selecting from dual.

Fit Will Hit The Shan Shortly. Make sure you have food. Make sure you have water.

Something strange happening in the economy as the commercial real estate paper is becoming worthless. Why? If the stores continue to close, then the economy of shipping and fulfillment will collapse.

Stay tuned…

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This is not the Second Great Depression, this is the First Not-So-Great Depression

It is slowly sinking in.

Movie stars are doing fine.

Singers and entertainers are doing fine.

Professional athletes are doing ok.

Politicians are doing just swell.

You, on the other hand, … not so hot.

You may not have enough gasoline to drive to the ballot booth on election day. You need to choose which car will be repossessed. You need to make sure you have a roof over your head and air conditioning during the summer.

$170-$200 per barrel oil is on the way and we are experiencing a dangerous wheat shortage worldwide.

Not-so-great, eh?

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Root Cause of Great Depression Was Antitrust (Private Equity Firms and Hedge Funds)

Yeah. I said it.

Private Equity Firms. Mutual Funds. Hedge Funds. Federal Reserve. You can call them whatever you want. They are all banking cartels.

I just read this post on Austrian Economists.

http://austrianeconomists.typepad.com/weblog/2007/12/did-the-gold-st.html

Mismanagement Gold Standard Helped Cause the Great Depression?

Yes, But the Root Cause Was Antitrust.

History also remembers that the Great Depression was an antitrust problem that started by real estate crisis in Florida and set off a chain reaction nationwide. Lack of antitrust legislation and the era of the robber barons produced a class of Americans that possessed 90% of the countries wealth.

Upon accumulation of all this wealth, the robber barons exercised conventional wisdom abject stupidity in the management of commodities such as gold, silver, oil …. well, just pick any commodity, and chances are they mismanaged it. ^_^ The few families who got out of the market early survived. You may have heard of some of them: Rockefeller, Vanderbilt.

What is all this antitrust nonsense I am talking about?

It may be hard to remember, but in the U.S. there were actually laws (antitrust laws) that clearly stated that your bank could not do your taxes, your tax preparer could not provide your insurance, and your insurance company could not manage your mutual funds.

Most of those laws were repealed and now you are seeing the results.

Sadly, per Brooding Issue #1 in my previous post, I see massive bank failures ahead.

It appears that the giant private equity firms (who bought real estate at the top of the market) will fall and come crashing down crushing all the little people underneath. (Just like in Florida in 1929).

Currency Collapse May Be Eminent

If we are lucky, we will experience an orderly currency collapse. However, two smart guys named Bill Gates and Warren Buffet fear a disorderly fall of U.S. dollar, which will turn the Great Depression into a discussion about happier times.

… つづく

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Brooding about lack of liquidity, the bad credit crunch, staggering hyperinflation, new fears, new losses, and pending outage

Brooding about the following thoughts:

1. The U.S. banks no longer trust each other.
2. 500 Billion dollar loan from Europe doesn’t scratch the surface of what the banks really need.
3. People are not ready for worldwide shortages of food and supplies.
4. Hyperinflation is rampant, as the cost of driving is approaching THREE loaves of bread per gallon.
5. The currency markets are about to experience the greatest shock since the Great Depression.
6. There is almost no liquidity in the market.
7. HKMA continues to oversell Hong Kong Dollars to defend the peg with the U.S. Dollar.
8. The credit derivatives market is filled with analysts who do not know how to use a ledger
9. Upper management of Fortune 500 companies is packed with individuals who never experienced sacrifice, let alone even read about the Great Depression, its causes or its aftermath.
10. Insurance companies are worried about widespread arson; they announced this “concern” as a “risk management tactic”.
11. Hypothecating property in business will no longer be accepted.
12. Charitable foundations may fold without inflation hedges firmly in place
13. The currency will change overnight and will catch world markets by surprise
14. Gold will reach insane historical highs only to be stalled by the fact that you can’t eat gold
15. Sections of the Internet may collapse due to lack of funding for infrastructure (power and water), in which case, Gopher and Archie may become popular again.

All these figments of my imagination. right?
…

EDIT: Probably. It’s just a bad dream.

I’ll wake up soon. I’m not worried at all. No, really.

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