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Noted hedge fund manager Stan Druckenmiller, 59, on Friday warned that the U.S. economy is headed for a “storm” that could prove to be far worse than the financial meltdown of 2008.
But first, if you’re not familiar with his name, here’s what you need to know: He’s one of the most respected and successful hedge fund managers in the past 30 years.
Obviously, you don’t achieve that type of success (or notoriety) on Wall Street by running your mouth. That being said, if Druckenmiller, a former partner of billionaire liberal philanthropist George Soros, is predicting serious economic trouble for the U.S., perhaps we should listen.
“I see a storm coming, maybe bigger than the storm we had in 2008, 2010. And really, the reason could happen without people looking as for a lot of similar reasons that we could get into,” he said during an interview with Bloomberg TV’s Stephanie Ruhle.
“But the basic story is, the demographic bubble I was looking at way back in ’94 that started in 2011, we are right at the first ramp-up of this thing that is about to hit,” he added.
His comments were made during a larger discussion on the dangers Social Security, Medicare Medicaid, and unfunded liabilities as high as $211 trillion, pose to future generations.
“I think people like me and others need to speak out. It’s about the future, not about the present where the problem is,” he said.
“While everybody is focusing on the here and now, there’s a much, much bigger storm that’s about to hit,” he added. “I am not against seniors. What I am against is current seniors stealing from future seniors.”
Watch the Bloomberg TV interview here.
However, if it’s any consolation, Druckenmiller isn’t totally without hope. Indeed, he actually thinks the U.S. has a chance of turning this ship around.
“With the proper education and with proper voices out there, we could have 40 million kids marching down to Washington,” he said.
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“I am not against seniors. What I am against is current seniors stealing from future seniors.”
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IOW....you Baby Boomers need some ‘skin in the game’ or be culled. No, I’m NOT kidding.
“Look at our young people who are obsessed with the environment,” said Druckenmiller, who sits on the board of the Environmental Defense Fund. “They are looking at the consequences of our actions 50 to 60 years from today.”
His goal is to get them to have the same far-sighted reaction to their economic future.
Without fossil fuels these kids will have no economic future... energy is power, freedom, and prosperity!
“Storm”, no.. Armageddon, yes.
The feds can't keep printing monopoly money forever just to make Oboma look good. Eventually, their chickens are going to come home to roost and the American people are going to be the ones who suffer for it (but the feds have underground bunkers to hide in, so why worry?).
I find it interesting that you think seniors have no “skin in the game”.
Why do you think that?
I forgot the /s tag, sorry. I was being very sarcastic.
My elderly mom....who has payed into SS/Medicare all of her working life has been told she can’t have knee replaceable knee surgery for two years. She’s in chronic pain.
The coming inflation that will result is gonna be devastating.
Young against old.
Women against men.
Mother against infant.
Poor against rich.
Minority against Caucasian.
Earth against humans.
If the left couldn't create these "boogiemen", they'd have no one to blame their policy failures on.
Look what is happening right before your eyes and take heed. There’s a Great Storm coming you can feel it.
Listen to what the bible says: A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it. NIV Proverbs 22:3
One of the things that will hurt is the fact that many will not except that a breakdown is occurring even as they watch it happening before their eyes. Why don’t they realize it?It’s caused by a condition called ‘Normalcy Bias’ a mental state people enter when facing a disaster.
It causes people to underestimate both the possibility of a disaster occurring and its possible effects. This often results in situations where people fail to adequately prepare for a disaster, and on a larger scale, the failure of governments to include the populace in its disaster preparations. The assumption that is made in the case of the normalcy bias is that since a disaster never has occurred then it never will occur. It also results in the inability of people to cope with a disaster once it occurs. People with a normalcy bias have difficulties reacting to something they have not experienced before. People also tend to interpret warnings in the most optimistic way possible, seizing on any ambiguities to infer a less serious situation.
A good article on ‘Normalcy Bias’ is on our own ChocChipCookies Blog The Survival Mom:
http://thesurvivalmom.com/2010/12/29/normalcy-bias/
You either prepare and stand on your own beholden to no one or you become dependent on others to provide your basic needs and become their ‘serf’. Me I don’t want to be beholden to anyone for providing what is needed for me and mine. I certainly don’t want to have to kiss some ‘gubberment’ third class bureaucratic to try and coax some help from them, I don’t want some ‘jack booted’ thug herding me in line and telling me where to stand, sit, eat or sleep. And last but not least I don’t want to be shut up in with a bunch of ‘zombies’ and have to worry about not only trying to get basic necessities but having to fight to keep what I manage to get.
Its your choice you can prep or you can stand around on a bridge waiting for FEMA to bring you a bottle of water, a MRE, a warm blanket and a kiss for your boo-boo and maybe you can even get your picture as you stand there on the national news.
For those who are just starting or are old hands at prepping you may find my Preparedness Manual helpful. You can download it at:
http://tomeaker.com/kart/Preparedness1j.pdf
NOTE! THIS IS A FREE DOWNLOAD. I DO NOT MAKE ONE CENT OFF MY PREPAREDNESS MANUAL!
For those of you who haven’t started already it’s time to prepare almost past time maybe. You needed to be stocking up on food guns, ammo, basic household supplies like soap, papergoods, cleaning supplies, good sturdy clothes including extra socks, underwear and extra shoes and boots, a extra couple changes of oil and filters for your car, tools, things you buy everyday start buying two and put one up.
As the LDS say “When the emergency is upon us the time for preparedness has past.”
Again I like to recomend FReeper’s ChocoChipCookie Blog The Survival Mom (Please Blog Police let this one slide!) Where you can get lots of useful information like:
http://thesurvivalmom.com/2011/11/20/8-morale-boosters-for-any-worst-case-scenario/
http://thesurvivalmom.com/2010/02/02/survival-priorities-the-rule-of-three/
And More
“There is no greater disaster than to underestimate danger.
Underestimation can be fatal.”
He’s a Republican and always has been.
Exactly what is a hedge fund? It sounds like a con dodge.
You’re just another one with the mouth on the government tit.
Yep. We're heading into a calorie economy, where food will be the most valuable commodity.
Too bad about those who sold their souls to the devil. Those EBT cards aren't going to be able to buy squat.
Thank goodness! I thought you might be being sarcastic but wasn’t sure.
You would be surprised the number of people, even on this site, that feel like your sarcastic post.
It’s scary...and sad.
No, berdie. Real deal, here. Lost my FIL in the UK because he was ‘too old to treat’ with bladder cancer. They sent him home to die because he was too costly to the ‘collective’.
I have soooooo many stories.
I used to be able to access the UK NIH databases.....but they are locked down, now. They, basically, told the undereducated GP’s (from foreign countries, mainly) how to treat patients, when to refer them to specialists, and how much it would cost the “state” (collective). It was frightening.
Basically........ANYONE can practice medicine and a computer can tell them what to do.
A look into our future, I fear.
Get used to it. Our masters know that when they have cut down on the goodies, the 60-90 years olds will be less violent than the 15-45 year old inner city dwellers that have literally no skills except for drawing handouts from Uncle Sugar.
They can afford to have grandma starve if necessary; she and the rest of the Tuesday bridge club gals are not going go loot and burn down the Supermarket on the other side of the freeway, which is what would happen if the WIC cards stopped working.
Your fears are justified. I know. Yes, this IS coming.
Chris Christy is also a Republican. Is that supposed to be an endorsement?
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