Posted on 06/02/2012 4:30:14 PM PDT by blam
WORLD BANK BOSS: We're Headed For "Impending Catastrophe" -- "A Rerun Of Great Panic Of 2008"
Henry Blodget
Jun. 2, 2012, 9:51 AM
The head of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick, is about to step down after a 5-year term.
That means he can say what he really thinks.
Here, via the Daily Mail, is what he really thinks about what's going on in Europe and the global financial markets:
Financial markets face a rerun of the Great Panic of 2008.
* It's ‘far from clear that eurozone leaders have steeled themselves’ for the looming catastrophe amid fears of a Greek exit from the single currency and meltdown in Spain.
* ‘Events in Greece could trigger financial fright in Spain, Italy and across the eurozone. The summer of 2012 offers an eerie echo of 2008.... ‘If Greece leaves the eurozone, the contagion is impossible to predict, just as Lehman had unexpected consequences.’
* 'There will not be time for meetings of finance ministers to discuss the outlook and debate the politics.... 'In panicked markets, investors flee to safe assets, sparking other flames.’
Cheery stuff.
Zoellick's recommendation?
Huge, quick government bank bailouts.
In the meantime, the world, waits...
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
While Barry fiddles.
People have become comfortably numb to the catastrophe about to happen.
Otherwise things would be much MUCH worse than they are and are going to be.
it's not his problem.
However, ruining the US economy is ruining the world economy. When the US sneezes, socialist states get pneumonia.
By the time this is done, we’ll be looking back on 2008 as “The Good Old Days”....
At some point, the “more plaster-and-wall-paper” approach to fixing the major cracks of the world financial system will clearly no longer work.
There will be a major deflationary re-set, as debt gets repudiated by both Gov’t and consumer
What I suspect deeply is manipulation, that we're being used.
Note: I am very conservative. I believe in the U.S.Constitution and in national defense. I am not a Ron Paul supporter nor do I believe in Bilderberger/Trilateral conspiracies.
One of the difficulties with true evil is it can appear to be so right, so correct, so seductive and logical we overlook the obvious: that underneath the slick veneer it isn't all that different from obvious evil. We've only convinced ourselves that it is better than the obvious evil OR we've allowed ourselves to be dragooned into a decision based upon fear.
So, if the U.S.A. said goodbye to the IMF...goodbye to the U.N. and pulled all our troops back stateside...who would be howling the loudest?
All Globalists.
I keep seeing this idiocy about the impending crash being another 2008. It’s garbage. This meltdown will make 2008 look like a blip. It might make 1929 look like a mild correction.
I wouldn’t be surprised if no more than 25% of the American people have any idea what’s going on. And half of those who do say it’s Bush’s fault.
Dorothea Lange Route 99 February 1939 "On U.S. 99 near Brawley, Imperial County, California. Homeless mother and youngest child of seven walking the highway from Phoenix, Arizona, where they picked cotton. Bound for San Diego, where the father hopes to get on relief 'because he once lived there.'"
‘There will not be time for meetings of finance ministers to discuss the outlook and debate the politics.... ‘In panicked markets, investors flee to safe assets, sparking other flames.’
They are already doing that. The 10Y UST hit 1.47% yesterday and currently 10Y Swiss notes are -0.30%. That’s right. You PAY the Swiss government to keep your money for two years.
BUUUUUSH’s fault. Bush’s fault, Bush’s fault, Bush’s fault!!! I didn’t do it, you can’t prove it, it isn’t me, no no no no no,,,,Bush’s fault, Bush’s fault, Bush’s fault!!!! Him, him, him, not me.
-Obama
Well!!
They do promise to give it back to you. (And, there's a good chance that they'll actually do it.)
Gold went +$66.XX 
Baltic Dry Index http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/BDIY:IND/chart 
Read Zero Hedge.
Obama:”La...la...la..I’m not listening....la....la..
I'll never forget John McCain letting this bas#$%d get away with saying he had warned about the impending housing crisis when in fact he was on the ground level suing banks with the aide of the Community Re-investment Act.
I still can't believe this moron sits in the White house.
They are getting desperate. They will require all pension plans to be invested in treasuries. Start at 10% then 20% etc. Then, an emergency freeze on stock trading to avoid a collapse. When it re-opens, no shorts. Kind of like closing the banks.
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