And a personal effort... Incremental Change in GDP VS Domestic Debt
<1 indicates a Negative ROI on Injected Capital
Utterly unsustainable
Posted on 05/22/2012 9:59:08 AM PDT by Scotsman
Well, it seems as though we've screwed the pooch.
It's a safe bet that about 99% of the American public do not realize that what is about to happen will forever change the way they live and how they interact with the higher functions of society. In other words, how they will acquire and use any product or service that they can not provide immediately for themselves and their family.
Most people have heard of Black Holes - a favorite mega-disaster staple in SiFi movies and stories. Not so many are aware of the term, "Event Horizon". The event horizon of a black hole can be thought of as an invisible sphere with the black hole at the center of it.
Sounds very harmless, but it is the physical universe's version of the "KEEP OUT! Violaters will be Shot!" sign. The problem with the event horizon that makes it so dangerous is that very simply, once one crossed the event horizon of a Black Hole, there is no return. Even light cannot escape the gravitational pull of the Black Hole. Everything that crosses it is destined and doomed to fall into it - there is NO comming back, once the Event Horizon has been crossed.
Over the last several decades, predominantly over the last three, the entire world financial system has been building up debt to pay for goods and services that government delivered but could not completely pay for out of revenues received coincident with the excess spending. In the United States alone that overspending versus revenue received totals about 15.5 Trillion dollars and growing by about a Trillion dollars a year, give or take a few hundred billion or so.
Have your eyes glazed over yet? Probably. The numbers are so large as to be simply incomprehensible to 99% of the American, and the World population.
In 2008, hindsight being 20/20 and all that, the last good opportunity to save the current system went horribly wrong. As a direct consequence of the actions taken in late Summer of 2008 and on into 2009, not only was the system not saved, it was further damaged by the insuing distruction of Contract Law in several areas - General Motors and the all-encompassing "Foreclosuregate" are just two examples of the wholesale violations of contract law, including frauds perpetrated upon the Courts by most of the banking system.
And that is just in this country.
Other countries are already having their sovergnity challenged and infringed upon by others - Greece is just the most glaring example for now.
There is now only one way to end this. It will not be 'solved' or 'fixed' by any more stick saves from central banks. Each round of Quantative Easing has had less and less positive effect and the net result has been real inflation in excess of the 'official' number, whatever that may be, that each one of us experiences every time we spend money, anywhere.
Bad debt of all sorts is being forced up the capital chain, with the central banks taking more of it in every day. In Spain, Bankia has found itself the bagholder of hundreds of billions of euros worth of bad mortgages and will have to be bailed out by the Spanish central bank or an entity of the European Union, or worse, the International Monetary Fund. Our Federal Reserve has the same type of bad dept piling up on it's balance sheet, to the tune of about three trillion dollars and growing daily.
Governments throughout the world are feverishly working on 'continuity of government' plans - how do we keep society polite and maintain effective control of a functioning government WHEN the capital markets lock up completely and bank runs go out of control. Greece, Italy and Spain are experiencing this as we speak.
Every paragraph above could be expanded into pages of detail and analysis, and it will all enevitably lead to massive debt repudiation and the destruction (bankruptcy strictly enforced) of ALL the major money-center banks - the one's with the greatest exposure to uncollectable debt of any sort. Here in the United States that means that the five largest financial institutions, Goldman Sachs, J P Morgan Chase, Bank of America and a couple of others will not survive, in any form we recognize today.
This will happen throughout the World Financial System, and the only hope is that governments will be able to maintain societal stability and not decend into some form or variation of anarchy.
How far down the capital chain the debt repudiation goes will depend upon politicians and bankers, and how tumultous their individual societies become. Moral Hazard will be discussed regarding the wiping out of government debt worldwide and the countries that attempt to repudiate their debt without also eliminating the private debt of it's citizens will have a much more dificult time with their native populations.
When will all this take place?
Well, therein lies the problem for individuals attempting to get ahead of this. Maybe this will help you out, a little:
The problem with event horizons is that one never knows for sure that they have crossed one, until they already have.
This otherwise normal day in May, because the greatest experts, the smartest guys in the room, can not or will not declare it - this day in May ...
... we have crossed that Event Horizon and there is no coming back to what was 'normal' or of preventing the ultimate debt repudiation cycle and whatever various sorts of chaos that await us in the very near future.
One last little footnote, or point for further discussion, if you will: Consider the import of this process being set in place before November.
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Interesting Vanity post by a fellow FReeper.
And a personal effort... Incremental Change in GDP VS Domestic Debt
<1 indicates a Negative ROI on Injected Capital
Utterly unsustainable
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 thier‘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.
Now anyone thinking that prepping is foolish ask you what’s easier telling your children and loved ones why you prepared or explaining to them why you didn’t?
But if any provide not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever. 1 Timothy 5:8
But then someone has to stand on the bridge waiting for FEMA to bring them a bottle of water, an MRE and a warm blanket so as to provide the Network Anchors their background ‘Money Shot’. I wonder how that will workout for them?
Face it we’ve kicked the financial can so far down the road that we are running out of road and the can which was once the size of a soda can is now the size of an oil drum (Try kicking that!)
For those who are just starting or are old hands at prepping you may find my Preparedness Manual helpfull. 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.”
Or as the bible says: A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
NIV Proverbs 22:3
Lastly this for the doubters and the scoffers.
“There is no greater disaster than to underestimate danger.
Underestimation can be fatal.”
Next stop: Spaghettification.
Haven’t seen you in a coon’s age! How are you?
Hi Kimmie. I’m doing okay. You?
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FINANCIAL BLACK HOLE . . .
“Every paragraph above could be expanded into pages of detail and analysis, and it will all enevitably lead to massive debt repudiation and the destruction (bankruptcy strictly enforced) of ALL the major money-center banks - the one’s with the greatest exposure to uncollectable debt of any sort. Here in the United States that means that the five largest financial institutions, Goldman Sachs, J P Morgan Chase, Bank of America and a couple of others will not survive, in any form we recognize today. This will happen throughout the World Financial System, and the only hope is that governments will be able to maintain societal stability and not decend into some form or variation of anarchy.”
I haven’t been one to think martial law would surely happen, but if the banks above had to close, the rest would, too. That could easily bring about martial law in order to try to control the chaos brought about by people not being able to get money. If it happened before the Nov. election, there might not be an election and I haven’t been one to think the election wouldn’t happen.
Not much is said on prep threads about having cash in the house. I have taken care of that and everyone should. After Ike came thourgh my area, there was no cash to be had since power was down. So, the possibility of hurricanes and power loss caused me to always have cash stored somewhere on my property so I could get to it.
Preppers should think about banks being closed for whatever reason and prepare for that event. Have smaller bills and change, not larger bills, and put it where no one knows where it is except you and spouse.
Note entire thread and read between the lines and please open your ears
Things are moving right along, just as we were told they would, and these things have to happen for the one-world economic system to come into place.
That fact doesn't make it any easier to watch, but we know what the end to the story is and that's the only way we can endure what's happening.
No big mystery here but the time to wake up is long over
Glad to see you’re back from your earlier sabbatical.
Howdy, Scotty!!
One thing I know is true. Government is not the solution. At least not in its present form. Government is the problem. Obama is a Marxist. Romney is a Keynesian crony capitalist who approves of bailouts and stimulus spending and claims more will be necessary. Both think it’s the purpose of government to control the economy.
Pray for a return to constitutionally limited government.
The founders had it right in that regard.
bfl
This is why a “mark of the beast” will be necessary and accepted. No amount of preparation can prevent one from needing that “mark” to buy or sell. We just have to trust Jehovah-Jireh for absolutely everything, now and for tomorrow, and however long He leaves us here to do His will. There is no one more faithful than Jesus Christ. I don’t want to ever deny Him. God help us.
Revelation 13:
14 He deceives those who live on the earth because of the signs that he is permitted to perform on behalf of the beast, telling those who live on the earth to make an image of the beast who had the sword wound and yet lived. 15 He was permitted to give a spirit to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast could both speak and cause whoever would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. 16 And he requires everyone—small and great, rich and poor, free and slave—to be given a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, 17 so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark: the beast’s name or the number of his name.
Amen, my friend... Amen.
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