Posted on 09/01/2015 3:20:23 AM PDT by HomerBohn
In the years since the derivatives disaster, there has been no end to the absurd and ludicrous propaganda coming out of mainstream financial outlets; and as the situation in markets becomes worse, the propaganda will only increase.
This might seem counterintuitive. You would think that the more obvious the economic collapse becomes, the more alternative analysts will be vindicated and the more awake and aware the average person will be. Not necessarily.
In fact, the mainstream spin machine is going into high speed as more negative data is exposed and absorbed into the markets. If you know history, then you know this is a common tactic by the establishment elite to string along the public with false hopes so that they do not prepare or take alternative measures while the system crumbles around their ears. At the onset of the Great Depression, the same strategies were used. Consider if you’ve heard similar quotes to these in the mainstream news over the past couple months: •John Maynard Keynes in 1927: “We will not have any more crashes in our time.” •H.H. Simmons, president of the New York Stock Exchange, Jan. 12, 1928: “I cannot help but raise a dissenting voice to statements that we are living in a fool’s paradise, and that prosperity in this country must necessarily diminish and recede in the near future.” •Irving Fisher, leading U.S. economist, The New York Times, Sept. 5, 1929: “There may be a recession in stock prices, but not anything in the nature of a crash.” And on Oct. 17, 1929: “Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. I do not feel there will be soon if ever a 50 or 60 point break from present levels, such as (bears) have predicted. I expect to see the stock market a good deal higher within a few months.” •W. McNeel, market analyst, as quoted in The New York Herald Tribune, Oct. 30, 1929: “This is the time to buy stocks. This is the time to recall the words of the late J.P. Morgan that any man who is bearish on America will go broke. Within a few days there is likely to be a bear panic rather than a bull panic. Many of the low prices as a result of this hysterical selling are not likely to be reached again in many years.” •Harvard Economic Society, Nov. 10, 1929: “… a serious depression seems improbable; [we expect] recovery of business next spring, with further improvement in the fall.”
Here is the issue: As I have always said, economic collapse is not a singular event; it is a process. The global economy has been in the process of collapse since 2008, and it never left that path. Those who were ignorant took government statistics at face value and the manipulated bull market as legitimate and refused to acknowledge the fundamentals. Now, with markets recently suffering one of the greatest free falls since the 2008/2009 crash, they are witnessing the folly of their assumptions; but that does not mean they will accept them or apologize for them outright. If there is one lesson I have learned well during my time in the liberty movement, it is to never underestimate the power of normalcy bias.
There were plenty of “up days” in the markets during the Great Depression, and this kept the false dream of a quick recovery alive for a large percentage of the American population for many years. Expect numerous “stunning stock reversals” as the collapse of our era progresses, but always remember that it is the overall trend that matters far more than any one positive or negative trading day (unless you open down 1,000 points as we did on Aug. 24). And even more important than the trends are the economic fundamentals.
The establishment has made every effort to hide the fundamentals from the public through far-reaching misrepresentations of economic statistics. However, the days of effective disinformation in terms of the financial system are coming to an end. As investors and the general public begin to absorb the reality that the global economy is indeed witnessing a vast crisis scenario and acknowledges real numbers over fraudulent numbers, the only recourse of central bankers and the governments they control is to convince the public that the crisis they are witnessing is not really a crisis. That is to say, the establishment will attempt to marginalize the collapse signals they can no longer hide as if such signals are of “minimal” importance.
Just as occurred during the onset of the Great Depression, the lies will be legion the closer we come to zero hour. Here are some of the lies you will likely hear as the collapse accelerates.
The crisis was caused by Chinese contagion
The hypocrisy inherent in this lie is truly astounding, to say the least, considering it is now being uttered by the same mainstream dirtbags who only months ago were claiming that China’s financial turmoil and stock market upset were inconsequential and would have “little to no effect” on Western markets.
I specifically recall these hilarious quotes from Barbara Rockefeller in July: •“Something else that doesn’t matter much is the Chinese equity meltdown — again. China may be big and powerful, but it lacks a retail base and fund managers experienced in price variations, never mind a true rout …” •“Doom-and-gloom types have been saying for a long time that we will get a stock market rout when the Fed finally does move to raise rates. But as we wrote last week, history doesn’t bear out the thesis, not that you can really count on history when the sample size is one or two data points …”
Yes, that is a bit embarrassing. One or two data points? There have been many central bank interventions in history. When has any central bank or any government ever used stimulus to manipulate markets through fiat infusion and zero interest-fueled stock buybacks or given government the ability to monetize its own debt and actually been successful in the endeavor? When has addicting markets to stimulus like a heroin dealer ever led to recovery? When has this kind of behavior ever not created massive fiscal bubbles, a steady degradation of the host society or outright calamity?
Suddenly, according to the mainstream media, China’s economy does affect us. Not only that, but China is to blame for all the ills of the globally interdependent economic structure. And the mere mention that the Fed might delay the end of near zero interest rates in September by a Federal Reserve stooge recently sent markets up 600 points after a week-long bloodbath, meaning the potential for any interest rate increase no matter how small also has wider implications for markets.
The truth is the crash in global stocks, which will undoubtedly continue over the next several months despite any delays on zero interest-rate policy (ZIRP) by the Fed, is a product of universal decay in fiscal infrastructure. Nearly every single nation on this planet, every sovereign economy, has allowed central and international banks to poison every aspect of their respective systems with debt and manipulation. This is not a “contagion” problem; it is a systemic problem to every economy across the world.
China’s crash matters not because it is causing all other economies to crash. It matters because China is the largest importer/exporter in the world, and it is a litmus test for the financial health of every other country. If China is failing, it means we are not consuming; and if we are not consuming, then we must be broke. China’s crash portends our own far worse economic conditions. That is why Western markets have been crumbling along with China’s despite the assumptions of the mainstream.
China’s rate cuts will stop the crash
No, they won’t. China has cut rates five times since last November, and this has done nothing to stem the tide of their market collapse. I’m not sure why anyone would think that a new rate cut would accomplish anything besides perhaps a brief respite from the continuing avalanche.
It’s not a crash; it’s just the end of a ‘market cycle’
This is the most ignorant non-explanation I think I have ever heard. There is no such thing as a “market cycle” when your markets are supported partially or fully by fiat manipulation. Our market is in no way a free market; thus, it cannot behave like a free market. And thus, it is a stunted market with no identifiable cycles.
Swings in markets of up to 5 percent to 6 percent to the downside or upside (sometimes both in a single day) are not part of a normal cycle. They are a sign of cancerous volatility that comes from an economy on the brink of disaster.
The last few years have been seemingly endless market bliss in which any idiotic day trader could not go wrong as long as he “bought the dip” while Fed monetary intervention stayed the course. This is also not normal, even in the so-called “new normal.” Yes, the current equities turmoil is an inevitable result of manipulated markets, false statistics and misplaced hopes; but it is indeed a tangible crash in the making. It is in no way an example of a predictable and nonthreatening “market cycle.” And the fact that mainstream talking heads and the people who parrot them had absolutely no clue it was coming is only further evidence of this.
The Fed will never raise rates
Don’t count on it. Public statements on China by globalist entities like the International Monetary Fund, for example, have argued that their current crisis is merely part of the “new normal,” a future in which stagnant growth and reduced living standards is the way things are supposed to be. I expect the Fed will use the same exact argument to support the end of zero interest rates in the U.S., claiming that the decline of American wealth and living standards is a natural part of the new economic world order we are entering.
That’s right; mark my words: One day soon, the Fed, the IMF, the Band for International Settlements and others will attempt to convince the American people that the erosion of the economy and the loss of world reserve status are actually good things. They will claim that a strong dollar is the cause of all our economic pain and that a loss in value is necessary. In the meantime, they will, of course, downplay the tragedies that will result as the shift toward dollar devaluation smashes down on the heads of the populace.
A rate hike may not occur in September. In fact, as I predicted in my last article, the Fed is already hinting at a delay in order to boost markets or at least slow down the current carnage to a more manageable level. But, it will raise rates soon, likely before the end of this year after a few high-tension meetings in which the financial world will sit anxiously waiting for the word on high. Why would the Fed raise rates? Some people just don’t seem to grasp the fact that the job of the Federal Reserve is to destroy the American economic system, not protect it. Once you understand this dynamic, then everything the central bank does makes perfect sense.
A rate increase will occur exactly because that is what is needed to further destabilize U.S. market psychology to make way for the “great economic reset” that the IMF and Christine Lagarde are so fond of promoting. Beyond this, many people seem to be forgetting that ZIRP is still operating; yet volatility is trending negative anyway. Remember when everyone was ready to put on their “Dow 20,000″ hat, certain in the omnipotence of central bank stimulus and QE infinity? Yeah, clearly that was a pipe dream.
ZIRP has run its course. It is no longer feeding the markets as it once did, and the fundamentals are too obvious to deny.
The globalists at the BIS in spring openly deemed the existence of low interest-rate policies a potential trigger for crisis. Their statements correlate with the BIS’s tendency to “predict” terrible market events it helped create while at the same time misrepresenting the reasons behind them.
The point is ZIRP has done the job it was meant to do. There is no longer any reason for the Fed to leave it in place.
Get ready for QE4
Again, don’t count on it. Or at the very least, don’t expect renewed QE to have any lasting effect on the market if it is initiated.
There is truly no point to the launch of a fourth quantitative easing program, but do expect that the Fed will plant the possibility in the media every once in a while to mislead investors. First, the Fed knows that it would be an open admission that the last three QEs were an utter failure. And while their job is to dismantle the U.S. economy, I don’t think they are looking to take immediate blame for the whole mess. QE4 would be as much a disaster as the European Central Bank’s last stimulus program was in Europe, not to mention the past several stimulus actions in China by the People’s Bank of China. I’ll say it one more time: Fiat stimulus has a shelf life, and that shelf life is over for the entire globe. The days of artificially supported markets are nearly done, and they are never coming back again.
I see little advantage for the Fed to bring QE4 into the picture. If the goal is to derail the dollar, that action is already well underway as the IMF carefully sets the stage for the yuan to enter the SDR global currency basket next year, threatening the dollar’s world reserve status. China also continues to dump hundreds of billions of dollars in U.S. Treasuries, inevitably leading to a rush to a dump of Treasuries by other nations. The dollar is a dead currency walking, and the Fed won’t even have to print Weimar Germany-style in order to kill it.
It’s not as bad as it seems
Yes, it is exactly as bad as it seems, if not worse. When the Dow can open 1,000 points down on a Monday and China can lose all of its gains for 2015 in the span of a few weeks despite institutionalized stimulus measures lasting years, then something is very wrong. This is not a hiccup. This is not a correction that has already hit bottom. This is only the beginning of the end.
Stocks are not a predictive indicator. They do not follow positive or negative fundamentals. Stocks do not crash before or during the development of an ailing economy. Stocks crash after the economy has already gone comatose. Stocks crash when the system is no longer salvageable. Since 2008, nothing in the global financial structure has been salvaged; and now the central banking edifice is either unable or unwilling (I believe both) to supply the tools to allow us even to pretend that it can be salvaged. We’re going to feel the hurt now, all while the establishment tells us the whole thing is in our heads.
This feeble minded central socialist government broke this rule and, knowing that the system would crash, bet against certain securities with derivatives.
The problem was that the damage done was a thousand times worse than the loot, like the burglar who cleans out a cash drawer for a few hundred and the burns the whole store to conceal the evidence.
Bump
The...government...will...not...tell...you...
But you can get great interest rates....
It is hard for them to spin the bad economy here in NJ; there hasn’t been any indication of a recovery, and in fact we probably haven’t yet hit bottom. “For sale” signs everywhere, boarded-up storefronts, masses of illegals to keep schools and store aisles filled...We have the “welfare economy” now.
Aren’t you reposting the same article you posted the other day?
You can’t have American people finance large purchases of houses, automobiles, etc. while jobs are shipped overseas, illegals flood in and horse-collar businesses in a shrinking economy where less tax revenues go up against astronomical debt loads. /Captain Obvious
Something is gonna pop and pop big.
‘The global economy has been in the process of collapse since 2008, and it never left that path.’
Just the line the Progressives need for: George Bush’s fault.
It already popped a few years ago; Americans borrowing recklessly to maintain an illusion of middle-class existence lost their jobs and went into bankruptcy. Many of those foreclosed homes still sit unsold, and desperate attempts to prop up the whole consumer economy by trafficking foreigners to replace the young American consumers that aren’t being conceived are falling flat. Said foreigners only have as much wealth as our government transfers to them from our taxpayers, and they are more likely to send the funds home (overseas) than spend them here...
Well, that was a cheerful start to the day ahead.
Futures down 328, Nikki down 785, and the PPT has a busy day
ahead unless they all decided to head for their bunkers
On the bright side at lleast obama is up in Alaska saving the climate with a cabal of internationalists and enjoying blubber sammiches with the indigenous folk
I compare this immigration strategy to dipping water out of the deep end of the pool, dumping it into the shallow end, and telling everyone how much the pool level is rising
It is worse than that; it is dumping real salt water into a reservoir and telling everyone how much better off we are because we have more water. The whole Pelosi mentality, that government checks can in any way replace paychecks, is absurd; masses of people consuming services while contributing nothing can’t possibly have a positive effect (outside of few merchants selling goods/services to those people). Everyone else (the taxpayers actually funding the wealth transfer) is much worse off for it.
Yeah - watched the guy talking about borrowed money, too and the velocity of cash.
Most of them say you’re gonna prosper with their ideas - I find that hard to believe when they show the steep charts they use. It was the $5 bill guy - I watched his 5 reasons but shut off before the sales pitch.
Some freaky stuff he had there. Lost the link but he’s advertising all the time on (leftist) Yahoo and other places.
September 13th anyone?
His typical accomplish nothing but symbolism while pretending the elephant isn’t in the crashing room and adding another straw to the camel’s back.
How more Americans can’t see through this oft-repeated charade is beyond me.
Futures, perhaps. But it will be September 14, opening at the closing of September 11 (we’ll see what the futures indicate Sunday night on Elul 29) before the 1 Tishri, Monday opening on September 14.
Me, I have no money and certainly no money invested.
I rode the market up after it hit bottom back in 2009, did good. Now in money market funds or bonds. Out of stocks completely
Probably a good idea to be out of it.
I disagree...I think the author is being a bit disingenuous in comparing the whole system to 1929. With automated and online trading I believe the “stock” market will (probably did) crash, but the money market certainly has not, as the big money will go there and precious metals. When the trend in the market reverses, the big money will come back.
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