2009年10月22日 星期四

20 reasons America has lost its soul and collapse is inevitable

Here are the 20 reasons America has lost its soul and collapse is inevitable according to By Paul B. Farrell from MarketWatch.

1. Collapse is now inevitable
2. Nobody’s planning for a ‘Black Swan’
3. Wall Street sacked Washington
4. When greed was legalized
5. Triggering the end of our ‘life cycle’
6. Wall Street wealth now calls the shots in Congress, the White House
7. America’s top 1% own more than 90% of America’s wealth
8. The average worker’s income has declined in three decades while CEO compensation exploded over ten times
9. The Fed is now the ‘fourth branch of government’ operating autonomously, secretly printing money at will
10. Since Goldman and Morgan became bank holding companies, all banks are back gambling with taxpayer bailout money plus retail customer deposits
11. Bill Gross warns of a "new normal" with slow growth, low earnings and stock prices
12. While the White House’s chief economist retorts with hype of a recovery unimpeded by the "new normal"
13. Wall Street’s high-frequency junkies make billions trading zombie stocks like AIG, FNMA, FMAC that have no fundamental value beyond a Treasury guarantee
14. 401(k)s have lost 26.7% of their value in the past decade
15. Oil and energy costs will skyrocket
16. Foreign nations and sovereign funds have started dumping dollars, signaling the end of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency
17. In two years federal debt exploded from $11.2 to $23.7 trillion
18. New financial reforms will do little to prevent the next meltdown
19. The "forever war" between Western and Islamic fundamentalists will widen
20. As will environmental threats and unfunded entitlements


"America Capitalism" is a "Lost Soul" ... we've lost our moral compass ... the coming collapse is the end of an "inevitable" historical cycle stalking all great empires to their graves. Downsize your lifestyle expectations, trust no one, not even media.

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Bikerdoc65 提到...

I wasn't kidding at all. This is another read:

http://www.gold-eagle.com/editorials_08/baltin102309.html

UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE
For People Who Think

Aubie Baltin CFA, CTA, CFP, PhD.
October 23, 2009

LIAR, LIAR PANTS ON FIRE

EXIT STRATEGY

INTEREST RATES: There can be no possible exit strategy as long as both the Bond Market and Derivatives Market are relying on low and falling interest rates to stay afloat. If interest rates were to be increased (even just ¼ point) signaling a change in the direction that interest rates will be taking, the Bond Market, which is much larger than the stock market, could crash. This would doom all pension funds, insurance companies, banks, States Muni Bonds and anything that's left of private pension funds and 401Ks. In addition, what would happen to the $600 trillion of CDS's and other Interest rate derivatives that are all relying on zero interest rates for one side of the equation to stay afloat?

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