knightrider wrote:
The $800 billion stimulus plan passed in 2009
The $5 trillion in debt accumulation?the most of any President in history
The passage of Obamacare? the assassination of Osama Bin Laden? and huge tax increases
Over the years, Porter has published research that predicted the collapse of certain companies, and even entire industries.
For example, he accurately described in detail ? and well in advance ? the collapse of such institutions as GM, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac, just to name a few.
More recently, Porter predicted the bankruptcy of Detroit, detailing the collapse of the city with a series of essays dating back to 2009.
The #1 financial question I hear from most Americans today is:
Have the problems from 2008 been fixed?
FACT #1: Jim says the REAL unemployment rate is actually around 23% in America today?if you calculate it the proper way. Most people don?t realize the government?s ?official? rate doesn?t count people who have given up, and are no longer seeking work.
FACT #2: Jim Rickards also points out that in six years, from 2008 to 2014, we increased the money supply in the United States from $800 billion to $4 trillion?a whopping 400% increase! But despite all this money printing, individual incomes and household incomes have essentially not increased one bit.
FACT #3: Lots of people say to Jim, if things are so bad, where are the ?soup kitchens? like we had in the Great Depression.
Jim Rickards accurately point out that we do indeed have ?soup kitchens? today--they just look different than they did 90 years ago. Today?s soup kitchens are places like Safeway, Kroger, Albertsons, WholeFoods, and other grocery stores?because this is where roughly 50 million Americans use government-issued food stamps to eat. Keep in mind: The number of Americans on food stamps has basically doubled since President Obama took office.
FACT #4: Jim Rickards also says the Federal Reserve--which serves as America?s ?banker?s bank? and as the government?s bank--is already insolvent. He says they have about $60 billion in cash? but this cash is propping up over $4 trillion in debt, and concludes: ?the whole thing is unstable and it?s ready to explode.
FACT #5: Jim Rickards also says America today is witnessing its third stock bubble, and its second housing bubble, in the past 15 years. These bubbles, according to Jim, do not help the real economy but merely enrich brokers and bankers. And he says when these bubbles burst, the economy will confront a worse panic than occurred in 2008.
Jim Rickards sums it all up this way:
?We are in a depression?It started in 2007 and it is going to continue indefinitely. Depressions are structural--monetary solutions are cyclical. You cannot solve a structural problem with a cyclical remedy--monetary policy [printing money] simply will not work.?
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