~This is very interesting and fits in with history as foretold by the ancients~jude
By David Knox Barker
Life without appreciation for irony in global financial, economic and political affairs would be challenging. God undoubtedly enjoys the irony at work in human action. Politicians promising government sponsored heaven on earth for decades have delivered the world into a global financial meltdown nightmare, and the cusp of another depression. All around the world, the politicians are scrambling for their political lives, and many their political souls, as the global system enters a long wave extinction event.
The final plunge of this long wave winter season is now underway. The international political economy, which has lost its moorings in individual accountability, responsibility and purpose, is breaking up. Socialism in all its forms, including the global banking system that is dependent on the government dole, is collapsing from the weight of its internal contradictions. Socialism is going through an extinction event in the final years of this long wave, receiving its just reward from the crushing long wave forces that it has magnified around the globe.
Catherine Austin Fitts, host of the Solari Report, responds to fears of economic collapse and describes some of the forces at work that continue to undermine the middle class, such as inflation, GAT, and the WTO. The Solari Report is a weekly live interactive briefing with commentary and guest experts that go behind the headlines to reveal what’s really happening in the global financial system…
In a great article published 28 March on why the European Union is doomed to collapse or total transformation – into what? - Charles Hugh Smith shows the explain-it-all chart, below. One important fact is this economic model is a convergent and globalized “no alternative”. Countries that don’t play this game are almost inexistent, for example the paranoid police state of North Korea.
The EU collapse-or-transform endgame of today only reflects the harsh realities of this one-only model and is only a subset of the bigger game: the globalized no alternative economy. This has its own subset components. First we have the 30-member OECD group of rich nations including the EU27 countries. These countries are furthest along the development path to the single goal of urban “postindustrial” economies and their consumer society.
Something is going on behind the scenes in the normally secretive back vaults of the Washington based funny farm called the “Federal Reserve”.
Thanks to the St. Louis Fed’s economic research unit, we have various data, graphs and information published from daily to monthly, depending upon the data being displayed. By perusing this data farm, one can get a fair (perhaps not good – but fair) idea of the actual actions of the Federal Reserve which, in all cases, is far better than relying on what the Federal Reserve Chairman says. The two rarely match.
Let’s take a look at the chart (BASE) of the base money supply in the USA, calculated bi-weekly, I believe. First we see what happened during the financial meltdown of 2008.
This chart – shaded to indicate all the action taking place during an “official” recession – shows the absolutely horrifying money pumping that flooded the banks with liquidity (i.e. bailout) to prevent the free market from punishing those TBTF banks for their admittedly criminal acts of fraud through the creation, sale and short sales of MBS, CDOs, and ABCs of all kinds and types.
The Federal Reserve just dumped money on the fire to put it out. Or delay it.
Britain’s coalition government pressed the reset button on the UK Economy during summer 2010, as it has continued to make a plethora of tax raising and spending cut economic austerity announcements over the past 9 months in an attempt to get a grip on the Labour government’s legacy of an out of control annual budget deficit of over £150 billion per year that risked bankrupting Britain.
These policies on face value imply severe economic distress for several years as they are implemented starting in 2011 and thus require the continuing lubricant of near zero interest rates backed up by quantitative easing aka money printing to inflate the economy (consumer and asset prices) in an attempt at offsetting public sector deflation so as to prevent a nominal double dip recession.
The big gamble that the coalition government is playing is that its programme for economic austerity will prevent market interest rates from rising as they have done so in the bankrupting PIIGS for the whole of 2010 and into 2011, pushing these economies into economic depression. The Coalition governments primary aim is to engineer an economic outcome that sets the scene for a spending and tax cutting induced mini boom into a May 2015 General Election that would favour at the very least a continuation of the Coalition government or more probably an outright conservative victory.
However the coalition government faces many headwinds during 2011 that could disrupt its economic plans, most notably soaring inflation that has long since left the UK official target of CPI 2% behind as well as internal political pressures as the Lib Dems buckle under austerity induced dissent , let alone external pressures form first the Euro-zone to more recently imploding Middle East states buckling under their own inflation mega-trends.
Therefore this analysis seeks to conclude in a trend forecast for UK Interest rates in determination of the degree to which the Coalition government will be able to manage to keep UK interest rates low (base and market) during 2011 to enable the target trends for the economy to be achieved.
Happy days are here again! Stock markets are strong, company profits are up, bankers are making record profits and bonuses, unemployment is declining, and inflation is non-existent. Obama and Bernanke are the dream team making the US into the Superpower it once was.
Yes, it is amazing the castles in the air that can be built with paper money and deceitful manipulation of all economic data. And Madame Bernanke de Pompadour will do anything to keep King Louis XV Obama happy, including flooding markets with unlimited amounts of printed money. They both know that, in their holy alliance, they are committing a cardinal sin. But clinging to power is more important than the good of the country. An economic and social disaster is imminent for the US and a major part of the world and Bernanke de Pompadour and Louis XV Obama are praying that it won’t happen during their reign: “Après nous le déluge”. (Warm thanks to my good friend the artist Leo Lein).
Moral and financial decadence
A deluge of an unprecedented magnitude is both inevitable and imminent. The consequences of the economic and political mismanagement will have a devastating impact on the world for a very long time. And the consequences will touch most corners of the world in so many different areas; economic, financial, social, political and geopolitical. The adjustment that the world will undergo in the next decade or longer, will be of such colossal magnitude that life will be very different for coming generations compared to the current social, financial and moral decadence. But history always gives us lessons and the one that is coming will be necessary and eventually good for the world. But the transition and adjustment will be extremely traumatic for most of us.
I first published this essay in the Summer of 2009. At that time the whole world believed Obama’s Stimulus Program was working at that the stupid greenshoot recovery was underway. Today I’d like to reprint this essay because the same structural issues that plagued the US in 2009 are still valid and because this piece proved, two years ahead of time, that the US would suffer a massive economic collapse.
The seeds of today’s crisis were first sown in 1971 when the US formally opened up trade with China. In an effort to boost profits, large scale US manufacturers and other multinational firms began outsourcing their manufacturing jobs to the People’s Republic soon after.
This may be a highly distasteful proposition, but just for a moment, I want you to sit back, and imagine that you are a member of the corporate banking elite. You are a walking talking disease ridden power mad pustule who naively believes himself intellectually superior to the vast majority of humanity and above the inherent laws of conscience, honor, and general good taste. You are a villain in the purest sense, in that you not only do great harm to the world, you actually SEEK to do great harm to the world, if only to benefit yourself and your exclusive circle of “friends”; a clan of degenerate blood thirsty sociopaths with delusions of omnipotence that stalk the night like Armani wearing Chupacabra exsanguinating the joy from poor unsuspecting cultures. You are capable of anything, and sadly, you take “pride” in this fact…
Jean-Claude Trichet, head of the European Central Bank, has sounded the alarm.
“All central banks, in periods like this where you have inflationary threats that are coming from commodities, have to…be very careful that there are no second-round effects” on domestic prices, Mr. Trichet told The Wall Street Journalfrom his office overlooking Frankfurt’s financial district.
Can you believe it, Dear Comrade? If we are reading Mr. Trichet’s comments correctly, it would seem that the world’s food and energy communities are consciously rallying against us. Long thought to be soulless, mindless vegetables and minerals, commodities have apparently taken it upon themselves to “become” more expensive, to raise their own prices. We can almost hear the battle cries coming from the fields: Ears of corn unite!
Farmers are warned to sleep with one eye open lest an overzealous head of lettuce break ranks and attack under cover of darkness.
Mr. Trichet is busy marshalling the euro zone’s 17 member countries ahead of this weekend’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He’s encouraging them to strengthen “surveillance” of each other’s fiscal policies.
Life without appreciation for irony in global financial, economic and political affairs would be challenging. God undoubtedly enjoys the irony at work in human action. Politicians promising government sponsored heaven on earth for decades have delivered the world into a global financial meltdown nightmare, and the cusp of another depression. All around the world, the politicians are scrambling for their political lives, and many their political souls, as the global system enters a long wave extinction event.
These policies on face value imply severe economic distress for several years as they are implemented starting in 2011 and thus require the continuing lubricant of near zero interest rates backed up by quantitative easing aka money printing to inflate the economy (consumer and asset prices) in an attempt at offsetting public sector deflation so as to prevent a nominal double dip recession.
