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Global Debt Markets Are BREAKING – Pension Collapse in England, Govt. Debt FAIL in Japan, While Some Bonds See 75% Losses so Far in 2022
Freedom First Network ^ | 10/12/2022 | Mike Adams

Posted on 10/12/2022 6:38:31 PM PDT by Beave Meister

The global debt market is orders of magnitude larger than the stock market, and debt instruments across the globe have nearly reached the breaking point due to the Fed’s steady increase in interest rates this year (combined with seemingly endless money printing and other disastrous fiscal policies).

Because bond values have an inverse relationship with interest rates, as interest rates go up, the value of bonds and other debt instruments already issued goes down. With each Fed rate increase, bond values are cratering, leaving debt investors holding substantial losses and leading to a collapse in the number of potential buyers even willing to take possession of these bonds.

As investor Larry McDonald says in this Marketwatch article, “things are breaking.” From the article:

(Excerpt) Read more at freedomfirstnetwork.com ...


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KEYWORDS: bankofamerica; bankofengland; bidenrecession; bofa; bonds; clickbaitadbucks; debt; debtmarkets; economy; england; fed; gold; investments; japan; markets; marketwatchsucks; pensions; recession; silver; stockmarket; uk; ustreasury
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This should be very interesting regarding pensions in this country. I don't think it's going to be a gradual decline, it's going to be like a light switch. One day we will wake up and their will be no more pension for millions of people...
1 posted on 10/12/2022 6:38:31 PM PDT by Beave Meister
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To: Beave Meister

The politicians and government will get theirs.


2 posted on 10/12/2022 6:41:38 PM PDT by apoliticalone (We need real justice not fictitious SOCIAL JUSTICE & DEI that is politics & propaganda, not justice.)
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To: Beave Meister

I’m not worried. My Sears (S) stock will never lose value!


3 posted on 10/12/2022 6:42:29 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: Beave Meister

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4 posted on 10/12/2022 6:43:21 PM PDT by JonPreston
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To: Beave Meister
I don't think it's going to be a gradual decline, it's going to be like a light switch.

It has already begun as gradual.

The government will just print more money. Inflation will reduce the value. Very simple, but effective.

5 posted on 10/12/2022 6:43:59 PM PDT by marktwain
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Yeah, but we can sleep at night without fear of mean tweets


6 posted on 10/12/2022 6:46:12 PM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: marktwain; Beave Meister

Maybe going down like a dimmer switch?


7 posted on 10/12/2022 6:48:11 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Beave Meister

Are you specifically talking pensions, or are yku using that as a general umbrella term for all of the various retirement types of plans?

Because not that many people actually have true pension plans anymore. Way, way less than the percentages of people that used to have them.


8 posted on 10/12/2022 6:49:04 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: apoliticalone

As in money to feather nests or just desserts?


9 posted on 10/12/2022 6:51:23 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: Beave Meister

To paraphrase a line from an Hemingway novel, this collapse will happen slowly, then all at once.

I would be calm about this if if Trump were in charge. But he is not. The United States is now being led by a potato. And the rest of the West is being led by irrational children.

Look out below!


10 posted on 10/12/2022 6:51:23 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: 9YearLurker

Even at 15% inflation, it takes about five years to reduce the buying power to half of what it was.


11 posted on 10/12/2022 6:52:18 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: Leaning Right
I would be calm about this if if Trump were in charge. But he is not. The United States is now being led by a potato. And the rest of the West is being led by irrational children.

Exactly correct.

The Ukrainian war would never have happened if Trump had not been cheated out of a second term.

On the other hand, the irrationality and hatred of the Democrat woke machine is exposed for all to see, and President Trump has learned a great deal which was hidden before.

12 posted on 10/12/2022 6:54:55 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain

As Van Helsing said in “Dracula”, “We must first go through the bitter waters to get to the sweet.”

If the whole system collapses, I reckon I may just die, for any number of reasons. If it means a freer tomorrow, I’m good with it.


13 posted on 10/12/2022 6:59:35 PM PDT by quikstrike98
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To: glorgau

How’s your TWTR and BBBY doing?

I’m going to buy soon, it’s up up and away! The sky’s the limit!

(I actually pinched this from two different people who were invested in real estate in 2006 and 2021. They said this time is different and there is nothing but up up up up from here to infinity. I asked about median household income versus house prices and they said the Fed had it covered.)


14 posted on 10/12/2022 7:06:04 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: packagingguy

“Buddy, can you spare a dime?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eih67rlGNhU


15 posted on 10/12/2022 7:07:42 PM PDT by quikstrike98
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To: marktwain

At our current rate, which if calculated as in 1990 would be 17%, then less than 4 years.


16 posted on 10/12/2022 7:14:18 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker
Yep.

It is the tax that keeps on taxing....

The Congress has eroded many of the protections which were put in place about 40 years ago...

17 posted on 10/12/2022 7:16:32 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: Secret Agent Man

I have a traditional pension, from General Dynamics, from GTE when GD bought the GTE division I worked in.

My pension should be safe, it is around 85% funded.......as long as GD continues to get enough defense contracts.


18 posted on 10/12/2022 7:26:09 PM PDT by jimtorr
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To: Beave Meister

‘“My message to the funds involved and all the firms is you’ve got three days left now,” Bailey just said on Tuesday.’

that’s signal.


19 posted on 10/12/2022 7:28:54 PM PDT by dadfly
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To: Beave Meister

The good news is soon we’ll be able to buy AAA bonds that pay 8% and CDs that pay 10%.

Buy if you are holding assets that in any way depend upon the value of bonds already issued, you’re screwed and without recourse.


20 posted on 10/12/2022 7:29:07 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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