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The Great Financial Catastrophe
GOLD Switzerland ^ | August 20, 2015 | Egon von Greyerz

Posted on 08/21/2015 6:17:51 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin

Most people are blissfully ignorant of the fact that 2007-8 was just a mild rehearsal of what we soon are going to experience. The additional $60 trillion in credit and printed money since then and the lowering of interest rates to zero have given the world the impression that all is now well again.

Let me be very clear, nothing is well. As a matter of fact in the 8 years since the start of the Great Financial Crisis the bubble economy has now properly spread to the world’s second largest economy – China. China has had exponential growth in debt from $2 trillion to $28T this century. A major part of this debt has financed white elephant projects and ghost cities. It would be surprising if the total Chinese bad debts were below $10 trillion before all of this is finished.

The bubble contagion has also totally infected most emerging markets. With massive growth in debts, a stronger dollar and collapsing commodity prices, almost every emerging economy is now starring into the abyss. As Michael Snyder of the Economic Collapse Blog recently pointed out, 23 stock markets around the world are now crashing. Of the 23, there are 22 emerging economies and the 23rd is Greece which definitively is not emerging but sinking into the Mediterranean. But don’t believe that this epidemic will just affect EMs. No, the contagion is already spreading to the West and this autumn we will see stock market falls that will shock the world, spreading massive fear throughout the world economy. I expect this autumn to be the beginning of the end of the 100 year old failed experiment of manipulation and repression of the financial system by bankers and central banks.

So the Great Financial Crisis of 2007-9 will now transcend into the Great Financial Catastrophe. This could very well involve a total reset or more likely a collapse of the world economy, financial system and world political system. And it won’t be orderly. It is likely to take a very long time and will involve bankruptcies of major parts of the financial system as well as many major nations. It will also lead to social unrest, escalation of wars, major poverty and famine with the world population going down significantly.

I realise that this forecast sounds very alarmist and like an impossible doomsday scenario. I sincerely hope I will be totally wrong. But sadly the risk that I will be right or at least partly right is major after 100 years of excesses in the world built on no solid foundation but an ocean of debt and printed money. Nobel Prize winners in economics, central bankers and ordinary people will learn the hard way that worthless pieces of paper that they call money cannot create real lasting wealth.

For the privileged few that have wealth to protect, gold and silver outside the banking system is a must. At the end of this reset, we will hopefully see a world based on rewarding real work and investment, with real ethical and moral values and a sound monetary system. But the road there will be very long and arduous.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: stockmarket
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Yep......

I might suggest accumulating some cash on hand. (paper money in small bills $20s, 10s, 5s and 1s...

When the SHTF, the banks will not have any to disburse, or may close for several weeks..

Credit cards will likely not be accepted...


21 posted on 08/21/2015 7:36:10 AM PDT by Cold Heat (For Rent....call 1-555-tagline)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Bwahahaha...


22 posted on 08/21/2015 7:54:27 AM PDT by Obadiah (Mr. Obama, the time for honoring yourself will soon be at an end.)
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To: papertyger

I know! Trump 24/7 New Service on FR these days. ;)


23 posted on 08/21/2015 8:01:20 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

That’s quite an advertisement you’ve posted there. Is your motive simply concern for all of us, or might you have a financial interest in this particular company?


24 posted on 08/21/2015 8:02:43 AM PDT by NYAmerican
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To: NYAmerican; humblegunner

Not at all, NOOB. Who are you, Humblegunners twin brother?

*SNORT*


25 posted on 08/21/2015 8:05:31 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Thank you for the ping.

For the privileged few that have wealth to protect, gold and silver outside the banking system is a must.

And that is why I am convinced that after the crash and before their "reset", the ownership, transfer, possession, sale, storage, and "hoarding" of gold will again be made illegal, just as it was in 1933 - by Exective Order.

And those that resist will swiftly be made an example of, just as before.


26 posted on 08/21/2015 8:33:47 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I have gold but it’s performance is abysmal. Seriously. What will it take to get moving again - an alien invasion? I am on the verge of just selling it all, except there really is nothing else to invest in.


27 posted on 08/21/2015 9:03:18 AM PDT by Sam Gamgee (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Patton)
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To: Old Sarge

Way too much bullish sentiment in gold still. From ads on TV from well known actors to signs in the local region that says “We buy gold”.


28 posted on 08/21/2015 9:05:01 AM PDT by Sam Gamgee (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Patton)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Burn.


29 posted on 08/21/2015 9:07:41 AM PDT by Old Sarge (I prep because DHS and FEMA told me it was a good idea...)
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To: SkyPilot

Executive Order 13603 (signed by the Preezy 3/16/2012) gives himself the power to sieze any person, property or thing that is deemed “necessary for national security”.

Prepping is several states is punishable under color of law (look at the water fights in CO and CA, and being off-grid is illegal in Miami-Dade), even thought DHS and FEMA have pamphelts and packets out telling us how to do it...


30 posted on 08/21/2015 9:11:10 AM PDT by Old Sarge (I prep because DHS and FEMA told me it was a good idea...)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Who are you, Humblegunners twin brother?

There can be only one.

31 posted on 08/21/2015 10:24:35 AM PDT by humblegunner (NOW with even more AWESOMENESS)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Diana, posting that screen shot of todays Drudge headline to your thread........


32 posted on 08/21/2015 11:21:19 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Old Sarge
Executive Order 13603 (signed by the Preezy 3/16/2012) gives himself the power to sieze any person, property or thing that is deemed “necessary for national security”.

That is true. Some people say that EO 13603 is "conspiracy" theory or "silly." They are absolutely wrong.

That Executive Order was written to be so broad that EVERYTHING of value can be siezed or commandeered if Obama says so.

It is frightening. And it IS tyranny.


33 posted on 08/21/2015 11:24:21 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Thank you for your thoughtful and intelligent response.


34 posted on 08/21/2015 12:50:26 PM PDT by NYAmerican
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