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The Bailout Bubble – the Bubble to End All Bubbles

Ben H

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The Bailout Bubble – the Bubble to End All Bubbles

by Gerald Celente

The biggest financial bubble in history is being inflated in plain sight. This is the Mother of All Bubbles, and when it explodes, it will signal the end to the boom/bust cycle that has characterized economic activity throughout the developed world. Either unwilling or unable to call the bubble by its proper name, the media, Washington, and Wall Street describe the stupendous government expenditures on rescue packages, stimulus plans, buyouts, and takeovers as emergency measures needed to salvage the severely damaged economy.

All of this terminology is econo-jargon. It's like calling torture "enhanced interrogation techniques." Washington is inflating the biggest bubble ever: the Bailout Bubble. This is much bigger than the Dot-com and Real Estate bubbles which hit speculators, investors, and financiers the hardest. However destructive the effects of these busts on employment, savings and productivity, the Free Market Capitalist framework was left intact. But when the Bailout Bubble explodes, the system goes with it.

The economic framework of the United States has been restructured. Federal interventionist policies have given the government equity stakes, executive powers and management control of what was once private enterprise. To finance these buyouts, rescue and stimulus packages – instead of letting failed businesses fail and bankrupt banks and bandit brokerages go bankrupt – trillions of dollars are being injected into the stricken economy.


Phantom dollars, printed out of thin air, backed by nothing ... and producing next to nothing ... defines the Bailout Bubble. Just as with the other bubbles, so too will this one burst. But unlike Dot-com and Real Estate, when the Bailout Bubble pops, neither the President nor the Federal Reserve will have the fiscal fixes or monetary policies available to inflate another. With no more massive economic bubbles left to blow up, they'll set their sights on bigger targets. Given the pattern of governments to parlay egregious failures into mega-failures, the classic trend they follow, when all else fails, is to take their nation to war. Since the Bailout Bubble is neither called nor recognized as a bubble, its sudden and spectacular explosion will create chaos. A panicked public will readily accept any Washington/Wall Street/Main Stream Media alibi that shifts the blame for the catastrophe away from the policy makers and onto some scapegoat.

At this time we are not forecasting a war. However, the trends in play are ominous. While we cannot pinpoint precisely when the Bailout Bubble will burst, we are certain it will. When it does, it should be understood that a major war could follow.

May 15, 2009

Gerald Celente is founder and director of The Trends Research Institute, author of Trends 2000 and Trend Tracking (Warner Books), and publisher of The Trends Journal. He has been forecasting trends since 1980, and recently called “The Collapse of ’09.”

Copyright © 2009 Gerald Celente
http://lewrockwell.com/orig10/celente6.html


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Sandhusker

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Years ago, I would of said that talk like this was crazy. Now, it all makes sense. I don't care who/what you are, you absolutely can't go in debt only so far without severe consequences.
 

Ben H

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The second link up there is Celente's website for the Trends Research Institute, notice the quotes from media sources about his credibility, it's excellent.

I was thinking about the war thing, I thought of three scenarios myself

War with China
Civil War
Anarchy followed by foreign "peacekeepers", followed by a revolution.

We are already engaged in a cyber war with China, the Pentagon recently did a war game, an economic one. We lost, China won. China is wargaming with us as the enemy, they have been increasing their military spending rapidly in the last few years. They are expanding their air force and building their first aircraft carrier. Also they have a new sub base on the coast, it has caverns that subs can slip in and out un-noticed. They are also buying up large quantities, complete buy-outs of raw materials around the world, something a country does before they go to war. They tested that missile that took out their sattelite, our GPS sattelites are defenseless against them, we rely heavily on our GPS. Their generals have said they can withstand a nuclear exchange far better then us. Our country will be knocked back to the stone age with nothing more then an EMP strike. China is trying to buy the gold from the IMF with US Dollars, this will collapse the dollar and allow them to have the global reserve currency.
 
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