By Mac Slavo
With the eyes of the world on Greece and a possible collapse of the of the Eurozone as a likely end result, many are ignoring a potentially much more massive elephant in the room.
It’s been the hottest market in the world, so flush with cash that they have actually built entire ghost-cities lacking populations and mega shopping centers without tenants – a clear sign of bubble waiting to be pricked. But the inevitable seems to now be taking hold as once unstoppable Chinese stock markets are now reversing the unprecedented gains seen over the last several years.
Forget Greece. We’ve seen that story before. This could be the first domino:
The Chinese market is in an all-on crash.
Last night the Shanghai index was down 8%, and while there have been some wild recovery rallies during the last couple of weeks as well the cumulative loss is close to 20% at this point, the formal “declaration” of a bear market.
That market had been in a parabolic blow-off since roughly December, a classic (to a chartist) three-stage parabolic move with two retracements. The most-recent move down, however, threatens to violate the uptrend support originated back in November and has already erased the gains since May.
Yes, a 2-month round-trip of about 20%.
“Liquidity” is usually given as the reason for the “reasonableness” of stock valuations these days. I have only one question: What happens when said “liquidity” is really nothing more than a loan (which it always is) and the borrowed funds are lost instead or producing “gains”?
Source: Karl Denninger / The Market Ticker
What happens is exactly what’s happening in Greece and China, and what will undoubtedly soon come to pass in the United States.
The actions of the world’s wealthy should be followed closely and, as we’ve note previously, they are being told to make sure they have physical assets like cash, gold and silver on hand in anticipation of a serious destabilizing event. The reset is coming, and as was recently noted by Brandon Smith of Alt Market, the next stage of the elites’ plan for total global economic centralization is about to be in full effect.
With China’s stock markets now imploding on a scale that can only be described as a crash, it is only a matter of time before the chain reaction of derivative-based defaults leads to similar detonations across the entire world.
What comes next is anyone’s guess, but it won’t be pretty. One possible outcome, as suggested by analyst Greg Mannarino, is pretty much the worst imaginable scenario and one we have urged our readers to prepare for:
It’s created a population boom… a population boom has risen in tandem with the debt. It’s incredible.
So, when the debt bubble bursts we’re going to get a correction in population. It’s a mathematical certainty.
Millions upon millions of people are going to die on a world-wide scale when the debt bubble bursts. And I’m saying when not if…
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When resources become more and more scarce we’re going to see countries at war with each other. People will be scrambling… in a worst case scenario… doing everything that they can to survive… to provide for their family and for themselves.
Source: Full Interview with Greg Mannarino
It’s a scary proposition and one from which escape for the general population of the world seems impossible. As Mannarino notes, “there’s no way out.”
It will be, for all intents and purposes, every man for himself. The elite know this and that is likely why they are buying aircraft landing strips, rural hideaways and divesting themselves of paper assets.
If we are, in fact, on the cusp of this next great paradigm shift, it will be littered with panic, widespread civil unrest and shortages of essential good necessary for survival. It is a scenario for which the government has prepared for over a decade, but as former DHS head Janet Napolitano has warned, such an emergency will leave the government overwhelmed and unable to assist those in need.
That means you’re on your own and your only saving grace will be that you take steps to prepare for disaster ahead of time.
As collapse survivor Selco has warned, once this goes down there will be little room for error: Either you’ll learn fast or you’ll end up dead.
At the very least we strongly recommend stockpiling the basics, including food, potable water, self defense tools, and physical barter goods.
Of course, we could be overreacting. The Chinese stock market crash is happening so far across the ocean that we probably don’t need to be paying attention. And as for Greece, Americans will never have to line up in front of empty ATMs hoping to get enough money out to put dinner on the table.
The government would never let that happen, right?
You can read more from Mac Slavo at his site SHTFplan.com, where this article first appeared.
Keep your eye well peeled for us, Mac. And thanks.
“At the very least we strong (sic) recommend stockpiling basics, including food, potable water, self-defense tools, and physical barter goods.”
Ah, there’s a major problem here; something like ignoring a major verdict of history. During the
French slaughter (1792-4), Judeo-Bolshevik monopolists and money-lenders withheld food from the market; they blamed shopkeepers, peasants (farmers) and hoarders for such shortages, seized their supplies and paraded them before a Revolutionary Tribunal before carting them off to the guillotine. Today “hoarders” are known as “preppers” – those who buy a cabin in the woods, stock up on food, guns and precious metals.
During the Russian mass slaughter, they did the same thing, only with a wider net: hooligans,
speculators (those with property worth 10,000 rubles or more), anti-socialists,obstructionists, and saboteurs were added to their lists. Their property was seized, they were paraded before a Revolutionary Tribunal before receiving the shot in the nape of the neck.
In other words, during those slaughters “preppers” were among the first to be targeted.
You think it’s not likely here? Then, why is the Department of Homeland Security modeled after French committees of terror, the Judeo-Bolshevik Cheka and the Nazi Schutzstaffel? (http://redressone.wordpress.com/amss/)
What does the DHS plan to do with 2-3 billion rounds of ammo… an amount sufficient to wage an Iraqi
War, at its highest rate, for 25 years? Remember, so-called terrorists do not travel as armies; but, rather cells of 5-10… and the DHS needs 2-3 billion rounds of ammo for these tiny
cells? Try again.
And, why is the DHS recruiting, training and protecting informers?
By the act of Congress that established the DHS a system was created by which informers could
make false allegations against anyone they please with near-total impunity. Of course, such informers
aren’t described as informers; rather they are given the title “submitting person” and the DHS Act provides that their falsehoods will never be examined by any court or legislature or law enforcement agency. The legislation even specifies how this immunity is obtained. The “submitting person” only has to give an “express statement” that his lies were “voluntarily given” and that he expected “protection from disclosure”.
I’m sorry guys, but silly season is over. Even if you own physical gold, live in a cabin in the woods along with a stash of ammo and AK-47’s, you lose. If you don’t fall to the horde of hungry homeless, you will fall to DHS death squads. All the homeless have to do is to wait until you collapse from lack of sleep (24, 48, 72 hours), then they march in, slit your throat and… let your imagination run wild.
If you own stocks or bonds, guess what: you’re depending on criminal and useless classes to deliver
your purchasing power at the moment of their greatest victory. Do you really believe they (Wall Street… foreign or domestic banks… et cetera) will deliver your profits to you? Did I mention something about ‘silly season’?
If you want to survive – along with your property, you have to combine with others of like mind for the purpose of mutual protection, among other purposes. The big question now is, ‘HOW is this to be
done?’ And the quick answer is, ‘You must establish First-Amendment assemblies (http://redressone.wordpress.com/locate/) – the only historically-proven method by which men have made their lives and property secure from rule by thieves.’
The American Revolution, for example, was powered by a large network of such assemblies: from town meetings, county meetings, state conventions and, ultimately, to Continental Congresses.
Let’s be realistic: this solution won’t be easy or quick… unprecedented adventures never are.
But it’s a much better alternative than waiting for them to smash in your door.