US Stocks Crashing -- Coronavirus wipes out 17 Trillion in 2 Days

US Stocks Crashing -- Coronavirus wipes out 17 Trillion in 2 Days






Coronavirus wipes out $1.7 trillion in US stock market value in two days. The S&P 500 lost an estimated $1.737 trillion in value in two days, according to S&P Dow Jones Indices’ Senior Index Analyst Howard Silverblatt. Stocks cratered again on Tuesday as investors fled riskier assets amid intense fears about a slowdown in global growth caused by the deadly coronavirus. The Nasdaq Composite fell 2.8% on Tuesday and joined the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average in turning negative for the year. The S&P 500 just wiped out about $1.737 trillion of its value during its two-day market sell-off, according to S&P Dow Jones Indices. The equity benchmark lost $810 billion in value on Tuesday, adding to its $927 billion loss on Monday, according to the firm’s Senior Index Analyst Howard Silverblatt. It’s down $2.138 trillion since last Wednesday’s high, according to S&P Dow Jones. Stocks cratered again on Tuesday as investors fled riskier assets amid intense fears about a slowdown in global growth caused by the deadly coronavirus. The S&P 500′s two-day loss of 6.3% was the largest for the benchmark since August 2015, when the Chinese government devalued the yuan amid the U.S.-China trade war. Tuesday’s 900 point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average added to Monday’s stunning 1,000 point plunge. The Nasdaq Composite fell 2.8% on Tuesday and joined the S&P 500 and Dow in turning negative for the year. Bond yields also plunged as investor sought safer havens. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note fell to a record low of 1.32%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) looked set to rebound from yesterday’s devastating crash. But after rallying nearly 200 points, the index lurched back into decline. Here’s why the stock market suddenly plunged back into crash mode. After yesterday’s 1,000 point Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) rout, stock market bulls salivated over what they thought was the perfect time to buy the dip. But a half-hearted recovery quickly collapsed. And by midday, greedy investors had gone from licking their chops to licking their wounds as the stock market spiraled toward even steeper losses. dow jones industrial average crash Investors are taking the threat of coronavirus far more seriously now that the CDC has begun to outline containment procedures. | Source: Johannes EISELE / AFP The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) looked set to rebound from yesterday’s devastating crash. But after rallying nearly 200 points, the index lurched back into decline. Here’s why the stock market suddenly plunged back into crash mode. After yesterday’s 1,000 point Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) rout, stock market bulls salivated over what they thought was the perfect time to buy the dip. But a half-hearted recovery quickly collapsed. And by midday, greedy investors had gone from licking their chops to licking their wounds as the stock market spiraled toward even steeper losses. dow jones industrial average chart today Stock market bulls went from licking their chops to licking their wounds as the Dow Jones lurched toward further losses on Tuesday. | Source: Yahoo Finance Why The Dow Jones Crash Just Got Worse The unexpected pullback vindicated economist Mohamed El-Erian, who had warned investors to “resist” the urge to succumb to FOMO and “simply buy the dip.” He told CNBC: I would say continue to resist, as hard as that is, to simply buy the dip because it has worked in the past. Advertisement That was wise advice, especially in retrospect. But what sent the Dow and broader stock market back into decline? Just like on Monday, the answer lay in the coronavirus outbreak’s ongoing spread outside of China. More than 80,000 cases have been confirmed worldwide, including just under 1,000 in South Korea, more than 280 in Italy, and 53 in the United States. President Donald Trump may claim that the U.S. has the coronavirus under control, but health experts and stock market strategists are less confident in the administration’s assessment. The spreading deadly virus, that has infected more than 80,000 and killed more than 2,700, has sent shock waves through the markets. Companies like Apple, Nike, United Airlines and Mastercard have all raised flags about the coronavirus and its impact on their earnings. Chip stocks, which rely heavily on revenues from China, are being abandoned by Wall Street as it becomes more apparent supply chain disruption will persist until the epidemic is contained. Health officials at the Centers for Disease Control said Tuesday the coronavirus is “likely” to continue to spread throughout the United States and the American public should “prepare for the expectation that this is going to be bad.” This follows news on Monday about a spike in cases in other countries in Asia, the Middle East and Europe, outside the virus’s epicenter in China. Investors are closely watching reports in Italy, Iran and South Korea. Top White House economic advisor Larry Kudlow said that the U.S. economy is “holding up nicely” and that the coronavirus in this country is “pretty close to air-tight’ containment.

Japan Economy Collapsing -- Yet The Worse is still to Come

Japan Economy Collapsing -- Yet The Worse is still to Come





Japan, the world’s third-largest economy, shrank at the fastest rate in five years at the end of 2019 as it was hit by a sales tax rise, a major typhoon, and weak global demand. Japan has suffered its worst quarter since 2014. Japanese GDP shrank by 1.6% in the final quarter of this year, the equivalent of a 6.3% annualized slump. This without counting the impact that the coronavirus will have on the Japanese economy. Economics fear that Japan, the world’s third-largest country, could fall into recession this year. As the coronavirus hits companies exposed to China. The coronavirus spreading across Asia and the world is very likely to hammer Japan and the yen. The coronavirus is already taking a toll on the number of Chinese tourists to Japan and manufacturing activity due to the economy’s close ties with China, prompting some economists to forecast a contraction lasting two quarters. The Japanese economy greatly benefits from the horde of tourists that usually come over from China, and the two nations have developed a very close trading relationship. In Japan, the authorities are growing increasingly concerned about a rising number of cases. Until now, the picture in Japan has largely focused on the cruise ship, the Diamond Princess, which is still more incidentally just down the coast in the port of Yokohama. Although the vast majority of passengers have now disembarked after one over two weeks in quarantine but separate to the 700 or so cases linked to that ship. The Japanese authorities now say there are around a hundred and fifty reported cases elsewhere in the country. They're dotted all over, and the concern really for the health authorities is that they're really struggling to try and work out how and where those people became infected. It is an increasing problem, a big headache for the Japanese authorities. Because in five months' time, Tokyo is due to host the 2020 Olympics. If this epidemic is not contained by the time of the Tokyo Olympic Games, the damage to the economy will be huge. Japan's government is refusing to test hundreds of people who got a severe fever and applied to be checked if they got the coronavirus! In the last month, they only checked no more than 1000 people, while South Korea Government, for example, checked over 40000 people! They are intentionally controlling the numbers for economic reasons! And they let temporary negative people who got off the cruise to take public transportation to return homes all over Japan. And of course some people turned out to have a fever and be positive with the coronavirus later. Now the virus is all over Japan, yet they are still controlling the numbers by not testing people who need to be checked and not taking positive solutions! The outbreak in Japan is now inevitable. There is no confidence in the government. There is a lack of goods in the stores. People are very worried and scared. Many parents are keeping their children at home. Most Japanese believe the government bungled the cruise ship situation completely. Many hospitals are refusing to treat people who want to be tested for the virus. The medical staff who worked on the cruise ship are being bullied by their bosses and coworkers rather than admired for their work like the medical staff in Wuhan. The government is focused on the Olympics more than anything and secondly on the economy. The only reason the number of infected seems low is because nobody is being tested. The criteria to get the test is very rigid, and it is only available at a few hospitals. Welcome back to The Atlantis Report. Please take some time to subscribe to my two back up channels. I do upload videos there, too, on a daily basis. You'll find the links in the description box. Thank You. Japan’s economy is facing the risk of a recession because the coronavirus outbreak is hurting tourism and production. Japan is on the verge of a technical recession. It is a situation generally defined by two consecutive quarters of falling production, but the eyes of the world are now focused on the country to understand if it can turn into a more profound crisis. The Financial Times, for example, wondered if there is anything the government and the Bank of Japan can do and if Premier Shinzo Abe will succeed in his ambition to revive the Japanese economy as his mandate ends. It is not only Germany, the European locomotive, that is entering a recession. The myth of Japan, whose economy is third in the world after the US and China, also creaks. Official data show a dizzying drop in GDP, which fell by 6.3% per year in the last quarter of 2019 (1.6% short-term), a much larger contraction than the 3.8% forecast by analysts, as well as the worst result since the first quarter of 2014. For Japan - the world's third-largest economy - it was the first quarter of contraction after three consecutive positive quarters. On the bench of the defendants responsible for the drop in GDP, the consumption of Japanese citizens who went down by 2.9%. The fault of the increase in the consumption tax passed from 8 to 10% and decided by the government of Abe ((already passed from 5 to 8% in 2014) to restore the state coffers and to meet the greater welfare expenses due to an ever older population. Last but not least, the damage caused by the two typhoons that hit the country between September and October and which caused a total of 69 deaths. The trade war between the USA and China also weighs heavily on the performance of the Japanese GDP, which certainly does not favor the free movement of goods and services. Theoretically, the increase in VAT would have been offset by other measures, given that Abe had made a maneuver with over 100 billion euros to be used to cut taxes. And now, with the arrival of the coronavirus, there is only one more reason to be pessimistic. Due to the epidemic, The Chinese tourists (who are the first in Japan) have drastically decreased, not to mention the fact that numerous Japanese companies, including Toyota, Honda, and Nissan, have suspended their production in Chinese factories. A closure is due not only due to fears of contagion but also, like the case of a Nissan plant in Fukuoka prefecture, to the delay in the arrival of some components from China. Still, Japan's economy is the third-largest in the world, after the US and China: there are numerous private companies - called keiretsu - and they are excellent in numerous sectors, from banks to cars, to microelectronics. The problem is that exports have also fallen exponentially. And despite the agreement between the US and China and Brexit, there are no clearings on the horizon. "Exports are likely to collapse again this spring," said Takeshi Minami, chief economist at the Norinchukin Research Institute, citing a recovery in global semiconductor demand. "Trade is unlikely to serve as the main driver of growth this year due to the economic slowdown in the United States and China," Minami added. In particular, exports to China, Japan's largest trading partner, grew by 0.8% in the year up to December. Driven by the demand for equipment for the production of chips, cars, and plastics. It was the first annual increase in 10 months. Shipments to the United States, the country's number two trading partner, fell by 14.9% year-on-year in December - the fifth consecutive month of decline - dragged down by cars, auto parts, and aircraft engines. Finally, exports to Asia, which represents more than half of Japan's total shipments, declined 3.6% in the year through December. For its part, the central bank (BoJ), last week at its first monetary policy meeting in 2020, decided to leave its monetary policy unchanged. The central institute led by Haruhiko Kuroda awaits the effects of the government's stimulus policy, while it instead revised its GDP estimates upwards. For the fiscal year 2019-2020, the economy is expected to expand to +0.8 % from + 0.6% in October. And for the 2020-2021 period, it is forecast at + 0.8% from the previous + 0.7%. According to those in charge of the Bank of Japan, solid domestic demand should help offset the weakness of exports and manufacturing activity, although uncertainties remain about trade relations between Washington and Beijing. As for the result of GDP, the Abe administration and the Bank of Japan expected a lower impact of the tax increase compared to the experience of 2014, when the economy recorded a decline of over 7%. In short, a backlash on consumption was expected but not of this magnitude. Also, because this time, the increase in taxes was more contained, food products were exempted, and the government adopted a series of countermeasures aimed at mitigating fluctuations in demand. But economists have said that some of the government's measures, such as discounts on spending through cashless transactions, have had limited impact as they have not attracted an older segment of the population unaccustomed to mobile payment platforms. The latest data show that private consumption fell by 11% year-on-year in the quarter, as households reduced purchases of cars, cosmetics, and household appliances. In 2014 the drop had been 18%. What will happen next with the coronavirus? "We will continue to pay attention to the effect of the virus on tourism and the economy in general," Economy Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura said in a statement. "Depending on the level of emergency, we will take the necessary measures flexibly and respond fully." Meanwhile, there are already many cancellations of the visits of hundreds of thousands of Chinese tourists to Japan at the beginning of the Japanese Olympic year. Thus affecting an important source of revenue. The longer the outbreak disrupts Japan's main trading partner's production and domestic demand, the more likely Japanese exporters will be affected. The Bank Of Japan has also signaled its concern about the virus. It is also likely to stress the need for further data to assess the underlying trend. Given the growing side effects of its massive easing schedule and the relative stability of the Japanese currency, economists believe further bank action is unlikely in the near future. The central bank has, however, already cut overnight interest rates to minus 0.1 percent and is, however, reluctant to do more for fear of negative side effects on the banking system. After the launch in December of a stimulus plan for the economy for 120 billion dollars, the economists are now considering an encroachment to combat the effects of the coronavirus. Effects not yet quantified but nonetheless certain, and which will be even more felt on an economy already in difficulty even before the virus hit. It seems pretty obvious that you are going to have severe economic repercussions when you lockdown and quarantine cities with millions of people. And not just in China but in every nation that depends on China. But have no fear. Governments will just steal more money and run up more debt to make the stock market investors happy. This is what you reap when one country controls so much of the economy of the world. No one can compete with China. Not even Japan. So a virus comes along with no cure insight, and it hits the country producing and exporting the most commodities of anyone at a price no one else can compete with. Even Japan cannot produce goods cheaper than China, and they are very good at the competition. The American corporations and businesses created the Chinese superpower, simply because they didn't want to pay American workers American wages. That's why China is a superpower now; plain and simple. We were stabbed in the back by our own businesses and corporations, and the cowards in Congress that allowed the free trade deals, both democrats and Republicans. While it may be bad news for Wall Street, that usually translates into good news for Main Street. Sure, the shelves may be a little bare, for perhaps even a prolonged period of time. We survived it before globalization, and I'm sure we can survive a pullback. In fact, it may even be for the better, as alternative supply lines can be developed. This was The Atlantis Report. Please Like. Share. Subscribe. And please take some time to subscribe to my two back up channels, I do upload videos there too on a daily basis. 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Jim Rickards : 1984 Has Come to China -- Economic Collapse 2020 4K

👉 Jim Rickards : 1984 Has Come to China -- Economic Collapse 2020 4K






Jim Rickards : 1984 Has Come to China -- Economic Collapse 2020 4K You’re probably familiar with George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. It was written in 1948; the title comes from reversing the last two digits in 1948. The novel describes a world of three global empires, Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia, in a constant state of war. Orwell created an original vocabulary for his book, much of which is in common, if sardonic, usage today. Terms such as Thought Police, Big Brother, doublethink, Newspeak and memory hole all come from Nineteen Eight-Four. Orwell intended it as a warning about how certain countries might evolve in the aftermath of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War. He was certainly concerned about Stalinism, but his warnings applied to Western democracies also. When the calendar year 1984 came and went, many breathed a sigh of relief that Orwell’s prophesy had not come true. But that sigh of relief was premature. Orwell’s nightmare society is here today in the form of Communist China…

Stock Markets Crashing - Italy And South Korea Shutting Down , Gold Surging !!

Stock Markets Crashing - Italy And South Korea Shutting Down , Gold Surging !!








Stock Markets Crashing World Wide. In the US we saw the third-largest single-day point drop in the stock market history. Italy is being Isolated in Europe. Venice Carnival canceled. The Giorgio Armani Fashion Show canceled. Tourism Industry Collapsing. The Economy engine of Italy, which is the northern part of the country, is being shut down. The North counts for 40 percent of the Italian exports and 50 percent of the GDP. The Italian economy is melting down. The Italian government is racing to contain the biggest outbreak of the virus in Europe, imposing restrictions on about a hundred thousand people and shutting down public gatherings in two regions of northern Italy. With two new cases reported today from southern and central Italy. Italy's northern regions of Lombardy and Veneto have closed schools, universities, museums, and cinemas for at least a week. Police are manning checkpoints around 11 towns which have been quarantined for 15 days, and residents are stockpiling food. Public places like theaters and movie theaters, pubs, and clubs need to close at six o'clock in the evening and open up at six o'clock the following morning. Supermarket shelves are becoming empty. Italian officials confirm seven deaths. And there is still no news about who could be the patient ZERO. In northern Italy, the number of coronavirus cases continues to surge. Even though at least ten hotspot towns are effectively under lockdown. Police check vehicles trying to enter one of the quarantine towns authorizes only trucks carrying essential goods, and medical supplies to go through. Everyone else is turned away in an effort to contain the spread of the coronavirus. Ironically, Italy being the only European country to ban entry from Chinese nationals and anyone who's been in China... is the one hit hardest by the virus. In the rest of Europe and in the world, fewer cases were recorded just because no country is doing as many checks as Italy is doing. But this doesn't mean that the virus is not already next to you. It has been around the world for weeks. I just cannot believe that Italy is hit harder by the corona than countries like Canada ,The US, and Australia, where millions of Chinese live. How many coronavirus death are reported just as simple flu or pneumonia casualties? That's the danger with this virus, especially that people can spread the virus BEFORE they get ill themselves and show signs of being infected. Yes, the authorities might slow the spreading but ,stop it. NO WAY. That would require people to stop traveling, meeting, and shopping. The virus won't be stopped until they find a CURE, ORE ALL PEOPLE GROW RESISTANT. This is a worldwide pandemic, why is it taking them so long to admit it. I think the worse is still to come. Welcome back to The Atlantis Report. Please take some time to subscribe to my two back up channels. I do upload videos there, too, on a daily basis. You'll find the links in the description box. Thank You. Fears are growing that the coronavirus outbreak could become a pandemic as new cases are reported around the world. The virus, which emerged in China, has spread to at least 35 countries. The World Health Organization has said the world should do more to prepare for a possible coronavirus pandemic. The worst-hit countries are intensifying their efforts to contain the deadly coronavirus as the number of cases globally surpassed 80,000. In South Korea, infections have risen again, taking the total to 977. Americans have been warned against all but essential travel to the nation. Italy and Iran are both battling to contain outbreaks of the virus. In Japan, shares slumped on Tuesday, reacting to a global plunge on Monday sparked by fear of further outbreaks. Fears are growing that it won't be possible to stop the global spread of Coronavirus. Health experts have warned that the chances of containing it are diminishing as cases appear in more countries. Most infections are still in China, but significant clusters in South Korea, Iran, and Italy are causing concern. Italy has Europe's worst coronavirus outbreak, the third-highest in the world after China and South Korea. In Milan, the Duomo Cathedral that's withstood 500 years is now closed. Schools and universities are shut off, and in supermarkets, panic is spreading quicker than the virus, and it is too is hard to stem. IS CORONAVIRUS The BLACK SWAN for the Italian Economy. THE REAL RISKS FOR THE ITALIAN ECONOMY CAUSED BY THE PANIC OF THE EPIDEMIC ARE INCalculable. LOMBARDY ALONE IS WORTH 22% OF GDP AND CANNOT BE KEPT LOCKED FOR LONG. WITHOUT CONSIDERING THE MANUFACTURING, TOURISM, AND LUXURY, WHERE THE CHINESE SUPPORT IS FUNDAMENTAL. THE ECONOMISTS DAMAGE THE DISCOUNT THAT EVEN THE FIRST 2020 WILL BE NEGATIVE, WHICH MEANS TECHNICAL RECESSION AND A SCREENING OF -1% THROUGHOUT THE YEAR ... The technical recession took almost for granted after the -0.3% of the fourth quarter and 2020 going towards negative growth, with estimates between -0.5% and -1%. These are the first data provided by economists on the impact of coronavirus infections in Italy. If the situation does not resolve itself quickly, a 1% drop in GDP this year is "plausible." SO THE ECONOMY ALREADY PAYS THE PRICE OF UNCERTAINTY AND HEALTH PSYCHOSIS. To get some clarification on what could happen in Italy downstream of the epidemic from Covid-19, that is, on the real risks to the Economy triggered by an irrational panic, perhaps it would be useful to consult Richard Thaler, one of the masters of behavioral economics. But without getting to a Nobel prize perhaps (for now), just remember the theory of the "Black Swan," the unforeseen event that upsets everything, from production to the Stock Exchange. To understant what happens in the North of Italy that is pulling an already weak GDP. We must look at the behavior of people. Yesterday morning Milan was no longer Milan. Empty streets, obviously due to the closure of schools and universities. But also because people avoided meeting places, but not the supermarkets. Between Saturday and Sunday, crowds of citizens poured into the large markets, stormed, and continuously supplied. Resulting in empty shelves, especially those of canned food, as if you imagined having to stay at home for a long time (among other things, on the web, they run fake videos on false closings for a month). These images made the tour of Italy, not without effects, even in Rome: the shelves are empty. This is only the last mile of collective behavior that for a month has already concerned masks and hand sanitizer, down to supplements, all hunted first in pharmacies then on the net. A chain effect of overlap of events and an avalanche of comments, which chased each other with the decisions of the authorities, trigger a media-political circuit that at the beginning and for a while was a source of serious confusion. It was not clear who had to make the decisions and especially what decisions. But in the meantime, the psychological effect has started and slowly Milan has emptied and turned into a ghost town since yesterday afternoon.All closed or almost closed. Not just offices, schools, and universities. There are no students in the nightlife areas near Cadorna or near the Navigli. There are no cinemas, the meeting points of the usual aperitifs, the bars for after work, and above all a great absentee. The Scala Theater is locked for the whole week. The cancellation of fairs and events followed one another. The Milan prosecutor has closed the offices to the public while the activity of the Municipality of Milan continues, even if behind closed doors. At the few meeting points, people comment on the difficulty of going to work without schools and kindergartens were to leave children. And they will be the ones missing this week, that of the Ambrosian carnival, which would have colored the streets and entertained with parties in every square of Milan until next Sunday. No masquerades this year. In these hours, the controversy among the most prominent virologists has a bitter taste, especially between the well-known Roberto Burioni, pro-vax superstar, and Maria Rita Gismondo, laboratory manager of the Sacco di Milano, the heart of the Lombard emergency, the flagship of European virology. Two different visions on how to judge the effects of the phenomenon - and can only judge those who have the titles, it is always said - that have contributed in no small way to disorientate the citizens, who mostly do not detach themselves from smartphones indirect news on the source of the virus. The fourth quarter of 2019 had already closed with a negative sign, and as regards the first quarter of 2020, it is presumable to believe that it will be the same, thus bringing the country technically into recession, since it will have recorded two quarters with negative growth. The impact of the spread of the coronavirus in Italy, until now limited to the northern regions, will undoubtedly be very important on the economy of the country . The fact that the most important regions in the contribution to the gross domestic product have been affected will obviously have an even more negative effect on this scenario. What we currently do not know exactly is the size of this impact, although the very first estimates speak negative growth for the first quarter of between 0.5% and 1% annualized. In fact, today a large part of the country's production and commercial activities are stopped; with consequences that are certainly still very uncertain. For example, we think of the consequences on tourism, and therefore the picture will be clearer only in the coming weeks, when however we hope that the situation will have stabilized or will hopefully be improving, underlines the analyst. European and of the Italian stock markets collapse, cannot, therefore, be considered as a surprise, given the succession of negative news and the drastic measures taken by the Italian government in an attempt to stem the spread of the virus. The sentiment of investors in the very short term is destined to remain negative on the global price lists, and therefore not only on the domestic one, given the situation of enormous uncertainty. The contagions have also increased in other countries, not only in Italy, and we cannot obviously exclude that other European countries may also register a much higher number of infected people than the current one. Volatility is therefore destined to remain high and to be closely related to the news that will be communicated day by day. Just as we can expect volatility to remain high on the Italian stock market, the same can be said to happen for Italian government bonds. In a more medium-term perspective, however, we remember that the decidedly accommodative monetary policy of the ECB (European Central Bank) can represent an obstacle to the excessive widening of the spread, together with the fact that the search for yield in a world with negative rates especially in the euro area, it could be of advantage to the BTP when, hoping it will be very soon, the situation will have improved. The only positive note is from the gold side. The price surges today to 1,635 dollars an ounce. And prices are expected to go way higher in the foreseeable future. Do Not forget that I warned you that gold is the only safe haven in this kind of situation. This was The Atlantis Report. Please Like. Share. Subscribe. 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Coronavirus Spreading in Europe -- Italy on Lockdown

Coronavirus Spreading in Europe -- Italy on Lockdown
#coronavirusoutbreak #Covid_19 Coronavirus Spreading in Europe -- Italy on Lockdown As Coronavirus Cases Soar In Italy, Experts Warn Of A Global Pandemic TODAY

The Housing Market is CRASHING in 2020

The Housing Market is CRASHING in 2020










The Housing Market is CRASHING. The warning signs are everywhere. Foreclosures are ticking up, bankruptcies slowly increasing, subprime auto about to go critical, add in credit card debt, government overspending causing property taxes to rise, and banksters going nuts. Then you have the formula for nice, sweet 30% correction at a minimum in prices in the hot markets; in some cases 50%. Nationwide, housing peaked in late 2017. Prices have been falling ever since . The bubble has popped, folks... Harry Dent is back predicting property prices will "fall 50%". Harry is absolutely right. Double bubble real estate is one of the top ten biggest ripoffs in the world today. Stay away from bubble real estate at all costs. All a house is is some drywall and two by fours, and a lot of headaches. What a laugh. But warning the real estate players they are in a bubble is like telling smokers that smoking causes lung cancer (90% of lung cancer deaths are in smokers)."Smoking will kill you" is printed right on every pack. And yet they don't listen. The smokers just keep right on smoking because they are so very addicted to it--they like that nicotine buzz--just like the RE players are addicted to that easy free money for doing nothing. Greed has blinded participants in this (and most other) markets for about the last five years. With the reduction in capital expenditures, refrigerator boxes are in high demand. Prices fell 40%+ during the last minor correction, and the Fed couldn't prevent it.

World Economy Collapsing , Stock Market Crashing Because of The Coronavirus Outbreak

World Economy Collapsing , Stock Market Crashing Because of The Coronavirus Outbreak





For more than a decade, the global economy has steadily grown quarter after quarter, but it looks like that streak is about to come to a very abrupt ending. The coronavirus outbreak in China has brought the Chinese economy to a virtual standstill, and as a result critical supply chains are in a state of chaos all over the world. And since it doesn’t look like the Chinese economy will be able to return to normal for an extended period of time, it appears that a worldwide economic slowdown is imminent. I warned about this the other day, but now we have even a clearer picture of what is happening. According to Capital Economics in London, this coronavirus outbreak will cause the global economy to shrink this quarter, and that will be the very first time this has happened since 2009… The economic casualties from China’s coronavirus epidemic are mounting as Asian and European auto plants run short of parts, free-spending Chinese tourists stay home and American companies brace for unpredictable turbulence. That’s just the start of a financial hangover that is expected to linger for months even if the flulike illness is soon brought under control, economists and supply chain experts say. The Chinese epidemic’s aftereffects will likely cause the global economy to shrink this quarter for the first time since the depths of the 2009 financial crisis, according to Capital Economics in London. And if the global economy shrinks for two quarters in a row, that will officially meet the definition of a “global recession”. So here we are on the verge of the worst economic downturn in more than a decade, and even if this outbreak miraculously ended tomorrow it would still take quite an extended period of time for global supply chains to return to normal. In particular, the auto industry has been hit extremely hard…

Global Debt Bubble Getting Worse -- Economic Collapse - Stock Market Crash

Global Debt Bubble Getting Worse -- Economic Collapse - Stock Market Crash







Bank of America short while ago calculated that since the collapse of Lehman, government debt has intensified by $30Trillion, corporates debt by $25 Trillion, household by $9 Trillion, and financial debt by $2 Trillion. And with central banks awaited to support government debt, Bank of America warns that the biggest recession risk is disorderly rise in credit spreads and corporate deleveraging. From its side the IMF is warning that the world debt rises to 226% of GDP. Low rates fuel the risks. Expansive monetary policies have saved growth but push investors towards riskier and less liquid assets. Debt growth continues inexorably, especially in emerging countries. World debt reached 226.5% of GDP in 2018 and continues its inexorable growth, at a breath of 188 trillion dollars, according to preliminary estimates released on Wednesday 16 October by the IMF, during the press conference for the presentation of the Fiscal Monitor. The IMF then warns against the side effects of ultra-low rates: the difficult hunt for yields pushes investors, including insurance and pension funds, towards riskier and less liquid assets. Even for the non-financial sector, then, supervisory tools such as those introduced for banks are needed, the Fund warns in the Global Financial Stability Report, also released . Eight thousand billion dollars. Put like this they seem unreal numbers. From comics. But they are real numbers. According to the latest research by the Institute of International Finance (IIF), public and private debt globally in the first quarter of 2019 alone increased by this figure: by 8 thousand billion dollars. This is the largest quarterly increase since the first quarter of 2016, which brings global debt to the figure of 247 thousand billion dollars. A mountain equal to 318% of the GDP of the whole world. These numbers are the effect of a decade of ultra-expansionary monetary policies, which have increased global liquidity and brought interest rates to zero (or even below zero) in many parts of the world. This has favored everyone's use of debt: businesses, states and families.

Global Crop Failures locusts In Africa , Worst Crops in Australia -- Economic Collapse 2020

Global Crop Failures locusts In Africa , Worst Crops in Australia -- Economic Collapse 2020




Global food production is being hit from seemingly every side. Thanks to absolutely crazy weather patterns, giant locust armies in Africa and the Middle East, and an unprecedented outbreak of African Swine Fever in China, a lot less food is being produced around the world than originally anticipated. Even during the best of years we really struggle to feed everyone on the planet, and so a lot of people are wondering what is going to happen as global food supplies become tighter and tighter. The mainstream media in the United States is so obsessed with politics right now that they haven’t been paying much attention to this emerging crisis, but the truth is that this growing nightmare is only going to intensify in the months ahead. In Australia, conditions have been extremely hot and extremely dry, and that helped to fuel the horrific wildfires that we recently witnessed. And everyone knew that agricultural production in Australia was going to be disappointing this year, but it turns out that it is actually going to be the worst ever recorded…

👉Jim Rickards Warns : Coronavirus Slams Chinese Economy -- Economic Collapse 2020

👉Jim Rickards Warns : Coronavirus Slams Chinese Economy -- Economic Collapse 2020




Jim Rickards Warns : Coronavirus Slams Chinese Economy -- Economic Collapse 2020 How bad is the coronavirus pandemic in China? It’s worse than the Chinese government knows and worse than the world believes. Here are the official statistics on the coronavirus (technically COVID-19) as of today: There are 75,685 confirmed infections worldwide, with 98% of that total in China alone. Of those cases, 82.5% are in the single province of Hubei, mostly centered in the city of Wuhan, with 11 million residents. Coronavirus has reached pandemic proportions in China. Over 60 million people are locked down, which means they cannot leave their homes except once every three days to buy groceries. Streets are empty, stores are closed, trains and planes are not operating. The Chinese economy is slowly grinding to a halt. These statistics barely scratch the surface of what is happening with coronavirus in China. There is good reason to believe that the actual incidence of the virus may be five–10 times the official numbers.

Peter Schiff: Printing Money Is Not the Cure for Cononavirus

Peter Schiff: Printing Money Is Not the Cure for Cononavirus



In his most recent podcast, Peter Schiff talked about coronavirus and the impact that it is having on the markets. Earlier this month, Peter said he thought the virus was just an excuse for stock market woes. At the time he believed the market was poised to fall anyway. But as it turns out, coronavirus has actually helped the US stock market because it has led central banks to pump even more liquidity into the world financial system. All this means more liquidity — central banks easing. In fact, that is exactly what has already happened, except the new easing is taking place, for now, outside the United States, particularly in China.” Although the new money is primarily being created in China, it is flowing into dollars — the dollar index is up — and into US stocks. Last week, US stock markets once again made all-time record highs. In fact, I think but for the coronavirus, the US stock market would still be selling off. But because of the central bank stimulus that has been the result of fears over the coronavirus, that actually benefitted not only the US dollar, but the US stock market.” In the midst of all this, Peter raises a really good question. The primary economic concern is that coronavirus will slow down output and ultimately stunt economic growth. Practically speaking, the world would produce less stuff. If the virus continues to spread, there would be fewer goods and services produced in a market that is hunkered down. Why would the Federal Reserve respond, or why would any central bank respond to that by printing money? How does printing more money solve that problem? It doesn’t. In fact, it actually exacerbates it. But you know, everybody looks at central bankers as if they’ve got the solution to every problem. They don’t. They don’t have the magic wand. They just have a printing press. And all that creates is inflation.” Sometimes the illusion inflation creates can look like a magic wand. Printing money can paper over problems. But none of this is going to fundamentally fix the economy. In fact, if central bankers were really going to do the right thing, the appropriate response would be to drain liquidity from the markets, not supply even more.” Peter explained how the Fed was originally intended to create an “elastic” money supply that would expand or contract along with economic output. Today, the money supply only goes in one direction — that’s up. The economy is strong, print money. The economy is weak, print even more money.” Of course, the asset that’s doing the best right now is gold. The yellow metal pushed above $1,600 yesterday. Gold is up 5.5% on the year in dollar terms and has set record highs in other currencies. Because gold is rising even in an environment where the dollar is strengthening against other fiat currencies, that shows you that there is an underlying weakness in the dollar that is right now not being reflected in the Forex markets, but is being reflected in the gold markets. Because after all, why are people buying gold more aggressively than they’re buying dollars or more aggressively than they’re buying US Treasuries? Because they know that things are not as good for the dollar or the US economy as everybody likes to believe. So, more people are seeking out refuge in a better safe-haven and that is gold.” Peter also talked about the debate between Trump and Obama over who gets credit for the booming economy – which of course, is not booming.

Dump the Dollar before Bank Runs start in America -- Economic Collapse 2020

We are living in crazy times. I have a hard time believing that most of the general public is not awake, but in reality, they are. We've never seen anything like this; I mean not even under Obama during the worst part of the Great Recession." Now the Fed is desperately trying to keep interest rates from rising. The problem is that it's a much bigger debt bubble this time around , and the Fed is going to have to blow a lot more air into it to keep it inflated. The difference is this time it's not going to work." It looks like the Fed did another $104.15 billion of Not Q.E. in a single day. The Fed claims it's only temporary. But that is precisely what Bernanke claimed when the Fed started QE1. Milton Freedman once said, "Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program." The same applies to Q.E., or whatever the Fed wants to pretend it's doing. Except this is not QE4, according to Powell. Right. Pumping so much money out, and they are accusing China of currency manipulation ? Wow! Seriously! Amazing! Dump the U.S. dollar while you still have a chance. Welcome to The Atlantis Report. And it is even worse than that, In addition to the $104.15 billion of "Not Q.E." this past Thursday; the FED added another $56.65 billion in liquidity to financial markets the next day on Friday. That's $160.8 billion in two days!!!! in just 48 hours. That is more than 2 TIMES the highest amount the FED has ever injected on a monthly basis under a Q.E. program (which was $80 billion per month) Since this isn't QE....it will be really scary on what they are going to call Q.E. Will it twice, three times, four times, five times what this injection per month ! It is going to be explosive since it takes about 60 to 90 days for prices to react to this, January should see significant inflation as prices soak up the excess liquidity. The question is, where will the inflation occur first . The spike in the repo rate might have a technical explanation: a misjudgment was made in the Fed's money market operations. Even so, two conclusions can be drawn: managing the money markets is becoming harder, and from now on, banks will be studying each other's creditworthiness to a greater degree than before. Those people, who struggle with the minutiae of money markets, and that includes most professionals, should focus on the causes and not the symptoms. Financial markets have recovered from each downturn since 1980 because interest rates have been cut to new lows. Post-2008, they were cut to near zero or below zero in all major economies. In response to a new financial crisis, they cannot go any lower. Central banks will look for new ways to replicate or broaden Q.E. (At some point, governments will simply see repression as an easier option). Then there is the problem of 'risk-free' assets becoming risky assets. Financial markets assume that the probability of major governments such as the U.S. or U.K. defaulting is zero. These governments are entering the next downturn with debt roughly twice the levels proportionate to GDP that was seen in 2008. The belief that the policy worked was completely predicated on the fact that it was temporary and that it was reversible, that the Fed was going to be able to normalize interest rates and shrink its balance sheet back down to pre-crisis levels. Well, when the balance sheet is five-trillion, six-trillion, seven-trillion when we're back at zero, when we're back in a recession, nobody is going to believe it is temporary. Nobody is going to believe that the Fed has this under control, that they can reverse this policy. And the dollar is going to crash. And when the dollar crashes, it's going to take the bond market with it, and we're going to have stagflation. We're going to have a deep recession with rising interest rates, and this whole thing is going to come imploding down. everything is temporary with the fed including remaining off the gold standard temporary in the Fed's eyes could mean at least 50 years This liquidity problem is a signal that trading desks are loaded up on inventory and can't get rid of it. Repo is done out of a need for cash. If you own all of your securities (i.e., a long-only, no leverage mutual fund) you have no need to "repo" your securities - you're earning interest every night so why would you want to 'repo' your securities where you are paying interest for that overnight loan (securities lending is another animal). So, it is those that 'lever-up' and need the cash for settlement purposes on securities they've bought with borrowed money that needs to utilize the repo desk. With this in mind, as we continue to see this need to obtain cash (again, needed to settle other securities purchases), it shows these firms don't have the capital to add more inventory to, what appears to be, a bloated inventory. Now comes the fun part: the Treasury is about to auction 3's, 10's, and 30-year bonds. If I am correct (again, I could be wrong), the Fed realizes securities firms don't have the shelf space to take down a good portion of these auctions. If there isn't enough retail/institutional demand, it will lead to not only a crappy sale but major concerns to the street that there is now no backstop, at all, to any sell-off. At which point, everyone will want to be the first one through the door and sell immediately, but to whom? If there isn't enough liquidity in the repo market to finance their positions, the firms would be unable to increase their inventory. We all saw repo shut down on the 2008 crisis. Wall St runs on money. . OVERNIGHT money. They lever up to inventory securities for trading. If they can't get overnight money, they can't purchase securities. And if they can't unload what they have, it means the buy-side isn't taking on more either. Accounts settle overnight. This includes things like payrolls and bill pay settlements. If a bank doesn't have enough cash to payout what its customers need to pay out, it borrows. At least one and probably more than one banks are insolvent. That's what's going on. First, it can't be one or two banks that are short. They'd simply call around until they found someone to lend. But they did that, and even at markedly elevated rates, still, NO ONE would lend them the money. That tells me that it's not a problem of a couple of borrowers, it's a problem of no lenders. And that means that there's no bank in the world left with any real liquidity. They are ALL maxed out. But as bad as that is, and that alone could be catastrophic, what it really signals is even worse. The lending rates are just the flip side of the coin of the value of the assets lent against. If the rates go up, the value goes down. And with rates spiking to 10%, how far does the value fall? Enormously! And if banks had to actually mark down the value of the assets to reflect 10% interest rates, then my god, every bank in the world is insolvent overnight. Everyone's capital ratios are in the toilet, and they'd have to liquidate. We're talking about the simultaneous insolvency of every bank on the planet. Bank runs. No money in ATMs, Branches closed. Safe deposit boxes confiscated. The whole nine yards, It's actually here. The scenario has tended to guide toward for years and years is actually happening RIGHT NOW! And people are still trying to say it's under control. Every bank in the world is currently insolvent. The only thing keeping it going is printing billions of dollars every day. Financial Armageddon isn't some far off future risk. It's here. Prepare accordingly. This fiat system has reached the end of the line, and it's not correct that fiat currencies fail by design. The problem is corruption and manipulation. It is corruption and cheating that erodes trust and faith until the entire system becomes a gigantic fraud. Banks and governments everywhere ARE the problem and simply have to be removed. They have lost all trust and respect, and all they have left is war and mayhem. As long as we continue to have a majority of braindead asleep imbeciles following orders from these psychopaths, nothing will change. Fiat currency is not just thievery. Fiat currency is SLAVERY. Ultimately the most harmful effect of using debt of undefined value as money (i.e., fiat currencies) is the de facto legalization of a caste system based on voluntary slavery. The bankers have a charter, or the legal *right*, to create money out of nothing. You, you don't. Therefore you and the bankers do not have the same standing before the law. The law of the land says that you will go to jail if you do the same thing (creating money out of thin air) that the banker does in full legality. You and the banker are not equal before the law. ALL the countries of the world; Islamic or secular, Jewish or Arab, democracy or dictatorship; all of them place the bankers ABOVE you. And all of you accept that only whining about fiat money going down in exchange value over time (price inflation which is not the same as monetary inflation). Actually, price inflation itself is mainly due to the greed and stupidity of the bankers who could keep fiat money's exchange value reasonably stable, only if they wanted to. Witness the crash of silver and gold prices which the bankers of the world; Russian, American, Chinese, Jewish, Indian, Arab, all of them collaborated to engineer through the suppression and stagnation of precious metals' prices to levels around the metals' production costs, or what it costs to dig gold and silver out of the ground. The bankers of the world could also collaborate to keep nominal prices steady (as they do in the case of the suppression of precious metals prices). After all, the ability to create fiat money and force its usage is a far more excellent source of power and wealth than that which is afforded simply by stealing it through inflation. The bankers' greed and stupidity blind them to this fact. They want it all, and they want it now. In conclusion, The bankers can create money out of nothing and buy your goods and services with this worthless fiat money, effectively for free. You, you can't. You, you have to lead miserable existences for the most of you and WORK in order to obtain that effectively nonexistent, worthless credit money (whose purchasing/exchange value is not even DEFINED thus rendering all contracts based on the null and void!) that the banker effortlessly creates out of thin air with a few strokes of the computer keyboard, and which he doesn't even bother to print on paper anymore, electing to keep it in its pure quantum uncertain form instead, as electrons whizzing about inside computer chips which will become mute and turn silent refusing to tell you how many fiat dollars or euros there are in which account, in the absence of electricity. No electricity, no fiat, nor crypto money. It would appear that trust is deteriorating as it did when Lehman blew up . Something really big happened that set off this chain reaction in the repo markets. Whatever that something is, we aren't be informed. They're trying to cover it up, paper it over with conjured cash injections, play it cool in front of the cameras while sweating profusely under the 5 thousands dollar suits. I'm guessing that the final high-speed plunge into global economic collapse has begun. All we see here is the ripples and whitewater churning the surface, but beneath the surface, there is an enormous beast thrashing desperately in its death throws. Now is probably the time to start tying up loose ends with the long-running prep projects, just saying. In other words, prepare accordingly, and Get your money out of the banks. I don't care if you don't believe me about Bitcoin. Get your money out of the banks. Don't keep any more money in a bank than you need to pay your bills and can afford to lose.











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