The coming economic crash caused by world debt By Don Koenig with May 2013 update 2013 update - I actually wrote this article in 2000 and I have been updating the debt figures and also inserting new information along the way, but it is now 2013 and what I said would be coming has been underway but our government has also done unforeseen and unconstitutional actions to push off the inevitable debt crash. Nevertheless, I believe what they have been doing is also going to make any economic recovery impossible before massive world wars and civil upheavals. Since this article is read by thousands each month I think I owe my readers updates from time to time. The original article has not changed much except for some dates and figures and an obvious inserted comment. The orginal article follows this update. The first thing I want to say is that if you are in the stock market right now, it might be wise to get out now, or you are likely to lose your savings again like so many did in the crash of 2008. The numbers may drop as far or worse than the last crash and the value of stocks adjusted for inflation are likely to be far worse. Do market conditions in the world justify the present stock market? I think not. It is just more betting on an expanding bubble like it will not burst on their bet. The EU nations are in the longest recession in their history and there is no end in sight. Japan is in recession and has not had any growth in almost two decades. Greece has 30 percent unemployment and they burned city trees last winter for heat. Riots are inevitable. Spain, France and Italy and others are not far behind and fascism is rising in many EU nations. Japan had the highest savings rate and also has the worst national debt burden is the world. The population is rapidly aging so now the elderly will tap into savings and banks will fail or buy-ins will rob savers to bail out the banks like what happened in Cyprus. Japan has not seen any growth in nearly two decades and it is recession once again. The solution the Japaneese came up with in 2013 to get them out of stagnation is to aggressively print money. That will just destroy the value of the Yen and it could start a currency race to the bottom with reserve banks of other nations that will do likewise in order to protect exports and jobs. The expansion in China is in trouble. They are very near recession. They are overbuilt and the unemployed of the world cannot afford to keep buying their goods. Nations know they need to protect their own jobs or there will be great social unrest. Therefore, there is great pressure to do something about the cheap exports coming from China. Further, this over building by China is built on borrowing and that is likely to put them into crisis when builders cannot borrow more money to keep the jobs expansion going. China does not have social welfare safety net programs like the West. China needs to keep the people in the cities employed or there will be riots and social breakdown if there is a recession. Argentina has high inflation and once again it is on its way to default, but who in the world wants to bail them out again? In the U.S. we cannot keep living like we have twice the income that we really have. Just trying to throw more money at the problem like our government has been doing will just make matters worse in the long run because this nation cannot afford to take on more debt. Passing the costs of this downturn to some future generation is simply not possible. No future generation can possibly pay this huge rapidly increasing debt and soon nobody will be stupid enough to continue to finance our increasingly risky debt at the abnormally low interest rates that came about by illegal actions of the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve Bank created 4 trillions dollars to buy most of our new recent national debt and mortagage debt with money that they created and that nobody will buy in the future. It is a Ponzi scheme. The more there is a risk of a default or currency devaluation the more we are going to be charged in interest to finance our national debt. We may be able to pay $20 trillion dollars of debt at 3 percent interest with some pain but at 6 percent interest or above for any extended period of time it will cause total economic collapse. And unless we go into a full fledged depression interest rates will rise much more than that. There is no easy answer to the problem because many people and nations have been living beyond their means for many decades amassing debt and entitlements that cannot be sustained because they aborted the future and have aging populations. So now the chickens have come home to roost. The credit line of many nations are maxed out and the young cannot support the entitlements that the old were promised. If the spending beyond our means for decades has not been enough, many people in banks are still gambling with your investments. They take your money and use it as security to leverage investments worth thirty times that amount. In 2008 some bubbles burst and many that were gambling lost. Some financial institutions got bailed out and some still did not learn their lesson. It is even worse today then it was in 2008 the banksters are still gambling with savers money. Other big corporations and financial institutions could not pay their debts because of the severe downturn. So they either went bankrupt or were declared too-big-to-fail by the government and government bailed them out and took on their debt hoping that someday the paper and the corporations that they took over will regain their value. Things got so bad that since 2008 most banks will not lend anymore on commercial ventures, instead they are either still gambling on markets or they are sitting on their money. Nobody wants to lend for economic development because they are afraid that they will never get paid back. Many others businesses that could expand will not because they are afraid of higher costs in the future through government taxation and regulation. That is one reason for the high unemployment. Another reason for the high unemployment is that the government cannot institute a policy to buy American or they risk a trade war with other nations in the global economy that are also living beyond their means. The trade war probably is coming anyway because unemployed people of nations will demand that their government do something to protect their jobs and all government can do to keep jobs at home is to allow protectionism. That happened in the 1930s and it made a bad recession into a long world depression. That now seems to be our future and along with the deflation depression or hyperinflationary depression that is bound to come, it will allow the rise of populist demigods who will convince people that they know who is to blame and that they have all the answers. In other words, we are now repeating the same mistakes of the 30s that led to the nationalist socialistic movements and the start of World War II. It will not be different this time except the stakes for the world will be much higher. The same mistakes in housing in the US are being made all over again. I do not think this is a good time to invest in residential real estate unless you plan to really live in the house. The recent climb in values will probably be short lived as this country goes back into the next phase of this depression. Investment speculators who think we are in recovery are once again buying real estate and driving up prices. The percent of Americans owning their own home is actually still falling and have fallen to 1990s home ownership levels. Family income in the United States and hours worked is still falling. The recovery is mostly phony and what recovery there seems to be is really built on the Federal Reserve creating more money and more government borrowing. If I have a sure message to people who are listening, it is this - Learn to live on an income that is less than half of what you were living on in your good times. Within the decade your income will be far less and/or it will buy far less goods and services. Also prepare for big government trying to manage and run every aspect of peoples lives. Certain people are going to think the only way to handle this is through forced government control and then rationing. Do not be surprised if there is civil breakdown and even Balkanizations when the people get fed up. It has already started in some nations. It is going to get much worse than most anyone imagines. Try to network with mature astute conservative Christians who understand these issues. It is going to be a tough time for everyone and those who stand alone will have little support. More spending beyond our means is not going to solve a problem that was caused by spending beyond our means. It will only make things worse in the future. The coming decade for the U.S. and the hard choices it makes will determine if we even survive as a nation. God be with you all. Original article on the coming economic crash caused by world (Some figures and a few others things have been change through the years) Almost every nation of the world has such severe debt that just making the interest payments takes a large amount of their financial resources. Much of this world debt is owed to world bankers that then dictate their own economic policy to these countries. These policies do not favor the poor. The largest economy in the world is the United States. The US government is currently 17 trillion dollars in debt and I project that to go to at least 25 trillion by 2020. Paying the interest on that huge debt in future years will cost as much as what is now spent on national defense (using modern historical interest rates and the cost of defense under normal peace time conditions). The United States is now by far the biggest debtor nation in the world. For many years we have been importing hundreds of billions more dollars in goods and services than we are exporting each year. In 2005 through 2008 the trade imbalance averaged well over 700 billion dollars per year! Trillions of US dollars are now in the hands of foreign investors who at any time could dump the dollar causing a devaluation of the currency. Just a few years ago, the US government was forecasting surpluses of trillions of dollars based on the stupid assumption that there would not be a downturn in the economy for decades. This foolish assumption was of course proven wrong and deficit spending in 2009 and 2010 will be at least two trillion dollars a year if everything is really counted. The only reason the United States is not yet feeling the pinch of spending beyond its means has been the record low interest rates. The low interest rates were brought about by Federal Reserve manipulation to stimulate the economy but interest rates eventually will have to rise. Soon all who need loans will be making higher payments and the US government will be paying much more to service the national debt. Debt and unfunded liabilities promised through entitlement programs is now about 125 trillion dollars. This amount of money in non inflationary dollars is impossible to raise! Thus, the US is now technically bankrupt. In order to keep up the facade that the US is solvent for even another decade or two, one or more of the following must happen. 1. Taxes must be raised. 2. Government spending will have to be drastically cut. 3. Deficit spending will dramatically increase. If taxes are raised, it will kill the economy and the debt load will get worse and not better. Spending will not be drastically cut because these types of cuts would never get through the political system. Therefore, massive deficit spending will take place. The monetary system will be inflated so that this debt can be paid by using a dollar worth only a fraction of what it is today. This means a much weaker dollar in the future and much higher prices for all goods and services imported to the United States (in short it means we should expect hyper-Inflation). The best long term scenario is that the economy will expand for decades and we will partly grow our way out of this debt crunch (like we temporarily did under Ronald Reagan). But, I do not see stability for that length of time as even a remote possibility in this world full of crises. I think it is only a matter of time before another downturn in the economy or an unforeseen world event brings about the collapse of this house of cards. The catalyst for a crash can come in any number of ways. One likely scenario is that confidence in the US dollar will falter. When this happens interest rates will have to rise dramatically to try to lure foreign investors to re-service our debt. Higher interest rates will then shut down our economy and less tax money will be raised. The debt will still have to be paid at the higher interest rate so the government will print even more money and deficit spending will increase. The dollar will fall in value against other currencies bringing about an inflation spiral in the United States and even more dumping of US dollars for more stable currencies. Banks and institutions holding todays unrealistic low interest loans on property will go under, causing a collapse of pension systems and/or a taxpayer bailout that will worsen the deficits even further. Many with adjustable rate mortgages will not be able to make the payments and they will default on their loans. The foreclosed houses will be dumped on the market bringing a collapse in all home values. All this in effect will cause an inflationary depression in the largest economy in the world. The fall of the US economy will have a domino effect and bring about a worldwide depression that will further depress the US economy and bring a full fledged inflationary depression worse than the great depression of the 1930s. When this happens most companies will go bankrupt and will be nationalized. (When I first wrote about the coming economic crash caused by debt in the year 2000, I said the stock market was three times higher than it should be. Since then the market has fallen about 50 percent and risen again twice and the third crash will soon be on its way. I think a 50 percent crash is almost a certainty but it probably will go much lower. Dont expect a fourth recovery this decade. Instead of banks failing like I said next time expect buy-ins where they rob savings to pay for the banks losses. The precedence was set in Cyprus in 2013 and it now being legislated in many nations). Paper money is only worth what it can be traded for in real goods and services. The United States record deficit spending is putting cash into the economy but like all who spend beyond their means the bill will come due. Soon foreign investors will lose confidence and others that hate the US will deliberately cause more pain and the dollar will fall like a rock. The Federal Reserve bank is now creating money and buying most of our own debt to keep interest rates artificially low it will have dire consequences in the future. Inflationary depression worse than the great depression Two thirds of the families in the US are now invested in the stock market compared to three percent in the great crash of 1929. When the economic crash comes, retirement accounts, mutual funds and most paper wealth will be wiped out. Most banks and financial institutions will fail, be bailed out, or be taken over by the government (causing further devaluation of the dollar). Most people making a living on the service sector of our economy will be unemployed. Prices on everything made in this country will either deflate or paper money will lose most of its value. The resultant depression will affect everyone and it will be the worst that this nation has ever known. When the US economy goes down it will take the world economy with it. This economic collapse will cause great civil unrest all over the world, cities will be filled with riots and later with troops. Democracy will be dead and people will look to demigods to solve their problems. When the economy of the West crashes Russia may get ideas to invade the Middle East to seize its riches. This day will not take some of the elite of the world by surprise. They know that this day is coming (Satan pulls their strings). At the appropriate time, the solution to the crises will be to abolish almost all debt and all savings and to start over with a new world economic system that will set the stage for the end time economic system described in the book of Revelation. There is little question that the world debt crash is coming. It does not even have to start in the United States (it could begin in Japan, China, Europe or elsewhere). The only question is the timing of this crash. The world debt situation is so bad now, that a deliberate or accidental crash could occur at any time. The world bankers and world leaders have been putting off the inevitable by huge bailouts and extensions of debts but with these bailouts there is loss of sovereignty to world government and world bankers. They will continue in this mode until the house of cards collapses of its own weight, someone pulls a card, or some large scale economic disruption blows this house of cards over. Students of Bible prophecy know that a new world economic system will be set up under a world government where no one will be able to buy or sell unless they take the mark of the Beast. The formerly debt ridden world will embrace this worldwide cash-less monetary system after the crash because a new system will wipe out most debt and all nations will start afresh. This new economic system will promise great prosperity to the world. Signs of the time There is unparalleled greed and foolishness happening in the financial markets of today. People have lost their ability to reason. Like gamblers at casinos the day traders believe that they cannot lose. They think the stock market will always go up. When they take a loss they just double up on their bets. At the high rollers table there are the derivative speculators that are gambling trillions and whole corporations on the wheel of fortune. We allow government to spend more than it collects and thus defer the bills to our children with little thought to the consequences it will have for them. The scripture says that the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. Even many Christians have embraced these evils. The number one message preached today in Christian media and in pulpits is give us money. God has blessed the United States because of His people but greed will ultimately bring correction. The massive world debt load argues that borrowers have become enslaved by the lenders and will do their wishes. On a temporal national level this means that debt ridden nations must fall in line with the agenda of the globalist socialist elite or they will find themselves in a depression. In the longer term when Satan is ready for his man to take control of the world, this generation will see a total crash of the old economic system. The solution of the new economic system will eventually bring the 666 mark of the Beast and enslavement.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 17:33:16 +0000
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