Monday, December 7, 2009
Unemployment Decline An Illusion, Financial System Collapse Ahead
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Twenty years ago, a father with an average job was able to support an entire family of four or five on one income. Today, both parents need to work, and they are still unable to support their family without getting deeply into debt with credit cards, mortgages, auto loans, and college loans. Less families today have health insurance. Wages have not kept pace with inflation, all we have seen is an increase in debt to meet some of the demand from inflation.
With the babyboomers beginning to retire, the decline in our standard of living is about to dreadfully accelerate. The average American peaks in spending at around 46 years old and the last babyboomer will turn 46 in 2010. Therefore, a major drop-off in consumer spending is coming. But more importantly, beginning this next decade, 1.5 to 2 million Americans will apply for Social Security every year until 2026, compared to only 500,000 per year during the last decade. Tax receipts are about to fall off a cliff, at the same time as government entitlement spending for Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid go through the roof.
Many people have been asking us on NIAnswers, if we see massive inflation and gold prices go through the roof like we predict, wouldn't that be good for the U.S. because we have the largest gold reserves at 8,133.5 tonnes? Well, at the current gold price, our gold reserves are worth approximately $300 billion. Our budget deficit this year alone was $1.6 trillion. If we had to pay back our $12 trillion national debt using only the gold in our vaults, it would require a $45,889.44 per ounce gold price. But once you factor in our $55 to $100 trillion in unfunded liabilities for Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, our gold reserves will not put a dent in saving our country from the financial system collapse that lies ahead.
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Ok, somebody out there correct me if I'm wrong - but I think alot of these articles completely miss what is ACTUALLY happening. We have the Federal Reserve; totally unregulated unconstitutional and NEVER ; EVER
ReplyDeleteaudited. So basically; they create "money" out of thin air and --- as long as "WE the PEOPLE"
think it's worth something ---- it is!!!! What
is the difference between 10 trillion fiat dollars, euros, yen etc. and 100 trillion ?? As long as they are accepted the ozone is the limit !!! And accepted; from wherever and in whatever form ---- they are !!! im MASS quantities!!
The only hope is to bring the jobs back that have been going overseas for decades. America is finished because companies aren't coming back; therefore no tax base to pay for these entitlements. People need to grow gardens, many families will end up having one car and living in smaller houses. Things will have to be done more locally. Larger cities will contract like Detroit, etc. National chains will eventually fail and we will go back to lifestyles of the 50's 60's when businesses were localized as oil becomes expensive and scarce. having children will be only for wealthier couples as most will be living "on the edge" of poverty and despair for years.
ReplyDeleteYou are a smart lady Laura. Very well said. I believe that is the best case scenario though. Most likely worse.
ReplyDeleteI do not believe our physical gold reserves are worth 300 billion. Not even close. The majority of the gold at Fort Knox was stolen away by the banksters long ago. That is why they won't allow an audit of Fort Knox.
ReplyDeleteUnbelievable, that gold is supposed to be the property of the people of the USA and it has not been audited since the 1950s.
Sounds a little like the Federal Reserve? It should. The owners of the Fed are the people that stole the gold.
When the elite decide to crush the US economy the last thing they will do is leave us with gold. Since less than 2% of Americans are smart enough to own PMs we are screwed, left with a huge sack of worthless paper notes and a corpse for an economy.
Jim Sinclair has adised his readers to sell GOLD at this point:
ReplyDeleteI will advise taking the cost of your position out between gold at $1580 and $1620, letting the balance of your position ride as the price shows its intention of reaching Alf and Martin’s numbers. LINK HERE
jim sinclair is a moron, gold is a buy all the way to 1600, than large jumps will put gold between 2500 and 5000 by the end of 2010, buy it and be in great shape as the dollar will collapse by the end of 2010 maybe sooner.
ReplyDeleteRegarding Laura (4:43)
ReplyDeleteIsn't what you describe----a return to the 50's and 60's lifestyles----isn't that EXACTLY what we need? One car, localized retail, gardens, etc.
That sounds like it is very very good to me.
DROP: All consumer electronics (flat HD screens, IPODS, Laptops, Blackberries and Strawberries phones and all that unneeded crap that goes OBSOLETE in no time.
Signed
Beaver Cleaver
@6:22...
ReplyDeleteRorschach? Is that you?
It's printed on your bills.
ReplyDeleteGod has spoken.
GOD BLAST AMERICA
Mwahahahaha...."Unemployment Decline An Illusion"
ReplyDeleteThis entire blog is an illusion...
5:22 the problem with selling gold is there is no decent place to put it once you sell it. Sell it for what? Soon to be worthless fiat currency dollars.
ReplyDeleteI guess if you were selling your gold to buy food, ammo, or other commodity/survival items that would make sense.
I witnessed what happened in Argentina and Zimbabwe with the value of Gold. Personally, for me, it is a hold and/or buy at just about any price. Silver is even better, but hard to store/hide.
12:02 you should listen to 4:19.....does not matter how much fiat money you print, people will give it value because this is all they have and it takes a long long lonnnnnggggggggggggggg time to change perception. If you follow tradition economic theories then you may be right, but, economic theory barely changed over the years and we are living in a very different time...illusion is reality and reality is just an illusion...
ReplyDeleteI'm not selling my silver until the dollar is toast.
ReplyDeleteFunny story of a guy sticking it to the credit card companies.
ReplyDeletehttp://patrick.net/forum/?p=25968
6:22...YOU MISS YOUR xanax.. or your weekly therapy appt.... sheesh.... take a pill dude...aren't we all wound up enough already?
ReplyDeleteHow much of that gold in Ft. Knox is gold-plated tungsten? Certified gold bars have been found to be tungsten with a veneer of gold over them. It's hard to make tungsten 'gold' coins because tungsten is brittle and gold plating is more obvious on coins, but 'gold' bars, now...
ReplyDeleteFor all of you non believers-AKA stupid dumbed down mind controlled sheeple:
ReplyDeleteContinue to believe "Obama" is the "Peace President"
Do not believe anything you read in this article.
Do not buy any gold and silver.
Do not buy any storable food.
Do not buy a water filter.
Do not buy an alternative source of energy.
Do not store any water.
Keep ALL your money in your local bank.
Continue to watch TV.
Spend freely and buy everything using your credit cards.
AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, DO NOT BUY A GUN OR ANY AMMUNITION!
This would help immensely, so it won't happen.
ReplyDeleteNow We're Talking! Glass-Steagall
http://market-ticker.denninger.net/archives/1710-Now-Were-Talking!-Glass-Steagall.html
"If this amendment passes it will eviscerate Wall Street's "profit gravy train", but it will also usher in a productive explosion in America that we have not seen in the last 50 years.
[...]
If adopted, the measure would give banks one year to choose between being commercial banks or investment banks. The nation's biggest -- those now commonly referred to as "too big to fail" -- would be broken up. The Obama administration opposes the measure."
But of course he does.
DEMCAD,
ReplyDeleteI watch you on YouTube all the time Bro. ALL people who post on this blog should go to YouTube and check him out.
Jim Sinclair is NOT advising people to sell their gold. He continuously advises people to hold on to it, and he still is.
ReplyDeleteDT he is stating that one should sell at around 1600 to recoup the initial amount you put in. Then hold the rest in case it hits the levels that Martin Armstrong and Alf Fields claim.
ReplyDeleteHas he changed his mind about believing gold will go up to "Armstrong and Alf's levels"?
ReplyDeleteI didn't realize it was your comment, Economic Analyst. I had assumed it was one of the naysayers. I'm so surprised Jim Sinclair would change his mind like that!
ReplyDelete