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Are we headed into a bust
cycle?
Being alert for danger in the system is as important as having
food to eat.
If real trouble like a crisis appears, it will show up immediately
in the U.S. dollar index or the bond market. The results can then show up in
the equity markets, although these are manipulated as much as the value of the
dollar.
In a free bond market, interest rates would most likely be
skyrocketing. Yields are only 4 percent... far short of the 8-10 percent of
official inflation. Today, the bond market does not operate freely, and so you
must adjust your investment thinking.
The real economy
The banksters have elevated themselves to emperor status with
their control over the economy... except that the emperor has no clothes. It's
purely a confidence game.
"Central bankers" have created an environment where we
will be in a constant cycle of booms and busts, with the Fed and its allies
injecting liquidity into the system to "save" it — or raising rates
to "save" it. Instead of currency controls, you have currency out of
control.
Most of the Framers and ratifiers of the U.S. Constitution feared
paper money. For that reason, Article I, Section 8, which deals with credit,
commerce and coinage, was a much-discussed section.
As the consensus moved toward restricting the issuance of paper
money and establishing a sound money policy, the Framers pondered what to do
about the government's debt.
Many argued that, without the ability to print money, there was no
way to discharge the debt. But the Framers knew from experience that printing
money led to inflation. So Clause 5 — which restricted money to coins — was
inserted to negate the effects of fiat money. Clause 2 of the section, which
gives Congress the power to "borrow money on the credit of the United
States," was finally settled upon, though not without objection.
The anti-Federalist Brutus — probably New York's Robert Yates —
wrote in Brutus, No. 8:
Under this authority, the Congress may mortgage any or all the
revenues of the union, as a fund to loan money upon, and it is probably, in
this way, they may borrow of foreign nations, a principal sum, the interest of
which will be equal to the annual revenues of the country.–By this means, they
may create a national debt, so large, as to exceed the ability of the country
ever to sink. I can scarcely contemplate a greater calamity that could befal
(sic) this country, than to be loaded with a debt exceeding their ability ever
to discharge. If this be a just remark, it is unwise and improvident to vest in
the general government a power to borrow at discretion, without any limitation
or restriction.
Even though he understood where Clause 2 would lead, I doubt
Brutus could have foreseen what we are experiencing today.
We think that the U.S. is now beyond the Federal Reserve's
pie-in-the-sky "2 percent average inflation" target, which is even
worse than their former 2 percent target. With 2 percent "average,"
the economy can go up and down for years and the Fed will be fine with it as
long as it "averages" 2 percent. What do they care if inflation is
now 8 percent or 10 percent?
In any case, the inflationary trend has been established by the
world banking system and you can expect booms and busts for the foreseeable
future.
This, of course, translates into an up commodity market, including
a bull market in gold and silver and other precious natural resources. As
Martin Spring pointed out, "Decarbonization will spur demand for clean
energy materials far beyond anything we've seen before. Instead of oil, coal
and natural gas we'll need lithium, nickel, cobalt and magnesium for electric
vehicle batteries, vanadium for our utility-scale energy storage, silver and
polysilicon for our solar panels, iron and zinc for wind turbines, copper for
just about everything."
Before you bet the farm totally on inflation, put this in your
mental computer for future reference. The U.S. dollar is the world reserve or
senior currency. This means that if we see a tsunami economic collapse, the
U.S. dollar could skyrocket on the international currency market (as we have
already seen it rise against the British pound, as a mild bond crisis has hit
that country) most especially since the U.S. has superior world police power.
Surely by now you did not think the military-industrial complex
was in place for "regime change" and nation-building? No, dear
reader. It is about the value of money. It has no value without our world
police, i.e. the U.S. military.
As well as the dollar rising, remember that markets can rise even
in a downturn because global banksters have perpetuated the illusion that
equity markets, the stock markets, which are part of a system of markets more
properly called "risk markets," are perfectly safe.
Stocks are like money, they want you to think, and trusting
Americans believe these banksters. These elites want you to think pouring money
into stocks and funds is safe, easy, and risk-free because central bankers with
their "liquidity injections" are subsidizing their speculative
finance, which drives the markets to even greater but artificial highs, making the
rich richer.
History shows us what happens when people realize the stock market
boom they are experiencing is purely speculative. You get a violent crash to
the downside.
When the speculative credit, debt and stock bubbles are pierced,
it could take decades to unwind.
Where are we headed?
For a clue, look at where some huge investors are not putting their money.
Wolfstreet.com tells
us:
"'Bond vigilantes' is a figure of speech. They're big institutional
investors that buy government bonds sometimes with a lot of leverage and via
complicated derivatives. They're insurance companies, pension funds, bond
funds, hedge funds, even individual investors.
"When they get tired of being beaten up by raging inflation,
reckless fiscal policies, and artificially low-interest rates, they refuse to
buy bonds, and some are selling bonds, and so buyers vanish, and new buyers
have to be lured into the market with higher yields and lower prices, or else
no one is buying, and this is pushing up interest rates further and pushing
down bond prices further, and so these bond vigilantes are imposing high costs
of borrowing as punishment."
When borrowing prices get high, the economy turns down. I remind
you that the entire 2008 financial crisis was caused by a slowdown in the
growth of credit. Not a contraction of borrowing… merely a slowdown in the
increase of borrowing.
Further, I remind you that stockbrokers, the government and its
media, and the big banks are always trying to turn sentiments toward dollars
and heavily against gold and other commodities. You will have to go against
this if you want to profit from them in the coming months. If you want to be a
financial success, you never go with the public, but just the
opposite. You must do what most people cannot.
Yours for the truth,
Bob Livingston
Editor, The Bob Livingston Letter®
P.S. — Very few people understand that paper money confiscates wealth away from
the workers, savers and producers of wealth. Paper money transfers wealth to
its creators. This, my friends, is basic to understanding why the system must
have inflation. This special report explains everything you need to know about
the thief called inflation. Follow
this link and
it will guide you on how to put up personal defenses — before inflation steals
everything you have right before your eyes.
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Together
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We
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35 Unusual Uses for Borax
Borax (also known as sodium borate) is a naturally-occurring
mineral found in soil, plants, and even our own bodies. When I was growing up,
my mom used it as a laundry booster, which is what most people use it for. In
my twenties, I learned to use it as an ingredient in homemade laundry
detergent. Then in my thirties, I was surprised to discover over 30 other
things you can do with borax!
Granted, most of these uses have nothing to do with survival.
But what I love about versatile items like vinegar, baking soda, and borax is
they eliminate the need to store lots of cleaning supplies.
One four-pound box can be used to clean almost anything around
the house and it takes up very little space, leaving you room to store more
important things, like food. That's why I recommend adding borax to your
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3 comments:
As we always say, democrats could screw up a wet dream!
All I can say is the GOP better clean house soon!
Don't know about others, but we feel 'busted' by the idiots in DC!
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