As a part of the increasingly obvious set-up of conservative movements by international banking interests and globalist think-tanks, I have noticed an expanding disinformation campaign which appears to be designed to wash the Federal Reserve of culpability for the crash of 2008 that has continued to fester to this day despite the many claims of economic “recovery.” I believe this program is meant to set the stage for a coming conflict between the Trump Administration and the Fed, but what would be the ultimate consequences of such an event?
In my article 'The False Economic Recovery Narrative Will Die In 2017', I outlined the propaganda trap being established by globalist owned and operated media outlets like Bloomberg, in which they consistently claim that Donald Trump has “inherited” an economy in recovery and ascendancy from the Obama administration. I thoroughly debunked their positions and “evidence” by showing how each of their fundamental indicators has actually been in steady decline since 2008, even in the face of massive monetary intervention and fiat printing by the Fed.
My greatest concern leading up to the 2016 election was that Trump would be allowed to win because he represents the perfect scapegoat for an economic crisis that central banks have been brewing for years. Whether or not Trump is aware of this plan cannot yet be proven, but as I have mentioned in the past, his cabinet of Goldman Sachs alumni and neo-con veterans hardly gives me confidence. In the best case scenario, Trump is surrounded by enemies; in the worst case scenario, he is surrounded by friends.
Trump’s loyalties, though, are a secondary issue for now. The primary focus of this article is to discern whether or not a battle between Trump and the Fed will result in a net positive or a net negative for the public. My position is that any action against the Fed should have happened years ago, and that today, the Fed is nothing more than a sacrificial appendage of a greater globalist agenda. Meaning, conservative groups should be aware that a victory over the Fed is not actually a victory over the globalists. In fact, the globalists may very well WANT a war between the Fed and the White House at this time.
First, some facts need to be established to counter the propaganda claims that the Fed is some kind of innocent victim of a rampaging President Trump or “misguided” conservative rhetoric.
The Scapegoat Setup Continues
The latest extension of the Fed’s propaganda has been initiated, of course, by the mainstream media and liberals in general; you know, the same people that were applauding the (in some cases misguided) efforts of the Occupy Wall Street movement. With Trump’s negation of the Dodd-Frank Act, the media has been looking for any opportunity to assert that Trump is either acting to enrich his corporate friends or that he is an idiot man-child when it comes to matters of business and economics.
This led to some sniping by Elizabeth Warren and Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen‘s testimony before congress last week. The argument? That Trump was wrong or “lying” when he said that Dodd-Frank had frozen loans from major banks. You can see the glee in media outlets over the stab; a recent article by Vanity Fair, which seemed to focus more on snide ankle biting of Trump than concrete evidence, is a perfect example.
Now, in Trump’s defense (or at least, in defense of his position), Yellen is actually the one lying, here. While it is true that commercial lending has expanded, her claim that small business loans have improved is simply false. Even Bloomberg begrudgingly acknowledges that small business loans have fallen by at least 6% since the passage of Dodd-Frank. In Obama’s favorite liberal home-base, Chicago, loans to small neighborhood businesses declined by 49% between 2008 and 2014.
In 2015, Yellen herself argued that small business loans were in decline because small business owners “don’t want loans anymore.” This is a bit like the Bureau of Labor Statistics arguing that over 95 million unemployed working age Americans should not be counted as unemployed in their stats because they really “don’t want a job.” It is an attempt to muddy the waters on the greater issue, which is that the U.S. economy is in considerable danger.
You see, I don’t think Trump was debating that major corporations and banks were not receiving ample loans, I think he was primarily pointing out the disparity in small business loans and personal loans. Yellen and the mainstream media attempted to use one data point — commercial loans, to dismiss the entire debate over loan stagnation.
The Fed Is Culpable For Our Bubble Economy And Trying To Shift Blame Before A Collapse
The fact is, we all KNOW that major corporations and banks have been flooded with ample loans, and much of this capital was conjured out of thin air by the Fed itself through fiat creation and near zero interest rates. We know this because of the $16 trillion in loans made to companies around the world exposed by the revealing (but limited) TARP audit. We also know this because much of these loans have been used to inflate the stock market bubble for the past few years through endless stock buybacks that most companies never would have been able to afford otherwise. We also know that the mainstream investment world is aware of the importance of these loans because they started to panic as the Fed announced its ongoing program of interest rate hikes.
Beyond that, we know that the Fed’s low interest loans and culture of circular inbred lending between corporations and banks have been instrumental in keeping stocks hyperinflated, because Fed officials have OPENLY ADMITTED that this is the case. As Richard Fisher of the Dallas Fed stated in an interview with CNBC:
“What the Fed did — and I was part of that group — is we front-loaded a tremendous market rally, starting in 2009.It’s sort of what I call the “reverse Whimpy factor” — give me two hamburgers today for one tomorrow. I’m not surprised that almost every index you can look at … was down significantly.” [Referring to the results in the stock market after the Fed raised rates in December 2015.]
“…I was warning my colleagues, “Don’t go wobbly if we have a 10-20 percent correction at some point. … Everybody you talk to … has been warning that these markets are heavily priced.”
So, again, the issue is not whether or not banks are lending, we know they are lending, they just aren’t lending to the people that need it most.
I think Fisher was dishonest in his evaluation of the extent of the consequences of the Fed bubble and that a 10% to 20% drop in equities is an absurd underestimation. But setting aside the "little white lies", it is at least widely available knowledge that the Federal Reserve initiated a corporate loan free-for-all, knowing that the supposed benefits were limited in scope as well as in duration. They know that a crash is coming, and they have been stalling until they can find the right scapegoat to divert blame. That scapegoat is Trump, and by association, all conservatives.
As far as Dodd-Frank is concerned, the act was supposed to be a primer for stopping destructive behavior in the financial sector, more specifically in derivatives. Yet, in spite of Dodd-Frank, banks like Citigroup are STILL bloated with derivatives after receiving at least $476 billion in taxpayer funds to stop them from going bankrupt for the very same irresponsibility.
Dodd-Frank accomplished absolutely nothing in terms of what it was mandated to do. I believe the only true purpose of Dodd-Frank was to distract everyone from Ron Paul’s Fed audit bill, which was gaining major traction at the time.
Liberals And The Fed Become Bedfellows?
So, why does Trump’s undercutting of Dodd-Frank even matter? As outlined above, it is a propaganda point for the establishment to perpetuate the narrative that Trump is incompetent, that the people who support him are incompetent, and that when the economy does shift into greater crisis it will be his fault and the fault of conservatives. It is also a springboard for the Federal Reserve to “attack” Trump, as shown in Yellen’s congressional testimony.
I also find it interesting that through the Dodd-Frank issue as well as others, leftists are being galvanized in support around the Federal Reserve, something that they probably would not have done a couple of years ago. This is all culminating in what I believe will become a titanic battle not only between Trump and Leftists, but also between Donald Trump and the Fed. But why would the establishment want to incite a conflict between the president and the central bank?
This is something conservatives and liberty activists have wanted for decades — a president that would be willing to take on the Federal Reserve and expose its innards. The problem is, the time for the effectiveness of such an action is long gone. Auditing the Fed under Obama (an openly pro-globalist president) would have been a disaster for the powers that be. It would have thrown their entire agenda into disarray and killed any chance that they could complete what they call the “great global economic reset.” Auditing or shutting down the Fed under Trump is another matter.
As I examined in detail with evidence in my article 'The Economic End Game Explained', the Federal Reserve has a shelf life. It has already served its purpose, which was to undermine the American economy and our currency system. The Fed will now begin deflating the bubbles it has engineered in stocks, Treasuries and the dollar through continued interest rate hikes and rolling out the over $4 trillion (official amount) on its balance sheet. The goal? Sinking America and reducing it to third world status over the course of the next several years to make way for total global centralization of economic administration, eventually leading to global fiscal management under the IMF and perhaps the BIS, and a global currency system; all while making conservative movements look like the monster behind the crisis.
To summarize, the U.S. economy and the dollar are slated for a controlled demolition. The Fed will do everything in its power to prod Trump and conservatives into war with the central bank, because the Fed is now ready to sacrifice itself and the dollar’s world reserve status in order to clear a path for a new global system and ideology. The Federal Reserve is a suicide bomber.
If this takes place as I predict then the international banks and the establishment elites will be able to lay the blame for the death of king dollar squarely at the feet of Trump and conservatives, and at least a third of the country (leftists) will buy into the narrative lock, stock and barrel because they desperately WANT to believe it. Remember, the tale being scripted here is that Trump is a rampaging maniac that does not know what he is doing.
To be clear, I am not supporting the continuing dominance of the Fed, or the existence of the fiat dollar. What I am saying is that conservatives may just get what we have been wishing for all these years but not in the manner we had hoped.
To counter this threat our list of targets must expand to meet reality. The delusion that the core problem is the Federal Reserve must stop. The Fed is a box store, a franchise in a chain of franchises, nothing more. If we do not also turn our scrutiny and aggression towards root globalist institutions like the IMF and the BIS as well as international banks, then our efforts will only serve to bolster the enemy we are trying to fight.
In a battle limited to Trump versus the Fed, only the bankers will win.
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written by stevenguinness , February 23, 2017
Great analysis Brandon.
I spend a lot of time reading BIS papers and in particular speeches made by BIS chairman Jens Weidmann. This guy has been pushing for months two key points - 'Price Stability' and 'Sustainability'. He's been very vocal about wanting to see an end to 'ultra loose' monetary policy and for interest rates to rise. His chief concern with regards 'challenges' in the economy almost always falls back on a rise in 'populism' and the growth of far right movements.
Speaking of the BIS, a planned meeting to finalise Basel III in January was postponed, just weeks before Trump was inaugurated. Since then Trump has stated he wants to roll back on financial regulation.
As for the fed, there statement after February's rate decision explicitly stated that they would respond to improving fundamentals.
They said, "The actual path of the federal funds rate will depend on the economic outlook as informed by incoming data."
All throughout the west inflation numbers are rising. The price of oil is keeping within a tight range between $50 and $60.
On my blog I've written a couple of posts about rising fundamentals and also how Trump's attack on Dodd Frank etc will be perceived by many as a threat to market stability.
Do you think the fed will raise rates in March? My feeling is they will. More and more fed chairmen are coming out with the same scripted lines and talking up the prospect of imminent rate hikes.
Also, do you think it's a coincidence that the next inflation number comes just hours before the fed decide whether to raise rates on the 15th? And then there is the 16th when the debt limit is reactivated. It feels like things are purposefully being positioned to come together.
The fundamentals, even though they are false, is the cover for the fed to start raising rates. People are buying into the perception of a resurgent economy.
The unknown is Trump's fiscal policies. If the fed don't move in March, they will probably cite that as one of the reasons. Yellen herself said recently:
“I would say at this point fiscal policy is not obviously needed to provide stimulus to help us get back to full employment.”
Trump is not going to want the fed to begin a course of rising interest rates at the same time as he looks to issue hundreds of billions in government bonds to pay for his infrastructure plans.
If his actions lead to higher inflation, the fed will surely keep putting up rates, and soon enough it will work to bring down the markets.
written by Brandon Smith , February 23, 2017
@Steven
I think you are on target. I'm sticking by my position that the Fed will continue to raise rates throughout this year, and I do believe they will raise again in March. In my view they are establishing a narrative of conflict between the Fed and Trump. As you said, Trump needs lower rates in order to finance his infrastructure program. The Fed won't give this to him.
Consider also that the lefties will likely cheer the Fed because they will assume that higher rates will prevent Trump from funding the border wall. The elites seem to be staging an "alliance" between the left and the Fed, as I noted in this article.
All of this appears to be building towards what I predicted before and after the election - the spark that finally sets off conservatives and compels them towards unconstitutional action. All evidence suggests that the elites will obstruct every single Trump program in a bid to piss us off and make us behave in a totalitarian manner.
written by jbrook , February 23, 2017
I wonder if an utterly crushed economy might help Trump put armies of people together to rebuild our infrastructure at bargain basement pay scales. Read: A giant WPA program that might prompt him to proclaim himself the new FDR.
written by Brandon Smith , February 23, 2017
@jbrook
I would never trust such centralization. FDR was a monster.
written by Awake , February 23, 2017
The demise of the dollar will be a cataclysmic world event. It will have to include the end of the petrodollar agreement with the Saudi's. Just think of the repatriation of all those dollars and loans made with the dollar worldwide. Take about a paradigm shift!
By the way, Peter Schiff now is saying blame the fed for the rise of Trump
written by Bob Bobbly , February 23, 2017
Brandon, again I find you to be on target, and while I have before commented on what could be seen as more obtuse conspiracies, the above article is of extreme importance as to where lies the Hidden Hand. The Exchange Stabilisation Fund, otherwise known as the Plunge Protection Team, is the heart of the banking system, where the Fed was taken over by the treasury and the epicentre is run out of the New York Fed. IMHO, it is now that there is the brains of the über elite in the City of London and in the BIS in Switzerland, but the hand is in New York, and IMHO there is another hand now in Shanghai, so they are ready for their pincer movement to bring down the West to the rest's level to have the equal playing field to then bring in their so-called gold-backed Fedcoin, that being when they bring their-created Bitcoin into the mainstream, and thus have their one world currency system. Fake news conspiracy I know, but heck one has to speculate to accumulate....health, wealth and wisdom.
written by Brand-'em , February 23, 2017
Great article Brandon
So as to the question of timing, I'd say the markets falling off would likely not happen until this fall, and here's why:
Netherlands National Election March 15: "Liberty" Conservative candidate Geert Wilders will likely win
French National Election Initial Round April, Final Round in May: "Liberty" Conservative Marine le Pen will likely win
German National Election September 24: Globalist Angela Merkel likely dumped
TPTB would also like to discredit the "Liberty/Conservative" movements in Europe as well -- why not start crashing the Western economies all at the same time for maximum blame to these movements?
The best timing for the engineered downfall to start would be fall of 2017 when the new "Liberty/Conservative" governments of the Netherlands and France have formed and when Merkel's Globalist government is on the outs.
I know you predicted a big terrorist attack (or at least string of smaller attacks) within the next 3 months -- I could see this as a possible engineered driver of more public support for the Wilders & Le Pen conservative movements, however I think you may be calling this a little on the early side. I'd call for something like engineered terror attacks to occur a little later, say during fall of this year when folks are back from vacation and are more likely paying more attention to media outlets AND after at least 2 new European conservative governments are in place.
written by Brandon Smith , February 23, 2017
@Brand
I stand by my prediction. A terrorist attack BEFORE the French election makes far more sense to me. Also, I doubt that they will crash multiple systems at exactly the same time; it is more logical for them to create the impression of a "domino effect" so that they can claim one falling economy dragged down the next which then dragged down the next. I suggest you look into RAND Corporation's "Linchpin Theory". They have essentially already pre-established the propaganda that a chain reaction will be the cause of the next crash.
For anyone wanting to enter into trend prediction, I highly recommend they do as Steven Guinness has done, and post those predictions on their own website with their REAL name and face. I see a lot of people lately fielding predictions in the comments sections of other websites anonymously and coming back later to proclaim "I CALLED IT!" (even if they didn't really call it). But making predictions anonymously carries no risk whatsoever, and many people have a hard time taking such predictions seriously.
written by Gods Creation , February 23, 2017
Trump could win, if he wanted to. Here's the solution:
Crank up the printing presses turning out non-interest bearing United States notes. Give the Public 30 days notice to turn in all FRNs in an even exchange for US notes.
Confiscate ALL holdings of the 12 stockholding familes of the Fed, wherever they may be located. Use those assets to back the new notes.
Refer all foreign holders of Fed paper to the families involved so they can collect from them.
The only way to take the power away from the banksters is to take back control of the money.
1+1=2
How hard is that?
written by Zap , February 23, 2017
Series of steady interest rate hikes always seem to be the prelude for a collapse but the Fed will need some compelling reason to do this so what am looking for is reported inflation......it doesn't necessarily have to be real inflation either since they can rig the numbers any way they want to.
I wonder if the Saudi's might be tasked to pitch in and cut oil production which they claim they will not do.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/24/business/energy-environment/saudi-oil-minister-rules-out-possibility-of-production-cuts.html?_r=0
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-23/inflation-comeback-works
I suspect maybe we will see 70 to 100 dollar oil before we see 30 dollar oil but I am not making a prediction on that.
I stopped making any predictions in regards to markets or politics a long time ago because I realized it is impossible to predict the outcome of a rigged game.
So I am looking to see if inflation numbers continue to rise and if the Saudi's inexplicably cut oil production in much the same way they inexplicably raised production in the face of falling prices a few years ago. The Saudi's always seem to be deeply involved in Deep State shenanigans.
written by Zap , February 23, 2017
Sorry that article on oil is old
Maybe they are already cutting
http://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-arabia-cutting-oil-production-reportedly-2017-1
This could be helped along by the usual hedge fund bag men and straw man in the leveraged markets
written by Brandon Smith , February 23, 2017
@Zap
The Saudis claim to be cutting production, but inventories and exports continue to rise, so something is not right. Either they are lying, or production levels were far higher than originally estimated.
written by Steve B. , February 23, 2017
As usual, Signore Bruno thinks excellently out of the box. A few follow-on thoughts.
This is, more than about blaming "conservatives," about unleashing a cataclysm of chaos that will usher in the NWO. Ordo ab Chao. I read Jim Rickards regularly, although he is as slimy and smug as they come. Disnfo man extraordinaire, but most of disinfo is truthful. What with his financial collapse war games he runs at the Pentagon to this day, he sees the fairly imminent arrival of the SDR/Phoenix currency./(He also sees 10000 gold. Got gold?). He sees serial Fed rate hikes, not so much to aggravate Trump, but to give the Fed ammo for when rate reductions are needed in the future. But for this, as he carefully omits, you need a chaotic upheaval in the existing structure. Trump is talking the dollar down, the Euro is sinking and China, bloated with debt, is selling off Treasuries to support the sinking yuan. Looks like the leading currencies are all dying. Hmmm.
So you wheel out a total buffoon like Trump, piss off the idiot left and rally the idiot right. (Trump is a gangster fast attached to Roy Cohn (now dead, of course) and the Kosher Nostra in Russia and Israel; the family money was originally in prostitution and drugs; Resorts International morphed out of the CIA drug operation fronted by the Mary Carter Paint Company, funded with seed money from Rothschild, Rockefeller, and Meyer Lansky, and Trump was off, mentored by his attorney Roy Cohn, who almost certainly ran pedophile blackmail operations out of the Plaza Hotel when Trump owned it).
Trump is surely no "conservative" (unfettered immigration has always been loved by the right wing, massive infrastructure plans are surely right out of the FDR playbook, and grabbing pussy is really all he's about, other than working with the gangsters), whatever that finally means, but he is a Divider. Steve Bannon said that Trump was "a blunt instrument," adding "whether he knows it or not." Wow! Add the Augean stable of Goldman and military jerks and the wildly contradictory actions all in one month, and the chaos is brewing, both economic/financial and military. I still think the Middle East needs to be "stabilized" before the NWO can be unveiled, and thus the military freaks who want to whack Iran. This is hardly conservative, though it is right out of Israel's playbook, as always promoted by McCain and Graham, two guys on whom lots of photos and other items exist. Zionism in the end is one important and powerful tentacle of the global secret society that runs things, and not the Jewish religion.
So just the same set of gangsters on both sides, as usual. And yet the alt-right is so predictably behind Trump, you have to laugh. For example, Mike Adams and Alex Jones have been de-listed from Google. Adams just now announced this was because the counter-insurgency among the spooks is getting ready to oust Trump and want to shut up the Trump supporters. Wanna bet? He's caught the right wing fever. It's just a little more chaos. Trump is his savior man in his redemptive agony. Jones and Adams were once useful voices, but Jones is at least sold out and probably has always been a Zionist operative, while Adams is just bonkers, his redneck pedigree now threatened just as it was safe to show take off his turtleneck shirt. But it does generate chaos.
People are the same, finally, whether they are left or right: the critical mass can always be led around to the sheep pen where they wish to abide. There is only one, but it has many sub-pastures. As David Icke subtitled his The Perception Deception book: "Or...it's ALL bollocks--yes, ALL of it."
written by John2 , February 23, 2017
Bloomberg and Goldman Sachs are corporate sponsors of the Rockefeller/CFR. Michael Bloomberg and Lloyd Blankfein are CFR members, along with every Fed chairman since WW2, including Yellen, Bernanke, and Greenspan. Also Richard Fisher of the Dallas Fed and Sen. Christopher Dodd. See member lists at cfr dot org.
written by Seen2013 , February 23, 2017
"The delusion that the core problem is the Federal Reserve must stop."
Most who consider the Federal Reserve the core problem believe the Federal Reserve is dependent on the Dollar, and this is an even bigger falsehood. The central bank is a network of exchange of legal tender that's simply how it's able to do what it does. Granting, the excuse to make a government-banking public-private merger is not a good idea, and it is ultimately the result under the present dynamics.
"In the best case scenario, Trump is surrounded by enemies; in the worst case scenario, he is surrounded by friends."
"All evidence suggests that the elites will obstruct every single Trump program in a bid to piss us off and make us behave in a totalitarian manner."
I'm pretty sure that it's Trump surrounded by friends; otherwise, selecting staff-cabinet whose pro-public-private mergers and enhancing guilty until proven innocent by a factor of 3 to 1 makes no sense to me.
As for the so-called 'keep your friends close, enemies closer' and 'enemy of my enemy is my friend' arguments, the origin of the adages were brutally back-stabbed by said enemy and enemy of my enemy.
written by Implied Violins , February 23, 2017
To Steve B: a thousand plusses. And add Dave Hodges to Jones and Adams, though I regret doing so because he was one of the few (along with Brandon) who saw Putin for what he is. Unfortunately.
Double those pluses for your Icke reference. People may hate, but the man has been putting out truths for nearly 30 years (his Ed Heath, former PM of England, being pedophile a biggie). Pizzagate, once it hits the mainstream, will make him seem quite the prophet, indeed.
...Though I didn't see him predicting Trump and Brexit, so he's got some catching up to do...
written by Zac , February 24, 2017
You got me. House up for sale. Wife going alittle crazy
But that I can deal with.
When's the crash??
written by Brandon Smith , February 24, 2017
@Zac
We're in the middle of it right now. If you mean when is the next stage, I believe it will start this year with a reversal in stock markets.
written by Zac , February 24, 2017
And your thoughts on the price of gold and silver whilst the fed raises rates?
Thanks for the quick reply.
written by Brandon Smith , February 24, 2017
@Zac
Probably an initial drop off on metals until stocks start to reverse course, and then they will begin to skyrocket once it is clear that the equities bubble is finally bursting. Though, I don't play silver or gold ETF markets, I just wait for a drop, then buy and hold.
written by NH Watcher , February 24, 2017
that he will do exactly what the bankers tell him to do. In his biography, you find that growing up in NYC, amassing his real estate empire, he still had one big goal: to own the Plaza Hotel, what he considered the "Mona Lisa" of NYC real estate. He bought the Plaza for well over its value, and then mired in debt, was forced to sell it in the 1990s. If the bankers had not forced him to sell it, he never would have. It was a big loss for him, a personal loss.
No, Trump is still no fan of globalism, but he also is a pragmatist. Clinton would have brought the U.S. into the NWO quickly and efficiently. Trump is now doing so the same, albeit somewhat chaotically. Brandon has always been correct that the globalists are Luciferians. And Lucifer remains to have his singular time on Earth, without interference from his Creator.
The pain that would be required to bring the U.S. out of this mess unscathed (I know, an oxymoron) is far too much for most Americans. Choosing security over freedom is a short term solution which I fear most of us now are conditioned for ... at least following this Web site and others keeps us the questioning in our minds, so maybe we will be able to accept freedom in the end, and the pain which ensues.
So many of the remedies to the 2008 crash were simply to solidify the totalitarian world we increasingly find ourselves in. I think back to the seemingly innocent "Cash for Clunkers" program meant to stimulate the auto industry, but its real intent was to get older cars completely off the road and destroyed (remember, all "clunkers" had to be destroyed, not repurposed or resold). Newer cars, technologically equipped with government-mandated "kill switches," now dominate our roadways. People won't be able to run far when their cars simply stop working.
Hope remains, but hope is a dangerous thing. Freedom is a dangerous thing. The globalists know full well what they are up against if people still have their freedom and their hope. That is the battle we must not allow them to win.
written by Steve B. , February 24, 2017
Thanks for the plusses.
Agree with your further comments. Adams apparently gave his rant on Hodges's show. I stopped reading Hodges awhile ago as well. The alt right is (predictably, with exceptions who probably should not be classified as alt right, such as Nimmo and the Dykes team) shattering, as they, as much as the stupid left, live in their own illusions. David Icke is about as acute as they come (yes, the reptiles and all that, but he is quite amazingly sane), though I agree he didn't call Brexit and Trump, for whatever reason. He certainly had Trump figured out from day one.
We need to get outside the left-right dialectic entirely, or it's over. Depending on the groups that might form as a result, some may look more "left" and some more "right," but voluntarism would be the critical commonality. People do come in different flavors, but consent and non-oppression must be the basis of anything. Large task, but we're going to hell fast right now.
written by Ag , February 24, 2017
The current program is to instill a sense of fear and anxiety into the heard, to get them ready for a panic (the next market crash) and blame it on this fall guy called Trump.
While this is problematic for those with money in the market, you must realize that most sheep do not have large nest eggs in the market.
India was the clear test case, a foreshadow of things to come.
The goal, is to remove the physical dollar and replace it with a crypto currency- dubbed FedCoin, another block chain currency that will let the keepers track all transactions and impose negative interest rates.
The spice must flow, and if you let the sheep hold onto physical cash, it is hard to get them to let it go.
The masters of the universe will let you spend your 1's and 0's in a controlled environment to keep you safe from the Terrorist or the Russians or whoever they decide is not on team USA.
written by rocbalie , February 24, 2017
Mr brandon smith hello
I am French and you will excuse me for my English.
You speak to us about the collapse of the dollar $ but of which think you of the euro € ?
Germany exports a lot of goods in the USA because she taking advantage of a currency weakened of the fact which is also the currency of Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal and France.
Thus that you for the euro plan ?
mercis
written by Big Mac , February 24, 2017
We all know what happened to the LAST President who tried to buck the Fed (JFK)... :-o
written by Yeti , February 24, 2017
Brandon - another great piece. I have a question for you.
One would imagine the upcoming financial armageddon should damage ALL financial institutions - yet Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan share prices went up when Trump was elected (friends in high places of course)
Do you think it is possible that the GSIBs (Globally Systemically Important Banks) will survive and smaller institutions will fail?
Two advantages for the globalists in this situation
a) the BIS can claim credit for their wonderful rules (the GSIBs have special capital requirements) and act like saviours ("but for us the world would have ended" and so forth)
b) it's easier to control the world monetary system when there are only 30 or so institutions left standing
written by Brandon Smith , February 24, 2017
@rocbalie
I think it is looking more and more likely that Marine La Pen is going to win the French presidency. In fact, I am probably going to make a hard prediction on that soon, though I am a little less sure than I was with Brexit or Trump.
If this occurs, then Frexit is definitely going to happen, probably by 2018. I believe the EU is set to break apart and certain nations will consolidate into a new alliance while the "Nationalist" governments go their own way. The end game of course is that nations that break off from globalization will suffer extreme economic and social instability. The Euro will probably still exist but be diminished in value. The elites want to bring most nations into third-world status and keep us there perpetually. Their utopia is for them, not for the rest of us.
written by Brandon Smith , February 24, 2017
@Yeti
I think that eventually most major banks will fuse together into one entity under the umbrella of the IMF and the BIS. But that is years down the road. In the meantime, there aren't really very many smaller institutions left. Certain larger banks might be sacrificed (like Bear Stearns, Lehman, etc. during 2008), but overall it looks to me like most global financiers will remain, if not mutate and adapt.
written by Useless Eater , February 25, 2017
The merits of the words and ideas come first.
Also, some people prefer to not participate in the many inequitable contracts that must be "signed" when engaging in the commerce of the internet, not the least of which is traceable funds.
And, some of these people are also very grateful to those who have sacrificed their anonymity and/or the aforementioned avoidance of inequitable contracts to allow the masses to post their thoughts, comments, ideas and opinions on a public forum, the likes of which the internet makes available.
Gratitude does have its limits, however, and if you don't want to publish my predictions, Brandon, then just say so.
I try to be respectful, but there are many, many forms of censorship, as we are all beginning to experience firsthand. I might be wrong from time to time, but I have taken great care in envisioning the picture as a whole and try to be careful to present that picture to others in a way that stimulates the brain juices.
I preferred the good old days when you beat down silliness, stupidity, lunacy and/or just plain erroneous thinking with your posts AFTER the comments were made, rather than show disdain for them with a passive/aggressive reply in your comment section. The latter just seems to be a little bit... generalizing and non-inclusive.
Thanks for listening. Looking forward to your next envisionment. (That's correct. I do make up my own words from time to time.)
written by Brandon Smith , February 25, 2017
@Useless Eater
I think you are being oversensitive over a comment that was not directed at you, so please, lighten up.
Again, I SUGGESTED that if people are going to try to make predictions, they should do as the first poster has done in a professional manner by putting their real name and face to those predictions. If you are not willing to stand by your own predictions in this manner then you are not worth taking seriously. And, it looks to me like plenty of readers agree.
Anonymity is fine as long as you are not giving economic or financial advice. Once you start giving advice (and yes, predictions are warnings, which are a form of advice), then you need to be responsible enough to take the "risk" of being implicated as wrong and losing people's attention. If I was not correct in my predictions the majority of the time, then I would have lost my audience, and rightly so. I am not interested in the predictions of anyone who is not willing to take the same risk.
Also, this website, like real life, is not inclusive. In fact, we are very discriminating over bad ideas, poor logic and irresponsible behavior. This is exactly the way it should be and I make no apologies. Notice that this site is not overrun with trolls like almost every other site in the movement?
written by Zac , February 25, 2017
Can you possibly release more videos say on youtube.
The ones out there are very good.
written by Brandon Smith , February 25, 2017
@Zac
I have a pretty big surprise for everyone coming soon. I was able to invest in some video gear and sound equipment. Many videos on the way!
written by Jay W. Sample , February 25, 2017
Enjoyed your assessment, nearly as much as I enjoyed your use of Slim Pickens aboard the nuke as the intro pic.
I had the pleasure of meeting he and his wife at the home of Ace Powell, noted Western artist, in Kalispell, Mt in the early 1970's ...while I was constructing a new artist's studio for Ace to paint his Western Masterpieces.
If you are not familiar with him, or his work, he signed all his work with the ace of spades. Since deceased, he was one of Montana's most famous artists.... and a friend.
Slim was purchasing some of Aces' bronze sculptures. He was exactly the same in person as on the screen. A true original Westerner.... not the pbony actor type.
Sincerely,
Jay W. Sample
written by marco saba , February 26, 2017
"Gradually, it is hoped, the United States Treasury could be done away with, and the government taken out of the banking business. Then all government funds would be deposited with the Central Bank. Its branches would take the place of our Sub-Treasuries. " Extracted from:
"1910: The bankers' conspiracy to destroy the US Treasury"
http://leconomistamascherato.blogspot.it/2016/10/1910-bankers-conspiracy-to-destroy-us.html
Lindbergh: impeachment of Federal Reserve & Chamber of Commerce
http://leconomistamascherato.blogspot.it/2017/01/lindbergh-impeachment-of-federal.html
written by Awake , February 26, 2017
Another potential iceberg dead ahead. The March 15 expiration of the debt ceiling deal. This can cause massive trouble for the government to pay for our deficit spending. The shadow government would love to see the government shut down.
written by Tim_M , February 26, 2017
@Awake,
I agree. This may very well be the catalyst for the next downturn in the economy.
written by soldier , February 26, 2017
Brandon, just how powerful is the left as a strategic force? How well trained are their radical elements in strategic warfare such as BLM, anarchists, and the Black Panthars? Raw facts and evidence will be on Trump's side in a battle between the Fed and Trump especially how it can be scientifically shown how much worse things get as the Fed raises rates. So, only relatively stupid and emotional radical leftists will fall for the mainstream propaganda. Most people I know with an 80 IQ or higher cant stand the main stream media and know they are a worthless pack of liers. Ok, I may be exhaggerating on the IQ but you get what I am saying.
So in a true SHTF economy collapse scenario, wouldn't the stupid and rabid leftists also be the first to largely starve? Or do you not forsee things getting that bad because the elites need their dumb liberal armies? I mean a super bad economic collapse has a chance to really change things for the better in a sick sense. The spy grid may go offline as nuclear power plants melt down and power in general shuts off if it gets real Mad Max. This would leave people like you who can use assault weapons effectively and at least have storable food be Kings in a new world.
written by Brandon Smith , February 26, 2017
@soldier
In an economic collapse that reaches the point of frozen services and infrastructure in the US, no one wins except the globalists. You are looking at the situation the wrong way. The globalists don't need the left as an "army", they just need them as a pawn. The danger is that WE become pawns as well, because we stupidly focus on the "left" as the only enemy and forget all about the international financiers. If conservatives become totalitarian in the name of defeating the left, then we too will have also lost everything.
written by Awake , February 26, 2017
That's what we may be looking at after March 15. What a perfect way to start the avalanche. We will see.
written by ted , February 26, 2017
@rocbalie
I think it is looking more and more likely that Marine La Pen is going to win the French presidency. In fact, I am probably going to make a hard prediction on that soon, though I am a little less sure than I was with Brexit or Trump. "
Someone asked the question to jim rickard on twitter:
@JamesGRickards Hi Jim, Any thoughts on the French election? Can Le Pen win?
reply from jim rickards:.@MichaelNicoll Le Pen won't win, but she'll drive markets and media mad in the meantime.
What do you think brandon?
written by Brandon Smith , February 27, 2017
@Ted
Well, Jim Rickards was right about Brexit and Trump, just as I was. However, he has been wrong for a long time about the the East being somehow in opposition to the globalists. I don't think he sees the whole picture. I believe if riots in Europe continue and if my prediction of terrorist attacks in the next few months proves correct, then Le Pen will most definitely win.
Jim Rickards is welcome to his opinion, but it doesn't change my mind in the slightest.
written by ted , February 27, 2017
@Brandon,okay, thank you for the answer, you are with jim, the only 2 analysts on the internet,in whom I trust for the predictions, keep up your great Brandon work!
written by Frank W. Hooper , February 27, 2017
I haven't commented on anything lately because I didn't feel I had anything new to add. I always put my name on them when i do to keep me honest. Skin in the game changes things.
I only differ on china in that I think the Globalists are going to try to reduce the number of chairs china has at the table but they are all in with whats going on.
My predictions about what it will be like are on record here but to put a picture behind what I believe "They" have in mind here and globally is as simple as Googling images of any mega city in India and subtracting most of the middle class homes.
My take on history is liberals don't do the fighting in revolutions and civil wars unless they are confident that they have the full backing and protection of a large powerful outside group because they are cowards.
Conservatives can be tricked or goaded into it by putting a pretty dress on it and they will fight for what they believe in without any backing. And I'm including the Faux_cons as being in the liberal camp. If we join in on the Seal Clubbing of Liberals and their ilk out of seething resentment I believe God will let us reap the seeds we sow. Fighting to defend something I believe in is not the same a going on a rampage.
written by pdjames , February 27, 2017
Congratulations Brandon for being the most lucid, no-bullshit analyst out there, anywhere. You really know how to keep your eye on the ball my friend. Here’s an anecdotal piece of evidence confirming Trump will go to war with the Fed and be blamed for the chaos that follows. Guess whose picture adorns Trump's Oval Office? That’s right boys and girls, Andrew Jackson! The killer of the Second National Bank. How subtle!
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/316115-trump-hangs-portrait-of-andrew-jackson-in-oval-office
written by Yeti , February 28, 2017
.....you'll never guess
"The human society is, in an evolutionary trend, moving toward the one society, and on its way, is pursuing removal of the various borders and gaps among people and nations."
....
It was Iran's former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, towards the end of a letter he wrote to Donald Trump, which is quite amusing in places :)
A secret globalist?
http://www.tehrantimes.com/news/411455/Ahmadinejad-backs-Trump-s-stance-against-political-elites-media
