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Peter Schiff: An Actual Recession Is Better than a Fake Recovery (Videos)
A saying that I’ve heard Peter Schiff say often, which also happens to be a perfect title for this week’s post is, “A Real Recession is Better than a Fake Recovery.” Unfortunately for the American people, thanks to Barack Obama and his administration’s inability to be honest about much of anything, the country has been in anything BUT the recovery Obama has told us about, and instead we’ve been stuck in a seemingly never-ending fake recovery.
Thanks to our dishonest politicians, and a dishonest media that carries their water for them, Americans have been taught that recession is a bad word, so rather than do the right thing, government does what is more “politically correct.” Truthfully, a recession is no more of a bad word for an economy, than getting “sober” is for an alcoholic.
The “problem” facing the American economy is not“getting sober,” but rather the problem is all the printed money the Fed jacked up the system with using artificially manipulated low interest rates, which resulted in artificially inflated asset bubbles, that are all desperately in search of pins right now, so they can POP! “Recession” is the recovery the economy needs, but good luck getting a politician to try explaining that!
Rather than just coming clean with the American people, the government has been printed far in excess of $6 TRILLION dollars under Obama, which has debased the the U.S. Dollar, and now our problems are so big, government can’t even create the illusion of a recovery anymore. Instead, all they’ve created are asset bubbles so big that when they pop, the devastation will be unthinkable.
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Among the topics covered in the podcast below of course include talk about whether or not the Fed will raise interest rates in November or December, and a discussion about the Consumer Price Index, what the index means, and which direction it is headed. You’ll also learn that the Social Security tax is set to make it’s biggest jump ever by increasing 7.3%, at a time when government’s “fuzzy math” shows the CPI is only .3%.
Anyone who’s been food shopping, or looked for an apartment lately, knows the cost of living is going up by FAR more than the government’s .3% figure, but sadly that will be the Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) this year for Social Security recipients. Meanwhile, Uncle Sam is more than happy to take it’s full share of the increased Social Security Tax.
Peter goes into much more detail about not just those topics, but also others, and I strongly advise you to pay attention to what he’s saying before you read the article below by Michael Snyder of the Economic Collapse Blog titled, ’35 Percent Of All Americans Have Debt That Is At Least 180 Days Past Due”.
With his failed redistributive politics (that have never worked anywhere else either), Obama is the only President in U.S. history to never see GDP growth rise above 3% for ONE SINGLE quarter during his ENTIRE presidency.
At a time when Americans are this broke, as the world enters what could be the greatest economic slowdown in global history, can you really afford another 4 years of Obama’s policies under Hillary Clinton? Think about it.
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More than a third of all Americans can’t pay their debts. I don’t know about you, but to me that is a shocking figure. As you will see below, 35 percent of the people living in this country have debt in collections. When a debt is in collections, it is at least 180 days past due. And this is happening during the “economic recovery” that the mainstream media keeps touting, although the truth is that Barack Obama is going to be the only president in United States history to never have a single year when the economy grew by at least 3 percent. But at least things are fairly stable for the moment, and if this many Americans are having trouble paying their bills right now, what are things going to look like when the economy becomes extremely unstable once again.
The 35 percent figure is a nugget that I discovered in a CNN article about Detroit that I was reading earlier today…
And the city’s troubles have left a mark on the financial stability of its residents in a big way, according to a new report from the Urban Institute.
About 66% of residents have debt in collections — meaning more than 180 days past due — at a median amount of $1,847. Across the U.S., 35% of Americans have debt in collections.
It is hard to believe that 66 percent of the residents of one of our largest cities could have debt in collections, but without a doubt the city of Detroit is a complete and utter economic wasteland at this point.
But to me, the 35 percent figure for the nation as a whole is a much greater concern.
And much of the debt that is in collections is credit card debt.
In the immediate aftermath of the last financial crisis, many Americans started getting out of debt, and that was a very good thing.
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Unfortunately, that trend has completely reversed itself over the past few years, and now credit card balances are rising at a pace that is quite alarming…
Using data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Federal Reserve, ValuePenguin found that the average credit card debt for households that carry a balance is a shocking $16,048 — a figure that has risen by 10% over the past three years. At the average variable credit card interest rate of 16.1%, this translates to nearly $2,600 in credit card interest alone. And many credit cards have interest rates much higher than the average.
Even scarier, consider that based on the average interest rate and a minimum payment of 1.5% of the balance, it would take nearly 14 years for the typical indebted household to pay off its existing credit card debt, at a staggering cost of more than $40,200. Keep in mind that this assumes no additional credit card debt is added to the tab along the way.
Those that have been there know exactly how it feels to be drowning in credit card debt.
You know, they don’t teach you about credit cards in high school or in college. At least they didn’t in my day. So once I got out into the “real world” and discovered the joy of instantly getting whatever I wanted with a credit card, I didn’t understand how painful it would be to pay that money back someday.
If you have credit card balances that are out of control, they can keep you up late into the night. The worry and the fear can eat away at you like a cancer, and many people play a game of moving balances from one card to another in a desperate attempt to stay afloat.
Fortunately I learned my hard lessons at an early enough age to get things turned around. Now I warn others about the danger of credit card debt through my writing, and my hope is that the things that I share on my websites are doing some good for others that may be struggling financially.
When you are deep in debt, it is exceedingly difficult to build up any wealth of your own. This is one of the primary reasons why 69 percent of all Americans have less than $1,000 in savings today.
In essence, more than two-thirds of the country is living paycheck to paycheck, and that is a recipe for disaster when the next major economic downturn in the U.S. strikes.
Overall, household debt in America has now reached a grand total of 12.3 trillion dollars. When you break that down, it comes to $38,557 for every man, woman and child in the entire nation.
So for a family of five, your share of that total would be $192,785.
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And remember, that is just household debt. That total does not include any form of business debt or any form of government debt.
We truly are a “buy now, pay later” society. We were the wealthiest and most prosperous nation on the entire planet, and previous generations handed us the keys to the greatest economic machine in world history, but that wasn’t good enough for us.
We always had to have more, more, more – and now we have accumulated more debt than any society in the history of the globe.
It is inevitable that this giant debt bubble is going to burst. Anyone with an ounce of common sense can see that.
What we experienced in 2008 was just a preview of the hard times that are coming. The next recession is going to be even worse, and most economists are convinced that it will happen within the next four years no matter who is elected president in November. The following comes from the Wall Street Journal via the Calculated Risk blog…
Economists in The Wall Street Journal’s latest monthly survey of economists put the odds of the next downturn happening within the next four years at nearly 60%.
Just like the last time around, millions of those that are “living on the edge” financially will fall out of the middle class and into poverty when they lose their jobs.
Hopefully most of you that have been reading my work for an extended period of time have already been getting out of debt and have been building up a financial cushion.
Sadly, most of the country continues to act as if they are living in a pre-2008 world, and the economic wake up call that is coming is going to be incredibly painful for those that thought they could get away with being exceedingly reckless financially.
In the following video, which is a bit longer in length than some of my others, but infinitely more important, I review in detail how you are being lied to by both Washington and the mainstream media about the economy, and the dangers of the coming election.
As it relates to the economy, and what a dire situation the country is in, I went directly to Obama’s own census bureau to get the numbers I present. Most politicians, as well as the mainstream media, count on the fact that very few people will take the time to do the research and fact check them, so they lie without hesitation.
In the video, I give you all the numbers directly from Obama’s census, and you can tell me who’s lying…
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Many of you are going to begin to realize that there is major trouble on the horizon, largely as a result of the failure of the U.S. Dollar and Western banks, deteriorating conditions here at home both socially and economically, and nuclear tensions reaching all new heights,.As I explained in the video, entire countries are warning their citizens of what is on the horizon. Consider the BILLIONS of dollars involved with making such an announcement. THAT is your guarantee I’m not telling you a tall tale!
For anyone with no idea where to begin making preparations, I suggest you get your FREE GUIDE for how to survive Martial Law at the very least. My own first purchase was a book called “Conquering the Collapse,” and because I’ve practically worn out my ipad reading my copy, in the following link I provide you with a review of the book: Be Ready For Any Emergency – The Crucial Guide For Any Family’s Safety (Videos)
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