Greyerz – Sources Close To De Gaulle Have Informed Me That De Gaulle Was Certain
Greyerz – Sources Close To De Gaulle Have Informed Me That De Gaulle Was Certain The US Had No Gold Left
As the world edges closer to the next crisis, today the man who has become legendary for his predictions on QE and historic moves in currencies told King World News that sources close to former French leader, Charles de Gaulle, informed him that de Gaulle was certain the United States had no gold left.
Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor, rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief
A Prediction Of Things To Come
January 14 (King World News) – Egon von Greyerz: “This old nursery rhyme, or counting game, dating back from the late 17th century, could be seen as a prediction of things to come. Many people from various backgrounds could soon realize that they may become a poor man, beggar man or thief, within the next 5 to 10 years as the world experiences a massive wealth destruction.
Tinker used to be someone who travelled around to mend pans and utensils. The verb tinker also means to tamper with or manipulate. No one should be under the illusion the powers that be are not tinkering the world economy. No, the tinkering that is going on tells us that we are now in the very final stages of the biggest manipulation or rigging of the world economy, markets, gold, news, politics, people, etc, that the world has ever experienced…
Egon von Greyerz continues: “Since this level of manipulation has never, ever occurred in history, no one can predict the magnitude of the collapse that will take place. Even worse, 99.99% of the world’s population is totally unprepared for what is going to come. And even the minuscule minority who are predicting a cataclysmic event will not evade the suffering that will follow.
Like A Thief In The Night
No one knows where or how it will begin. It can start with a slow decline in the economy and markets or there could be a sudden and sharp drop, taking everyone by surprise. What is certain is that the consequences will be devastating for the majority of people. Many will lose their jobs, social security benefits, pensions, medical care, and all the normal supports that they have been used to.
Also, very few realize that the high standard of living in the West in the last many decades has nothing to do with real economic growth or productivity. Instead, it is all based on debt and printed money to the extent of at least $500 trillion including unfunded liabilities such as medical care and pensions.
A rigged world economy based on debt has no foundations and no reserves. The bubble can be expanded for a limited time by just issuing more debt and this is what we have seen since the 2006-9 finical crisis. The fake life support that the world economy has received in the last 10 years in the form of an additional $125 trillion of debt has inflated asset markets to the extent that the rich are getting insanely richer and the poor are landed with even more debt. But doubling global debt in 10 years to $250 trillion has not just doubled the risk of collapse. Instead, risk has grown exponentially as the quality of the debt has deteriorated catastrophically.
A World With No Reserves
Global government debt is at record highs — at unsustainable levels — and so is corporate and personal debt. The problem is that the are no reserves. To draw an analogy with people and longevity, very fat and very thin people on average live shorter lives than the ones with moderate overweight. Because the extra fat reserves protects you in periods of weakness or disease. The same with the world economy, when the next crisis comes it will become evident that the world has no reserves. The only way the world can deal with the next debt crisis is by printing money and issuing more debt. But you can’t solve a debt problem with more debt.
When the crisis soon hits the world, corporate profits will suffer. Highly indebted companies will not meet their debt covenants, especially as interest rates rise along with inflation and collapsing bond prices. So companies will default on their debt as well as property owners with debt. Commercial property will suffer as tenants can’t afford the rents. It will be the same with retail property, which will collapse as spending comes down. The West, and especially the US, is over-stocked with retail space, with most of it at very high rents. As people lose their jobs and interest rates rise, the housing market will collapse by 75% to 90%.
Of all the manipulated markets, gold might be the worst of them all. Investment gold represents less than 0.5% of world financial assets. One might ask, ‘why then are daily traded gross gold volumes over 2x the S&P 500 volumes?’ According to the World Gold Council, gross traded daily gold volume is $280 billion, while daily S&P volume, by comparison, is only $125 billion.