet_wars.htm
Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars
Energy is recognized as the key to all activity on earth. Natural science is the study of the sources and control of natural energy, and social science, theoretically expressed as economics, is the study of the sources and control of social energy. Both are bookkeeping systems: mathematics. Therefore, mathematics is the primary energy science. And the bookkeeper can be king if the public can be kept ignorant of the methodology of the bookkeeping. ... In this structure, credit, presented as a pure element called "currency," has the appearance of capital, but is in effect negative capital. Hence, it has the appearance of service, but is in fact, indebtedness or debt. ... if balanced in no other way, will be balanced by the negation of population (war, genocide)... They must eventually resort to war to balance the account, because war ultimately is merely the act of destroying the creditor ... War is therefore the balancing of the system by killing the true creditors (the public ...)
Yeah Yeah ‘Off with their Heads’. Be careful what you wish for. The pain and suffering from a global banking collapse is probably just what we need because it will expose the futility of a Socialist/Marxist government. But the question is what do we get next… Chaos to start, looking forward to that? Who wants to see their family facing that? But they will, probably later this year. However Fractional / Relational banking is not the problem…. Given an accurate P&L, investors can evaluate risk based on the overall leverage and if they start leaving, the leverage would have to be reined in or the bank goes bust, a new bank takes over and the SHAREHOLDERS lose. Transactional banking is the problem. When the bankers sell mortgages to whoever and profit is in how many fees they can generate on Transactions. In the current cesspool of Gubment the only skin in the game is the taxpayers and the numbers are all lies. The Fractional / Relational banking business model profit is from managing a LOCAL pool of assets i.e. mortgages and the interest they generate. The shareholders have to keep a tight reign on leverage or they can lose it all.
Viva la Libertad
they try to play there game until the very END!
for every problem there is a tender nirple solution
ruby boobies bitchez!
The real solution is simple: 40 acres and a mule. Real wealth will survive the deflated / inflated devaluation of the dollar whichever comes first or second. If no mule available or desired, better have a community tractor and fuel. the community is the key part, they'll help support the real wealth like education and libraries and art and music and gold.
Precisely why this collapse will be so much worse than previous ones. People used to grow their own food. Not now - those people will starve. Look to Ferguson/Baltimore to how worthless sheep react.
Collapse is inevitable. It's built into the system and there's no way to stop it. So that the same system can be set up on the other side of the collapse, a scapegoat will be deployed to take the blame and to wipe out the billions who are no longer needed (everything was fine until that nuke went off).
There is no solution. The end result is complete and utter collapse drenched in the blood of bodies who are no longer needed to keep the debt pyramid afloat. So stop whining about what those in charge have or haven't done. They're the only reason we didn't collapse into dust in 2008 and have given those with any shred of intelligence 7 more years to prepare.
You mean like 7 years of feast followed by 7 years of famine?
The problem is this time we've squandered our easily extractable hydrocarbons, without making it to the next technology (fusion, or whatever). After this crash we will be on the permanent downslope.
Of 40 acres and a mule.... nice solution until they outlaw mules and tax away your land.....
WWIII would occur in either a deflationary or hyperinflationary environment.
Too bad author Darren Krett does not realize this. World wars occur as a response to irresponsible government and banking policies. Both deflationary ad hyperinflationary are examples. You have no ultimate choice because both lead to economic crashes that bring on WWIII.
well, after this (kind of ) next WW there won't be anyone left to have problems. so........?
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein
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The end result of the Feds policy is running out of wealth and income to transfer. There is something seriously wrong with people who insist there is some potential benefit to the whole country. This is the carrying out of a political agenda. It will stop when the political iniiative no longer has any utility to the folks who keeping it in operation.
James Quillian, Common Sense Economics, http://quillian.net/
I don't have any illusions about these people, but Bernanke pimping himself out to Citadel and PIMCO is really beyond the pale.
Have we lost any sense of propriety when this 'institution' (yes, using the term loosely) that has provided untold windfall profits on one way bets (that the Fed implicitly covers for) and than you go rattle the tin cup for the equivalent of a men's room attendent job or Clinton speech for a few million?
Sort of confirms every suspicion you ever had about the Fed just being a KinKo's print shop for the banks and hedgies.
OMG, its all soooo simple, just raise minimum wages by 70%..... all fixed.
you will get more jobless people by raising minimum wages -that all
its was supposed to be funny...oh well
just raise minimum wages by 7000% -all fixed.
this is funny xD
you forgot your /sarc tag....
Eclipse...
Pink Floyd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZtfsfoKSB0
While I can easily see a number of defaults, and I can see some deflationary pressure when those default, it is hard for me to envision a government default in the US - which can print its own money in unlimited quantities (just like the Weimar Republic). The EU may be able to have a default (Greece) since each country cannot print its own currency. The same thing will hold with entitlements in the US and Japan - they will be paid by printing more dollars. The Central Banks will continue QE in order to keep rates low. This will last until all confidence is list in the currency - then you get hyper inflation or war.
The only time we really had any deflation risk was the Great Depression - but back then the country actually tried to balance it's debt. That is no longer true.
Hate to inform you, but the US has gone through several deflationary phases before which include the Great Depression.
You need to do some more homework to clear your limited vision.
Fed is going down the Japanaese road but as the World's reserve currency they gotta know it ain't gonna last. They're just stalling so they can open pit stripmine every country they can until something stops them.
When this happened back on Q99X2 we rounded up all the banksters. At first it wasn't easy but then once Colonel Dufflebutts got the idea that it would be easier for him to attack the small footprint of evil than to attack the whole F'n planet he moved quickly. As he gathered the scavengers, his term not mine, he quickly began redistributing their stolen and counterfeited wealth into an open source software financial system that was owned by the public, and he paid for his military expenses using the recovered wealth. Within 2 months most of society was back operational. A group then began writing the code from other code that was already written but never used for the implementation of the planet's governance system. It too was open source software and run via democratic referendum and the public. Financial assets were quickly set with an upside limit of 10,000,000 and anyone caught with more than that were taken to the pyramids and sacrificed in public. Their funds were redistributed into the planets financial system. Yes we had our Cheney's, Rumsfelds, and Clintons but we arrested them and launched their asses from the pyramids. Well the world finally became united under one set of software and one financial system. Never had to worry about wars, robots replacing Q99X2 jobs, over population (during prosperity Q99X2 rarely pop their heads off of the bodies). We got rid of all the corporations and instead used collective investment sort of like your crowd funding but the result was organizations that had no pyramid administration structure. They were more like islands of collective enterprise. Anyhow we recovered from the banksters faster than your Iceland nation. Later the robots became so advanced that population decreased even faster. That's when we began sending ourselves abroad. Take my advice you can round up your banksters now or later but it is your destiny.
You mean like this? http://sapiocracy.com/
:-)
I think the Mayans enjoyed human sacrifice on pyramids
Decentralize. Grow your own. Independance harkens....if you throw down your chains of consumerism. End corporate welfare and all welfare while giving the people space to...decentralize.
What is productive "work"? If it involves paper it isn't work. Teachers excluded.
Return farming, family farming. to the status it deserves. Co-ops work.
Et in Arcadia ego
we need new system. This system is dead
“Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises with debt spending”
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
this monster (current system) has so many heads, the only "solution" is its destruction... the sooner, the better....
KISS Keep it simple stupid. Real truth and justice changes this story big time. What would this place look like if just the top fifty bad guys were in jail for good? Before I make a call on the EOW it would be nice to actually know the truth. For once.
Everyone knows what KISS is. Yet every time someone says or writes it they explain it. How about an end to that practice. Explaining is redundant. KISS. ;)
Squirrel!
This not going to end well.......
"Fiat money is currency which derives its value from government regulation or law"
So money is effectively just some arbitrary thing that we have decided has value, the bits of paper and pieces of metal in our pockets have value because of Government regulation and the law.
When the current system stops working you just make some other arbitrary decisions about what money is.
Having all new money created from debt by banks looks like an idea well past it's sell by date.
The true arbitrary nature of money is shown by an idea put forward in the US.
Just mint some trillion dollar coins to pay off Government debt.
The new pieces of metal are worth a trillion by fiat, like all money.
The impossible Government debt cured in an instant by fiat.
Though the consequences would cause a few problems.
The people on the positive money web site have some good ideas .....
I would not agree that there is no solution to the crisis: Aufit the FED and subsequently close it down!
What a great idea! Why has no one thought of it until now? I recommend that you get started right away.
What would Jesus do ??? Death to the Moneychangers !!
With all due respect, my learned colleagues on ZH sometimes forget that we live under the domination of chosenites, who grabbed the power around 1913, and never let it go since.
Absolutely nothing indicates that they will relinquish it, and even to imagine such possibility is laughable.
We are at war with Eastasia, helped by our loyal allies from Eurasia, and will be such forevermore.
Those monetary fluctuation are nothing but smoke and mirrors, with fat chosenites entering fictional numbers into a computer, all the while laughing at millions of people that follow the results with bated breath.
There will be no revolt in US, the feral negroes are stupid and easily controlable, and the fading middle class is too busy living day-to-day and protecting themselves from said feral negroes and accessorily the police.
The general officer corps was quietly and utterly purged.
The rest of the proles historically never revolts, and in any case they are being kept in dependency of handouts and televitz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDbKe6oy-Oo
What that leaves us with...
-Cosmic events; solar flare, asteroid, radiation waves...
-Geological events; mainly yellowstone caldera.
-Human stupidity; some half-trained flunkie misinterprets data and empties the silos.
I would bet on the flunkie.
The planned end result is all the money for them and none for anyone else.
So far it's working out spectacularly [for them].
Hey everyone, welcome to the Jimmy Carter Century! I hope you are all ready to turn your thermostats down to 65 degrees at least.
A very small tax on electronic money transfers was proposed some years back (Tobin Tax?) and you should've heard the screaming going on around the planet.The idea
was sound: to slow down the velocity of capital sloshing around the planet.Anyway,it never got traction.
Now derivatives: This was supposed to support a system whereby it would not be necessary to set aside capital for a rainy day.The only downside is if the counterparty
chain gets broken.Then ya need a bailout.Then the real fiat printing starts.... Interesting how Lehman Bros was not "systemically crucial" but AIG was (AIG had some
huge bets by Goldman Sachs on the books).
A very small tax on electronic money transfers was proposed some years back (Tobin Tax?) and you should've heard the screaming going on around the planet.
The idea was sound: to slow down the velocity of capital sloshing around the planet.Anyway,it never got traction.
Now derivatives: This was supposed to support a system whereby it would not be necessary to set aside capital for a rainy day.
The only downside is if the counterparty chain gets broken.Then ya need a bailout.Then the real fiat printing starts....
Interesting how Lehman Bros was not "systemically crucial" but AIG was (AIG had some huge bets by Goldman Sachs on the books).
I never found this stuff interesting until I read the column by the late,great Doris "Tanta" Dungey.She described perfectly the financial ponzi process.
"Pick your poison..."? Fuck it! Slide that Tequila bottle over here!
Ah... There! That's MY Solution! Heh, heh, heh...
Cheyenne Mountain
This is the Doctor Strangelove underground paradise being prepared for earth's second peopling after the powers of Washington initiate a global thermo nuclear conflict with Russia and China. They will find pushing the botton easy, knowing that they will be well taken care of and look forward to heavy breeding over the next hundred years down there. As for us, well, you died as patriots, you died doing the evil Russian what they deserve for not being willing vassals, finally, with luck, all the good christians will be heaven bound. So a win, win all around.
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"There is no solution to the crisis"
Reset is the solution. Every cycle resets at the trough. Then a new cycle can begin.
Peak Russia + Peak USA Means Peak World
http://seekingalpha.com/article/3133426-peak-russia-peak-usa-means-peak-...
No solution. Absolutely.
(that there is) No Solution - does depend upon whom one is talking about - if the first world goes down, the partially-bombed might enjoy a rennaisance...for about five minutes...Essentially, small western banks would be wiped out... as the first domino, and then what, new denomination currencies - and a reset of soveriegn debt ('cos,) - and presto ... what works for Greece will work for everyone else, just better.
The only possible solution is INDEPENDENCE through SUCCESSION. Reform is impossible.