1.) The country that
receives “Foreign Aid” is not allowed
to use "Foreign Aid" the
way it wants. Instead, the “Foreign Aid”
must be used the way the lender wants you to use it. Why corruption and bribery
occurs and not “change” in the Third
World. This is not only an individual problem but a structural problem in place. The citizens are the pawns.
2.) U.S. BANKS EXPOSED TO THE MOST TOXIC DERIVATIVES:
JP Morgan Chase
Total Assets: $2,476,986,000,000 (about 2.5 trillion dollars)
Total Exposure To Derivatives: $67,951,190,000,000 (more than 67 trillion dollars)
JP Morgan Chase
Total Assets: $2,476,986,000,000 (about 2.5 trillion dollars)
Total Exposure To Derivatives: $67,951,190,000,000 (more than 67 trillion dollars)
Citibank
Total Assets: $1,894,736,000,000 (almost 1.9 trillion dollars)
Total Exposure To Derivatives: $59,944,502,000,000 (nearly 60 trillion dollars)
Total Assets: $1,894,736,000,000 (almost 1.9 trillion dollars)
Total Exposure To Derivatives: $59,944,502,000,000 (nearly 60 trillion dollars)
Goldman Sachs
Total Assets: $915,705,000,000 (less than a trillion dollars)
Total Exposure To Derivatives: $54,564,516,000,000 (more than 54 trillion dollars)
Total Exposure To Derivatives: $54,564,516,000,000 (more than 54 trillion dollars)
Bank Of America
Total Assets: $2,152,533,000,000 (a bit more than 2.1 trillion dollars)
Total Exposure To Derivatives: $54,457,605,000,000 (more than 54 trillion dollars)
Total Assets: $2,152,533,000,000 (a bit more than 2.1 trillion dollars)
Total Exposure To Derivatives: $54,457,605,000,000 (more than 54 trillion dollars)
Morgan Stanley
Total Assets: $831,381,000,000 (less than a trillion dollars)
Total Exposure To Derivatives: $44,946,153,000,000 (more than 44 trillion dollars)
Total Assets: $831,381,000,000 (less than a trillion dollars)
Total Exposure To Derivatives: $44,946,153,000,000 (more than 44 trillion dollars)
3.) (a) The stock market increasing but the job
market decreasing AND (b) creating wealth by creating debt CAN ONLY LEAD TO
INEQUALITY OVER TIME. This is the present structural formula in play in consumer,
globalized, and hyper-capitalized societies.
4.)
"Shortages" in
certain export products at different times are used by corporations and national governments in order to hide inflation that is
filtering into the economy due to weakening currencies
5.) The Fed's total assets and S&P 500 are correlated. When the Fed stops, S&P 500 drops simultaneously. Therefore, the more money the Fed prints the more the S&P soars.
6.) The US government is
the biggest sub-prime debtor presently.
7.) China "Faked and Forged" Documents for Exports and Imports: At Least $10 Billion in Fake Trade Exposed in 2014.
8.) BEST CASE: Countries seize
foreign assets, letting them operate, yet keeping the operating taxes instead of
the country they represent.
WORST CASE: Countries seize foreign assets, letting them operate, but keeping all the profits and operating taxes instead of the country, they represent.
WORST CASE: Countries seize foreign assets, letting them operate, but keeping all the profits and operating taxes instead of the country, they represent.
9.) US government confiscated gold bullion and then made
owning it illegal back in 1933.
10.) STRONGEST CURRENCIES IN THE WORLD in 2014: Pound, USD, Yen, Rubble, Euro, IMF (SDR)
11.) Passports, Citizenship, Guns, Gold or Silver, and Porno (referred to as “contraband”) can be seized from safety deposit
boxes inside banks. The individual however, needs to go to court to have it released.
12.) Default rates go up
when more loans are given out to borrowers.
13.) Cash buyers and foreign buyers are buying up houses presently, not citizens or the middle class. Purchasers are not "every day" citizens.
13.) Cash buyers and foreign buyers are buying up houses presently, not citizens or the middle class. Purchasers are not "every day" citizens.
14.) The longer Russia waits the more
Ukraine collapses (financially)
15.) Banks confiscate real
wealth in order to recapitalize banks
16.) Central Banks trade
and buy S&P 500 futures. By doing
so, it props up S&P 500 futures. (Includes
contracts, metals, options, and futures).
17.) "Dumpster diving" growing in Western nations (as well as Food Stamps dependency).
18.) The main party buying
government bonds presently are banks
19.) Wall Street banks are getting hit by cyber attacks every
single minute of every single day. A massive onslaught is not highly publicized
because the bankers do not want to alarm the public. However, as you can see,
one big Wall Street bank is spending 250 million dollars a year just by
themselves to combat this growing problem.
20.) Other economies
slowing down slows down China, China slowing down automatically slows down
other countries (vicious downward circle
with no end in sight)
21.) What is "real" GDP in any economy
anymore? Adjustments continue to be made by national governments and institutes
presently to keep the GDP propped up and higher than it really is.
22.) "Subprime" -people with no money borrowing money to buy
things
23.) If the economy is
doing good, you don't have to be told it, you will feel it.
24.) Higher and Bigger
bubble than in 1929, 1987, and 2008. Hence, bigger crash than ever before.
25.) "Warfare state" VS "Welfare State". You can only have one not both. Most nations presently are switching from "Welfare state" to "Warfare State".
26.) Big banks presently are getting into
trailer park mortgages to make profit.
27.) Refinancing debt is
occurring by countries presently; Refinancing mortgages is what people do when they don't have any more money.
28.) "Hot" spots and "Cold"
spots will always get hit hard differently. Which area do you live in? The "Hot" area is the last to go
down. The "Cold” area goes down first by: (a) becoming stagnant, (b) people
moving away, (c) businesses moving away, (d) filled with immigrants and the
poor who depend on the welfare system to survive, (e) ghost towns created filled with empty decrepit buildings and rampant homelessness (are is financially broken).
29.) The four largest banks
in China, the banks that have to officially show big profits and profit growth
no matter what because they’re an integral part not only of the government but
also of China’s miraculous debt-driven expansion, are showing officially
tolerated signs of increasing stress. For perspective, in 2009, following the
Lehman moment, as other banks were collapsing and were bailed out, the profits
of these four banks grew even then, if only by a combined 2.9%. These four
mastodons – Industrial & Commercial Bank of China, China Construction Bank,
Agricultural Bank of China, and Bank of China – admitted to 384.7 billion yuan
($62.6 billion) of bad loans on their book at the end of June, a 13.2% jump
from just six months earlier. The jump in bad loans ranged from 11% at
Agricultural Bank of China to 17% at Bank of China.
30.) Their "recovery" is the stock
markets and people borrowing money from the banks.
31.) Always ask yourself, "what is the trend line?" (when it comes to stocks -does it fluctuate or is moving in one angle? This is always a Telling sign of how companies and the economy is doing!)
32.) National Governments have insured banks, builders, and major transnational corporations in case of an economic collapse. This is why they do not have a problem lending money, building property, and opening new stores.
33.) Indicators VS. Stock
Markets (Indicators predict stock market
crash about to occur; Stock Markets predict that we are in good times)
34.) This system cannot be
saved because it has incurred too much debt.
35.) Derivatives,
Fractional Reserves, and Real Assets are always in play. Real Assets are already owned. Not sure what people are actually putting
their money in now and investing in.
36.) Interviews is what is
counted in the job reports data, not sending out resumes, or getting a low paying part time job therefore quitting the job search altogether, or being a "freelancer" and looking for any work to stay afloat.
37.) Several Wall Street
firms are selling securities backed by longevity risk - the risk that retirees
receiving benefits will live longer than expected.
38.) A bad economy depends on cheap oil. However, low oil prices affect -Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, and
Venezuela the most.
39.) If you don’t have to
buy oil in USD then you won’t buy USD, therefore leaving USA with too much USD. This is why America remaining as the Reserve Currency is important because this forces countries to use the PetroDollar when trading.
40.) Industrial Revolution
sped up life. Reality could never go back afterwards. Colonialism without
Industrial Revolution would just have been like ancient Greek or ancient Rome expanding.
(Emergence of Christianity, Emergence of industrial revolution, Emergence of technological revolution were 3 things that could never be reversed once they had started and been implemented).
(Emergence of Christianity, Emergence of industrial revolution, Emergence of technological revolution were 3 things that could never be reversed once they had started and been implemented).
41.) Banks do not put
foreclosed houses back on the market, which allows house prices to remain high and therefore everyone makes money.
42.) Robots and Machines that will replace Human jobs and Human beings are presently created, stored, and at worst -on blue print, designed, and patented by major companies. Presently, these Robots and Machines are slowly being manufactured, implemented, and used in locations and major companies. Robots and Machines just haven't been mass manufactured yet.
43.) The "permanent recession" is an oxymoron because you can only
go down so far and once you hit rock bottom, there has to be an "up" and
presently we are "free falling" waiting for that "boom" moment before the "up" moment can occur.
44.) When the dollar
returns to the US after countries and people de-dollarize and make another
currency their reserve (meaning no one
else will buy the dollar) prices in the US will sky rocket, and everything
falls apart. Presently many nations are
doing their trade either in Yuan, Rubles, gold, Bilateral trade, or in silver. The dollar is being squeezed out of deals
currently.
45.) The S&P 500 index
is near a record high yet the U.S. has the lowest level of stock ownership
since 1995.
46.) In Venezuela -first, they came for the financial paper(s)
-currency, then the Toilet Paper, and then they came for the News Paper. Then the country was absolutely broke.
47.) Social contract =paying for national debt, being drafted, and paying taxes
48.) Financial delinquencies
are skyrocketing presently
49.) Gas is cheap presently
because less people are driving and pumping gas. Less air travel, less road travel, less
travelling by car unless it is a necessity.
Gas being cheap also deflates the price of gold and props up the
American currency.
50.) Banks are currently
loaning for Sub-prime commodities. This is occurring presently in order to keep people borrowing
and spending, in order for companies to make profit and the economy from not
weakening (ex: sub-prime I phone purchases)
51.) Why use America’s
exchange rate and buy American treasuries when you can avoid it altogether and
do barter trades with each other?, and do bilateral trades with one another? This allows you to bypass the American system
and simultaneously weaken it.
52.) Housing loan, then car
loan, then student loans. The student loan is the last loan standing in this stagnant economy because it enables people to hope in a better future which neither a housing loan or car loan can give you. When student loan go -no hiding the bad
economy.
53.) When people pull money
out quickly they generally do not rush to put it back in. No incentive for them to do it.
54.) National congestion
fee (tax) and Carbon tax –for traffic congestion and
gas creates government revenue but also weakens purchasing power for individuals and families.
55.) In 2014, the Ontario provincial Liberal government passed a 148% tax hike on "aviation fuel". Sun wing Airlines will now be operating
certain flights and flying out of Buffalo in order to be profitable therefore cutting staff members in Ontario.
56.) More taxes mean less
money to spend which means less choices and therefore less
individualism. Freedom and individuality
is over for Collective mainstream society (after being manufactured in the 1960's & 1970's by social institutes, governments, and
corporations in order to prop up consumerism and capitalism. Now, due to financial constraints people will not be able to shop in "high end" retail stores and be an individual).
57.) Say goodbye to the "Era of Wishful Thinking". Many observers have been waiting for the
moment when the fog of pretense lifts and exposes all the broken machinery
within.
58.) When will the “sell off “occur? That is the question. When will the “sell off” and “bank run”
occur? Huge “sell off” will prevent “buy back”.
“Buy Back” will not occur when there is no money to be made by investors.
59.) Being eternally in debt is not as import for those that are presently in debt and have
nothing (or very little) to do with the stock market. Most of the wealth (money) is in the hands of a few of the richest families in the world and they can support the stock market forever if they want. So do
they want the market crash? And when do they want it? That is the question. At present, it seems
that they do not want the market to crash. However, it is their game and they will
decide when they want to fold and there is nothing the majority of people can do. Those in debt cannot save the stock markets.
60.) "The Working Poor" keep the Banks and Credit Card companies alive; "The Middle Class" keep
the Retailers alive; "The Wealthy" keep corporations (especially with the “buyback” option) and stock markets alive. The "Middle Class" however is shrinking and therefore retailers are feeling this shock (hence many mergers and takeovers are taking place in order to keep these retailers alive).
61.) Outside of top cities (Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary), the Canadian housing is ‘mediocre at best’
62.) A "Currency war" can
take down an economy quicker than a "Hot war" could.
63.) Banks use your money
for fractional reserves, bail-ins, and for their monthly revenue.
64.) "The rich get richer and the days get shorter for everyone
else"
65.) Currently, Russia is replacing their foreign currency
reserves with gold, dumping USD treasuries.
66.) "It Doesn't Matter Until It
Matters" and this is why many people are not paying attention to the economic or political situation at a macrocosmic level. Most people think the "game" will be played for ever, the situation will remain the same, and therefore they continue onward with the same behavior patterns that they have always known.
67.) The US-EU Russian
Sanctions is actually helping Russia from collecting useless US treasuries and
instead it enables them an opportunity to engage in bilateral trade with other nations.
68.) A deflation occurs when people lose faith in the
financial system and begin paying down their debt. However,
our paper money system is based on debt and is designed to continuously
increase. When the trend begins to reverse, a deflation sets in. The US will enter a state of significant deflation. At this point, they will fire up the printing presses, causing a
HYPERINFLATION. In Weimar Germany, the Reichbank was printing quadrillions of Marks everyday! That's the magnitude of
hyperinflation that the Fed is racing towards. Based on historical data, it won't be a case of inflation or deflation.
It will most likely be one after the other. The deflation
won't last very long before it RAPIDLY changes into
inflation. Food stamp usage will break records, as well as disability and other
social assistance programs. In a not-so-shocking coincidence, the
deflation will allow the elite to pick up stocks and
other paper investments at rock-bottom prices.
69.) “It is impossible to earn interest without creating poverty”
70.) "Credit Freeze" and Deflation are worst than Inflation
because Inflation still enables banks to lend money, interest to be earned for
banks, the "American Dream" to continue, purchases to continue for people
who always need worthless stuff (commodities),
and businesses to continue making profit thus hiring people. “Credit
Freeze” is the opposite where banks do not lend money and everything
shrinks, "bank runs" occur, and people lose jobs.
71.) Under the guise of stopping "Climate Change", some governments have decided to tax any industry that outputs carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases. At the
same time giving
waivers to companies like G.E. so that they can maintain a 0% tax rate. Of
course, the businesses simply pass their increased overhead onto the customer, equating to higher prices, environmental fees, and other hidden taxes.
72.) China will launch its International Gold Exchange. The significance of China's gold exchange is
that the western banking system will no longer be able to dominate the price of
gold to protect their paper assets.
73.) "You can't feed a family with G.D.P." (Or gold for that matter. You
will need a buyer and hence the buyer is in charge if you are starving -not you and a smart buyer knows this. This occurs because you will take anything for the gold in order to eat and stay alive. You will not pick and choose and wait for the right price or the right buyer because you are desperate for food in order to stay alive. If you have food, you would not sell it for gold, because you do not know how long this crisis will last. Therefore, non perishable food becomes gold so what good is storing gold for? You will always be
suspicious as well and have to tell no one about the gold. Possessing gold is more problematic than not
possessing gold). You will also have to be careful who you tell about your stockpiling of food as well because people will come to take it away from you and you must find a way to protect yourself from that scenario.
74.) If you take out Oil
investment and Coal investment from National governments and Corporations, you automatically eliminate jobs as well, and weaken the national economy. To compensate for the lost government revenue from Oil investment and Coal investment, governments will implement a Carbon tax. However, individuals lose either way because the individual will have to pay the Carbon tax and the higher cost for gas and coal products that he needs to use.
75.) When the Dollar’s ‘Pre-Eminent
Reserve Currency Status’ Erodes -the US Will Face a New World of Funding Constraints.
76.) First, the world is
divided between “the Takers” and “the Taken”
(and then afterwards, the “Haves” and “Have-nots”).
77.) “the Investor” and “the Entrepreneur” – are Symbols of the Hyper Capitalist, Globalized, and Consumer system in place presently.
78.) Bombing ghettos such as the one in Brazil
are on the table. Presently, these ghettos are unprofitable and inhabitable
presently. The ghettos are difficult for gentrification
to occur because there is no investor interested and also because it would
still create a housing problem for those living currently in the ghettos who
are poor, unemployed, and impoverished with nowhere to go in modern society and
no land to give them. This is not like
the past with people living in the forests and governments being able to force them into
the cities and therefore force them into the urbanization process that was occurring. Presently, there is not much land that can be used by those leaving the ghettos unless they were able to get the lands in the Rain forest after deforestation occurs. However, deforestation will slow down in Brazil soon and in the next war, Brazilian ghettos that are populated will be a target either by the Brazilian government or a foreign government or by "Terrorists".
79.)
"Professional Resume Submitter” (is the biggest job in the market today)
80.) The reason there is circular stagnation is because the economy crashed
after the last, housing, bubble (which
itself was a response to the dot com bubble preceding it) reached epic
proportions and burst. So what is going on now is merely the global central bank cartel reflating
the next bubble, and final, bubble.
Central banks may be doing so with good intentions, "to get back to
full employment", but the bottom line is the entire world is now gripped in
what is without doubt the biggest asset bubble in history. The good news: everyone will be able to
top-tick the bubble and sell just before everyone else sells.
81.) Easy money is always the wrong medicine, but most
especially for an economy that is already and self-evidently saturated with too
much debt.
82.) No way to make money
for a "savers" because of low interests so they go into stocks, bonds, mutual
funds, etc. "Savers" take risks presently that they
would not otherwise because the banks favor lenders and borrowers not savers. If banks worked the way they should normally work, "savers" wouldn't take as much risk as they do presently in order to make a profit.
83.) The system is not just flawed - it is terribly misguided and structurally
destructive -financially and politically. Presently, people play the roles and positions available for them. They can do nothing to change the system in place.
84.) History may not repeat exactly because technology, resource
discoveries, and political dynamics change the nature of society, but it does
rhyme the same because the human foibles of greed, lust for power, arrogance, and desire
for conquest do not vary across the ages.
85.) When China was made the "number 1 trade partner" for the USA by Nixon in the 1970's it put China into USA's economic orbit. It pulled China away from the USSR and eliminated the Tibetan freedom guerrilla movement simultaneously. This meant the USA now had a cheap labor force at their disposal, China had an export nation to send its products to which allowed for it's economy to boom, hyper-Consumerism and globalization could begin worldwide, the FIAT currency system could be introduced which allowed the USA to step away from the Gold Standard, and it isolated the USSR even further. By 1979, due to all of these occurrences -USSR invades Afghanistan. Without USA, China would not be the mass exporter they are today and the global/regional superpower they are presently. In return, China however would not have been USA’s main buyer of US treasuries and US bonds. Mutual beneficial relationship for both China and the USA.
86.) Good Job, Fed: After Mucking up Housing Market, Investors Fled. What is Left presently is a Toxic Mix: Dropping Sales, Still Rising Prices, and Ballooning Inventories.
87.) “The Secret” published in 2006 led to the most amount of volatile behavior by investors and borrowers in 2006-2008 (which led to the Subprime Mortgage crisis in 2008). Hope fuels many volatile behaviors and risky actions.
88.) Presently major Corporations are offering Credit Cards and Checking Accounts in order for individuals to go to their stores instead of the banks. This enables Corporations to
continue making profits -on sales and on interest loans (ex: Walmart,
Tim Hortons, etc.).
89.) Using the "PetroYuan" and the "PetroRubble" means lessening of the "Petrodollar". This means no need to purchase USD in order to trade in the
markets. This is why America and the West is reacting militarily in Asia and the Middle East. Both sides are creating military alliances and bases that they will use against one another and against their enemies (domestic and international).
90.)
Just Admit It: You (and your kids) are "State Property". You are not as free as you believe and you cannot escape the reach economically or politically of your government and the nation you live in. You can renounce your citizenship, move away, and buy another country's citizenship however, you are still State Property no matter where you go.
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