The timing is only different, he says, because “banks these days are much bigger than they were in 1929.” In the 20’s institutions were reliant on client money to lead their bailout attempts. Today Central Banks have the ability to call on future, often overstated, tax revenues and are unencumbered by anything such as a gold standard when attempting to ward off the human desire to hide under the covers, financially speaking.
U.S statistics do not count a lot of off book debt like “student loans”, social security and State (eg. California) level debt. If these other debt were counted, which they should to paint a more accurate picture of the U.S economic situation.
Peter Schiff is right on the money here. The world is being tricked into believing that the United States of America is a sound investment because the government statistics being posted are skewed and manipulated.
Henry S. Dent has a pretty good track record of foretelling what will happen. Nobody can predict when it will happen just what is going to happen and so far, the next crash is taking longer because of Fed stimulus.
He recommends get out of stocks, commodities and get into cash and U.S Treasuries. He is not a gold bug though. He thinks it is a commodity and will get pull down with all other commodities.
Here is an article and video on ZeroHedge that brings to light the lost of freedom in the U.S.A. Peaceful protest is met with force. America it is sad to say is becoming a police state.
-Started physical silver collection (coins, bars)
-Paper silver / gold market unsafe
-U.S dollar devaluation / Fed printing money
-Hyper inflation
-2012 Year of the Dragon 1/2 oz coin – Royal Canadian Mint
-Bearish on NASDAQ for 2012
Great video of economist John Mauldin talk about where America is going with all this debt being created in the name of economic recovery. John Mauldin has been a guest on Yahoo Finance, Reuters and other financial news network before discussing his views on the U.S and other economies.
After watching this video or his presentation you will see just how grave the economic situation is in the United States.
Watch this 15 min independent news reel about how America has used the main stream media to manipulate the American public into supporting one war after another.