Economic pressures

[Danny B]

4 days ago — Berkshire's cash stockpile is at an all-time high now
7 days ago — Berkshire Hathaway cash on swelled to $149.2 billion as of Sept. 30. That's up from $144.1 billion at the end of Q
Tesla Enters Bear Market As Michael Burry Says Musk "Doesn't Need Cash, He Just Wants To Sell"

Bonds, Stocks, Bitcoin, & Bullion Tumble As Rate-Hike Odds Rise

Rabo: Tonight's Summit Between US And China Is Not About Trade; Or "Green"; Or Sunshine And Roses - It's About Guns
U.S. and China collaborated on creating & distributing the Wuhan flu. Have we fallen out of bed?

BoJo Raises UK Terror Threat Level To 'Severe', Warns Another Attack "Highly Likely"
Britain's terror threat level has been raised to severe following the Liverpool car bomb plot meaning another attack is seen as "highly likely".
STAGED by MI6 to give an excuse to lock down tighter.

The Market Is Signaling That A Scenario Of Sharply Rising Real Rates Is Untenable
Key Event This Week: Geopolitics, Retail Sales, Housing, And Who Is The Next Fed Head
Supposedly, Yellen is going to replace Powell. She is an uber-dove with no intention of raising rates. Even when Powell
talked about taper, he never said anything about raising rates. Where is this coming from.

In "Unwelcome Surprise" To Dutch, Shell To Ditch Dual Share Structure, Move Tax Base To UK, Drop "Royal Dutch" From Name
Ah yes,,, Brexit How to attract businesses that want to flee high tax regimes.

The Big Green Push To Get Rid Of Coal Had The Opposite Effect
Ah yes. Reality sets in.
Europe Braces For First Cold Winter Blast With Gas Prices Set To Spike Again

"Certainly On My Mind" - NY Gov. Jokes About Banning Zoom To Get Workers Back In Offices
"Of Manhattan's one million office workers, 28% are back. And of those, only 8% are back full time,"

11/15 The average home price in Canada rose over 50 per cent last year – FP
11/15 Home prices continue spike with double-digit gains – Daily Local
11/15 Home prices continue to skyrocket with double-digit rises – PNT
11/15 Guernsey house prices rise nearly 20% in a year – BBC
HOT money

11/15 Inflation ends with an implosion of our financial system (video) – Egon von Greyerz
11/14 Financial deflation coming soon with Bob Hoye – Financial Survival Network
"They" have been fighting the normal business cycle. Inflation--deflation.
The big rubber band is stretched to the breaking point.
Inflation in irrational exuberance – Real Investment Advice

blame the federal reserve and central banks for everything while NEVER once do they ever look at the history of central banks and how Congress has been manipulating the law changing the definition of what the Fed was even supposed to be.
why do we even have branches of the Fed if they no longer act independently? For you see, when the Fed was created, the branches were to manage the internal domestic capital flows. Each branch was independent and they would lower or raise the interest rate in their jurisdiction depending on the flow of money. Too much cash and they lowered the rate. Not enough cash and they raised it. This was all before Keynesian Economics

San Francisco earthquake of 1906 which caused the capital to flow from East to West and that created a shortage of cash in New York and thus banks failed. That is why the Fed was created with branches to manipulate the internal capital flows – not the Quantity of Money Theory
It was Roosevelt who usurped all the independence of the Fed and created a Washington monopoly to push his socialist agenda into place. We are hearing the same pitch of equality once again and Biden is going to take over the Fed and install his people which will be another full-blown socialist takeover. This will be the final alteration of the Fed making it entirely political to usher in this Great Reset. What was once an independent central bank, owned by the bankers to prevent taxpayer money from being used to bail out the banks, today the banks may own the Fed in name only, but the reins of power are political. The president appoints the head – not the bankers.

Today, Biden will stuff the Fed and it will do the bidding of this global agenda because he is not even really in charge. The Fed has the power to create elastic money and it will return to that because Biden will need that as private capital flees government debt on a global level. In the end, these globalist agenda is to default on all national debts and they will no longer need to bail out the bankers. The game is changing forever. Welcome to the Decline & Fall of Western Civilization.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/w...r-politicians/

[Danny B]

11/17 Retirement insecurity: 46% of Americans expect to retire in debt – CNBC
11/17 Since 2008, monetary policy has cost American savers about $4 trillion – Mises
11/16 Wall Street is set for biggest bonus increases since 2009 – CNBC

11/17 China’s bitcoin ban is the major geopolitical event of the decade – BM

11/17 White House says more government spending will fix inflation – Reason

Nation’s largest pension plan approves leverage to meet its targets – Mish
100% guarantee that this will end in tears.

Biden's $1T Infrastructure Bill Will Help The MTA Avoid Fare Hikes...For Six Months
Keep in mind that the high speed rail in China loses $44 billion a day.

WTI Rebounds On Small Crude Build, Big Cushing Draw
Cushing crude stocks fell once again, getting ever closer to operational limits...
Oil supplies in Cushing OK are near empty. Obiden closed Keystone pipeline and, is talking about closing a big pipeline from Canada to Michigan.

Skyrocketing Fuel Costs Will Lead To A Winter Of Discontent
Biden Reportedly Begged China To Release Oil Reserves During Xi Call

Excellent vid
Putin: The US Empire Is Following Exactly The Same Path Of The Soviet Union!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSv4AAA29Y0

Biden's New Infrastructure Czar Is 'Strategic Adviser' To Group Partnered With Chinese Influence-Peddlers

[Danny B]

Two Fed Presidents Hit The Alarm Over The Broken Treasury Market... Which They Caused
Given the biggest buyer of bonds since the financial crisis is slowing purchases, why would anyone else want them? The Fed not buying bonds is defacto selling."
Armstrong calls for an eventual default.

The US Is A Powder Keg
Even if monetary policy is fixed, even if supply chains are repaired, even if the clogs at the dock are unclogged, it will be months before this figures into consumer prices...

When The Global Monetary Reset Happens, Don't You Dare Forget Who To Blame
Decades of abusive and arrogant monetary policy, coupled with self-serving elites, will lead us to the "The Great Reset". Don't let the powers that be escape blame.

Is The Meltup Ending? "For The First Time In A While" We Are Seeing Put Skew Bid
"folks are getting increasingly nervous yet-again on a Rates/UST selloff"
So, U.S. Treasury selloff. Nothing to see here.


Armstrong
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America-hating Biden sent 70 Nightime plane flights carrying illegal Invaders to Florida as part of Communist Plan to swamp Republicanvoters with illegals voting Democrat
To pay for it
Border Invaders Would Get Up To $10.5 Billion From Reconciliation Bill

[Danny B]

The Organized 'Takedown' of The Global Fertilizer Supply? Global Crisis in Farming and Food Production

'Billions' lost through hacks of crypto lending platforms
So, what makes you think that CB digital currencies will be any safer?

Pentagon Wants to Make Its Space Assets 'More Difficult to Find' After Russia's Anti-Satellite Test
Yep, were slowly transitioning to space war.

There is much talk of war with China. It really isn't likely. We already attacked China with a space weapon.
https://www.chartattack.com/tianjin-explosion-china/
If just ONE of these orbiting weapons was turned loose and the 3 Gorges Dam, it would affect 400 million people downstream.

Biden's Pick For Top Bank Regulator Has A Troubling Shoplifting Record
She wants to take ALL private accounts and, send them to the FED
Like the average socialist, she finds that private property is problematic for socialism.

Reconciliation Bill Gives Special Tax Handout To Big Media
On page 1,957 of the reconciliation bill, Democrats have included a $1.67 billion special tax handout to media companies, under the guise of helping "local" journalists...

Bill Gates Handed Media $319 Million to Support his Agenda?

This Market Makes Sense... If Earnings Grow 19% In Perpetuity
"today’s level would suggest losses of -20% over the next 12 months based on the historical relationship."

Here's The Names To Watch As Massive Options Expiration Looms
Today's "elephant in the room" for traders is the fact that 41% of SPX gamma expiring today...
Something will take it down.

BoJo's Solution For Europe Freezing From Gas Shortage... Start Hot War With Russia!

The Road To Fascism: Paved With Vaccine Mandates And Corporate Collusion

Watch: Rand Paul Warns "Authoritarian" Fauci's "Casual Disdain" For Rights Is "Recipe For Totalitarianism"
Fauci declared that Americans have a “misplaced perception” about individual rights...

Adam Schiff And The End Of Shame In American Politics
ANYTHING that involved Hillary Clinton was devoid of shame and, primarily focused on creating enough collateral damage for her to get her way.

"This Is Code Red": Here's How Zillow's Home-Flipping AI Triggered Judgement Day For Real Estate Firm
Keep in mind that AI is doing most financial trades.

Top 1% Gains More Wealth Than GDPs Of Japan, Germany, UK, France, India, & Italy Combined; Bottom 50% - You Get Nothing
The pendulum of wealth-power concentration has reached an extreme, and when it swings back, it will reach an equally extreme position at the other end of the spectrum.

El-Erian Warns Investors "Stop Worrying About Return On Capital, Start Worrying About Return Of Capital"
"...investors need to respect that they’re riding a huge liquidity wave thanks to the Fed, and that wave will eventually break..."
Not if Yellen is mage FED head.

Over $53 Million In Meth, Coke, & Pot Seized By Border Patrol In Texas
China can't do kinetic warfare so, they have to settle for other means.

China Says Crude Release From Strategic Reserves "In The Works"
Chinese markets were going into complete meltdown.
American banks rescued the system.
11/18 Embattled China developers rush to raise $2 billion in a day – Yahoo
China is releasing oil to rescue American energy
11/18 Oil near six-week low as China readies crude reserve release – Reuters

[Danny B]

There is lots of talk about how the wealth of the top X% has increased by so many $trillions. This is only notional wealth. Like Bitcoin, this wealth has no connection to anything tangible.Reportedly, $53 trillion of this wealth is going to disappear.

If you set out to destroy markets and the financial system, your most important weapon is moral hazard, the disconnection of risk and consequence. You disconnect risk from consequence by rewarding those making the riskiest bets and bailing out gamblers whose bets went bad.

You reward those making the riskiest bets by pushing markets higher regardless of any other factors. Nothing matters except your support of ever higher markets.

This implicit guarantee that any bet on markets lofting higher will be a winning gamble rewards those making the riskiest bets. The punters who played small with cash made a few bucks, but the punters who borrowed heavily and then leveraged those bets to the hilt made a killing.

In other words, moral hazard incentivizes maximizing debt and leverage to increase the risk and size of bets because every bet is a can't-lose proposition. The hesitant, the cautious, the prudent, those who hedge their riskiest bets, are all left in the dust. Anyone who doesn't max out borrowing and leverage is a loser.

By pushing markets ever higher, you bail out every participant. To make up any losses, all the punters have to do is increase the size and risk of their next bet.

To make sure everyone is properly incentivized and assured, you bail out the biggest gamblers should they somehow lose. You do this by offering them unlimited lines of credit (so they can leverage up their next bet and and win back their losses), you eliminate transparency in market pricing to mask their losses (eliminate mark-to-market requirements, etc.) and you overlook fraud, racketeering, price-fixing, collusion and embezzlement because all these activities serve to increase risk-taking and delegitimize markets.

The biggest gamblers know they can literally do anything and get away with it, and so they do literally everything that undermines markets and trust: there's no limits on fraud, racketeering, price-fixing, collusion and embezzlement, those conjuring up the most creative frauds and scams are the most richly rewarded.

The Moral Hazard Monster will now completely destroy markets and the financial system, just as you intended. Every participant will continue pyramiding debt, leverage and risk because they know you'll keep markets lofting higher regardless of any other condition: they will follow "flows" (i.e., what other punters are buying at the moment) and ride those flows higher, fully confident that you will never ever let markets decline by more than signal-noise dips that offer punters a fresh opportunity to leverage up another bet on higher markets next week and next month.

Your plan is clever because the punters are all so focused on maximizing their own gains they don't notice that the debt, leverage and risk now dwarf everything else. Having guaranteed that the riskiest, most leveraged bets will be the biggest winners, debt and leverage have exploded higher. The entire financial system is now dependent on the riskiest, most leveraged bets continuing to pay out even as they dwarf the rest of the financial system.

Your plan depends on the mispricing of risk: by implicitly guaranteeing every punter betting on a higher market next week or month will be a winner, you've reduced apparent risk to near-zero. What's the risk if everyone knows markets will loft higher regardless? There is no risk, so forget about it; hedging risk just reduces your net profits.

But since risk isn't extinguished, it's only transferred, the question becomes: where did all the risk end up? Answer: in the financial system itself. All the risks piling up as trillions of dollars are leveraged into ever larger can't-lose bets have not evaporated, they've been transferred to the financial system. So when risk exceeds the carrying capacity of the system, it will be the system which implodes, not just punters' riskiest, most highly leveraged bets.

Here is a chart of household net worth over the past 70+ years. (Yes, it included nonprofit organizations, which make up a modest percentage of the total.) Note the three bubbles inflated by Federal Reserve policies: the dot-com bubble in 2000, the housing bubble in 2007 and now the Everything Bubble in 2021.

If net worth had tracked GDP growth since the peak of the dot-com bubble in 2000, it would be about $107 trillion--$53 trillion below current bubblicious levels. This can be understood as $53 trillion in phantom wealth generated by leveraging up the Federal Reserve's $8 trillion expansion of its balance sheet since 2008 seven-fold.

This highly leveraged phantom wealth will evaporate once the system can no longer contain all the risk that's been piled up by the Fed's Moral Hazard Monster.

Once $50+ trillion of phantom collateral evaporates, the entire pyramid of debt and leverage will collapse, destroying the entire financial system.

One broad measure of the leverage that's been piled up in the Fed's moral hazard free-for-all is net worth relative to disposable personal income which is the ultimate collateral for the financial system, as all debt service and consumption is paid out of income.

Note the vast expansion of leverage in each bubble. Leverage in the Everything Bubble has blown past every previous extreme.

If the Fed set out to destroy the financial system, they're very close to finishing the job. Their Moral Hazard Monster is about to lay waste to phantom collateral and everything that's been borrowed and leveraged against that phantom collateral. Thanks to the Fed's Moral Hazard Monster, debt, leverage and risk now far exceed what the system can support.

Predicting the bottom is difficult when the system collapses. Historically, a return to 400% of disposable personal income would be a reasonable guess. If disposable income craters, net worth will adjust accordingly.
Good graphs
https://charleshughsmith.blogspot.co...-is-about.html

"Again, the NASDAQ is at all-time highs, but the number of NASDAQ stocks hitting new lows is approaching levels associated with the fastest 30% market crash in history.
This is truly incredible, and it tells us that just a handful of stocks are holding up the entire market. And this is during the greatest stock market bubble of all time… a bubble so massive that it makes the Tech Bubble look like a joke in terms of speculation.

[Danny B]

Boondoggle Democracy For The Elites





"The elites consume the productivity of working and middle class Americans, while indenturing future offspring to debt servitude..."
Nope, it isn't democracy, It is fascism

11/20 Why you shouldn’t count on Social Security – MSN

[Danny B]

The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act negated the Glass-Steagal act. This allowed investment banks to take all of your savings and, buy up everything.
They front-run everything that you need to buy.
Armstrong complains that the new proposals from the WEF will end investment banking.
"This will be a full-blown overthrow of Capitalism – PERIOD! You will lose your savings, your jobs, and her proposal to end investment banking means the end of any new business to emerge from here on out. There will be nothing left"
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/h...-been-invaded/

11/21 Affordable homes are becoming a thing of the past as prices soar – Yahoo!
All this hot money has made housing unaffordable. Not just housing.
Venture capitalist money bought up all the doctor's practices and hospitals.
They accomplished monopoly pricing of healthcare.
As healthcare prices went way up, health Insurance premiums went way up.
Armstrong complains that there will be a cessation of free money for money renters.


Rabobank: Some Very Rich People Are Going To Be *Very* Wrong On Some Of Their Recent Calls

US Existing Home Sales Rise Unexpectedly As Investors Dominate
It certainly isn't wage earners buying them up.
11/20 A record number of US homes are being built just for renters – Quartz
The number of owner-occupied homes has barely gone up since 1985.

When Everything Is Artifice And PR, Collapse Beckons
Collapse can't be gimmicked away. The notion that consequence can be as easily managed as PR is the ultimate artifice and the ultimate delusion...
When wages completely failed to support the consumption part of production & consumption, Money was pumped into the lower loop of the economy to keep it from collapsing.
Even MORE money was pumped into the speculative loop of the economy,,,, reducing the purchasing power of wages even more.

Are Investors Delusional...Or Exploiting The Delusion Of Others?

JPMorgan Warns S&P Fair Value Is 2,500 If Inflation Shocks Do Not Fade Away

"Those Of Us Who Are Being Honest Truly Don't Know What Happens Next... Nor Does Anyone Else"

11/22 Illinois pension liabilities pass $500 billion, $100,000 per household – WP

[Danny B]

We are all more-or-less aware that Nikola Tesla managed to send wireless power.
"Chile is planning to build a 15,000 km subsea cable for a cost of more than $2 billion to send solar energy to China"
“through the cable, the electricity produced by between 200 and 600 GW of photovoltaic generation capacity may transmit power to Asian countries

When Will Oil Supply Overtake Demand?
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-G...ke-Demand.html

Hyperinflation In Turkey: Wine Prices Up 15% In One Day, Chicken And Cheese Up 10%

11/24 Musk dumps another $1.05 billion in TSLA stock, halfway to 10% – ZH
11/24 Tesla Texas ‘gigafactory’ will cost at least $1.06 billion – CNBC
He's going to build the factory with pocket money.

[Danny B]

"'Pakistan is running out of money. The sustainability of our country is at stake, there's no money to run the nation,' says PM Imran Khan."
Vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXM8XFNjeyY

IMF warns El Salvador against using Bitcoin

How El Salvador Is Mining Bitcoins With Volcanoes

"PAY ATTENTION! This Is The Scary Truth About Bitcoin" | Edward Snowden

Bitcoin City! El Salvador Building a Tax Free Crypto City!

New Home Sales Data Suffers Huge Downward Revisions, Inventories Hit 13-Year-High
Wednesday, Nov 24, 2021 - 10:28 AM

11/24 Unusual holiday home-buying surge pushes mortgage demand higher – CNBC

Social Security Steams Closer To Crisis
When will an appropriate sense of crisis actually take hold in Washington amid a staggering $59.8 trillion gap?

Turkey’s Currency Crisis Leads To Anti-Government Protests

Happy Thanksgiving, Now Here's Two Reasons Why The Market Could Collapse In December

[Danny B]

Here is an explicit description of why and how the Euro will collapse.
https://www.goldmoney.com/research/g...gmrefcode=gata

11/25 Stock funds took in more cash in 2021 than two decades combined – Yahoo

11/24 Treasury, Fed reports confirm: all twisted paths lead to gold – Matterhorn
Never happen

11/25 U.S. should not have any illusions about Taiwan, says China – Reuters
Just imagine what ONE bunker buster bomb would do to the Three Gorges dam,,,,, 400 million people affected . wiped out.

Transitory Is Dead: Goldman Now Expects Fed To Double Pace Of Tapering In December, Hike Three Times In 2022
Translated; A primer in seppuku


They need your children! A new financial reset is imminent.
https://www.bit chute.com/video/pexxZBdqAWpg/

[Danny B]

The price of gold is VERY stable. It costs quite a bit to get it out of the ground. It uses a lot of energy to do this.
Gold is used as an inflation barometer.
Just imagine that you are a manufacturer trying to project your future costs & prices.
The more stable the currency, the more you can cut prices and, still make a profit.
Bitcoin Retreats 20% From Record, Joining Risk-Asset Sell-Off
Imagine trying to predict future costs & prices with a medium of exchange that can vary 20%

Congressional Hawks Seek To Give Biden A Blank Check To Declare War On China
Besides pre-authorizing war upon China, the bill contains 10 other provisions that strengthen US ties to Taiwan...

Soros, Druckenmiller, & The Mundell-Fleming Trilemma
“China has to fund enormous moves in credit growth just to keep in roughly the same place. We call it running to stand still.”
Yeah right ! It isn't just China

China Launches "Combat Readiness" Drill Near Taiwan As US Delegation Arrives To Island For 2nd Time This Month
PLA Eastern command orders "naval & air forces to continue combat readiness police patrols in direction of the Taiwan Strait."
China is rapidly melting down. As usual, they are trying to redirect attention.

'Red Friday' - Stocks Suffer Worst 'Black Friday' Selloff In 70 Years

Is This A Real Crash? Keep An Eye On The VIX For The Answer
The VIX is the fear gauge. It is often massaged by the State.

Nearly 3/4 Of The World's Dictators Receive US Weapons & Military Assistance

[Danny B]

11/27 Congressional hawks seek to give Biden a blank check for war on China – ZH
China Says Prepare for Armageddon - A Warning To The Entire World From Xi
Beijing Capitulates: Urges Local Govts To Unleash Debt Flood As Cities Begin Backstopping Property Developers

Like America, China went too far with debt creation. They have desperately tried to reduce leverage.
America has desperately tried to dial back debt creation.
Both countries have too much debt to be able to service it.
Both countries are on the road to collapse.
Both countries are using the virus to cut down on fiscal social obligations.
Both countries are using the plandemic as an excuse to create draconian control measures.

Both countries are hoping to introduce a central bank crypto currency
Both countries will use lockdowns when the sovereign debt market melts down.
Both countries are hoping that AI will control the populace because they could never have enough police.
Both countries are sabre rattling to distract the populace.

Definition of c'est la guerre
: that's war : it can't be helped.

Government debt AND pension plans will collapse in harmony.
It is hoped that the elderly, the indigent, and the poor will succumb to the virus so that they won't be out on the streets starving.
A CB digital coin just won't work,,, not for imports from our ideological enemies.
We will no longer be able to run a trade deficit.
We will run out of Chinese do-dads
Unfortunately, China supplies all the parts that keep our industrial economy humming along.

[Danny B]

In a DOD news briefing on April 28, 1997 Cohen said " Others are engaging even in an eco- type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves."

La Palma Update - Biggest Eruption In 500 Yrs Multiple 5.0 Earthquakes Overnight - Watch

Megatsunami Scenario - La Palma Landslide

Dow drops 650 on growing omicron fears

Why inflation is a runaway freight train – Charles Hugh Smith

Powell Sparks Taper Tantrum, Bonds Scream Policy Error

Putin Says Russia Ready To Unveil New Hypersonic Missile
"We will have in service a sea-based hypersonic missile of Mach 9."

[Danny B]

A general reading of economic headlines shows a slow, general loss of confidence.
Headlines;
What Do They Know? Insiders Are Dumping Stocks At The Fastest Pace In History

It's The Taper, Stupid!

'Good News Is Bad News' - Stocks Puke As Rate-Hike Odds Jump
...and an imminent Fed policy mistake...

The Reason Behind Today's Massive Payrolls Miss: A Huge Seasonal Adjustment Flaw
Seasonal adjustment methodology lowered the November payrolls print by at least 200K
Monumental BS from the BLS

Rabobank: The IMF Warning Of "Economic Collapse" Should Get Headlines
"We may see economic collapse in some countries unless G20 creditors agree to accelerate debt restructurings and suspend debt service while the restructurings are being negotiated,"
Suspend debt service,,, Won't that be interesting?
A debt jubilee will leave a bottomless crater

Our $29 Trillion Deficit, Interest Rates, Inflation, And Debt
Today we stand at the abyss, yet no one sees or feels threatened by a "financial cliff."

NatGas 'Widowmaker' Spread Collapses, European Arb Explodes
Absolute chaos in energy markets. ..

Singapore Power Prices Spike 1,290% As Energy Crisis Emerges

SEC Chair Gensler: Bitcoin Competes With The US Banking System
So, how do you think that is going to work out for BTC?

Markets Turmoil As Easing Omicron Anxiety Battles Surge In 'Technical Default' Fear
...the T-Bill market's message ... "buckle up, it's coming."

"Staggering 1-Day Moves": Nomura Warns The Market "Remains Shockingly Dysfunctional"

The bond market is talking and eurodollars just inverted, are you listening? – Mish

Global warning on the greatest financial mania in history – Bob Hoye

12/03 As investors flee stocks, stay away from cash, says Ray Dalio – Kitco
There is a possibility that gold will go ballistic,,, kinda depends on BTC

12/02 Forget a taper tantrum, this time it may be a stock tantrum – Zero Hedge

12/03 Yellen says it’s Fed’s job to avoid any wage-price spiral – Yahoo
12/03 Mohamed El-Erian discusses the Fed’s failure to control inflation – MS

The FED and PPT and ESF pump in $billions a day to rescue ALL markets.

Hormesis is defined as a dose-response phenomenon characterized by low-dose stimulation and high-dose inhibition
Many years ago Greenspan gave a low dose of stimulus to avoid a downturn in markets.
Deflation is anathema to the money renters.
Every bit of prospective deflation that appeared on the horizon was treated as a potential catastrophe.
Monetary stimulus in low doses had a positive effect.
Monetary stimulus in high dose has an inhibiting effect.
They are increasing the dose to monumental quantities.

Just to make things more unstable, the deep state is at war with various other factions.
https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/tre...X45sa50F_UubTI

Just to make everybody a bit jumpy, there is an emergent space war.
https://strangesounds.org/2021/12/sp...e-general.html

[Danny B]

What Do They Know? Insiders Are Dumping Stocks At The Fastest Pace In History
So, who did they sell to?
There is a general claim that retail buyers are buying them up.
There is constant pressure to "buy the dip" and, not miss out.
FOMO,,,, fear of missing out.
I suspect that the State is buying up everything to hold back deflation.
Various government agencies are warning that it is all going to blow all to hell.
This hasn't dissuaded daytraders and, small time speculators. They will be the sheep that get sheared.

Guess Who's Getting Taken to the Cleaners This Time Around?
“Someone” or “someones” pushed stocks up from 4,506 to 4,566 yesterday morning in the span of a few minutes.
It makes you wonder what they’re afraid of…

Perhaps they’re afraid of the fact that stocks are in the single largest bubble in history… a bubble so frenzied with insane speculation that it makes the Tech Bubble look tame by comparison?
Perhaps this “someone” is concerned that the Fed is ending its monetary easing… the same monetary easing that has provided over $4 trillion in liquidity to the system since March 2020?
Meanwhile, hedge funds, corporate insiders, and smart money are all selling the farm.
And they’re selling the farm to individual investors… who have borrowed more money to buy stocks than at any point in history.
4) Individual investors have borrowed a RECORD amount of money to buy stocks.
Guess who’s going to get taken to the cleaners on this?
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2021-...rs-time-around

The next financial crisis: could Fed moves be the trigger? – Real Investment Advice
It has been the decades long FED stimulus that has created all of this.
Taper talk has tamped it down somewhat but;
12/04 The taper that never was – Claudio Grass
12/04 Here we go: market begins pricing in rate cuts as yield curve inverts – ZH
What if rates don't get cut?
12/03 Bubble market bloodbath as Powell-put-strike plunges – Zero Hedge

12/04 Berkshire’s Munger says now is even crazier than the dot-com bubble – Bloomberg
Bank of America: This Is The Top
Leveraged Bitcoin Traders Flushed Out In Epic Overnight Crash
Evil Is The Root Of All (Fiat) Money


Stockman: A (Bad) Tale Of Two Inflations





...the disaster of today’s rampant financial asset bubbles is rooted in pro-inflation monetary policies which are belied by both theoretical and empirical realities...

FRI DEC 3, AT 11:00 AM