2035CRASH

Published by Mr. Contrarian

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Yesterday was the 45th anniversary of the assassination of JFK in Dallas.  Networks aired the 1991 feature film “JFK” by Oliver Stone.  I remember when it was released that it was draped in controversy, and accused of being a less-than-accurate rendition of what really happened.   To this day, I don’t think anyone really knows what happened, if they did—they’re not telling anyone. 

It could be argued that assassinations could happen at any time.  But I would argue that they happen at inflection points in history, probably just after them.  These could be political, societal, and most definitely economic.  I’m hard-pressed to classify the shooting of John Lennon, but JFK, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and even Ronald Reagan.

Interest rates are an indicator of the “global risk premium”—inflationary times reflect destabilizing times.  And it is in those periods that I would argue that assassinations are more likely to appear.

Think of the general political stability that ensued in the deflationary period from 1981-2002.  Even the terrorists went soft.  The Iron Curtain fell.  Peace was everywhere and it could be argued that politicians didnt’ want to rock the boat.   It is “well-known” that Bill Clinton had the opportunity to “remove, eliminate, or take-out” Osama Bin Laden through the latter 1990s, but refused to for not wanting to create political fall-out. 

http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/12/5/153637.shtml

This decision, made late in the secure years of the deflationary era, set the stage for the USA’s complacency leading up to the disaster of 9/11.  If this in fact is the truth, I find it disgraceful that people continue to hold up Bill Clinton on a pedastel, paying money to hear him speak, and denigrating his successor (George W. Bush, whatever you may think of him).  Like it or not, George W. Bush and his terms’ problems can likely be laid mostly at the feet of two individuals—Bill Clinton (for Osama Bin Laden) and Alan Greenspan (for the foundation laid in the 1990s that led to the economic bubble).

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4540958/

We are coming out of an inflection point.  It is generally accepted that the 2001-2008 period will mark the transition from Deflation to Inflation.  What does this bode?

Generalized world instability on all fronts.  Food supply, energy supply, water supply.  Political and economic instability.  A rise in political tensions and a decline in US influence and control.  And for all you anti-Americans out there, this isn’t a knock against the US—remember the failed US hostage rescue in Tehran of 1979?  This is a direct result of inflationary forces driving up the nominal and real cost of resources such as oil, which tend to be in the control of organizations that don’t like “us” in the developed world.

Now, my search for “JFK assassination” pulled up 1.41M links on Google.  I know it has been written about, but little did I realize that “Obama assassination” pulled up over twice that many links, 2.84M links.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/
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History doesnt’ repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme.  Let’s hope we don’t go down this road again, but I would argue that much of this is already “baked into the cake” and large-scale economic forces dictate the mass-actions of general populations. 

If we are indeed in the early stages of an inflationary period going into 2035, then tighten your seat-belts—from what I have read, the 60s and 70s were not a fun time to be around if you enjoyed the status quo.

Nov 23, 2008
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