If you own your own assets and their real assets because not your settlements layer not your money and this is responding to a wall street journal scoop u. S. Officials warned iraq that it risks losing access to its account at the new york fed where International Oil sale revenue is kept if it moves to expel u. S. Troops so iraq is theoretically an independent sovereign nation and they should be able to invite other militaries in to help them fight somebody or whatever and they should be able to expel Foreign Military troops should they wish them not to be there while the u. S. Is saying should you choose to expel military bases we will seize your assets at the new york fed you know i mean this is a fascinating and people are starting to see really how the world works and how the american empire works and how the empire of debt some of called it works it all clear so the new york fed and so these countries in the middle east can. In. A hissy fit and throw themselves on the ground and cry and scream and they can do all kinds of stuff but it doesnt really matter because everything goes through the new york fed and member the 2008 crisis was resolved through the new york fed when Timothy Geithner was in charge and every time theres a crisis anywhere in the world pretty much its all resolved through the new york fed the new york fed has the ability to censor if you want to that they want to cut you off from the Global Economy they can do so at the flick of a switch because sense the 1940 s. All commodities are settled in dollars ever ever since the 1970 s. And the emergence of the petro dollar everything all oil all energy is settled in u. S. Dollars all commodities are priced in dollars and settled in dollars and all happens at the new york fed and everyone around new york gets a lot of money because they are in proximity to the new york fed and thats the way the world works of course the new york fed is the one in charge of the repo interventions at the moment they do say now that there is going to last through the tax season because they have another new excuse it was supposed to last for 24 hours and then 48 hours and then 72 hours then a few weeks and then a few months and now its going to last until at least april they say and we also covered back in may remember representative brad sherman of california hes a congressman from out there he said about bitcoin that big point we must stop it now because what theyre trying to do is replace the new york fed for exactly this sort of thing is what he was forecasting is that we need to control the settlements layer and the u. S. Dollar is the settlements layer when people say oh you know the you know oil is priced in euros and thats a threat to the dollar thats not the threat this threat is the settlements layer so all trade for oil has to settle through the new york fed and this is how theyre controlling that all your you cant exist you have no sovereign rights unless you cut in as the middleman where the middleman you have that we have to approve of everything so that is why we talk about bitcoin and this is. An exact lesson in what we were talking about for the last 10 years right this is why we talk about bitcoin exactly because it gives countries and individuals a way to opt out of the censorship that happens on the subtle middle layer of places like the new york fed and you know personally i have no idea why these countries who are being censored by the new york and who are being subjected to the empire of debt otherwise known as the United States of america dont simply cross over and switch to bit coin and achieve sovereignty im sure they have some sort of plan they take a while they dont move as fast as the individual can and thats why the individual is actually at a uniquely positioned place at the moment they can move fast for the nation states can or Central Banks and governments can say you can get ahead of this this that thing we see coming because remember again you talk about censorship you know there are all these laws and stuff like that introduced its always about the bad guy were just you know these you know the patriot act is just to stop bad guys like bin ladin who does it end up like theres been almost 0 application to bad guys like bin ladin and who gets caught in the net all these good guys like aaron swartz for example he gets caught by all these bad laws that were meant for bad guys but it ends up like aaron swartz who was you know driven to suicide a few years ago just passes the anniversary is of a suicide just passed and look him up and youll see that here you know when brad sherman said last year when he warned in may that bitcoin was after him like basically replacing the new york fed he said we dont want iran our enemies see is this play here theyre saying were going to cut iraq where we occupy the nation were supposedly some sort of ally at least theyre occupier like you know theres a Certain International obligations to if youre occupying a nation but here theyre saying were going. Cut them off from. What trump said was that the new york fed has Something Like 30000000000. 00 i think its 3000000000. 00 and carrying a 1000000000 meant ok and he said they would owe him 30000000000. 00 in total if they got 3000000000 in cash parked there yet and he says you owe us 30000000000 and so hes simply going to cut them off and take that 3000000000 sees the 3000000000 and slap him with the invoice for 30000000000. Developing a casino in Atlantic City and he gets all the contractors to build it and says im not going to pay you i think its roy cohn a lawyer if is it the time to hire a leg breaker like ray donovan they go strange things out right i mean thats the way the world works at the moment and the new york fed is is the little private kitty its right downtown from where he has a big office well and its beyond that because its like he built that casino in your backyard land that you own and youre like wait who told you you could build a casino on my land he said give me 30000000000 for it and youre like ok i you know you give me 30000000000 this this should be the way where you talk about iraq yes right he just pulled the number out of thin air that this is what you owe. Any all selfrespect new york developer would do yes somebody in times square would do that to you they shake you down heres another story i found this interesting because it was from the Guardian Simon jenkins wrote this and its really kind of fascinating because its more Mainstream Media so this is what hes looking at what is happening in iraq and iran and all this conflict going on and he says Donald Trumps rant against iran is the how of a dying empire all empires stay there declared purpose let alone their welcome all and messily the operative word is all be they roman napoleonic british or soviet all are vanquished not by superior power but by selfdelusion and geography the British Empire had neither the right nor the need to invade far flung parts of asia in africa. It was defeated by them the u. S. Has claimed the right to intervene in theaters as diverse as south america the far East East Africa and a portfolio of Muslim States justification varies from retaliation and deterrence to selfdefense and the instilling of democracy again this is something that you and i have talked about for 10 years were saying its not just uniquely american its happened to every empire before and thats were just saying history usually repeats. You know they have their own sort of rhythm going on as they did pete deplete their power via hubris but they all get this point they all get this thing that they can use in new york fed were going to take your money were going to cut you off from swift germany you cant do that germany you know you might be an economic powerhouse but you know listen to us what we say goes you know they all end up like that its not uniquely you know antiamerican or it just like it wouldnt have been anti you know poli onic or anti roman are anti british or into a soviet it was like this is just the inevitability of history it happens every single time for the exact same reason that i get what Simon Jenkins is saying there in terms of the history of empires and they never survive and they tend to crumble from within and i understand that the difference with the american empire of the 21st century is that its constructed entirely out of digits of algorithms out of debt creation out of money printing and the cost of increasing the debt indebtedness to our vassal states which be every single country thats not america is right imagine if you were in the prison business and the cost of building the prisons i mean you could build prisons for everyone in the world because your cost is 0 americas built a prison called the world and its the prison its the it runs the prison and the cost of building that prison is 0 because its all based on everyone in the world is still willing to accept dollars trade in dollars a clear through the new york fed and worship the u. S. Dollar wherever you go youll find a. T. M. s in countries where as the local currency and dollars write dollar is god no matter what religion you say you are around the world the fact is you to pray to the u. S. Dollar every day every single empire has also looked like uniquely this time its different this time theyre also powerful nobody could stop room nobody could stop you know napoleon every everyone seems like that until they dont suddenly its usually suddenly. And then all that looking back its like all the signs were there and then i want to look at part of what youre saying here and this interesting chart that divergence of s. And p. 500 and u. S. Nominal g. D. P. Began in the age of Alan Greenspan any coincidence there used to be a relationship between the fundamentals of the noncon me the g. D. P. Growth your actual production of goods and services your Wealth Creation and the stock market since greenspan and the intervention by the fed the activist fed who came in the greenspan put that you would never ever lose money if you just continued to believe in the s. And p. 500 because the fed would have your back well you see the divergence really take off that you know nominal g. D. P. Has just been the same slowly rising just like gold over the past few decades since Alan Greenspan but the s. And p. 500 has taken off doesnt care about earnings or anything like that you know because the g. D. P. Is based on consumption and tied to wages and earnings and Economic Activity and manufacturing and things like that are tangible the s. And p. Is based entirely on the ability to as zeros to your earnings statements based on the money thats being given to you by your king god the Federal Reserve bank and so there is no connection and there is no need as ive said before the 3 trillion dollars or so that are collected every year by Americas Internal Revenue Service to fund the budget is is not needed whatsoever they can simply print all the money they need its a token amount compared to the amount of they print 16 trillion and they collect 3 trillion in taxes its a non its not its a rounding error in the many needs of money well these 2 are required like the taxes make it feel real so if you didnt have to pay taxes like its all a Monopoly Game but it feels real especially if you might face 10. 00 to. 20 years in prison for not giving this money they must think its really important and really real its like gold and that that i think creates the helps them to stay in the us then money is not doesnt go toward increasing the wealth of the nation it goes toward increasing the incarceration of a nation thats pretty much want to ask for said in the beginning you tops of the world is our prison well ive done it again well were going to take a break and when we come back much more coming your way. The money is in my. Brain to boughs of a time about what was it was a bit. More about. What we were on the side of the. Scene that im going to get but im before. Them by the. By now im by the im not moved on. From the. People but its no good keep the salaam view or some new focus on the us so do you still. Want. To see the film was not budgeted for the most good moment in. Your life. Boy. You know who you dont let. No one to. Join me every so straight on the alex simon show and ill be speaking to guests of the world of politics Small Business im show business ill see you then. Welcome back to the kaiser report imax keyser time now to turn to. Gold switzerland that com egon welcome back thank you max and a bit of a late happy new year to you right on your web site little piece called we just left the 20 tanned the stay decade a fantasy as you call it what is a saw about the decade of fantasy and whats coming up in the next decade the decade of fantasy it was the deck was a decade the world managed to artificially all the worlds Central Banks to artificially. Patients who bought it for another 10 years which was absolutely a lot longer than i ever expected was possible but nevertheless by printing fake money by charging 0 or negative rates for it they fool the world who are up for another almost 10 years what actually was 10 years. Ago therefore we are at the peak of bubbles that we are at the bubbles. I think the 20s will not take until 29 like it did in the 1900000 till the whole system collapses i think it will happen a lot sooner. Will is likely to start this this year and any time now the risk is at a maximum. Things dont always turn when you expect to but it could happen it could happen this week or next week or it might take a bit longer but i dont i dont see these bubbles last thing for much longer this is banned the story for a number of years as you point out weve been talking about this for 10 years that on a valuation basis on a price Earnings Base basis on historical basis the markets are over a value certainly the bond markets in a 300 air bubble in the. Not a kingdom its a 240 year high in the United States or bubble in the United States and yet there doesnt seem to be any end to this down during the 10 years i just talked about there the Federal Reserve bank in the u. S. Alone printed over 16 trillion dollars to keep the zombie banks and zombie corporations alive remember a lot of these corporations report no earnings at all theyre only kept alive through stock buybacks and cash infusions from the central bank but my question is i dont see that ending anytime soon because the Central Banks could very easily buy another 15 to try to 20 trillion dollars worth of bad assets they all Work Together that all the major Central BanksWork Together they dont theres no sense of competition in the world like David Ricardo talked about in during the 1st years of nail classic economics its all collusion and theyre all buying horrible junk and theyre all working together and they have Printing Presses a so why with this and any time soon a guy things dont always end when you expect them to and we just said this bubble has been going on for 10 years you should have collapsed 2009 at the latest or 7 even if you didnt and you know the theory is very simple if you if you grow 2006 when the pros use door to world global debt was 125 trillion since then another 140 trillion has been printed so we are around 20665 true you know and remember all of that is just its bubbles its nothing to do with real money and that money has been invested into main in the stock market is not going into the real economy so then manufacture. Fake money and created fake well now ill long you think the world can continue to live on just sitting there or on fake money and fake asses i think we are now i reached a point when that sheer weight of the debt will actually mean that this is dont call absent in the next it could be this year or a good obviously will take a few years but that the start will be this year now while you call fundamentally argue that its going to happen now technically mark is now in the stock market because 6 stream evaluable are just yesterday. You know you are looking at a massive negative divergence on the new highs and the dow on the s. And p. For example new highs in the stock market is not confirmed by momentum indicators now that doesnt mean that it will turn immediately but that means that the market now is at a very very high level of risk and or it is likely to sometime in the near term future i dont think that Central Banks can continue the game of fake money fake assets you know lets remember that this is that theyre printed under the 40 trillion roughly in the last in the last was in 13 years by that and that has created the same fate as as when i made a calculation in one of my articles to say that that extra. Money that they have printed which which is says that 19 hours is 2006 that extra money of about 70. 00 or lets say near 70 trillion. That equals 2 years oh and neil global output of actually every everybody in the world is 3000000 there are 3000000 workers in the world. Today was supposed to be 33000000000 workers in the world today and their output over 2 years equals the money printing that we have seen since 2006 so the world has just created 2 years of our foot by printing money and thats why im saying that is not sustainable that doesnt mean that either fundamentally it will collapse today or tomorrow but technically in my view marcus looks extremely vulnerable on the timing. The cycles better that i look we could have. Talked in the market at any time now. Starting a downturn whether the downhill will be slow initially or whether it will start with a crash it doesnt matter risk is at a maximum and from our point of view our company we look at risk we dont look at the follow file or rise in the market and trying to catch that we look at protecting the downs of because the upside is maybe a few percent the downside is 95 percent in my view i think that go if we measure the stock market against real money which is gold because i think we are going to see the dow for example or the s. And p. Follow around 95. 00 at least against gold in but thats not that would only take it down to the level of the one. That is in the dow he was one doubt equals one gold just like he was in or one hours ago just like it was in 981. 00 gold was a 50 on the dow they did that was their racial 1. 00 to 1. 00 also that of the dow gold ratio i think were going to go down at least to one again and i think we probably go below one but going down just to one would mean a full 95 percent of the day against real money go and i think thats going to happen now i cant say exactly how well but i think the risk is that today and i think you know people should be protected today saw the staff called on the. Asters are suffering from this that i think all the investors are looking at this bubble really more out of curiosity because gold in fact says the air 2000 has outperform stocks gold in fact against every major currency in the world is making new all time highs except the us dollar gold in fasteners are doing great thank you very much so i think they its more of a curiosity here because the stock market bubble fueled by all the money printing is really a once and no ones ever seen this before ever in the history of the world has there been so much injection of ersatz fake fee out money to support. Really companies that dont make any profits the companies that are going public dont make any profits they have no hope of ever making profits a lot of the listed companies 60 percent of the list of companies are not making appreciable profits right so this is a profit less prosperity fed by all this money printing they have the nasdaq up 40 percent last year but it could be you know on the verge of war in these situations like 1999 where you do see a final blow off on the nasdaq another 85 percent jump in the nasdaq would be in keeping with the recent manias on your thoughts on that as we know market and extent that. We everything is possible but you know you have to remember max that the nasdaq is up 7 times since 2007 ton this is a bubble now we choose equal to the 2000 i did before because of the time. That. You were in the almost just before the great and i think i can say is going to happen to more of course i can but i can say that the risk is not a level which is totally unacceptable and should be unacceptable for anyone. Most people will hang on just like they didnt do that was in 2002 while the nasdaq fell 90 over 90 percent so i see the people who now hang on i think theyre going to lose the biggest part of their fortune or at least a portion of the wealth of average the stock market so im not you dont get catching that last bit you know i remember every x. But everyone in the world whether they were. Cattle station or gas station attendant or whether they were had threats or whether they were you know a wealthy person whatever everyone was an expert on the nasdaq in 1900 and everybody jumped on the bandwagon the last year and then they lost it all and that was in the next but to be found in 2001 or 2 when the market crashed and i think its not just sure you can have been i dont think is worth waiting for i think we are its imminent but i might be wrong i mean i dont care if it happens today or this week or next week or examples in 6 months time the risk is there and as you said you know the dow gold for example looked at the what we just chart yesterday and the dow go on a quarterly basis has now turned down on the what is called m a z d which is a trending indicator you know thats a term that turned down is the 1st time in 9 years that hes turned ive been at going up since since 2010 and now its turned down that is a very strong sign that the stock market is now are in real time against gold going to turn down to see that to me is very significant so i think were there almost there and i dont really care if it goes up a bit further because i certainly wouldnt recommend anyone to ride that but i know that all investors are in the market today theyre going to think that the fed has do just mentioned before going to bed and all the other Central Banks are going to continue to pump in money but i think the market will soon realize that this money you know this was theres no. Money make money that they print it is just it just creating fake assets and therefore the money in the us is a fake and thats what the world is going to be experiencing in the next few years then all of that money all of those bad news i just going to disappear out of the market it will be sad for a lot of investors and theyll be in much the well destruction im not a pest im is just reading risk and im just reading the markets and hes inevitable that this will happen in my view well this moving average of the i may say days are fast ending i think we should talk about that and next segment if you can stay with us well do another segment thats going to do it for this edition of kaiser apart with me max kaiser and Stacey Everett like to thank our guests. Switzerland dot com if you want to reach us on twitter its kaiser important to like signed by. The star just one magic bullet you could actually come up with some of the top of his baby bond talk about ways we get access to capital and capitalism couples important so we could actually have programs that actually help folks who want to do that but when you give everybody a 1000. 00 im a poor person im going to consume that and then youre rich youre going to invest that. The wealth the spirit is going to grow because youre not using your money to do it consume youre literally buying more crazy things and then my landlord knowing that i got a 1000. 00 you just go raise my writ so then you get your inflation going on and there. Are no offense be you no longer a young woman in fact youre one of the last living survivors of the nazi. Im aware of it. Well you know i. Mean you can never forget munich i know auschwitz was really like to be in the hell close you would never believe it want to do to as an operating cost free with 3 cheers and most of the. 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