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The federal government and the media have deceived the people about the true state of our economy. If, has now been replaced by “when” will the economy collapse. What are the signs that the collapse is imminent? We have to look at the facts and also what is not being reported in order to deceive us.
Here are some facts:
1. The stock market is reaching new highs (not accounting for inflation), in a recession/depression. The stock market can be analyzed by its value and also by its volume. The volume on July 29th, 2013 was only 69.5% of its three month average volume and 29% of its average volume in 2008.
If the demand for any product is going down, why is the price going up?
2. Unemployment is reported to be 7.6% by the government. The actual number (U6) is 14.1%. But a true picture reveals an unemployment rate of 22.5%:
3. While the government inflates the stock market, the price of gold and silver is openly manipulated by large banks. The government dismisses investors’ lawsuits in yet another example that we are no longer a nation under the rule of law:
JP Morgan wins dismissal of silver price-fixing lawsuit
In a decision made public on Monday, Patterson said that while the investors showed that JP Morgan had the ability to influence prices, a fact the bank did not dispute, they failed to show that the bank “intended to cause artificial prices to exist” and acted accordingly.
4. Food stamp spending has more than doubled under this administration:
47 million people received food stamps last year. Throw in another 14.4 million on the new welfare (disability) and 25.5 million government employees and there is only one conclusion: voting is no longer a viable solution. Which is a possible reason why the Republican party is supporting amnesty.
5. There is no fiscal accountability in DC. We have no budget and the “debt ceiling” has become irrelevant as shown below. The government has breached the debt ceiling and instead of addressing the issue, it is ignored. No media coverage. No Congressional inquiries. No solutions.
If people understood the reality outlined above, there would be bank runs across the country. And no amount of government intervention would be able to prevent an economic collapse at that point. The FDIC has a balance of $35.7 billion. The top 5 US banks held 95.7%, or $221 trillion of the entire US derivative universe as of June 30, 2011. This is 0.02% of the outstanding exposure that these five banks are liable for when the collapse occurs. Let’s put this into a Cypriot perspective: a bank bail-in. For every $250,000 in deposits, you would received $40.
This is not a hypothetical exercise. The dollar will collapse and any wealth that has its foundation in federal reserve notes will become worthless once the bank runs start. And the same principles apply to the stock market.
David DeGerolamo
70 Straight Days: Treasury Says Debt Stuck at Exactly $16,699,396,000,000.00
According to the Daily Treasury Statement for July 26, which the Treasury released this afternoon, the federal debt has been stuck at exactly $16,699,396,000,000.00 for 70 straight days.
That is approximately $25 million below the legal limit of $16,699,421,095,673.60 that Congress has imposed on the debt.
The portion of the federal debt subject to the legal limit set by Congress first hit $16,699,396,000,000.00 at the close of business on May 17. At the close of every business day since then, it has also been $16,699,396,000,000.00, according to the official accounting published by the Treasury Department.
If the debt had increased by even $30 million at any time during those 70 days, it would have exceeded the statutory limit. But, according to the Treasury, the debt did not do that. Instead, it remained precisely $16,699,396,000,000.00.
