Debt Rattle February 20 2016
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Russell Lee “Yreka, California. Magazine stand” 1942 • Commodities’ $3.6 Trillion Black Hole (BBG) • ‘It’s Going To Be Much Worse Than 2008’ (FS) • Ha
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle February 20 2016]“They wish to reunite as soon as possible with what remains of their family. They have a brother in Germany and hope one day to be able to join him there.”
We deal in abstractions until we deal in our own suffering.
That is the test.
How will we comport ourselves?It’s a mistake to expect a crash in US stocks anytime soon. It could happen but probably won’t. Stock market direction is determined by liquidity and while that is barely moving up, and flat is really tight and thus the current bear market, it does not portend crash. The ace in the hole and its strategy is for chaos in the rest of the world to attract money into the US and US markets. Thus even with falling liquidity globally US financial market liquidity could still rise.
Chaos in the rest of the world is good for US asset markets and the US is only about its asset markets. Everything else is just noise. Sure waves of risk off by the wealthy could bring a crash but it will most likely evidence itself as a secular bear market.
Aha! Here is The Answer!
So. Looks like economic collapse out there, yes? Banks, commodities, consumers in the toilet. Biggest problems, according to the world, China and the US have the farthest to fall.
Do the Owners have a traditional economic engine for these kinds of situations? They do. And China, and the US, have launched a really tasteful new variation, already: “Endless Tepid War.”
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/02/20/china-accuses-us-of-militarizing-south-china-sea.html
Well, no blood so far. Wanna guess how much money/resources can be poured into perpetual saber-rattling and weapons inflation up and down the entire western Pacific? Quite a lot. Someplace for all that Chinese steel to go; improved demand for fracked petroleum… why, it’s win-win-win all over the place.
Sure, some idiot sailor/soldier will someday actually hurt somebody; but it will be minor compared to all the benefits; and the top brass all around already have the contingency plans, and the press releases for that situation – written, filed and agreed to.
Sheer genius. And what a great outlet for the patriot werewolves – on all sides.
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