Category Archives: #EconomicCrash2017

– Sept – #POTUS. Oct – Simon Parkes. A major wake-up event is set in the #AkashicRecords for October.

Usury Based System: Towards a Worldwide Financial Disaster? 

By Richard C. Cook

It is more obvious every day that with the accession of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States—I refuse to use the word “election,” because I am convinced that Trump was designated for this position by the “deep state” and the controlled media—a major world disaster is not only likely but probably inevitable.

Before proceeding, I would like to say something about my own background. I spent 32 years as an analyst with the civilian side of the U.S. federal government. I worked for the U.S. Civil Service Commission, the Food and Drug Administration, the Jimmy Carter White House, the U.S. Office of Consumer Affairs, NASA, and the U.S. Treasury Department.

During those years I took part in many high-level policy initiatives under seven presidential administrations, from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush. This included a massive conversion to electronic funds transfer for U.S. Treasury Department financial transactions, amounting to a multi-trillion dollar cash flow annually. After 9/11, my work included being part of a committee that developed a long-range plan for Treasury as part of the so-called “War on Terror.”

I can assure you that apart from what may have been the case in the distant past, today the government of the United States is not controlled by any elected official. Rather it is managed by a deeply entrenched bureaucracy reporting behind the scenes to powerful figures from the world of international politics and finance—some in the U.S., others not.

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Since I retired in 2007, I have published several books and dozens of articles on public policy matters. One of my books, Challenger Revealed, was the definitive account of the space shuttle Challenger disaster, exposing multiple layers of cover-up by NASA, the Reagan Administration, and the Presidential Commission that was convened to examine it. Most of my articles have been published on the Global Research website out of Canada,

My next book was on monetary policy and titled, We Hold These Truths: The Hope of Monetary Reform. This book consisted of a history of the U.S. monetary system and an explanation of why that system should be changed radically to avert further disasters…

 

Source: Usury Based System: Towards a Worldwide Financial Disaster? | Economy

Canada’s Housing Bubble Explodes As Its Biggest Mortgage Lender Crashes Most In History | Zero Hedge

Call it Canada’s “New Century” moment.

We first introduced readers to the company we said was the “tip of the iceberg in Canada’s magnificent housing bubblenearly two years ago, in July 2015 when we exposed a major problem that we predicted would haunt Home Capital Group, Canada’s largest non-bank mortgage lender: liar loans in particular, and a generally overzealous lending business model with little regard for fundamentals. In the interim period, many other voices – most prominently noted short-seller Marc Cohodes – would constantly remind traders and investors about the threat posed by HCG.

Today, all those warnings came true, when the stock of Home Capital Group cratered by over 60%, its biggest drop on record, after the company disclosed that it struck an emergency liquidity arrangement for a C$2 billion ($1.5 billion) credit line to counter evaporating deposits at terms that will leave the alternative mortgage lender unable to meet financial targets, and worse, may leave it insolvent in very short notice.

As part of this inevitable outcome, one which presages the company’s eventual disintegration and likely liquidation, Bloomberg reports that the non-binding rescue loan with an unnamed counterparty will be secured by a portfolio of mortgage loans originated by Home Trust, the Toronto-based firm said in a statement Wednesday. Home Capital shares dropped by 61% in Toronto to the lowest since 2003, dragging down other home lenders. Equitable Group Inc. fell 17 percent, Street Capital Group Inc. fell 13 percent, while First National Financial Corp. declined 7.6 percent. In short, the Canadian mortgage bubble has finally burst.

Some more details on HCG’s emergency source of funding: Home Capital will pay 10% interest on outstanding balances and a non-refundable commitment fee of C$100 million, while standby fee on undrawn funds is 2.5%. The initial draw must be C$1 billion. The loan has an effective – and very much distressed – interest rate of 22.5% on the first C$1 billion, declining to 15% if fully utilized, according to a note from Jaeme Gloyn, an analyst at National Bank of Canada…

Source: Canada’s Housing Bubble Explodes As Its Biggest Mortgage Lender Crashes Most In History | Zero Hedge

X22Report Stock Market Has Gotten so Big it Has Now Passed 2007 Market Bubble – Episode 1264a 

Report date: 04.26.2017

Canada housing regulators are now warning of a housing bubble.

The US is seeing the echo housing bubble of 2008.

The central bankers need more debt pushed out, so those student’s with student loans will now be able to purchase homes by changing the rules.

Trump is getting ready to sign an EO to cancel NAFTA.

Bubble Alert, we have now passed the bubble of 2007 and are now headed to the 1999 bubble.

Congress will pass a week extension to discuss the budget.

Rand Paul says to drain the swamp the money must be taken away.

The only way to do this is to crash the system and to remove the central bank.

All source links to the report can be found on the x22report.com site.

Source: X22Report Stock Market Has Gotten so Big it Has Now Passed 2007 Market Bubble – Episode 1264a | Politics

11 Facts That Prove That The U.S. Economy In 2017 Is In Far Worse Shape Than It Was In 2016 | Prepare for Change

By Michael Snyder,

There is much debate about where the U.S. economy is ultimately heading, but what everybody should be able to agree on is that economic conditions are significantly worse this year than they were last year.  It is being projected that U.S. economic growth for the first quarter will be close to zero, thousands of retail stores are closing, factory output is falling, and restaurants and automakers have both fallen on very hard times.  As economic activity has slowed down, commercial and consumer bankruptcies are both rising at rates that we have not seen since the last financial crisis.  Everywhere you look there are echoes of 2008, and yet most people still seem to be in denial about what is happening.  The following are 11 facts that prove that the U.S. economy in 2017 is in far worse shape than it was in 2016…

#1 It is being projected that there will be more than 8,000 retail store closings in the United States in 2017, and that will far surpass the former peak of 6,163 store closings that we witnessed in 2008.

#2 The number of retailers that have filed for bankruptcy so far in 2017 has already surpassed the total for the entire year of 2016.

#3 So far in 2017, an astounding 49 million square feet of retail space has closed down in the United States.  At this pace, approximately 147 million square feet will be shut down by the end of the year, and that would absolutely shatter the all-time record of 115 million square feet that was shut down in 2001.

#4 The Atlanta Fed’s GDP Now model is projecting that U.S. economic growth for the first quarter of 2017 will come in at just 0.5 percent.  If that pace continues for the rest of the year, it will be the worst year for U.S. economic growth since the last recession.

#5 Restaurants are experiencing their toughest stretch since the last recession, and in March things continued to get even worse

Foot traffic at chain restaurants in March dropped 3.4% from a year ago. Menu prices couldn’t be increased enough to make up for it, and same-store sales fell 1.1%. The least bad region was the Western US, where sales inched up 1.2% year-over-year and traffic fell only 1.7%, according to TDn2K’s Restaurant Industry Snapshot. The worst was the NY-NJ Region, where sales plunged 4.6% and foot traffic 6.3%.

This comes after a dismal February, when foot traffic had dropped 5% year-over-year, and same-store sales 3.7%….

Source: 11 Facts That Prove That The U.S. Economy In 2017 Is In Far Worse Shape Than It Was In 2016 | Prepare for Change

Time Is Running Out Fast: Are You Ready for What’s Coming? Why Isn’t Anyone Talking About This?! (Videos) Mr Doom, Jason A 

 

4-23-17 From Mr Doom

Time Is Fast Running Out: Are You Ready for What’s Coming?? (April 23, 2017)

From Jason A

Why is this Not Being Talked About… (2017-2018 EVENTS)

 

Source: Time Is Running Out Fast: Are You Ready for What’s Coming? Why Isn’t Anyone Talking About This?! (Videos) Mr Doom, Jason A | Alternative

X22Report Bubbles Are Popping, Prepare for Collapse – Episode 1261a 

In this news brief we will discuss the latest news on the economic collapse. We look to see if things are really that different. The central bank will not stop at just confiscating your wealth they will want your life. They want to enslave the people.

Source: X22Report Bubbles Are Popping, Prepare for Collapse – Episode 1261a | Politics

Captains of Dollar Are Panicked, US Govt Will Default -Bill Holter, Greg Hunter Video 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqatg5WNIvc

Market expert and financial writer Bill Holter says elite were in a “panic” last week to try to push down the price of gold and silver. Holter explains, “You have to understand that gold is the direct competitor versus the dollar.  Other currencies in the world compete with the dollar, but the dollar is the reserve currency.  It supplanted gold in 1971.  Gold and the dollar are direct competitors or arch enemies, or whatever you want to call them.  The best way to make the dollar look good is to make gold look bad.  That’s what the purpose of all these naked sales or contracts are to suppress the price (of gold and silver).   That’s the purpose of it. . . . Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday were three big sales back to back to back, which shows the captains of the dollar are panicking.  The dollar definitely looks like its rolling over and has been taking some fairly sizable drops intraday.”

Holter also contends, “The gold market is at an inflection point. The silver market is at an inflection point, and the stock market is at an inflection point.  There are inflection points everywhere, and the dollar is definitely starting to look weak.”

Holter says the financial and geopolitical landscape is a minefield that could detonate at any time. Holter says, “I have long said that because of the derivatives outstanding today, once something blows up, the whole system blows up within 48 hours.  The globe will spin twice, and basically the markets will close.   It really amazes me that there are so many potential fire events out there, and yet there is zero concern. . . . You are going to wake up one morning and something somewhere will have already happened.  At that point, it will be too late for you to do anything.  You are going to wake up and find out there was a dog fight between a Mig and U.S, fighter jet or a sub was sunk or a big bank becomes insolvent.  Who knows what it’s going to be or where it’s going to come from, there are just too many of them.  The point being is it’s here and now.  It’s a dry barn, and they are flicking matches all over the world.”…

Source: Captains of Dollar Are Panicked, US Govt Will Default -Bill Holter, Greg Hunter Video | Economy

‘Retail Bubble Has Now Burst’: Record 8,640 Stores Are Closing In 2017

Thousands of new doors opened and rents soared. This created a bubble, and like housing, that bubble has now burst.”

– Richard Hayne, Urban Outfitters CEO, March 2017

The devastation in the US retail sector is accelerating in 2017, and in addition to the surging number of brick and mortar retail bankruptcies, it is perhaps nowhere more obvious than in the soaring number of store closures.

While the shuttering of retail stores has been a frequent topic on this website, most recently in the context of the next “big short”, namely the ongoing deterioration in the mall REITs and associated Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities and CDS, here is a stunning fact from Credit Suisse:“Barely a quarter into 2017, year-to-date retail store closings have already surpassed those of 2008.”

According to the Swiss bank’s calculations, on a unit basis, approximately 2,880 store closings were announced YTD, more than twice as many closings as the 1,153 announced during the same period last year. Historically, roughly 60% of store closure announcements occur in the first five months of the year. By extrapolating the year-to-date announcements, CS estimates that there could be more than 8,640 store closings this year, which will be higher than the historical 2008 peak of approximately 6,200 store closings, which suggests that for brick-and-mortar stores stores the current transition period is far worse than the depth of the credit crisis depression…

Source: ‘Retail Bubble Has Now Burst’: Record 8,640 Stores Are Closing In 2017 | Economy

Prediction Of Economic Difficulties | Simon Parkes Official Website – Current Intel

Prediction Of Economic Difficulties

Sunday, April 23, 2017

 Prediction of economic difficulties mirroring my own predictions…

Source: Prediction Of Economic Difficulties | Simon Parkes Official Website

Just How Overvalued Is The Market? Here Are 20 Metrics To Help You Decide | Zero Hedge

Despite the recent modest profit-taking in the S&P 500, the market – just shy of its all time high 2,400 level – remains in nosebleed valuation territory.

As Bank of America calculates, in March the S&P 500 forward P/E was little-changed amid a flat month for stocks, and at 17.5x continues to trade at its highest levels since 2002 (on a trailing basis P/E is at 19.6 and 29.0 based on the Shiller PE). This is almost one turn higher since we last performed a similar valuation exercise back in December.

Hardly a bargain, stocks remain stretched vs. history on the majority of metrics Bank of America tracks (Table 2) and as Savita Subramanian points out, the only way stocks still look cheap is relative to bonds. While BofA is quick to warn that today’s elevated valuations suggest longer-term caution on stocks, it reminds clients that “valuations typically matter little in the final stage of a bull market during which sentiment and positioning are the key drivers of returns.” This is also known as the so-called “just buy everything” cop out.

Stripping away BofA’s subjective commentary, to allow readers to decide for themselves whether stocks are massively overvalued and overbought, or perhaps cheap, here is a breakdown of the S&P 500 across a wide variety of valuation measures — 20 in total — to gauge whether US stocks look cheap vs. history.  What the analysis shows is that of 20 metrics, the S&P is overvalued based on 18 by as much as 85% (on a historical market cap to GDP basis) and up to 105% if looking at the S&P in WTI terms, and is cheap only according Price to Free Cash Flow (25.1x vs 28.4x) which however is a function of ultra low interest rates, and also based on a ratio of the S&P-to-Russell 2000 fwd PE multiples. A third metric which last December suggested stocks were “cheap“, namely trailing normalized PE (19.6x vs 19.0x average) flipped to “rich” in the past 5 months…

Source: Just How Overvalued Is The Market? Here Are 20 Metrics To Help You Decide | Zero Hedge

(60) Trump Prepares The US For The Collapse Of The Central Banker’s System – Episode 1255a 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znxe-wL2Z5o

Published on 15 Apr 2017

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Panic Begins to Grip the Market; Tech Stocks Experience Longest Losing Streak in 5 Years 

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By Michael Synder

S&P 500 tech stocks have now fallen for 9 days in a row.  The last time tech stocks declined for so many days in a row was in 2012, and that was the only other time in history when we have seen such a long losing streak.  As I have stated before, the post-election “Trump rally” is officially done, and the market is starting to roll over as investors begin to realize that all of the buying momentum has completely evaporated.  Tech stocks tend to be particularly volatile, and so the fact that they are starting to lead the way down should definitely be alarming to many in the investing community.

Of course it isn’t just tech stocks that are falling.  The Dow was down another 59 points on Wednesday, and the S&P 500 has closed beneath its 50 day moving average for the very first time since the election.  For those that have been waiting for a key technical signal before getting out of the market, there is one for you.

The price of gold was up again, and that is definitely not surprising in this geopolitical environment.  The closer we get to war the higher gold and silver prices will go, and if we actually get into a major conflict we will see them blast into the stratosphere.

Another key indicator that I am watching very closely is the VIX.  On Wednesday it shot up above 16 for the very first time since the day after Trump’s election victory, and many believe that it could soon go much higher.  The following is an excerpt from a CNBC report

The VIX measures the size of the S&P 500’s expected moves over the next 30 days, and consequently tends to run just a bit hotter than volatility over the past 30 days. Yet one-month realized vola…

Source: Panic Begins to Grip the Market; Tech Stocks Experience Longest Losing Streak in 5 Years | Markets

Economic Insider Reveals Secrets Privy Only to a Few: It’s About to Get Bumpy 

By Lisa Haven

The New World Order’s International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a powerful and manipulative globalist organization known for monitoring the financial health of more than 188 countries, establishing global money laws and providing “bail-out’s” to nations. They have a lot of power and are capable of accomplishing tasks of unprecedented proportions. They are an organization we need to keep a very close eye on.

In the video, I interview the CEO of Nobel Gold Investments, Charles Thorngren, and delve through the IMF’s and the globalist’s nasty plans. Charles reveals how the IMF is making their move to crash the dollar and send the American population into a whirlwind of panic! He further reveals how to survive their “chess game of life.”

Please, Please don’t miss this VITAL report…

 

Source: Economic Insider Reveals Secrets Privy Only to a Few: It’s About to Get Bumpy | Economics and Politics

First Ever Global Govt Crash Coming – Greg Hunter, Clif High Video

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By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 

Internet data mining expert Clif High uses what he calls “predictive linguistics” to spot trends and make predictions for future events. In his latest in-depth report, High sees a “huge” calamity coming for humanity.  Clif High explains, “There is all kinds of data for money and lack of money and lack of funding and all kinds of emotions around this.  There are hints in the data that something huge is coming for August and September that is being exposed by the language now.  I think it’s a bond crash or not a bond crash because I don’t know how that works.  It’s not a stock market crash.  The data I am looking at now says the stock market is not meaningful.  We may lose 50 cents on every dollar in the stock market in just a few days, but it’s meaningless.  It won’t make any difference at all to anybody according to what the data is showing me because the real crisis is in the crash of government.”

High goes on to explain, “The emotions at the moment are projecting a crash of the ability of the state to function. . . . We have the projection that there is going to be some sort of big government crash. It concerns funding, interruption or something. . . . We have something akin to a definition change relative to bonds. . . . One way to think about this is there is going to be a human collective or re-understanding, or new understanding, about the whole bond market as we go forward in August, September and October.  This is going to cause huge disruptions for governments, which basically depends on the bonds as its source of funds.  I don’t know what that definition is going to mean, but the way the language is presenting itself, it’s very much like the same language that appeared in newspapers ahead of the Bretton Woods conference. . . . At that time, a bunch of countries got together around WWII and talked about how to deal with gold, money and the dollar after the war was over. . . . We have that same kind of language now relative to the bonds. . . .This redefinition is going to cause real problems relative to governments.  If I had to guess, I don’t think we will have a stock market crash, but a government crash or Fed crash or bank crash.  I don’t think a stock market crash will be meaningful because by the time it crashes, nobody will care because before we get there, the Fed will crash.  The Fed is the market.”

Maybe this is why Clif High is also seeing language that prices are going up for things like Bitcoin, gold and silver. Clif is seeing the term “gold fever” repeatedly.  He is also seeing the term “silver rush” for the white metal.  High contends, “The amount of pressure they have had to use to push down on gold and silver prices means when it starts to go up, there will be a bit of a flutter.  Then, they are going to push down harder, and then it’s just going to blow.  The language is suggesting that this is really happening around silver.”  High also says at some point in the not so distant future, prices will be rising so fast that “no one will be selling gold and silver.”

High says another thing he sees is chaos in politics and the economy, and he contends this is all part of the “first ever global government crash.”

Join Greg Hunter as he goes One-on-One with Clif High of HalfPastHuman.com.

(There is much more in the in-depth video interview.)

After the Interview:

You can find Clif High’s latest report, which is 42 pages long, on HalfPastHuman.com. Just go to the site and scroll down to the latest report which is called “Two Tribes.”  The report is only $15 and there is a 100%, no questions asked, money back guarantee.

 

 

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Source: First Ever Global Govt Crash Coming – Greg Hunter, Clif High Video | Economy

Syrian War – What The Elites Are Hiding

The most recent bout with this ongoing Syrian conflict was put forth to the world to hide something very serious.As you recall – a few days ago a fake Chemical Gas Attack on a town in Syria from an abandoned airfield…

https://youtu.be/rSSrMC2HAuU

via Syrian War – What The Elites Are Hiding — DR WILLIAM MOUNT

X22Report Economic Data Just Went From Bad To Worse, The Collapse Accelerates – Episode 1249a


Report date: 04.07.2017

More economic indicators are showing the economy is collapsing at an accelerated pace. The job numbers came in and the unemployment rate came down to 4.5% with less people getting jobs and more people losing jobs. The retail industry is a complete disaster, and many retailers are going bankrupt. There is nobody left to purchase treasuries, so the treasury is now the buyer. Traders are worried about volatility and they are purchasing insurance.

Source: X22Report Economic Data Just Went From Bad To Worse, The Collapse Accelerates – Episode 1249a | Politics

Insider Predicts ‘Mega Event’ Heading for US Economy – Honeymoon Is Over

With all the division in our government, major spying revelations for political purposes, deadlock in the senate, government shutdown being threatened, and a Gdp imbalance between the federal reserve banks we turn to economic strategist Charles Thorngren who just penned a new blog post at Noble Gold Investments entitled, “Bonds, Yield Curves, Recession Oh My!” In it he presents a detailed map, which attempts to show us how to avoid a ‘mega event’, he’s predicting for the US economy… and he has a major announcement.

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a person within a group or organization, especially someone privy to information unavailable to others.

Source: Insider Predicts ‘Mega Event’ Heading for US Economy – Honeymoon Is Over (Video) | Prophecy

X22Report Fed Just Hinted That the Stock Market and the Economy Might Be on Shaky Ground – Episode 1247a


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Report date: 04.05.2017

ADP employment surges to highest since 2014.

Services PMI and non-manufacturing ISM decline.

Texas signs bill that will allow gold and silver to be money.

The Fed hints that the stock market is a bubble and it going to have a major correction.

An economic historian is predicting that the central banks are going to crash the economy.

Be prepared we are now seeing the push to bring down the entire global economy.

Source: X22Report Fed Just Hinted That the Stock Market and the Economy Might Be on Shaky Ground – Episode 1247a | Politics

X22Report Elite Admit That Something Is Wrong With the Economy, but it’s Not Their Fault – Episode 1246a


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Report date: 04.04.2017

Trump keeps promise and donates salary to National Park Service.

Ralph Lauren closing store in NY.

2017 Retail bankruptcies are surging this year.

The next subprime crisis is here and the corporate media doesn’t want to talk about it.

Manhattan apartment prices are tumbling, over a million people left NYC since 2010.

US factory order surged, not so fast most of this was based on the military.

Richmond Fed Lacker was booted from the Fed because he was leaking information.

Jamie Diamond says there is something wrong with the economy, but we just can’t put our finger on it

Source: X22Report Elite Admit That Something Is Wrong With the Economy, but it’s Not Their Fault – Episode 1246a | Politics

The Financial System Will Go Dark When The Economic System Fails:James Rickards

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbPQouWuKWY&feature=push-u-sub&attr_tag=XxGythZHpR91E7yv-6

Published on 4 Apr 2017

12 Troubling Warning Signs for US Auto Industry 

Auto Industry Resorts To Biggest Incentives Ever To Slow Decline In Sales | Zero Hedge – http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-02/auto-industry-resorts-biggest-incentives-ever-slow-decline-sales

The Next Subprime Crisis Is Here: 12 Signs That A Day Of Reckoning Has Arrived For The U.S. Auto Industry – http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/the-next-subprime-crisis-is-here-12-signs-that-a-day-of-reckoning-has-arrived-for-the-u-s-auto-industry

04-01-17-MACRO-THEMES-AUTO-SII-RETAIL-AUTO-2016-Q4_US_Auto_Loans.png (507×477) – http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2017/03/27/04-01-17-MACRO-THEMES-AUTO-SII-RETAIL-AUTO-2016-Q4_US_Auto_Loans.png

The Auto Industry Is About To Drive Off A Cliff, Again | Zero Hedge – http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-03/auto-industry-about-drive-cliff-again

Auto OEMs Miss March Sales ‘Bigly’ As Stocks Tumble | Zero Hedge – http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-03/beginning-end-auto-oems-miss-march-sales-bigly-stocks-tumble

Source: 12 Troubling Warning Signs for US Auto Industry | Economy

WARNING!! America In UNCHARTED Territory!! Financial Collapse, Civil War…BONKERS! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5taTW6InBtI

The Enslavement System Is Crashing

 

All signs point to the total collapse of the enslavement system: organized religions/organized cults, ruling elites, corrupted justice system, fiat money, shadow government and all lower frequency ways of living. The dominoes have been started. A higher dimensional world is taking shape and physically manifesting. The mass mind control is rapidly breaking down. Once the…

via The Enslavement System Is Crashing — Prepare for Change

Federal Reserve Now Committed to Raising Interest Rates on Accelerated Schedule to Speed the Arrival of the “Trump Crash” | Stillness in the Storm

Thursday, March 23, 2017


(Daniel BarkerOn Wednesday, March 15, the Federal Reserve announced it had raised its benchmark interest rate by a quarter point – a move likely to have noticeable effects on the economy, and not necessarily positive ones.


Related Time to Think Outside the Box | “Trump Chosen By Elite To Be Scapegoat For Massive 2017 Crash!” Says Financial Writer

SourceNatural News

by Daniel Barker, March 21st, 2017

In fact, many worry that the move could trigger severe financial consequences, including a long-feared adjustment of the stock market that (according to at least one analyst) could send share prices tumbling 6,000 points to below 15,000 – nearly 30 percent below last week’s close.

Raising rates will also affect other sectors of the economy. Some fear rate hikes could lead to another housing crisis – when interest rates are high, it’s more difficult for homeowners to afford their mortgage payments.

Whatever negative effects the rate hikes will have on the economy, it’s an easy bet they will be blamed on President Donald Trump. The timing of this year’s rate hikes (there are two more projected before the end of 2017) has some wondering whether Janet Yellen and the Federal Reserve are playing politics and using the accelerated rate increases as a means to undermine Trump and his presidency.

Could this be true? Let’s look at the evidence.

Source: Federal Reserve Now Committed to Raising Interest Rates on Accelerated Schedule to Speed the Arrival of the “Trump Crash” | Stillness in the Storm

Ron Paul Predicts Inflationary Depression, Stagflation and Dollar Crash | Stillness in the Storm

Thursday, March 23, 2017


(Josh SigurdsonRecently, Dr. Ron Paul broke down his views on the recent interest rate hike at the Federal Reserve and the direction he believes we’re heading within the monetary system.

Related ‘Fake News Comes From Our Own Govt’ – Ron Paul Fires Back on Propaganda Charges

SourceWe Are Change

by Josh Sigurdson, March 22nd, 2017

Dr. Paul made a familiar prediction, that we are headed towards stagflation, or an inflationary depression like we’ve never seen before.

Stagflation is defined as a high inflation rate teamed with high unemployment and low economic growth. When the government spends unthinkable amounts of money while the Federal Reserve prints currency out of thin air, devaluing the currency, creating debt and inflation, this is a sad inevitability.

Now, former Congressman Ron Paul has made these predictions in the past, but of course he did not put a date on it. The fact is, with the level of absolute manipulation of the markets and monetary system, economic fundamentals are off the table, making trends futile…

Source: Ron Paul Predicts Inflationary Depression, Stagflation and Dollar Crash | Stillness in the Storm