Economic pressures

[Danny B]

Obviously, the actions of the FED have noting to do with price inflation.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog...deral-reserve/

Chinese CCP Official Says - We Subvert America Through Wall St ('Big-Nosed') Jews - And Biden Is Controlled By Wall Street Jew

Devvy - The US Not Prepared For Mini Ice Age...Wake Up

Politico Relays Outrage That Biden-Obama 'Overrode' the Generals on Afghanistan

Einhorn - 'The Market Is Fractured And In The Process Of Breaking Up Completely'

'Biden's Trillions' Spark Historic Labor Shortage Record 42% Of Businesses Can't Fill Job Openings

Rule By Fiat: When The Government Does Whatever It Wants
"...fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force..."

There Are Now More Real Estate Agents Than Homes For Sale In The U.S.
If there has been one surefire beneficiary of the Fed printing trillions of new dollars... at the cost of what will likely be a hyperinflationary disaster in the future, it has been the housing market.

NY Advisory Firm COO Pleads Guilty To Over $100 Million "Ponzi-Like" Scheme

J. P. Morgan got busted moving 20 tons of coke
https://www.zerohedge.com/commoditie...tencing-begins

[Danny B]

The DOW today is at 34,200.
Martin Armstrong: Dow 35,000 By 2021?
60,374 views
•Jul 16, 2019

Martin Armstrong on Dow 40,000 and 2022 Political Panic
Martin also said that US stocks were nowhere near a peak and would likely reach as high as 40,000 on the Dow in the years ahead,
Most of what drives Armstrong's view on the US stock market or others is global capital flows
Armstrong reiterated that capital is continuing to shift away from government-issued debt and move into the private sector
One area in particular where he has tracked a tremendous amount of money moving has been out of Europe and into China, simply because of negative yields on government debt in Europe
around the 2030 time frame—Armstrong has a price target of 65,000 on the Dow.
His models predict what he believes will be a 'panic cycle' developing in 2022

It is very difficult to make economic predictions when they throw things at us like the plandemic.
The WEF wants to destroy everything to "build back better"

What little there is in the way of earnings in the stock market is due to stimulus.
Stocks keep going up because of rising valuations. The valuations are going up because the FED is pumping liquidity into every nook and cranny.
Cracks are appearing and, there are some doubters.


76% Rise In Stocks Since The March Low Is The 3rd Largest Jump In 100 Years... What Happens Next



Two+ standard deviation moves have only happened four other times since 1928, with losses occurring over the next 12 months in three of the four cases.

EXCELLENT charts
https://www.dollarcollapse.com/stock...-three-charts/

Always a reckoning – Hussman Funds

4/16 Insiders send clear signal about the stock market (and the economy) – FR
The insiders are getting out.. Can Powell print enough to turn this around?
Jerome Powell Admits Federal Budget "Unsustainable" But Assumes We Can Fix It Later

Rabobank: What's The Point... Of No Return?

Dimon's Detached View Of Economic Realities
ou better believe that Americans know something has gone wrong, and Jamie Dimon is “poster child” for the “financial mafia"...

Insiders Are Sending A Pretty Clear Signal About The Stock Market (And The Economy)
..immediately apparent that the top executives (along with directors and 10% shareholders) have rarely been as aggressive in selling, or disinterested in buying, as they are today.

Globalists Will Need Another Crisis In America As Their Reset Agenda Fails
America represents the only significant obstacle to the agenda left... You cannot have an openly globalist society and conservative ideals at the same time in the same place. It is impossible...

F-35: Too Expensive To Use. Too Expensive To Lose

Google faces ‘millions’ in fines after Australian court rules in 'world-first' case that it misled users about data collection

Turkey bans use of cryptocurrencies for payments, citing possible ‘irreparable’ damages

France has declared a national emergency after one-third wine production has been lost to rare spring frosts.

[Danny B]

From Mail
It wasn’t supposed to be like this.

Google Director Of Engineering: This is how fast the world will change in ten years

Michael Simmons
Futurists from the 20th century predicted that labor saving devices would make leisure abundant. According to the great economist John Maynard Keynes, the big challenge would be that…

“For the first time since his creation man will be faced with his real, his permanent problem — how to use his freedom from pressing economic cares, how to occupy the leisure, which science and compound interest will have won for him, to live wisely and agreeably and well.”
— John Maynard Keynes (1930)

Fast forward almost a century later.
Things didn’t quite go as expected. This quote from a modern researcher captures the current ethos:
“Rather than being bored to death, our actual challenge is to avoid anxiety attacks, psychotic breakdowns, heart attacks, and strokes resulting from being accelerated to death.”
— Geoffrey West

I read Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism by sociologist Judy Wajcman. I read The Sociology of Speed: Digital, Organizational, and Social Temporalities by ten sociologists. I read Scale: The Universal Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies by physicist turned polymath Geoffrey West. I reread The Singularity Is Near by technologist and futurist Ray Kurzweil. I read The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by journalist Matt Ridley, PhD. I read about the Law Of Requisite Variety pioneered in the field of cybernetics. Finally, I read Competing Against Time: How Time-Based Competition is Reshaping Global Markets by management consultant George Stalk and Clockspeed: Winning Industry Control In The Age Of Temporary Advantage by MIT researcher Charles Fine.
While each of these researchers provide a different perspective, they point to the same fundamental root cause…


Time Is Accelerating Because Of The Red Queen Effect

At a fundamental level, life on earth must compete to stay alive. Predators and prey are in a never-ending race to evolve new abilities to avoid extinction. Rabbits that evolve longer ears to hear foxes survive more. Foxes that develop stronger legs to run faster catch more rabbits and don’t starve. And so on.
Matt Ridley, author of The Red Queen Effect, explains the tit for tat like this…
If a competitor makes an improvement, you must make an equal or greater improvement just to stay neck-and-neck with them. Stay the same and you fall behind.
Lauren Bacall said it even better…
“Standing still is the fastest way of moving backwards in a rapidly changing world.”
— Lauren Bacall




Just like evolution, when we evolve new technologies, things don’t slow down and become a utopia. Rather things get faster and more competitive.
Now, here’s where the big difference between biology and ideas is. While human biology evolves so slowly we don’t notice, ideas (cultures, strategies, technologies, etc.) evolve so quickly, we can’t keep up. Idea evolution is like biological evolution on steroids.

• Historic technology breakthroughs (Alphafold / GPT-3 / Quantum Supremacy, etc)

We saw once-in-a-generation events in nearly every sphere of life. Each of these events rippled throughout society leading to unpredictable second-order effects which upended our long-held beliefs about media, democracy, business, and citizenship to name a few
The Coming Acceleration Shock

“If somebody describes the world of the mid-twenty-first century to you and it doesn’t sound like science fiction, it is certainly false. We cannot be sure of the specifics; change itself is the only certainty.”
— Yuval Noah Harari

While both biology and ideas evolve exponentially, exponential growth is fundamentally different at different stages of the curve. It starts off slowly, but when it hits the knee of the curve, it grows explosively and profoundly.


The reason it’ll be more surprising, he argues, is, “because few observers have truly internalized the implications of the fact that the rate of change itself is accelerating.”


“My models show that we are doubling the paradigm-shift rate every decade.”
— Ray Kurzweil
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To put this chart in context, 20 years from now, the rate of change will be 4x what is now. Said differently, for someone who is about 40 today, when they’re 60 in 2040, the rate of paradigm change will be 4x what it is now. They will experience a year of change (by today’s standards) in three months. For someone who is 10 today, when they’re 60, they’ll experience a year of change in 11 days.
To summarize the profundity of this 10-year doubling rate, Kurzweil says…
“We won’t experience one hundred years of technological advance in the twenty-first century; we will witness on the order of twenty thousand years of progress (again, when measured by today’s rate of progress), or about one thousand times greater than what was achieved in the twentieth century.”


How To Prepare For The Coming Acceleration Shock

“When an industry is subjected to an important innovation, that industry typically feels a significant uptick in the overall clockspeed.”
— Charles Fine (MIT)
I first experienced what it was like to go from local to global competition while I grew up playing tennis. I was #1 player on my high school tennis team for all four years. And, I was one of the top five players in the state for my age. This meant I went into nearly every match expecting to win. A few times I even played several points with my opposite hand out of boredom.
Things flipped when I went to a national level. I expected to always lose unless I got lucky. The players there weren’t just a little bit better, they were dominant. I felt like a mouse being played with by a cat. Like a perpetual outsider.
At the global level, these dominant US players were dominated by the international competition. Then, at the next professional level when all of the top global players are thrown into one pile no matter their age, only the top 100 or so players make enough money to even play tennis full-time. Then, within the top professional players, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, and Novak Djokovic have combined to win 57 of the past 67 Slams. For example, there is now a large literature of megacompanies who were disrupted by garage startups because their innovation rate slowed and their hubris swelled.

Some harbingers of this reality are already around us.
For starters, the lifespan of companies on the Fortune 500 is shrinking. Charles Fine, MIT researcher and author of Clockspeed puts these numbers in context, “The faster the industry clockspeed, the shorter the half-life of competitive advantage.”

[BroMikey]

Danny walks tall and carries a big font. You guys better sign in and see these reports. Bank accounts will see random deposits this week. https://www.unitednetwork.news/conte...e-at-5-4162021

[Danny B]

Sorry about the big font. I copied from mail. I also had to erase 40% of the mail to stay under 10k characters.
The message is disturbing in that it makes NO mention of bottlenecks like;
Peak cheap oil
Peak automation
Peak unemployment
Peak Western infrastructure
Peak sanity

Meanwhile, They are hard at work to bring in transhumanism.
They are trying to download a new operating system to bring this about.
https://usawatchdog.com/greatest-vio...-austin-fitts/
They want to do a complete makeover of humanity but, they ignore ingrained human nature.

[Danny B]

More mundane problems
It has been recently estimated that global debts stand at $284 trillion equivalent, representing 355% of global GDP. Estimates such as these must be treated with caution, and they probably underestimate financial sector debt. Furthermore, no allowance in these figures is made for OTC derivatives, which according to the Bank for International Settlements have a gross value of $15.48 quadrillion(!), netting out at $609 trillion.
Ultimately, the whole debt burden will fall on government shoulders in their threefold attempt to protect the banks, stop a recession and to continue puffing up a wealth effect by inflating increasing amounts of currency into financial markets.
The trigger to end the debt crisis is almost certainly rising bond yields.

Interesting that this article makes no mention of revolution brought about by our inability to afford basic necessities.

"After all, it is argued, inflation reduces debt obligations over time.
Maybe, but it increases the net present value of future obligations to the ultimate destruction of welfare-driven states. This is why, if for no other reason, kicking cans down the road just ends up at some point with a pile of cans that can no longer be kicked. But politicians aware of mounting obligations and still doing the can-kicking believe that will be their successors’ problem"
"It is unsurprising that the can-kicking in the form of debt creation never paused and has accelerated with renewed vigour. Estimated to have been $175 trillion when Lehman failed, today the global debt bubble has increased to $284 trillion, according to a Bloomberg report"
"Financing for financing’s sake has taken over from honest capitalism
Then came the financiers, who saw that a clear profit margin of, say 10%, could be turned into 20%, or even 30% by borrowing, not to finance anything but just to give leverage to profits"

"Then there is the legacy debt of major corporations who have become dependent on crony capitalism — the persuasion of politicians for preferential and monopolistic advantages. The replacement by lobbying of focusing on customer satisfaction has gradually driven them into a zombie state as well. Nearly half of the world’s debt is corporate,"
"the socialising EU nations’ government spending, being an average of almost 50% of their economies, means that their indebtedness relative to their tax bases can be doubled from the comparison with total GDP to give a more relevant assessment of their financial sustainability."

At an estimated $83 trillion and 104% of global GDP, non-financial corporate debt
making a significant proportion of corporate debt unproductive in the sense that it no longer finances products genuinely demanded by consumers
"In short, a significant element of the $54 trillion of consumer debt will end up as losses to be borne by the financial sector."
"A better assessment would probably put financial sector debt at closer to $80 trillion."
A banking failure almost anywhere, must be bailed out for fear of triggering a global banking collapse the likes of which have never been seen before."

total government debt stands at $82 trillion, being 103% of global GDP. But that does not take into account future liabilities, whose net present value has been estimated at over $200 trillion for the US alone
the Fed is tasked with supporting gross output in the region of $38 trillion in the domestic economy alone, and also an unknown external liability extending far beyond simplistic import figures.
But the imminent failure appears to be that of using monetary inflation to puff financial markets. Once they stall on the back of rising bond yields all these debt obligations will end up being wiped out in a collapse of the fiat currencies along with the financial markets with which their fortunes have become firmly linked.
https://www.goldmoney.com/research/g...l-debt-problem

Here is an article explaining how important it is for having gold to back your national currency.
This is a good example of misinformation.
https://goldswitzerland.com/the-2-3-...obal-timebomb/
A national currency is backed / validated by it's productivity, NOT by gold.
The gold is there for just one reason; to put the brakes on runaway currency creation.

New data this week confirm the “global government finance Bubble” is alive and unwell. In the past, a $660 billion U.S. federal deficit over the course of a year would have been concerning. In today’s crazy world, it’s accomplished in a single month.
For the month, spending of $972 billion was up from the year ago $356 billion,
Worse yet, our federal government is on track for back-to-back years of $3.0 TN plus annual deficits.
https://creditbubblebulletin.blogspo...y-huarong.html

So, just focus on a collapse of government debt.

[Danny B]

"Stunning Divergence": Latest Bank Data Reveals Something Is Terminally Broken In The Financial System




Loan demand is nowhere near enough to offset the Fed's forced deposit creation which incidentally ends up not in the economy but in capital markets, resulting in broad deflation offset by asset price hyperinflation.

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4/16 Nevada home prices rising 5 times faster than incomes – 8 News


Relevant Vids
https://www.dollarcollapse.com/top-t...os-april-18-2/


The Inflation Or Disinflation Debate Continues





Not only are the assumptions behind each case credibly at risk of being invalidated, but the narratives behind each case are also inherently unpredictable...

• SUN APR 18, AT 10:45 AM

A Battle For Monetary Supremacy... Gold, Bitcoin, And Fiat





Fiat currency is a fraud of historic proportions that causes incomprehensible damage... So I am rooting for both gold and Bitcoin...



Yet Another Ridiculous Stock Market Bubble... In Three Charts





The Fiat Currency Age is nothing if not repetitious...

• SUN APR 18, AT 7:20 AM

[Danny B]

I didn't save as I wrote and, everything erased.
“The smaller investors are owned by larger investors. Those are owned by even bigger investors. The visible top of this pyramid shows only two companies whose names we have often seen…They are Vanguard and BlackRock.
Bloomberg calls BlackRock “The fourth branch of government”, because it’s the only private agency that closely works with the central banks. BlackRock lends money to the central bank but it’s also the advisor.
GOOD article.
https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/mon...low-the-money/

Rabo: The Angry Public Wants To Give A Red Card To The Whole Global System

In Huge Reversal, China Now Calls Bitcoin "Investment Alternative" After Years Of Crackdowns

US Won't Take 'Eye Off Ball' on Afghan Situation as Worries About Troop Pull-out MounT
https://sputniknews.com/us/202104181...ull-out-mount/
SAVE THE POPPIES.

There Is No Way This Bull Market Doesn't End Very Badly


Stock Market Leverage In La-La Land, Rises To Historic WTF High





4/19 Bond market troubles will take away the Fed’s printing press – GoldSilver

4/18 We are living through the scariest economic experiment in history (video) – JC

4/18 Get silver now – Hugo Salinas Price – Plata

4/19 China to expand digital yuan experiments – central bank vice governor – Reuters

4/19 Central bank digital currency could become the new reserve currency – ZH
Yep, as desperation sets in, They are looking for a magic alternative.

[BroMikey]

As the legs get kicked out from under the criminal factions of our day the money fairy will need to prop up the system.

[Danny B]

The money fairy has been propping up the system since the Greenspan put. Just how much debt can the system stand? How much poverty?


Vast Stretches Of America Have Now Descended Into A State Of Deep Economic Hopelessness





Even though the stock market has been booming and the corporate media is full of talk about “recovery”, there are many communities in the United States where a permanent atmosphere of despair seems to hang in the air.


America's Fatal Synergies





The more that power is concentrated in the hands of the few, the greater the desperation of the groups who are locked out of power... willing to go to whatever lengths are necessary to effect change...




When Everything Is Infrastructure, Nothing Is Infrastructure





It is safe to say that the left’s never-ending mission to expand the welfare state and create all-but-full government dependence is NOT infrastructure. Just consult your dictionary...


Peter Schiff: Bernie Madoff Could Have Been Fed Chair Or Treasury Secretary





"You have to have absolutely no understanding about money, or banking. It helps to be a real good liar.”

“More importantly, over the past 5-MONTHS, more money has poured into the equity markets than in the last 12-YEARS combined.”

Just imagine that you started stacking up drums of gasoline next to an active volcano. Year after year, you added more and more.

[Danny B]

US Troop Withdrawal May Disrupt CIA Network in Afghanistan, Media Claims
Let's hope so.

Taiwan and Iran struck by strong, damaging quakes US And China HAARP Facilities At Work?

Russia's Siberia may hold one of the world's largest reserves of rare earths
I'm sure that the CIA has a plan for this.

Warning! 'Keys of the Food System' Being Handed Over to Big Tech
You're going to hear about food shortages much more often.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLpnOhbBJFc&t=62s

4/21 Megadrought in the western U.S. threatens devastating crop failures – ECB

The Fed wants to stimulate bank lending, charts show the Fed failed – Mish
"They" loaded up the banks with liquidity but, nobody wants to borrow.
4/20 Biggest U.S. banks pile into cash, securities as loans fall – Yahoo

Negative feedback loops
http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com...synergies.html

4/20 New-home construction rebounds as America faces dire housing shortage – MW
The hot money flowed into housing because RE is a store-of-value
The hot money flow priced the worker out of the housing market
Owner-occupied housing numbers have barely gone up since 1985
The housing shortage is just a shortage of AFFORDABLE housing.

4/19 UK house prices surge as high demand meets record shortage – Guardian
4/19 Greenwich home listings fall most on record as buying frenzy continues – ZH
That's a hot money frenzy to get into something tangible.
4/16 Nevada home prices rising 5 times faster than incomes – 8 News

4/20 A global tipping point for reining in tech has arrived – NY Times
And WHY should we rein in tech?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stAIp7NiFyk

4/20 America can successfully defend Taiwan against China – in its dreams – RT
Sadly, we may get to find the answer to this speculation.

4/20 US takes steps to protect electric system from cyberattacks – AP

4/21 Riskiest junk borrowers pay least ever amid torrid yield chasing – WS
I'm sure that this will all work out well in the end.

[BroMikey]

The FED is being cradled by the Quantum A.I. new world is emerging.

[Danny B]

4/20 Jordan Peterson predicts the death of mainstream media (video) – Chris Williamson

4/21 Yes, it is a bubble… and yes, a crash comes next – Zero Hedge

4/20 True national debt exceeds $123 trillion, or nearly $800,000 per taxpayer – ET

4/20 Rabo: we live in an age with absolutely no intellectual foundations – ZH

4/20 Veteran analyst David Hunter predicts stocks to crash 65-80% this year – Wealthion

4/21 Central bank digital currency is the next major financial disruptor – CNBC
They have NO idea of how disruptive it will be. Digital coins can be created in any amount. How can I possibly pay for imports in FED coin? If China accepts FED COIN, China can only spend it by buying something from me. NOBODY will accept a substitute for the U.S. dollar unless EVERYBODY accepts it.
I'll happily accepts gold or oil.

C. H. Smith, "This asymmetry cannot be overcome. Indeed, the past 40 years have witnessed an increasing concentration of wealth and power in corporations and their lobbyists and a decline of political influence of the masses to near-zero."
if any one organ fails, the organism dies even though the other organs are working just fine. In other words, any system is only as robust as its weakest essential component/process.
All the groups that are denied a voice and access to resources, capital and agency are in effect a sealed pressure cooker atop a flame. The pressure builds and builds without any apparent consequence until it explodes.

The more that power is concentrated in the hands of the few, the greater the desperation of the groups who are locked out of power.
In the context I've laid out, Fatal Synergies arise when access to resources, capital and agency are limited by elite hoarding
Crises reveal the problems the system is incapable of resolving. How we respond to those constraints and weak points is the difference between Fatal Synergies and collapse and Beneficial Synergies that generate successful evolutionary responses to pressing selective pressures: simply put, "adapt or die."

America's financial system and state are themselves the problems, yet neither system is capable of recognizing this or unwinding their fatal synergies.
http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com...synergies.html

[BroMikey]

High level money Mason turned ...................David Croeni

[Danny B]

Jim Rogers: History shows that Bitcoin will be outlawed if it becomes ‘successful’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmmQEm8gTcg&t=21s

The bankers are coming! The bankers are coming … for your bitcoin – Tom Luongo

4/20 Bitcoin’s nosedive: what happened and what’s ahead? – Fox Business

4/20 Bitcoin is a hallucinogenic that may destroy idea of money (video) – Jim Rickards

Coinbase Stock Slides After Deutsche Boerse De-Lists Crypto Exchange
“The reason for the de-listing is a missing reference data for these shares,”


Goldman Prime: Hedge Funds Sell Stocks 7 Of The Last 8 Days; Short Squeeze Coming

Market 'Tsunami' Warning

China's Central Bank Researchers Urge Lifting Birth Limits To Keep Up With 'Skilled Immigration-Fed' US
"In order to achieve the long-term goals in 2035, China should fully liberalize and encourage childbirth..." and toward a goal of "three or more"...
China uses their "social credit" system to lock down every single facet of life. Then, they wonder why people won't even have 2 kids.
America, on the other hand, has Disneyland on both coasts.


Peak Liquidity

...the Fed is playing with fire and in their arrogance they are way too confident with their talk of “tools” to be able to contain inflation...

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