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Tace

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Tue Dec 16, 2014, 01:21 AM Dec 2014

Buy the All Time High | James Howard Kunstler



James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust

Nov. 25, 2014

Wall Street is only one of several financial roach motels in what has become a giant slum of a global economy.

Notional “money” scuttles in for safety and nourishment, but may never get out alive. Tom Friedman of The New York Times really put one over on the soft-headed American public when he declared in a string of books that the global economy was a permanent installation in the human condition. What we’re seeing “out there” these days is the basic operating system of that economy trying to shake itself to pieces.

The reason it has to try so hard is that the various players in the global economy game have constructed an armature of falsehood to hold it in place -- for instance the pipeline of central bank “liquidity” creation that pretends to be capital propping up markets. It would be most accurate to call it fake wealth. It is not liquid at all but rather gaseous, and that is why it tends to blow “bubbles” in the places to which it flows. When the bubbles pop, the gas will tend to escape quickly and dramatically, and the ground will be littered with the pathetic broken balloons of so many hopes and dreams.

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Buy the All Time High | James Howard Kunstler (Original Post) Tace Dec 2014 OP
This guy makes me think he's a Bernie Sanders of the financial world. NBachers Dec 2014 #1

NBachers

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1. This guy makes me think he's a Bernie Sanders of the financial world.
Tue Dec 16, 2014, 03:29 AM
Dec 2014

I sure don't want to see the financial markets collapse, though. I finally got started with a 401K in my mid-'50's, and it's pretty healthy after 7 years of overtime and 12% taken out of my hardware store paycheck. I may be able to retire at 70 or 72, but if the banks disintegrate, then I'll have to keep working 'till I drop dead on the shop floor.

Not to mention all the hours of hard work that would be siphoned off into black-hole money implosions.

The Vultures of Lifetimes.

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