Monday, August 10, 2009

Entering the Greatest Depression in History


While there is much talk of a recovery on the horizon, commentators are forgetting some crucial aspects of the financial crisis. The crisis is not simply composed of one bubble, the housing real estate bubble, which has already burst. The crisis has many bubbles, all of which dwarf the housing bubble burst of 2008. Indicators show that the next possible burst is the commercial real estate bubble. However, the main event on the horizon is the “bailout bubble” and the general world debt bubble, which will plunge the world into a Great Depression the likes of which have never before been seen.

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The Bailout Bubble

While the bailout, or the “stimulus package” as it is often referred to, is getting good coverage in terms of being portrayed as having revived the economy and is leading the way to the light at the end of the tunnel, key factors are again misrepresented in this situation.

At the end of March of 2009, Bloomberg reported that, “The U.S. government and the Federal Reserve have spent, lent or committed $12.8 trillion, an amount that approaches the value of everything produced in the country last year.” This amount “works out to $42,105 for every man, woman and child in the U.S. and 14 times the $899.8 billion of currency in circulation. The nation’s gross domestic product was $14.2 trillion in 2008.”[10]

Gerald Celente, the head of the Trends Research Institute, the major trend-forecasting agency in the world, wrote in May of 2009 of the “bailout bubble.” Celente’s forecasts are not to be taken lightly, as he accurately predicted the 1987 stock market crash, the fall of the Soviet Union, the 1998 Russian economic collapse, the 1997 East Asian economic crisis, the 2000 Dot-Com bubble burst, the 2001 recession, the start of a recession in 2007 and the housing market collapse of 2008, among other things.

On May 13, 2009, Celente released a Trend Alert, reporting that, “The biggest financial bubble in history is being inflated in plain sight,” and that, “This is the Mother of All Bubbles, and when it explodes [...] it will signal the end to the boom/bust cycle that has characterized economic activity throughout the developed world.” Further, “This is much bigger than the Dot-com and Real Estate bubbles which hit speculators, investors and financiers the hardest. However destructive the effects of these busts on employment, savings and productivity, the Free Market Capitalist framework was left intact. But when the 'Bailout Bubble' explodes, the system goes with it.

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21 comments:

  1. Where can I order one of those black T shirts that say Great Depression 2009?

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  2. Has anybody thought about how all these poor people up north are going to pay the heating bill this year? And if war starts in the middle east in September as the prophecy stones say, then how much will heating oil cost then with no oil traffic flowing?

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  3. Thankfully most of us still have wood burning fireplaces. We are currently renting a home that has only propane fireplaces and are moving soon just so we can have a wood burning one.

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  4. I want that t-shirt also. EA should print up some t-shirts. I'd buy one. Good conversation starter. Take a happy apathetic person and share our tale of pending doom. It could be a gift set.

    1. T-shirt
    2. Baseball cap
    3. Noose

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  5. I had the Coming Depression clock, nobody bought one. I'll get the shirts going..

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  6. Well, no offense, but I don't think anyone would want to buy a wall clock. It's been ages since I've seen one of those in somebody's home. T-shirts, on the other hand, work nicely.

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  7. Agreed. Sorry EA - that clock really sucked!!

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  8. try zazzle / fearandclothing / libertymaniacs for tshirts

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  9. We want to support EA.

    A holiday shirt with a big ribbon where the from is "Oligarchs" to the "Peasants"

    Sort of like the T-shirt on T-shirthell.com that says from "God" to "Women" - love that shirt.

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  10. That is one hot manikin, or is that really you, Mr. Coming Depression. Nice pose.

    Is he wearing any shorts?


    I think I'm in love.

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  11. I want 3 to start and maybe more for Christmas!

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  12. I promise to buy one or more.

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  13. He's Free

    Free ballin'

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    Oh yes he's FREE

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    He be Free ballin'

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  14. T-shirt ordered! Thanks EA.

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  15. At the end of March of 2009, Bloomberg reported that, “The U.S. government and the Federal Reserve have spent, lent or committed $12.8 trillion, an amount that approaches the value of everything produced in the country last year.”

    So how is that different from someone taking out a mortgage at on year's salary? Doesn't sout so terrible in this context.

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  16. How can anyone claim to know exactly what the private Fed is doing? They are thieves and liars - no audit - no idea.

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  17. There you go! Last poster said a lot about it. We are in a position they want us in. No intell---no idea of what is going on. All these newscasts, articles, blogs, flyers, commentators, all this "my opinion",
    books written, none of it 110% verifiable.
    Like the old "Dragnet" where Joe Friday said
    "just the facts, ma'am". Friday did not want comments or suposes, he wanted the facts. Americans dont have access to concrete facts. That is priviliged information for the few. Knowledge is nothing but power and it is kept at close hold. So you have Americans knowing things are wrong, but aside from suposing about it, no one can totally verify. Nothing new here.

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  18. Poster above: We have plenty of facts. Bloggers who have dug into financials, government sites, stats and government caught lies. We have Goldman Sachs rigging the markets with their program trading. We have the FEDS buying their own debt. We have the Feds using their programs to propel the markets higher. We have faked unemployment figures figured out by bloggers. The facts go on and on. You either don't read or don't believe the "FACTS"..There are TONS of them out there and on this BLOG.

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  19. All I know is my business was great for 30 years. Now it is like a tomb.

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  20. My Depression T-shirt has already been shipped. Now that is what I call service!

    Can't wait to wear it this weekend and start pissing off the Obamaniacs and other lemming hybrids! Thanks DB aka EA.

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