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40 Alarming Economic Statistics: Is America Losing Power?
Is America Losing Power?
Is America losing her grip as the "Superpower of the world"? Is she slowly losing her strength? Today Jay shares 40 alarming statistics and shares what he thinks we need to do to get back on track. Then on the second half of the show, Jay answers your questions: why are stocks and gold slipping and should you only buy dividend paying companies?
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***Read More About Why America Is Losing Power In The World: The Coming Collapse of the Petrodollar System***
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On today’s show Jay gets to your questions. When will the dollar crash and how to prepare if it happens? Then he also looks at Aftershock – what happens if we see a financial armageddon? Jay highlights five steps to prepare for a major downturn.
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The debt crisis in Europe is getting worse by the day. Credit downgrades, debt debacles, and no aspirin in Greece? The warning signs are there.
On today's show, Jay looks at some of the latest developments on the growing debt crisis in Europe with strategies on how to protect your money. This includes your 401k plan, your IRA, your stocks, and your mutual funds.
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Then, Jay takes a look at how to structure and build a portfolio from the ground up:
- How many positions should you have?
- How do you diversify by sector?
- How do you select companies.
All this and more on today's show.
As QE2 comes to an end, we expect stocks to remain flat or decrease in value. Despite what we believe at FTMDaily, there are many opinions out there about what is going to happen at the end of QE2. In preparation for multiple market scenarios, I have found an investment that has potential to make money whether the stock markets plummet or whether the Feds continue to buy up U.S. Treasuries in the form of another round of quantitative easing.
To help understand the coming dollar collapse due to the faltering petrodollar system, I often use an illustration about a hamburger stand. Here it goes…
The coming breakdown of the global petrodollar system will result in the total and complete collapse of the U.S. Dollar. And yet, very few people have even heard of this system, let alone understand it.
Despite being warned for decades that the U.S. would eventually face peak production, the U.S. government has done nothing to date to solve the energy crisis that will soon strike America’s shores with a fury. The ugly truth that few are telling you is that the world is preparing to be plunged into an era of declining oil production which will lead to enormous energy price increases.
One of the greatest – and most imminent – challenges looming on America’s economic horizon is the threat of global peak oil production. You may have heard of the phrase “peak oil” from television, newspapers or other media sources. But what exactly does the phrase “peak oil” mean? Well, just like everything else, there is a simple answer and a more complex answer.
Today, our entire global economic infrastructure — not just America’s — has been built and designed around petroleum-based products. In fact, our entire way of life today would be virtually impossible without the amazing properties that we find within petroleum. Oil has become largely irreplaceable in today’s exploding global economy.
by Jerry Robinson Japanese Markets Calm… On Wednesday, Japan’s central bankers continued flooding the country with a fresh infusion of cash in an attempt to stop the financial bleeding after that nation’s worst earthquake on record. So far this week, the central bank has increased the nation’s money supply by 55 trillion yen ($688 billion.) [...]
by Eric Hammer | FTMDaily Contributing Writer TEL AVIV, Mar 16 – The accident began with reactor number 2 and quickly became a critical situation, with the plant facing at least a partial nuclear meltdown. The local population was given conflicting reports about what was happening at first and it took a while until the [...]
by Eric Hammer | FTMDaily Contributing Writer TEL AVIV, Mar 15 – In the aftermath of a massive disaster such as the one that is currently unfolding in Japan, it’s hard to see past the immediate situation. After all, how can we really be asking about investment in Japan when the island nation is seeing [...]
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FTMWeekly Radio Interview with Author, Robert Wiedemer
Audio Transcript – Saturday, February 12, 2011
FTM (Jerry Robinson): All right, well, joining me on the line is Robert Wiedemer. He’s the president and CEO of The Foresight Group, and he’s the author of the Wall Street Journal best-seller, Aftershock: Protect Yourself and Profit in the Next Global Financial Meltdown. Bob, it’s great to have you on “Follow the Money Weekly Radio.”
WIEDEMER (Robert Wiedemer): Well, thanks for inviting me, Jerry! It’s great to be here.
FTM: Over the last week, Bob (maybe over the last two weeks), I have been seeing Treasury bonds yields have jumped to their highest levels in almost a year. We have been seeing levels on the 10-year Treasuries hitting 3.7%; the 30-year yields are hitting about 4.7%; leading some economists to believe that rates are beginning to track even higher over the coming months. My concern here, Bob, is that the Federal Reserve does not have the will or the foresight to slow their easy money policies and their relentless money printing—which is going to lead to massive inflation. What do you make of the recent moves in the U.S. bond market, and how much faith do you have that the Federal Reserve will react quickly enough to suck out the excess liquidity that they’ve created?
WIEDEMER: Well, I think, as you say, the recent moves are partly (obviously) an expectation of inflation. I’m not sure if we won’t see a pullback in yields, though, shorter term. But longer term, clearly, you’re going to find inflation becomes the overriding factor—because I don’t think the Fed can pull the money back. As one of my friends in the Fed has said, “Inflation is not something that’s forced on you; it is a choice.” And the reason we tend to choose inflation, it is the easy out; it’s a fairly easy way to try and grow the economy. The other alternatives are not as easy, whether it be taxes or so forth, and so that’s why they tend to go into that trap. As you said, it’s hard to (quote) “pull the liquidity out once you’re doing it,” because every time you do that you’re going to slow the economy down; you’re going to create problems; and again, there’s no easier out at that point. And you have to, of course, pull the inflation trigger back, or the money supply spigot back even harder, making for a much harder pullback than if you’d just not done it in the first place. So, it gets harder and harder to pull it back, because you’re having to hit the economy harder and harder than if you just never opened the spigot in the first place. It’s a little like a Chinese finger trap: don’t put your finger in it. It will be very difficult to pull back out.READ THE FULL TRANSCRIPT HERE
by Martin D. Weiss, Ph.D. 06-28-10 Anyone who thinks the new financial reform law will save us from the next debt disaster must be dreaming. Here are the facts … Fact: The U.S. derivatives that helped cause the last debt crisis are merely being shifted around like deck chairs on the Titanic. Fact: Nothing whatsoever [...]
