Republicans tend to report to constituents on the economy as
look at we are doing now and Dems report on the economy in terms imagine how
your life will be when we manage the economy. Neither the GOP nor the Dems look
at current economic warning signs with the lens of history and potential
disastrous future economic outcomes. Conservatives looking past the “now” view
current tendencies coupled with past mistakes potentially leading to future
economic disaster.
I don’t see policy changes from either Republicans or Dems,
but I do see political exploitation from both sides to extract political votes
to control government. So I wonder … What is your best Liberty position under
whoever succeeds in a government-tyranny of the majority election?
I certainly don’t want to live under a government that tells
me how to live, think and believe (ahem Dems). I will not be pleased
living free but wondering about my well-being in nourishment and quality of
economic life (ahem Republicans). Is there a third path of Liberty and
well-being for an American to vote? Unfortunately not in today’s viable
political choices. In my opinion that MUST CHANGE. Until then, I’m voting President
Trump for the best possible Liberty in November 2020.
JRH 11/19/19
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America's Economy at the 11th Hour
America's Economic House of Cards - America's Economy
Pushed Beyond Reality
By Justin O. Smith
Sent 11/17/2019 10:43 PM
"We are living in a system
of the banks, by the banks and for the banks, and that is the reality
....." ~ G. Edward Griffin, author of 'The Creature from Jekyll Island'
"The Best Economy Evah" is the constant mantra we
hear from the Trump economic experts and Larry Kudlow, President Trump's
Director of the National Economic Council, and yet, it is hard to ignore the
warning signs that something isn't quite right with this economy. Despite
unemployment purportedly at an all-time low and the stock market riding high,
the Federal Reserve Bank is still printing between $80 to $100
billion a day, after stating two months ago that this
action was only going to be necessary for a few weeks, as they increase their
own balance sheets by $200 billion since September, through Quantitative Easing on steroids, and more rapidly than
they did at the height of the 2008 economic crisis when the amount of dollars
in circulation doubled from $880 billion to $1.76 trillion.
The mainstream media and investors tend to focus on these
statistics, despite the manner that allows them to be most usually and easily
manipulated. If one points to the recent collapses in some sectors of
manufacturing or the explosion in consumer and corporate debt, the ready retort
is always "But the stock market is at an all-time high". The average
person ignores the fact that stock markets are meaningless trailing indicators,
and they also ignore the fallacies surrounding the GDP numbers and the tens of
millions of jobless people not included in the unemployment numbers, for any
number of reasons.
The Federal Reserve repossession market purchases continue
to run in high demand, and this in turn has tightened corporate cash flows to a
near standstill. We saw something quite similar just before the credit crisis
hit in 2008.
The recent increase in consumer spending is also deceptive,
since it doesn't necessarily indicate people are buying more goods or have more
disposable income. If one views the steep declines in traffic and goods shipped
via the trucking and railroad freight systems, it becomes more readily apparent
that we are in the throes of inflation, as the cost of living increases and the
people spend more on the same amount of goods, being bled dry along the
way.
The Federal Reserve has cut interest rates three times this
year, including the 0.25 percent cut at the end of October. Federal Reserve
Chairman, Jerome Powell, noted this move was made to
"provide some insurance against ongoing risks".
These are actions taken by a central bank when an economy is
weak.
The Federal Reserve's decisions directly affect the prices
of everything on the planet, because the U.S. dollar is the world's dominant
reserve currency, dictating one's salary, interest rates on loans, home values
and all other assets, goods and services. They recently acknowledged they were
in uncharted waters.
On November 13th 2019, Jerome
Powell told Congress that economic conditions are totally unprecedented,
and he added that his committee has "significant humility" because so
many of their basic assumptions have been wrong. He also stated that the Fed
was attempting measures that have never been previously attempted, in order to
correct and balance the economy.
America's most vulnerable people today are the fifty-three million workers, forty-four percent of the
workforce between the ages of 18 and 64, considered
low-wage and low-skilled workers. And according to a Brookings Institution report,
most of these people make considerably less than $11.00 an hour, and they are
stuck in an economy where short term contracts and freelance work are prevalent
and permanent jobs are not as plentiful as advertised by political rhetoric,
with median annual earnings of only $17,950.
An overwhelming number of these people currently find
themselves unable to pay their loans, whether those are for cars, college
tuition or credit card debt. They will be hit hardest during the next
recession.
Looking at the "Big Picture", the federal
government's October budget deficit has the U.S. on track to a one trillion
dollar deficit, possibly larger, in fiscal 2020, largely due to the penchant
Democrats and Republicans alike have for out-of-control spending. Our budget
deficits began rising again in 2016 and have risen for four straight years, and
a combination of tax cuts and spending is pushing the deficit to take five
percent of our Gross Domestic Product, by next September, topping $1 trillion
for the first time since 2012. For the first time in history, deficits topped
$1 trillion each year from 2008 to 2012, in the aftermath of the Great
Recession.
And this also ignores the manipulation of the GDP numbers.
Fancy accounting omits taxpayer dollar expenditures on inflated programs and
Obamacare, and according to many experts, the U.S. GDP is actually in the
negative. However, even government figures show official GDP growth in decline
at 1.9 percent and below the projected three percent growth for this
year.
Massive U.S. consumer debt, both government and private, now
totals over $14 trillion, with our national debt at $22 trillion, and this
places tremendous pressure on the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates low
and even experiment with negative rates; however, the Federal Reserve can only
keep the price of money artificially low for so long without serious
consequences. And in the meantime, it is in a panic to prevent an economic
crisis more severe and catastrophic than seen in 2008.
Very similar to the insider buying schemes that centered on
the 1929 stock market crash, in recent history, the money elites are still
prone to engineer economic disasters while deliberately hiding the real
statistics from the public, in order to benefit from their insider knowledge
and pick stocks up for pennies on the dollar, a federal crime by the way that
they seem willing to commit with abandon. They also use economic crises, such
as the one impending, to change the power structure in the nation, or the
world, just as FDR did through the New Deal, something that may not have been
created otherwise.
It's either this, or some of them truly believe the answer
lies in doing more of the same, by once again pumping trillions into the
banking sector as was done in 2008 to 2012, freeing even more lines of credit.
Essentially, it seems as though some may really believe in Keynesian economics
and the notion that an economy can be grown and expanded through more debt,
thus saving the system and America from suffering.
More often now, in an attempt to stave off the approaching
catastrophe, America hears bankers advocating for universal incomes and making
way for "green deal" investments and many different short and long
term economic stimulus packages, while the global and U.S. economy are slowing
and grinding to a halt. The Federal Reserve sees the only solution as doing
more of the same by way of various forms of Quantitative Easing, in order to
avoid riots in the street.
I'm no prophet of doom, but I do believe in taking a
realistic look at all matters, including our economy. If our economy is not on
the verge of collapse, why has the Federal Reserve, the central bank, been
buttressing it for the past decade? How much longer can the Federal Reserve
continue this practice and how much longer do they actually want to do so? What
if allowing the entire house of cards to fall benefits them, just as it has in
past similar situations?
Currently the top ten percent of Americans are living large,
prospering greatly from the Federal Reserve's government bubble scheme and
President Trump's stock market pumping on Twitter, and they have amassed hard
assets in gold, silver, real estate, factories, tools and food supplies, with
the certain knowledge that everything based on paper and debt will collapse
soon. They will pick everything up for pennies on the dollar, just like 1929
all over again.
They know it's on the way, the collapse. So, what is the Big
Plan of the Bankers?
Our central bank and its owners see the U.S. financial
system once again on the verge of collapse and a system of inflation that
cannot be sustained forever, since all systems of exponential growth are always
doomed to collapse. Our system entered the surreal whenever it started working
with numbers in the trillions, just as Elizabeth Warren, Democratic
Presidential candidate, easily and nonchalantly as though it were nothing,
bandied about a $52 trillion number to front her agenda if elected, and America
is at the breaking point as She is being purposefully pushed beyond
reality.
The Federal Reserve Bank and its private concerns and board
members understand the dynamics better than anybody, so they must believe the
end to be near, along with those of us paying attention, who can very nearly
see and touch the coming end. And on the last day, the Big Banker Bandits will
grab all they can in their desire to safeguard their own financial situation
and be secure, as hell unfolds for everyone else; so in the meantime, they are
going for broke, because they know the system is broken and little remains to
fix it.
The only real fix will come whenever America returns to a
truly free capitalist economic system, unseen in America since 1913 and even
less so after FDR's New Deal hit the government. And, as our artificial economy
continues to fail and the wealth inequality gap swells, America finds Herself
at the 11th hour and an awakening that will ignite the auto-correction of our
system and the wealth inequality imbalance, along with major protests in the
streets of our largest cities, much like we now see in Chile and elsewhere, and
a revolution focused on eradicating the Federal Reserve Bank and arresting and
prosecuting those un-elected officials who have raped, pillaged and ruined the
U.S. economy, enriching themselves at the expense of most of
America.
By Justin O. Smith
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Edited by John R. Houk
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