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    Short recap When money is loaned with interest, the bankers create the principal but, not the interest. The volume of loans must always grow to create the capital to pay the interest. The income of the banker is dependent on always loaning out more and more money. This is the general principle of low-power money. The principal is destroyed on repayment of the loan and the interest goes to the banker.
    With the fractional reserve system and Keynesian economics, it is mandatory to have growth in the credit system, money supply AND population. One person can only consume just so much and you must have 2 persons.
    China has 1.39 billion people. India has 1.27 billion people. China had a one-child policy and is now crashing. India never had a one child policy and is getting by pretty good. Japan has a falling population and can't seem to get out of the dumps, no matter how much QE they do. China is doing more QE than Japan and America. It has been well proven that economic growth is directly connected to the number and % of 15---62 year olds.

    When the consumption within a State is inadequate to keep air flowing into the the low-power money supply bubble, new consumption must be found outside the State. This is the foundation of the currency war. Cheapen your currency and you get more access to external consumption. A currency war is a round-robin devaluation of currencies by overprinting.
    All of this is done to keep the money bubble inflated and people working. But, a currency devaluation is also a cut in wages for the workers in that currency bloc.
    The production-consumption cycle is the bread-and-butter of the lower loop of the economy. The bankers thrive by creating more debt slaves BUT, this pulls money out of the producing/consuming economy.
    When the income of the financial community starts to fall (commensurate with the fall in the lower loop), the Central Bank rides in with free money (high power) to keep the lower loop inflated. The free money goes into savings or investment or spending. It isn't paid back so, it inflates the low-power money supply as it bleeds in to the consumer loop. Meanwhile, the lower loop is deflating from lost wages and spending power. Most of the high-power money stays in the upper loop as debt instruments.

    Celente says that a currency war has started. Gerald Celente: Globalists Will Collapse the Entire World Economy As "Currency War Has Begun"
    From The CFR, Euro area banks should have been recapitalized years ago, with public money if needed The mantra is; no bank will ever fail as long as we can bleed the taxpayer for the money. Follow the Money » Post-Brexit

    As ZIRP moves deeper into the markets, investors take more and more risk looking for return. The more money that is printed, the more it goes into mal-investment. If investors or funds do NOT take risks, they see their principle shrink as price inflation eats away at it. Bank stocks are falling badly because ZIRP and NIRP are not compatible with their business plan. If the prime rate goes up, the financial side of the lower loop crashes. If the prime rate does not go up, the financial side of the upper loop crashes.

    The free money combined with NIRP was a double dose of sweet poison. The high was great but, the extremities are starting to go numb.
    "Goldman Sachs admitted as much this week when their top analysts claimed that the third wave of the financial collapse of 2008, is rapidly approaching. Aside from how weird it is to hear a major financial institution admit that the crash of 2008 never ended, a fact that Austrian economists, conservatives, and libertarians have been saying for years, they also admitted that debt will be at the root of the approaching crisis."
    Goldman Sachs: The Third Wave of the Financial Crisis Is Upon Us

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    • Strange looking helicopter

      This is news to me. Never heard it before;
      The Oxford Club

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      • Originally posted by Danny B View Post
        This is news to me. Never heard it before;
        The Oxford Club
        So, did you buy it?

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        • Originally posted by bistander View Post
          So, did you buy it?


          Can you really “Collect a ‘Cash Rebate’ on Nearly EVERY Single Purchase Made in 2015?” | Stock Gumshoe


          Al

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          • Hugh Grant & Kyle Bass

            I never looked into it but, Aljhoa has it covered.
            The baby boomers are retiring at the rate of 10,000 a day signing up for SS. They need a lot of retirement money to keep alive.
            "The total U.S. Retirement Market collapsed 21% from 2007 to 2008 ($17.7 trillion down to $13.9 trillion). The current U.S. Retirement market is valued at $24.1 trillion. When the U.S. broader markets finally crack, I forecast a 50% decline in the U.S. Retirement market in the first wave. This could take place over a few years. A 50% decline would put the U.S. Retirement market at $12 trillion, a little less than what it was in 2008."
            Why The Collapse Of The U.S. Economic & FInancial System Has Accelerated | Zero HedgeBefore the 2008 crash.

            Bass: I think the behavioural psychology plays a huge part. I think the first inalienable right of human nature is self-preservation, and when you get into a thought of, okay, Hugh's position, is if it...if this were to happen, it would be so globally terrible that therefore, they're going to not let this happen.
            Williams: When you talk about this handicapping the central banks, which we've all had to do, and it's essentially impossible. How do a group of free market capitalists handicap a group of academics? We speak different languages.
            So we're starting to see...the academics will never turn and say, "We were wrong." The academics will go "more,"

            Grant: this idea of helicopter money, and the idea of banning cash, and all these things that, when you sit here in the cold like that, you can see exactly why they need to do these things. You watch the narrative unfold in the media, and then the trial balloons get floated. But you're right, they have to go to helicopter money, they're really not going to have a choice. And it seems to me that they are going to have to try to ban cash. Because, as you say, the U.S. savings rate has tripled since 2007, and that's literally the last thing they want or need. So is there any way out for these guys? Because that's the thesis that I keep checking. I can't see a way out, absent cold fusion. Cold Fusion,,, how did that get dropped into the discussion?
            Kyle Bass Shares The "Stunning" Thing A Central Banker Once Told Him | Zero Hedge

            "Total public debt on Thursday was $13.93 trillion, and government loans to itself are $5.45 trillion." National debt jumps nearly $100 billion in one day to record high | Washington ExaminerNo interest income as far as the eye can see.Maybe the technocrats weren't so smart after all.Japan is clobbered by a falling population and killed by competition.if the economy can't support the too-numerous banks, the printing press will be enlisted forever.Shoot, just yesterday, I wrote that India is doing ok.Nothing new there.Nothing new there.We have GOV, of the bureaucrats, by the bureaucrats, for the bureaucrats. That is why there is a revolving door between Wall st. and the District of corruption. The bureaucrats are living well and spending quite a bit of money. Our trade deficit is $ 45 billion a month. Should our credit card be torn up, the bureaucrats will scramble to squeeze out a LOT more from the productive sector. If GOV doesn't have access to your money, obviously, you are a cheat.YES, you must remain in the clutches of Rothschild.The crash could very well set off the San Andreas AND the New MadridThis calls for more chemtrails and more graves.Homeland Security: Preparing for Massive Civil War | Veterans Today

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            • Contrary to every mainstream economic theorySomething Huge Is Coming From Japan - DollarCollapse.comCredit Bubble Bulletin: Weekly Commentary: Greenspan on Bubbles

              The Ivory Tower types are so distanced from the lower loop of the economy that can't possibly predict anything right. BUT, they are running the show for the pea-brains in the district of corruption.

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              • Arrested development,,, when GOV owns it all

                All of Mother Nature's creatures must be able to care for themselves shortly after birth. The human child is an exception. Man relies minimally on natural programming and must spend a huge amount of time on brain development and learning. The child must be supported for years while it does basic development. After several years of basic development, the child must be self-motivated to learn to survive on it's own. A LOT of children can't/don't want to leave the comfort of the "nest". The basic family unit is socialist in nature because it supports the little non-producers.
                BUT, it is the natural order for the non-producers to take on responsibility for their own survival. If a child refuses to take responsibility for it's own maintenance and survival, this is a case of Arrested development.

                The ideal of socialism is centered on arrested development where we expect the State to take care of all our needs and desires. One of the things that makes capitalism "work" is that the profit motive encourages some people to produce far more than they consume. If you remove the profit motive, those people will not feel motivated to produce any extra. The U.S.S.R. slowly spiralled down into bankruptcy.

                The non-productive people of the world, many being lawyers, bankers and bureaucrats, are great fans of socialism as long as they are above the rabble. The State exists only for control. As long as everybodyWhen Government Controls ALL Wealth

                J. M. Keynes wanted euthanasia of the rentier Nobody would have any capital except for GOV. Since GOV can print an infinite amount of free money, it can outlast everybody who depends on interest income. NIRP and ZIRP are destroying the banks. ZIRP and QE will hang around until the banks are bust. Instead of being slaves to the private bankers, we would be slaves to the central bank and central GOV.
                Walter Burien shows GOV records that come out yearly demonstrate that GOV already own a ?$ 200 trillion in cash and asets. CAFR1 Home Page

                Having the reserve currency allowed U.S. GOV to over-print the dollar to the point where it could buy up the private markets. The actions of the FED seem inane. The FED is buying up risky assets by the TON. WELL, they aren't risky if you are buying with free money. The FED can claim that it is stimulating the economy with all that free money. Job loss to automation and outsourcing gives it cover for buying everything that isn't nailed down.

                The credit bubble is expected to collapse. Only entities with a printing press and GOV enforcement can be expected to sail on through the disaster. If GOV can successfully control petroleum and food distribution AND it's enforcers, it will have quite a lock on everybody in the collapse.

                Thought of the day; "famous American scientist claims we live in 'zoo for aliens' who use us as entertainment
                Renowned astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson says our planet could have extra-terrestrial keepers who created the ongoing political crisis for their own amusement"
                http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/after-brexit-trump-famous-american-8331944#rlabs=6%20rt$category%20p$8

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                • Splintering the EU,,, more bad economic theory

                  Italy is the third largest bond market in the world. It's banking system has started crashing. Renzi wants to save it by printing. He is telling the ECB and EU to "get stuffed" "We Won't Be Lectured" - Italy's Renzi To Defy Brussels Over Banking Bailout | Zero Hedge

                  "according to which the net income of virtually every social group of Americans has devolved dramatically in recent years. As a recent Pew survey showed, by 2014, median income had fallen by 13 percent from 2004 levels, while expenditures had increased by nearly 14 percent. "
                  Chicago Disintegrates - Gun Shootings Soar An Unprecedented 89%: "It's The Struggling Economy" | Zero HedgeBrexit and the Derivatives Time Bomb

                  "The social mood was darkening globally " Going… Going… Gone! The EU Begins to Splinter | David Stockman's Contra CornerThe Curse Of ‘Wealth Effects’ Central Banking | David Stockman's Contra CornerNO problem, we're only $5 billion out of pocket.
                  The Eccles Building trotted out Vice-Chairman Stanley Fischer this morning. Apparently his task was to explain to any headline reading algos still tracking bubblevision that things are looking up for the US economy again and that Brexit won’t hurt much on the domestic front. As he told his fawning CNBC hostess:  “First of all, the U.S. economy since the very bad data […]


                  GOV (bankers) took the interest on our savings account. Then, they figured that we would just spend the money since it wasn't earning interest. We did just the opposite and saved even more. Money velocity is down in the dumps and they need us to spend MORE. MORE consumption. On anything EXCEPT gold. Evidently they are starting to block gold sales.
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                  • What can't go on,,, won't

                    "The S&P has more than doubled since 2009, while the Dow Jones has actually tripled." ,,, even though consumption is down.
                    "Real gross domestic product -- the value of the goods and services produced by the nation's economy less the value of the goods and services used up in production, adjusted for price changes" is going steadily down.Ahead of The Herd - Quantifornication RevisitedDeutsche Bank to initiate the next “financial crisis”! - ETF Forecasts, Swing Trades & Long Term Investing SignalsBad news for Deutsche BankThe VIX isn't showing the fear but, the SKEW is.They should be so lucky.

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                    • Triggers and Indicators

                      I have (informally) been making a note of mentions in comments in blogs that I happen to read. Specifically, posts where people threaten or mention any sort of tax rebellion, refusing to pay taxes, etc. There has been an uptick in such posts. Again, specifically, a slew of posters latched on to the same notion. That notion being, if HC does not have to obey the laws, then the poster won't either. The bottom line being some form of tax rebellion.

                      This rebellion or civil war can be compared to the knee in a graph. The pressure builds up and then suddenly there is this abrupt movement. It has to do with confidence in the paper currency and the controllers of the circulation. I think we can count on the FED and Congress doing what they think is best to control the paper in circulation, but what is really critical and what they cannot control is the perceived value of a unit of circulating paper. When confidence is lost it will happen quickly. The people stocking the shelves with goods will follow directions and the prices will skyrocket. Confidence will be lost and people living on-the-edge will freak out.

                      The government employees and hired goons will get raises to cover their increases in cost-of-living, and everyone else will get destroyed. THEY will clean out the shelves of goods for sale and that will be the end. The people talking tax rebellion is an indicator or trigger of a change that is in motion.

                      That is how I see things at this moment. Tomorrow I may feel differently.
                      There is a reason why science has been successful and technology is widespread. Don't be afraid to do the math and apply the laws of physics.

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                      • I'll just leave this here

                        Did The System Collapse?

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                        • Details of the crash

                          Great graphic, Ruphus.
                          Here is a GREAT article. I won't excerpt it;
                          IT’S NOT THE BREXIT STUPID – The Burning Platform

                          Here is an article speculating about which currency will crash first and what will be used on the street for money; What Will Happen to You When the Dollar Collapses? | International ManDruckenmiller, Soros, Spitznagel, Gross Warn Of Crisis - ValueWalk

                          GOV "invented" paper gold a few decades ago so that the P.O.G. could be controlled. Why?
                          "Former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers wrote that a phenomenon called Gibson's Paradox identified that rising gold prices have historically forced interest rates higher. These rising rates thwart prolonged inflationary money and debt creation by central banks."
                          "The scheme of suppressing global gold and silver prices for decades has allowed loose monetary policy globally by central banks over this period and has created a secular global bond bubble with worldwide bond holdings now exceeding $220 trillion and 340% of GDP - twice the historically sustainable level of 150% of GDP."


                          So, was the bond bubble created to make the bankers rich and pay for wars and socialism, OR, was the bond bubble created to cause a mega-crash resulting population reduction and one-world control?

                          A word from your owners,You will have no other gods.That sounds expensive.Global investment skids to a halt
                          Those with money are opting to keep it in their pockets these days out of concern for the world’s economic and political stability, but such fear means fewer things made, fewer factories built, and fewer jobs available to the average...


                          All the rotten scum at the top are getting desperate to maintain power and wealth. Some of the rotten scum are trying to institute world socialism to maintain control. A lot of people are going to die earlier than they planned.

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                          • It's not mine. I did email the creator of the site to see if he will come share here as well.

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                            • Dead bank walking,,, running for the exits

                              It takes your breath away to see how fast things are coming apart at the seams.
                              "Deutsche Bank is back on top, though on the wrong peak. According to a recent IMF report, it poses a bigger threat to the global financial system than any other bank in the world. "
                              "share prices on the floor, and a stock market value of only $19 billion"
                              "Deutsche Bank still has around $1.9 trillion of investments on the books. That amounts to more than half of Germany's entire GDP. " Why did the article not mention $ 70 trillion in derivatives?
                              "7,800 lawsuits have been carried out against the bank worldwide." " record losses of over $6 billion" "Deutsche's share price has halved itself once again this year. "
                              Opinion: The downfall of an institution | Business | DW.COM | 04.07.2016

                              The contagion;

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                              • Bonner, the difference between paper money and credit

                                Steve Saville; "Most rational people with some knowledge of economic history will realise that the US$ will eventually be the victim of hyperinflation."
                                It's amazing how many writers, economists and, people in general believe that hyperinflation is coming because the FED increased the "money" supply.The Fed’s “Doomsday Device” Is About to Explode
                                Once you inject paper money into the system, you can't get it back out. A paper note exists forever. Credit is just a belief that relies entirely on confidence. "Americans spent $32 trillion" We've already had hyperinflation but, only in the credit supply, NOT in the paper money supply.

                                Planet Debt and the Deep State; Planet DebtItaly is the 10th largest economy and the third largest bond market. Was that a good idea? China already has $ 30 trillion in debt that it can't service. As it's currency falls, it's dollar-denominated debt will become much more difficult to repay.The property funds allow instant redemptions BUT, it takes a long time to sell properties and raise the cash. That set off the redemptions. Every breach of confidence creates even more flight out of investments and into alternatives.

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