Fed Control Puts Outsiders In A Disadvantage

It was only a month ago that the Dow closed at 9686. From there it started to move back up again as insiders learned of the Fed’s plan to inject $5 trillion into the economy over the next two years. The result has been a run up to 10,674. We figured out what the Fed was up to, but most everyone else did not.

During that period, almost unnoticed, was the fall in the value of the dollar. On the USDX it has fallen from 86.12 to 80.58.

This is a very good example of the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department feeding inside information to their friends on Wall Street. This has gone on for 60 years or more, and it puts many professionals and the public at a vast disadvantage. If you then include the market intervention and cross manipulation of the President’s Group on Financial Markets,” you have a totally stacked deck. Needless to say, the SEC and the CFTC are nowhere to be found. That is because t hey are an integral part of the manipulations, just by looking the other way. The market has rallied because key players in the banking and brokerage areas knew what was in the works, more massive stimulus. Had not the Fed made such a decision, which four weeks later has not been as yet announced, the market would not have rallied, it would have fallen, and the perception of an economic recovery would not exist.

We are back where we were 19 months ago before the stimulus package and the Fed’s injection of capital of some $2.3 to $2.5 trillion. The projection now is $2.5 trillion each year to be injected annually for the next two years. There has been no move toward capital to assist small- and medium-sized businesses into expanding and hiring. Over the past 15 months loans to these companies have been cut by more than 25%, the antithesis of real recovery. Government’s answer to that was to extend unemployment benefits by another $34 billion. Banks are still carrying two sets of books with the blessing of the administration, the Bank for International Settlements, the BIS, and the international accounting group, the FASD. Most of these financial entities are still broke. That in part is borne out by the fact that half of the TARP funds haven’t been returned. TARP was the Fed subsidy, mostly to the financial sector, that allowed them to make money with cheap money and leverage, as the public was left to languish. It was only a month ago that banks began again to lend for automobile purchases, the result of which was an increase in sales of 15% recently. Government pressure on the lenders to make more subprime loans allowed the manufactures to increase sales. The sales recovery is underway and that is the reason why.

The existence of two sets of books has allowed American and European corporations to avoid writing off losses and declaring bankruptcy. At the same time American firms borrowed $289 billio n in the first quarter taking their total domestic debt to $7.2 trillion, the highest in history. Yes, corporate America has record amounts of cash, because they borrowed it. That is up $1.1 trillion in three years. This is just the debt of the non-financials that represent the better performing part of the economy. The financial sector and the banks are the walking dead. The debt of these non-financials equals 50% of GDP, another record. Over the past six months we have seen a large inventory buildup, which means the cash figure could be considerably lower now. That inventory has to be sold over the next six months in a slowing economy. Of course, there is $1.5 trillion sitting in the Cayman Islands, but if that is brought home a 35% tax has to be paid, or 39.5% if the previous tax cuts are abandoned. That is almost $600 billion in taxes, which would go a long way to reducing the budget deficit. We should have legislation to bring those funds home. The tax avoidance is anti -America. This advantage, if ended, would in part cause transnational conglomerates to bring production and jobs back to our country. The entire concept of non-financial corporations have lots of cash is a scam. There are few healthy balance sheets. This situation has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with lying and greed.

Wall Street, banking and government know there has to be action by the Fed and or the legislature to re-liquefy the economy or it collapses. The concept of funding banks and corporations that are too big to fail has so far failed. These elitist entities should have been and now should be allowed to fail. This has nothing to do with saving America and everything to do with keeping Illuminist control of our economy in tact. This is the basic cause of America’s problems. These are the people who created this situation in the first place. If you noticed there is absolutely no pursuit of solutions and the underlying cause if fed more money and credit like a vampire is fed blood.

As we said in the last issue most of the funds deposited at the Fed by banks are loans interest free from the Fed to the banks. The money is re-lent to the Fed at 2-1/2% interest paid by the taxpayer. These are sterilized funds held by insolvent banks. If the Fed’s interest is halted the banks either repay the loan or get exposed to failure or they lend the $1 trillion invigorating the economy and monetize those funds causing higher inflation.

Personal and corporate bankruptcies are roaring with no end in sight. Credit cards are being paid down, savings are at 3% and retail sales are close to flat. In the last nine years, 8 million jobs have been lost to free trade and globalization and 5.3 million to the depression with no end in sight.

Right on cue the head of PIMCO tells us there is a significant risk of falling into deflation. This is the same song we hea rd before the last stimulus package and the Fed told us deflation was going to be a repeat of the 1930s in order to justify a massive injection of money and credit. The experts now tell us that there is a 25% chance of deflation and we had best do something about it quickly. The word is there is downward pressure on prices, which is totally untrue, and that is why firms are accumulating cash. They are really accumulating cash to build up their balance sheets. This is the same dog and pony show we saw two years ago. The trend of this direction began a couple of weeks ago by St. Louis Fed Chief James Bullard. It’s all conditioning and mind control. The change is justified by bogus government statistics.

It was just some 50 years ago that the SDR, the Special Drawing Right, was created by the IMF. After being put into use in the late 1960s as an alternative to gold, it was essentially abandoned.

A new IMF study calls for the use and re -issuance of the SDR, another product of the Keynesian wonderland. This time in the form of bancor, a new global currency to be designed as a stable store of value for the world economy - the currency to be put into play to save the financial world. This, needless to say, was one of Keynes ideas introduced after WWII. We never got bancor, instead we got a partially gold backed dollar that became a fiat currency on August 15,1971. It only took 23 years to destroy the dollar.

The resultant credit crisis of the past few years has proven that the dollar no longer brings stability to the financial system. Like many other sovereign countries its currency is unstable. That has caused the one-worlders at the IMF to bring back two losers, the SDR and bancor, both of which would be entirely un-backed currencies. As a result users continue to look at the dollar’s exponential accumulation of debt, and wonder where do we go from here. Of course, the real choice is g old, but gold brings sound, honest money and they couldn’t have that. Fractional banking of 9 to 1, or 40 to 1 or even 70 to 1 that we have seen in recent years, would be out of the question. That would kill those massive profits gleaned from the uneducated, unsuspecting public. As a result we have a lending logjam as lenders hoard cash for fear of another financial collapse. As we explained over the past several weeks this practice will end because it hurts the economy, retards growth and feeds the depression.

We can just imagine what a Keynesian driven IMF â€" SDR or bancor would entail, probably massive deficit spending on projects to enslave more of the world’s population. Such a system would rob nations of sovereignty relieving them of any national budgetary control. We could call this international corporatist regulatory control by the few who know best what is good for you. Such a fiat paper system would be the antithesis of a gold or silver ba sed system. With such control would come social and political control by elitists who believe that the world is over populated. They in turn would cull the useless eaters from this brave new world. There is nothing positive in a world currency. The results are all negative. Keep in mind though this is what these Illuminists want and they could care less what you want.

There is no question there is going to be a global shift away from the dollar. In retrospect we saw the Wall Street criminal syndicate go long the dollar and short the euro ten months ago based on the exposure of Greece and others in the euro zone. They sold their long dollar position and covered their short euro positions with massive profits. That was only part of their goals. The other was to pad the dollar to the upside, because they knew then that the $2.5 trillion government and Fed stimulus was not going to last and that the dollar would be negatively affected. As a result profit taki ng initially took the dollar lower and that now the dollar is falling as everyone finds out, as we predicted, that there will be another massive package of money and credit injected into the system. Keep in mind as well that the Wall Street insiders probably went short the dollar and long the euro in that process. These are the things the public cannot see in the market that we do, but then again they haven’t been at this for over 50 years. We are definitely headed for a test of 74 on the USDX, which was last seen at 80.38. The question is where do nations go regarding currency. Gold is the natural answer. The decoupling of gold from the dollar is 15 months old. We believe the continuing relationship is 20%; others say 50%. The point is gold is strong because it is being considered the currency alternative to the dollar and well it should be. Unfortunately, the elitists will fight that move all the way to defeat. Gold keeps them honest and without the leverage they want on all their rigged deals. The financial fraud will continue led by JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Bank of America. They will continue to work toward a world government and a one-world currency. It is up to you to stop them at the ballot box in November by defeating almost all of the Incumbents. If you do not this is what you can expect.

U.S. consumer bankruptcies, after rising 9 percent last month from June, might exceed 1.6 million this year, according to the American Bankruptcy Institute.

The 137,698 bankruptcy filings in July also represent a 9 percent increase from a year earlier, the institute said yesterday in a statement posted on its website, citing data from the National Bankruptcy Research Center.

Companies in the U.S. added 42,000 workers to payrolls in July, according to figures from ADP Employer Services.

The ADP number was forecast to show a gain of 30,000 jobs, according to the median estimate of 37 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News. Projections ranged from a decline of 15,000 to a gain of 85,000.

The MBA mortgage purchase applications index rose 1.5% and the total market index rose 1.3%. That is versus 2% and minus 4.4% in the previous week. The 30-year fixed rate mortgage rose 9 bps to 4.60%.

Gulf of Mexico coastal homes may lose as much as $56,000 each in value as buyers shun areas marred by the worst oil spill in U.S. history, according to CoreLogic Inc.

Waterfront properties in Gulfport, Mississippi, face the biggest average declines, followed by those in Mobile, Alabama, and Pensacola, Florida, the real estate data company said in a report. Losses along the coast may total $648 million in 2010 and $3 billion over five years, CoreLogic estimates.

The disaster threatens to wipe out the premium Gulf Coast homebuyers paid for ocean views and water access. BP Plc’s efforts to staunch the oil may not be enough to stem a drop in property prices, said Mark Fleming, chief economist of Santa Ana, California-based CoreLogic.

“It’s not only about whether the oil arrives,” Fleming said in a telephone interview from Vienna, Virginia. “There’s evidence something as catastrophic as this scares people away.”

More than 600,000 properties may be affected from Alabama to Florida’s Atlantic coast, according to CoreLogic. The long- term impact on beaches depends on sea and wind currents, cleanup efforts and stigma, Fleming said.

In counties with the greatest exposure -- Harrison, Mississippi; Mobile, Alabama; and Escambia, Florida -- the spill may diminish values for about 71,000 homes, CoreLogic said.

The number of planned layoffs at U.S. firms rose 6 percent in July, marking the third straight month of increased layoffs, though downsizing activity appears to be slowing, a report on Wednesday showed.

Employers announced 41,676 planned job cuts last month, up from 39,358 in June, according to the report from global outplacement consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc.

Job losses have increased every month since falling to a seven-year low of 38,326 in April.

Although job cuts have risen in each of the past three months, "the increases are so slight and the monthly totals so low whe n compared to recent years, that the trend in no way suggests a reversal of the significant slowdown in job-cut activity witnessed over the past year," John Challenger, chief executive officer of Challenger, Gray & Christmas, said in a statement.

Overall, employers have announced 339,353 job cuts since the start of 2010, or 64 percent below the 944,048 layoffs announced in the first seven months of 2009.

The July total is 57 percent lower than the 97,373 job cuts announced at the same time last year.

The government and non-profit sector has continued to struggle even as manufacturing and other parts of the economy showed signs of recovery. For the fourth time this year, it was the leading job-cut sector in July, with plans to cut 7,193 jobs, up from 5,306 in June.

The pharmaceutical industry, the second-largest job cutter, announced 37,010 job cuts, 30 percent fewer than at this point last year.

Top U.S. packaged coffee maker J.M. Smucker Co on Tuesday sharply raised prices for its well-known brands including Folgers, passing along the impact of a fund-led rally in benchmark futures markets.

The increase by an average of 9 percent was the biggest widespread rise in years, reflecting a 35 percent surge in ICE arabica futures over the past two months, fueled by an influx of speculative capital drawn to one of the few commodity markets that had failed to make record highs.

Smuckers is considered a trendsetter in coffee prices after acquiring the vast Folgers brand in November 2008, and rival roasters like Kraft , which owns Maxwell House and Yuban, are expected to follow suit within days.

"The price hike is certainly justified. They actually held off on hiking the price," said Judith Ganes-Chase, of J. Ganes Consulting. "They would've been justified in raising their prices months ago, based on the cash prices."…

 

Powered By iWebRSS.com