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What Fresh Horror Awaits The Economy After Fed Rate Hike?

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Submitted by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com,

There is one predominant reality that must be understood before a person can grasp the nature of the Federal Reserve and the decisions it makes, and that reality is this: The Fed’s purpose is not to defend or extend American markets or the dollar; the Fed’s job is ultimately to DESTROY American markets and the dollar. I have been repeating this little fact for years because it seems as though many otherwise intelligent people simply will not accept the truth, which is why they have trouble comprehending the actions that the Fed initiates.

When analysts make the claim that the Fed has positioned itself "between a rock and a hard place" in terms of policy, this is not entirely true.  The Fed is exactly where it wants to be in terms of policy; but the central bank has indeed positioned the U.S. ECONOMY between a rock and a hard place, by design.

Globalists see the U.S. dollar and the U.S. economy as expendable (for the most part), and this sacrifice is meant to create distracting chaos as well as geopolitical advantage towards a new fully centralized world economic system.  You can read the considerable evidence for this agenda in my article 'The Fall Of America Signals The Rise Of The New World Order'.

If you believe the Fed is the sole purveyor of the global economic crisis and is at the top of the internationalist pyramid, then you probably predicted that the privately controlled central bank would “never in a million years” raise interest rates (many prominent people within the alternative economic scene did). If you believe that the Fed’s primary goal is to prolong the life span of the “American empire,” again, you probably predicted that the Fed would never raise interest rates. There is a serious normalcy bias when it comes to parts of the alternative economic world and their position on the Federal Reserve. They refuse to acknowledge that the Fed is a deliberately preset time bomb meant to vaporize the U.S. economic system and currency. And as long as this continues, they will never be able to determine what is likely to happen next within our fiscal structure.

There is no way around it: If you cannot grasp the root motivations of the Fed, then you will become cognitively crippled in your struggle to see the next pitfall in the near-term economic future.

In August, I made this prediction concerning the Fed rate hike decision:

"The Federal Reserve push for a rate hike will likely be determined before 2015 is over. Talk of a September increase in interest rates may be a ploy, and a last-minute decision to delay could be on the table. This tactic of edge-of-the-seat meetings and surprise delays was used during the QE taper scenario, which threw a lot of analysts off their guard and caused many to believe that a taper would never happen. Well, it did happen, just as a rate hike will happen, only slightly later than mainstream analysts expect.

 

If a delay occurs, it will be short-lived, triggering a dead cat bounce in stocks, with rates increasing by December as dismal retail sales become undeniable leading into the Christmas season."

I made the prediction (as well as my prediction on the taper in 2013) on the foundation that the Fed is only an appendage of a greater elitist banking machine. The Fed as an institutional idea is not sacrosanct for the elites, and is at the very least replaceable. The dollar is slated for demolition. And though it may continue on for a time in a more marginalized capacity, the “Fed note” as we know it today will soon be crushed under the weight of what the International Monetary Fund calls the “global economic reset.” In other words, every part of my prediction turned out correct because I accepted the reality that the Fed will invariably take the most destructive policy actions at the worst possible time with the purpose of crisis in mind.

Central bankers also have a tendency to follow patterns. They rarely change strategies on a whim. Most of the decisions we see made by the Fed, the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan, etc. were likely made months, if not years, in advance and follow the same strategies used during previous crises.

For example, the Fed process of raising interest rates this December followed almost exactly the process they used to introduce the taper of QE3 in 2013: a buildup of rhetoric in mainstream news during the first half of the year and then a fake-out in September, followed by months of uncertainty in markets and then quick passage of the policy in December. The Fed also has a habit of raising interest rates at the onset of economic instability or right in the middle of a downturn, as it did in 1928-1929, triggering the Great Depression, and in 1931, adding fuel to the fire of financial catastrophe. These particular catalyzing policy actions are partly what Ben Bernanke was referring to on Nov. 8, 2002, in a speech given at “A Conference to Honor Milton Friedman … On the Occasion of His 90th Birthday”:

"In short, according to Friedman and Schwartz, because of institutional changes and misguided doctrines, the banking panics of the Great Contraction were much more severe and widespread than would have normally occurred during a downturn.

 

Let me end my talk by abusing slightly my status as an official representative of the Federal Reserve. I would like to say to Milton and Anna: Regarding the Great Depression. You’re right, we did it. We’re very sorry. But thanks to you, we won’t do it again."

Based on this pattern of policy actions leading to fiscal disaster, I believe alternative analysts can predict with some certainty what is likely to happen now that the Fed has raised rates in the middle of the most pervasive economic contraction since the Great Depression was initiated (as Bernanke admitted) by central bankers. Here are some trends that I believe will become exponential as we move into 2016.

Market Turmoil Going Critical

This might seem like an easy prediction to make; the IMF and the Bank for International Settlements have both been publishing “warnings” on a possible negative financial event if the Fed were to raise rates. I just want to point out first that the Federal Reserve takes its marching orders from the BIS, so the BIS would certainly know if a Fed policy change will result in collapse.  We don't have to make predictions, we only have to look at where the BIS is positioning itself in order to appear as though it is a prognosticator with our "best interests" at heart.

Second, market turmoil is a guarantee given the fact that banks and corporations have been utterly reliant on near-zero interest rates and free overnight lending from the Fed. They have been using these no-cost and low-cost loans primarily for stock buybacks, purchasing back their own stocks and reducing the number of shares on the market, thereby artificially elevating the value of the remaining shares and driving up the market as a whole. Now that near-zero lending is over, these banks and corporations will not be able to afford constant overnight borrowing, and the buybacks will cease. Thus, stock markets will crash in the near term.

This process has already begun with increased volatility leading up to and after the Fed rate hike. Watch for far more erratic stock movements (300 to 500 points or more) up and down taking place more frequently, with the overall trend leading down into the 15,000-point range for the Dow in the first two quarters of 2016. Extraordinary but short lived positive increases in the markets will occur at times (Christmas and New Year’s tend to result in positive rallies), but shock rallies are just as much a sign of volatility and instability as shock crashes.

It is hard to say how fast and how far markets will drop by the end of 2016. I believe we will see a repeat of the 2008-2009 market chaos, but we are entering into some unknown territory being that the crisis we are experiencing is not a purely deflationary one like the Great Depression. Rather, this is a “stagflationary” collapse with elements of the Great Depression and the Weimar inflationary disaster.

The Fed Will Continue To Hike Interest Rates

I believe the Fed will continue to hike rates throughout 2016 despite any current or future negative economic signals. It has ignored the global contraction so far and will ignore future events. Why? The Fed is setting the stage for a collapse. Period.

Mainstream analysts claim skepticism over the Fed’s publicly announced “dot plot” schedule of at least four rate hikes in 2016. I am not skeptical. I think they are going for broke and opening the gates to fiscal hell.

But wouldn’t rate hikes result in a stronger and more desirable dollar? Possibly, in the short term. However, many people are unaware that a supposedly “strong” dollar index relative to other national currencies is just as much a death knell for the greenback as a weak dollar index.

Petrodollar Status Lost

Oil producers have refused to cut production despite the fact that many nations no longer have storage capacity for excess reserves. International demand continues to decline, causing a global oil glut so intense that tankers carrying oil are now being forced to sit offshore waiting for space to dump their cargo. Some are even turning around mid-trip and going back to where they came from.

Why have OPEC nations refused to cut production? Because they plan to diversify away from the dollar and into a basket of currencies in order to “stabilize” oil prices, rather than reduce supply. The icing on the cake is the recent decision by Congress and the Obama administration to allow the removal of the 40-year-old oil export ban within the U.S. With the lifting of the ban, the U.S. now becomes a competitor in the global oil market in the middle of the worst oil glut since the early 1980s. This might not seem like the smartest move to many analysts, but the Fed is not the only institution out to derail the United States. Certain elitists within our own government are also making the worst possible decisions at the worst possible time, and they are doing this quite deliberately.

According to the current developments in oil markets, I believe the next major economic trigger event will be the removal of the dollar’s petro-currency status. The “strong” dollar (relative to the dollar index) is now driving down prices at a rate that is giving OPEC nations whiplash. Saudi Arabia has already hinted at a depeg from the dollar, as low oil value continues to drive oil producers into debt.

With the U.S. now entering the market as an oil competitor, I do not see any compelling reason for OPEC nations to continue pegging oil sales to the dollar. With the loss of petrostatus, the dollar will be progressively torn apart. This will lead into the eventual removal of the dollar’s world reserve status, which I have been warning about for years, most recently in my article “The Global Economic Reset Has Begun.”

Geopolitical Distractions

I do not see all of these economic developments taking place in an open vacuum. It makes far more sense for them to progress in the background during geopolitical upheaval with terrorism being the main distraction for the general public. I believe 2016 will be labeled the “year of the terrorist,” as ISIS attacks expand to every corner of the U.S. and in numerous EU nations. This “fog of war” is completely necessary to hide the actions of the most dangerous terrorists: international financiers and elites bent on morphing entire global political and financial structures into something more centralized and more sinister.

Other distractions are certainly possible, but there are far too many trigger points around the world at this time to make any kind of prediction as to which ones (if any) will be used. The false East/West paradigm continues and is useful in that it provides a rationale for the eventual dump of the U.S. dollar by Eastern nations (including China). Russian and NATO tensions could be used to foment regional wars or even a world war if that is in the cards. I do not see this as the endgame, though.

Rather, economic collapse is the greatest weapon at the disposal of globalists. National panic, riots, looting, starvation, magnified crime: All of these things result in mass die-offs and desperation. Desperation leads to calls for "strong leadership", and strong leadership usually results in totalitarianism. It might seem sensationalist to tie all of these possible outcomes to the Fed rate hike decision, but give it a little time. Those who make accusations of sensationalism and “fear mongering” today will be asserting tomorrow that such developments were “easily predictable.”

 

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Wed, 12/23/2015 - 23:33 | 6959084 Blythes Master
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More fear porn from B.S.. Yawn.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 23:37 | 6959095 DeadFred
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Brandon is an optimist. It's going to be much worse than that.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 01:04 | 6959290 El Vaquero
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I agree.  We will hit a point where nobody is in control.  

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 01:59 | 6959364 y3maxx
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Careful not to get shlonged by the shlongmeister himself.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 02:56 | 6959437 Fuku Ben
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I agree. I've seen some excellent suggestions for financial replacements posted here but none published for averting an implosion. But that too is actually easily possible just not in the current global geopolitical climate.

The plans and date for WWIII to start were set long ago. These things take a lot of planning by co-conspirators to meet specific deadlines. The date is now publicly available in a number of places and you can search for it if you're interested. Anyone paying close attention could have seen a few people have posted details here on ZH. I don't consent to a financial collapse, war or acts contributing to either. As for the path to kick it off. Well I posted a very detailed post with one very real possibility around a year ago. And it was deleted in under 60 seconds. Since the details would probably get deleted again if anyone wants to know a very small piece of the content watch the Jan. 2016 X-Files promo.

More immediately though there are apparently more alleged terrorist attacks planned to happen in the west soon. The NY announcement the other day was one. I wouldn't recommend being anywhere near crowds between Dec. 24, 2015 and January 2, 2016. Stay safe.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 05:09 | 6959538 FlipFlop
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Author is in a serious need for help. Too much Alex Jones? Take a break, the world is not as evil. How do I know? I have personal friends in many places of power...ECB, IMF, EC commission, private equity and hedge funds....etc etc

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 07:46 | 6959624 new game
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u be very"special". let me guess, u drive a ceedes and live in a gated neighborhood. i'm so very impressed....fuck off and understand evil is evil, and evil is in control. look around and see the evil of war that i ask myself "why is this happening?". answer that and tell me your friends got a clue, fuck off/...

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 08:06 | 6959647 FlipFlop
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Mind you language :)

I even know people who attend Bilderberg meetings. They are possibly self-serving and very often arrogant, but any talk about conspirary can be dismissed as non-sense.

They are normal people in powerful positions, but they have kids as well. The problem we have today is more fundamental, something about the system. For that one, none has an answer as we all part-optimize our lives.

Does this do for an answer? Merry Christmas!

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 08:22 | 6959686 Isy
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It's the greatest threat global security has ever faced.

All the weapons in the world won't matter once ISIS army kick into gear!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq_su8XIpZU

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 08:43 | 6959724 DaddyO
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It seems you have stepped on a pop top and blown out your flipflop.

Your posts denote a complete disconnect of the reality the global systems are on and the path you are on.

It may be time to stop and fix your blown out flipflop...

DaddyO

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 09:00 | 6959746 FlipFlop
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Well, you sound like someone from Alex Jones discussion column :)

No-one denies the challenges, but maybe this is the reason no-one asks you. :) You write from some mental insitute? Those people sound the same and have plenty of time online.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 20:37 | 6961790 mkhs
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Nice answer.  A veiled insinuation of insanity.  I, too, have many influential friends in IMF, BIS, FED, etc., but when I drink beer, it is not dos equis.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 09:03 | 6959749 JRobby
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"I even know people who attend Bilderberg meetings"  Guilt by Association. Dangerous during uncertain volatile times. Today.

Penalty: Euthanization. Eradicate contagious illness for the greater good.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 15:54 | 6961016 Pickleton
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By definition, the secret bilderberg meetings are a conspiracy you dumbass.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 09:50 | 6959857 morethan1
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Flip Flop, you are SERIOUSLY out of touch with reality. When one looks at the march of progressives to "fundementally change" the U.S. using the media and education, for example, it is clear there are forces trying to destroy the west. Why else has has Islam suddenly been put front and center? What reasonable person would think allowing open borders is sane? Running up $18T in debt? Voting on bills not read and implemented by unacountable bureacrats? Fighting never-ending wars which we CHOOSE not to win.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 08:59 | 6959740 JRobby
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As the voting on these first 2 posts indicates

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 23:45 | 6959112 GRDguy
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B.M.:  Sure, just like folks who complained about the dirt and construction waste piled sky high in Shenzhen for the last year, and nobody did anything. SHTF, didn't it. Mud slides.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 02:19 | 6959407 troublesum
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If he's selling fear its because demand for that commodity has risen.

No different than the increased demand today for gold and silver by people that sound like tinfoil hat marketeers. By the time you figure out what the value is, there wont be any left for you to buy at any price.

Now is the time to be afraid so that when the moment comes you will have paid a small price while everyone else is paying top dollar for the inflated cost that fear will fetch.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 08:29 | 6959657 MrNosey
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'More fear porn from B.S.. Yawn.'

 

If you think that this site is full of BS, then why even come on here and make inane comments?

There will be a rush for the exit in the new year as it has just been discovered that the German Chancellor Angela Merkel is allegedly ‘Hitler’s Daughter’ and therefore we will witness the rise of the 4th Reich......

http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2015/12/the-fix-is-in-franc...

 

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 08:17 | 6959669 marts321
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Plenty of mainstream outlets if you want your fix of comfort, go join the lemmings and be confused when it all goes to sh!t.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 23:35 | 6959090 TeamDepends
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We schlonged some folks.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 23:40 | 6959102 stant
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Lets see , no one has run a biz or traded the markets with intrest rates trending up in over 30yrs

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 00:06 | 6959179 Id fight Gandhi
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I don't believe this grand collapse plan. If that was the case they had the chance in 2008. They're throwing everything they can at this, funny accounting, manipulated data and gushing money.

Theyre blinded by greed and grasping straws.

 

What needs to be seen is why rates are going up. Something must be seriously wrong because it would've been more palatable last year.

 

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 00:10 | 6959187 Implied Violins
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2008 was about testing a model regionally, and setting a precedent. As they later did with Cyprus, and now Greece. Once they saw that they could get away with that shit scot-free, they decided to push the pedal to the metal, globally. That's what's going on at present.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 01:54 | 6959353 MayIMommaDogFac...
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The cameras-everywhere phenomenon was not fully in place until around 2009 (i.e post-2008 financial panic).  

If you were powerful and evil enough to actually plan the collapse of the US (and thus world) economy such a comprehensive surveillance network would surely be helpful for managing the aftermath.

Just a thought.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 01:08 | 6959300 El Vaquero
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I don't doubt that there are shady fuckers who believe that they deserve to run the entire world, but I agree on the grand collapse plan.  A collapse of the magnituded that BS is talking about risks breaking supply chains.  Perminantly.  It's kind of hard to control the world without an enormous logistical machine.  Think I'm going to obey some directive from some fag in Basel who cannot project force more than a couple of hundred miles away, even by proxy?  Fuck no!

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 02:01 | 6959368 Implied Violins
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But if the purpose is to kill off 95% of the population, and you are an elite with enough supplies to last you and your family/enforcers for a lifetime underground, said supply chains mean nothing if your intention is to wait things out until everyone on the surface is DEAD. Don't forget: these bastards are eugenicist, Satanist fucks who sacrifice shit to Moloch at Bohemian Grove every year. See: Georgia Guidestones -

http://vigilantcitizen.com/sinistersites/sinister-sites-the-georgia-guid...

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 22:26 | 6962031 Ocean22
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They were not ready in 08'. Things need to be in place before they pull the plug for good and drain the tub. It's coming. They are close.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 23:43 | 6959115 NoMoJackboots
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Fed is going to schlong some folks.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 20:51 | 6961834 mkhs
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Bzzzzzzzz.  Wrong.  The FED is dickless.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 23:46 | 6959121 PoasterToaster
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If these globalists actually believe they can simply swap in their preferred new fiat currency for the US Dollar, they are going to be surprised when every jurisdiction decides to go their own way.  After the destruction of the old order, nobody is going to want to just jump back into the same system with a new clown buck currency.

Some might even find the freedom refreshing after realizing just how much theft, control, and slavery they used to live under when the old system is imploded.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 01:18 | 6959314 Pabloallen
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Fucking right these bags of shit are going to run it down your throat again. The theft control and slavery disappear as the game is reset. More to the point, the people will cheer it and your masters will keep in control as always.... remember the Amero bitchezzzzzz ??????  You heard it here first !!!!!!

 

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 07:51 | 6959631 new game
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schlonging the slog to extract your labor and transfer it to themselves, the freeloaders running the shit show...

print some free labor for me mutherfucker, ha...

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 23:49 | 6959137 Ms No
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You mean that after the politically correct non-Christmas with nothing but Butt Fucker Santa and politically correct Campus Krampas that there will be a fresh horror awaiting us?  Good gawd man!

He is probably right about them trying to destroy the economy though, it's just a matter of when and how they go about it.  I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if the Fed planned things out way in advance either, with some improvisation here and there.   

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 23:53 | 6959153 Wow72
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From Article: "Certain elitists within our own government are also making the worst possible decisions at the worst possible time, and they are doing this quite deliberately."

Its so blatant and the people are oblivious.  Its unreal.

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 23:56 | 6959162 ebworthen
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Cut the crap.  Put prime at 6% and get the hell out of the way.

No more bailouts, no more QE, and restore the rule-of-law.

That or collapse and revolution.

Mother Fuckers.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 00:32 | 6959228 hxc
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Ever wonder why Volcker was the last one to slam on the brakes? Everyone after has slowly decelerated then hit the wall... Well, more turbulence on their way to the wal (the complete annihilation of the capital structure)

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 08:21 | 6959682 bunnyswanson
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Impact will be a hike in taxes to pay off interest on the debt of 20 T.  Soon to be 21.1 T.  Interest payments are all the US govt can handle at 0%.  What happens at 5%?  Seizure of wealth in some fashion.  Are you an American?

Wed, 12/23/2015 - 23:58 | 6959165 Demdere
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Keep them focused on the rate hike, "The reverse of QE" and ignore the $5T / year of newly created fiat coming at us as the National debt is rolled over onto fiat electrons.

China already went past that.  Europe must be at least close, if not already here also.

Deflation? Right, that is going to be our continuing problem. Another one of those little things in our future never discussed.  Doesn't seem to be priced into anyone's models, at least not the ones they show us.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 00:03 | 6959172 conraddobler
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Bravo,

Exactly.

I always chuckle when people accuse our grand pubah bankers of being stupid and inept.

I am inept at playing Rock Band and am booed off the stage if there were some banking hero game these guys would be pegging the meter out time after time.

 

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 00:59 | 6959215 Atomizer
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NAR lobbyist are shitting bricks. I just shared a email yesterday. These dolts are in a panic mode. Three houses are getting attention for market sales. None of these houses are on the market.

Someone within FPL is selling customer information to a third party. Don't worry, I humiliated each one of these scumbag realtors. The other was our Myrtle Beach location.

Talk about a panic mode within Central Banking lending scam. Why sell a house when you own the deed? Next year we dump two Ohio properties. Kids graduate from Akron University and the other completes her rental agreement obligation without renewal. When you hear a DNC talk about schooling.. They don't give a fuck about education. The interest is compounding section 8 housing investment thru taxpayer schooling propaganda. We bought a home for them to commute (2-5 minutes), rather than them living in a indoctrinated education prison cell.

Despite being a asshole and threating them, they have maintained the house in perfect condition. We have very responsible children. I love them so much.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 00:35 | 6959238 Rehab Willie
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This message has been endorsed by the campaign to elect Hitlery

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 00:49 | 6959262 DipshitMiddleCl...
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lots of good trading opportunities to be had in the coming years with volatility and global news catalysts (wars, natural disasters, terrorist attacks, fraud, etc) 

 

 

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 00:50 | 6959265 Anunnaki
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But I heard Ben Bernanke on Natonal Propaganda Radio tonight positively giddy at how well the economy is doing with all those fancy waitress and bartending jobs

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 00:53 | 6959266 Anunnaki
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Doop

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 00:56 | 6959274 joego1
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I don't think they are that smart or coordinated for that matter. It's a bunch of scociopaths on their own journey to power and glory.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 00:59 | 6959281 Barrack Chavez
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Insanity is doing the same thing the Japanese have been doing for the past 28+ years, but expecting different results.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 01:05 | 6959292 elephant
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With the U.S. now entering the market as an oil competitor, I do not see any compelling reason for OPEC nations to continue pegging oil sales to the dollar

Saddam Hussein and Muammar Ghaddafi were also having difficulty finding a compelling reason. The US helped them out with that.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 04:13 | 6959494 runningman18
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The invasions of Iraq and Libya had nothing to do with oil or gold or the dollar and everything to do with launching the Arab Spring and destabilizing the Middle East so that we could get to the point where the dollar could be considered expendable as the petrocurrency.  You have to look at the long game, not make assumptions about the short game.  And, the U.S. military will be absorbed into a global "police force" once all is said and done.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 01:22 | 6959317 Atomizer
Thu, 12/24/2015 - 07:47 | 6959627 Factsruletheworld
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And yet somehwo the world's properity increases year on year.  Poverty is down - again, child mortality - down - again.  We've never had it so good and there is no reason to think its not going to continue - and yet there you are making a video about killing certain people who you've somehow decided are deserving of such - yet one more revolution...... Hmmmmm.  The world is doing just fine.  Go find a life that does not involved you trying to make it into your own image.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 08:17 | 6959668 bunnyswanson
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How's life in the parallel universe?  Scenic roads only, eh.  Means to an end.  Your feigning a failure to recognize the manipulation of the truth is a slap in the face of Lady Justice, Mother Earth and bunny and your acceptance of this shoddy excuse of a governed world is an affront to rational minds.  Special~ Investor protectionism is the theme.   Stability is the world where we would find milk and honey stories.  First act of any invading army is seizing control of the information, interrupting communication. 

Autistic children tomorrow's slaves genetically engineered to be easily controllable attention deficits.  Half of all children projected to be autistic by 2050.

1 in 65 children develop autism.  Eunuchs and courtesans futures for the darlings blessed with beauty of an angel and gifts beyond the extraordinary.

Carl Sagan warned us about this.  Every meaningful agency has been infiltrated via decades of focus and the funding to pull it off - Funding from deep dark recesses of tear drenched black holes of the richest fucking bastards mankind has ever know.  Supply and demand cycles recognized in the Bloody Business of Underground economy, moving contraband?  You have skin in the laundry mat obviously. 

https://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2015/10/13/autism-increase-myster...

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 12:08 | 6960278 WillyGroper
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@BS,

the major point in your link is reporting criteria.

EMF is but one major factor in this autism epidemic.  Like many charts that correlate, the adoption of cell phones goes lock step with autism.  IMO it's the perfect shitstorm combo of GMO, chemicals, chemtrails (aluminum as conductor) and EMF.  The EMF is destroying DNA and that's without the amplification of the nano. Add the GCmaf to the soup and you have human husbandry at it's finest, aka eugenics. 

I know a couple that now have two autistic children.  What happens to them when mom and dad visit the happy hunting ground?

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 01:37 | 6959334 JailBanksters
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It's NOT a hike it's a tweak

And Banks can still Borrow a 1 Billion Dollars buy a stock in the morning, sell it in the afternnon make a small profit and put the money back before sunset and it's cost them nothing. This tweak changes nothing.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 01:57 | 6959362 Seer
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Brandon, let's just get this out of the way: you're a douche!

The System of perpetual growth on a finite planet IS the conspiracy!

What did people think was going to happen when growth stopped?  How would things look/react?  A debt-based system looking to collect on debts.  Oh the shock of it all!  Who could have imagine that behind that debt collection are people with guns, people with the supposed power to shoot you so that they could scare everyone else into running on the hamster wheel just a bit harder.

Like it's any news flash that growing bodies of people increasingly become more controlling, especially in the face of diminishing resources?  Fuck, I only need to step outside and watch my animals badger one another for some feed that's in adequate supply for ALL of them.  We're animals too, and like all animals we're also wired to act that way.  Denial of this fact is just part of our nature of deception.

So, Brandon, how is the Fed (or any other group of people, a group which, as usually is the case, one that you are not a member of, as YOU are not responsible- it's always THEM) supposed to correct a fundamentally flawed system?  Should they just come clean and tell us: "sorry folks, but since the beginning of human history our understanding of growth has been wrong and  that we cannot perpetually expand- the show is now over"  Humans/nature just continues to do until  it can no longer do.  We know no different.  And, given our large numbers it is impossible to achieve any understanding as a whole: our deceptive selves will never allow us to not try and garner an advantage (either passively or actively).

Yeah, shoot the Fed.  And then what?  What happens when we discover that we're still broke?  What happens when we shoot everyone else?  We'll find another way to do exactly what we've always done, and we'll proudly claim that this time it's different!

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 02:12 | 6959386 conraddobler
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I myself have said the same thing that lower developed birth rates are imploding the ponzi.

However the FED isn't trying to address this it's surfing this and using it as a fulcrum to pile drive the shit out of us while it transitions us to an even crappier world.

I expect them to start your meme any day now.

Oh there just isn't enough food and if we don't lower the cow population their farts will kill us all!

We as a species are at a cross roads.

The old ways are easy to spot for what they are and will be replaced by in your face totalitarianism and in that system they will solve your problem easily.

They will just kill people.

I am telling you and anyone else out there that such a system is a solution but it's even worse than the ponzi scheme you say is so antiquated.

You want antiquted?

Antiquated is utter subjigation that's an oldie but goddie and count me out on that one.

We as a species are at a time of recognition of a few things.

We can't use the perpetual growth meme anymore.

The ponzi financial system won't work without growth

Technology is reducing human captial's value to near zero with all due speed.

Those are our problems to solve and if we don't solve them someone will solve them for us.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 02:25 | 6959413 Hohum
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Yep, the machines don't pay for themselves.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 04:37 | 6959502 runningman18
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You're just ignorantly rationalizing away the deliberate actions of the elites, which is exactly what they want.  Neither Smith nor any other regular American created the artifically low interest rate conditions that launched the collapse in the first place.  We didn't start the Arab Spring or create the false paradigm between the East and the West.  We aren't setting the stage for the "global reset" that the IMF always salivates over.  With real free markets, we might indeed be able to sustain steady growth.  We'll never know until the fuckers are dead. 

What you have overlooked in your faggoty limp wristed rush to slap at Smith is that the globalists created the flawed system on fucking purpose!  The system is not flawed because of us, we have no say in the matter at this point.  What about this fact is so ethereal that it passes right between your ears?  Yes, SHOOT THE FUCKING FED and the rest of the banksters because they are engineering the flawed system you are bitching about without offering any constructive options.  Holy fuck, think about it you twat.     

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 16:22 | 6961093 Pickleton
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"Brandon, let's just get this out of the way: you're a douche!"

 

Well if there's one thing that's clear reading that, you have no clue who Brandon is.

 

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 02:53 | 6959435 Douglas1949
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Get yourself some bitcoin.  After the crisis - the masses will naturally gravitate to this form of money that is independent of TPTB and thus bypass the globalists plan for us to use their SDR / son-of-SDR.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 04:23 | 6959499 lester1
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You fools have no idea what the Fed is doing behind the scenes. The Fed is buying stocks via their primary dealer banks to keep this market propped up no matter what the data. What's to stop them?? The Fed isn't audited and can get away with it. 

The Fed's priority is to protect the asset prices of the .1% and to help Obama. The Fed is right now run by liberal Democrats, so of course they want to make Obama and Hillary look good. They don't want a crisis. The Fed is highly political.

I would love to see the dollar collapse and see a one world currency implemented. That way countries like China and Japan could no longer manipulate their currency. A tidal wave of manufacturing jobs would return to the USA because it wouldn't be cheaper to make things in Asia anymore.

A one world currency is a lot more stable than dozens of countries printing and manipulating their currency !

This Brandon Smith guy has no clue. He needs to go back and study why the Fed is highly political.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 04:30 | 6959507 runningman18
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The banksters have already admitted their plan to replace the dollar and diminish the U.S economy.  Unfortunately you are the one that has no clue, jack.

https://socioecohistory.wordpress.com/2014/07/26/flashback-1988-get-read...

 

 

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 07:36 | 6959613 Factsruletheworld
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I agree.  Brandon Smith is talking bollocks.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 22:20 | 6962018 Ocean22
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Shills

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 04:35 | 6959509 lester1
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We could also declare "the national debt is gone" ! Since the dollar has been abolished. I could totally see a President Trump doing that.  

Bye bye national debt !!

A one world currency would benefit the USA tremendously.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 04:42 | 6959515 runningman18
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The loss of reserve status would destroy the American economy regardless of whether or not any president tries to repudiate the debt.  You're forgetting we import most of our goods and our system cannot survive a major devaluation of our currency.  All central currencies benefit banksters, and no one else.  You're living in dreamland, or your a paid shill for the IMF. 

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 04:42 | 6959514 Niall Of The Ni...
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Sometimes the elites do commit blunders---even catastrophic blunders like financing Hitler's rise to power, for example. 

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 07:52 | 6959629 Tall Tom
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It was NOT a blunder.

 

War is A Racket and the elites profitted handsomely. (See USMC Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler's book by that name.)

 

Standard Oil could have cut off the export of Fuel Additive and Hitler's Luftwaffe and Wehrmacht would have ground to a halt in September, 1939.

 

Rockefeller continued to export Fuel Oil to the Wehrmacht throughout the war from South America via Switzerland.

 

Without that Oil the mechanized War would have stopped and Germany would have imploded.

 

It gets worse.

 

Henry Ford operated Ford Factories in Germany that the US Army Air Forces were not allowed to bomb.

 

Ford was producing Nazi Troop Transports and logistic support vehicles for the Wehrmacht.

 

You really need to read some Antony Sutton.

 

Everything that you have been taught about World War Two...is a fabrication with some truth...but really twisted. It is a lie.

 

The War was planned, just as World War III is planned, and the elites are going to profit handsomely from the spilled blood and suffering. It has been done this way throughout Ancient and Modern History.

 

You should not be too shocked.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 07:06 | 6959602 Wild Theories
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Strangely, I find myself agreeing with most, if not all, of B Smith's predictions, or at least I do see them as a distinct possibility... even though I still can't accept the globist conspiracy thing.

 

maybe I'm still too young and naive to accept the whole consipiracy possibility... or maybe I'm just too drunk to be reading and thinking about this during yuletide

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 07:34 | 6959611 Factsruletheworld
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More doom and gloom crap from Zerohedge.  Yawn.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 07:59 | 6959637 Factsruletheworld
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Its like the guy has this pet theory and spends his entire life looking around for evidence to prove himself right.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 07:59 | 6959638 Factsruletheworld
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Its like the guy has this pet theory and spends his entire life looking around for evidence to prove himself right.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 08:12 | 6959659 MrNosey
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There will be a rush for the exit in the new year as it has just been discovered that the German Chancellor Angela Merkel is allegedly ‘Hitler’s Daughter’ and therefore we will witness the rise of the 4th Reich......

http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2015/12/the-fix-is-in-franc...

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 12:10 | 6960292 WillyGroper
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WTF,

do you get paid for BIN links or just have OCD for your news sources?

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 08:18 | 6959679 FreeNewEnergy
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Seriously, Brandon is full of crap. Terrorism is on the wane. What do you think Putin's meeting with Kerry was all about?

Putin: Get the fuck out of Syria.

Kerry: Yes, sir!

Putin: You and all the Obama assholes are on your way out. Don't do anything stupid.

Kerry: Can I suck your cock again, sir?

Putin: Get the fuck out.

Kerry: I love you.

Putin: You are a fag. You've always been a fag. Go home, homo.

Kerry: Thank you for the microaggression.

The world has changed. Trump will be president. All the doom and gloom isn't really working - well, it did, but its about petered out. The world needs to rebuild. Most of MENA is rubble. China's a bad joke on a good day. Japan is where the action is. They're truly fuck-u-shima'd.

Yes, there are issues and probalems and the Fed sucks whole bags of dicks on a regular basis, but people are still using FRNs and that's not about to stop.

Silver is the salvation for the masses. Price is quite low and supply has been choked. But, don't buy any, because that would mean less for me.

Like some around heere have been advocating, just don't play along with the government, the banks, the school districts. The biggest problem this country faces is funding the outsized pensions of public employees. I'd hate to be one of them because they're an endangered species. Anybody who thinks some asshat teacher or cop is going to continue collecting 60-100k per year into their 80s just doesn't know math.

Change is good, especially when it's in silver.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 11:51 | 6960213 David Wooten
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If (or when) the market collapses, the Fed (and government) will be to blame but it will not be deliberate.  The Fed and government have simply been kicking the can down the road until a dead end is reached. We're likely close.

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