REPORT: $3 MILLION RETIREMENT CAP IN OBAMA’S BUDGET WOULD NOT APPLY TO HIM

President Barack Obama’s 2014 budget puts a $3 million cap on tax-advantaged retirement accounts to crack down on “wealthy individuals” using these investment vehicles to earn “substantially more than is needed to fund reasonable levels of retirement savings.”

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/04/23/Obama-s-3-Million-Retirement-Cap-Would-Not-Apply-To-Himself

JIM SINCLAIR: Now They Are “Cyprusing” Physical Gold!! GET OUT OF THE SYSTEM NOW! Swiss Bank Just Refused To Give My Friend His Gold

JIM SINCLAIR: GET OUT OF THE SYSTEM NOW! SIGNIFICANT DEPOSITS & RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS ARE IN BANKSTERS’ CROSS-HAIRS!

Legendary gold trader Jim Sinclair has turned his sights from warning investors to protect themselves with gold to urgently warning them to exit the financial system immediately, and take possession of physical gold held in your own possession. Sinclair, who Friday warned investors that the US will be Cyprus’d and gold will reach $50,000/oz sent an [...]

WARNING: When the Fed raises rates, your bonds could lose 25% – Do not own bonds. Sell. Move out now. – PAUL B. FARRELL

10 investing rules for the coming bond crash

By Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch

 

“The best piece of advice I could give long-term investors today is don’t own bonds. And if you do own them, you probably ought to move out of them,” warns Charles Ellis, acclaimed author of the classic “Winning the Loser’s Game: Timeless Strategies for Successful Investing.”

Get it? Do not own bonds. Sell. Move out now.

Sound familiar? [...]

Stansberry Research: We As Americans Are About To See A Major, Major Collapse In Our National Monetary System, And Our Normal Way of Life.

I believe that we as Americans are about to see a major, major collapse in our national monetary system, and our normal way of life.

Our government has been borrowing so much money (very often using short-term loans), that very soon, we will no longer be able to afford even the interest on these loans.

Today, the federal government has to borrow 46 cents of every dollar they spend…spending that stands at [...]

Expect these eight steps from the government’s playbook

sovereignman.com
March 28, 2013

To anyone paying attention, reality is now painfully obvious. These bankrupt, insolvent governments have just about run out of fingers to plug the dikes. And history shows that, once this happens, governments fall back on a very limited playbook:

1. Direct confiscation

As Cyprus showed us, bankrupt governments are quite happy to plunder people’s bank accounts, especially if it’s a wealthy minority.

Aside from bank levies, though, this also includes things like [...]

Cyprus – A Test Run

Predators feed on the small and weak … first.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21814325

I preaching to the choir hear but just in case someone didn’t get the memo …

This is why you don’t want all of your wealth in the banking system and Wall Street.  Some emergency cash out of a bank or safe deposit box is a good idea.  Hard assets and tangibles are also wise.  There’s a saying, “If you don’t hold it, you don’t [...]

CONFISCATION: European Leaders Move To Seize Funds Directly From Bank Account Holders

Mac Slavo
March 16th, 2013
SHTFplan.com

 

 

Over the last few years political and financial leaders in Europe and the United States have implemented policies, regulations and bailouts costing global taxpayers trillions of dollars with the promise that these measures would lead to economic growth and recovery.

What happened in Europe today is yet further proof that nothing they’ve done has fixed the underlying fundamental issues surrounding the events that led to the crash of [...]

Impending Financial Crisis: “Great Rotation” Is Over, Citizens Now Desperately Raiding 401(K) Plans To Pay Bills, Gasoline Prices Hit Record And Still Climbing, And Global Recovery Rapidly Fading

JIM SINCLAIR: COLLAPSE IN WALMART SALES REVEALS US RECOVERY IS DEAD

Jim Sinclair sent an email alert to subscribers Saturday, and stated that the recent decline in sales at Walmart exposes the fact that contrary to MSM MOPE, the US economy has flat-lined and expired.

 

 ”Great Rotation”, Over

…as Reuters notes, it was all into international funds as domestic funds saw outflows and domestic bond funds once again saw inflows. As Goldman Sachs’ funds flow and [...]

Is chronic, slow economic growth and rising poverty the new normal for America and Americans?

J. D. Heyes
NaturalNews
February 17, 2013

Is chronic, slow economic growth and rising poverty the new normal for America and Americans? Unfortunately, for an increasing number of people, the answer is yes.

According to recent reports, a large and growing portion of American workers who are having trouble making ends meet because of rising costs are being forced to raid their retirement accounts for non-retirement needs, “raising broad questions about the effectiveness of one of [...]

Peter Schiff: Retirement Will One Day Soon Be As Rare As Single Income Households

from Fox Business, via Eduardo89rp:

Peter Schiff: The Real Fiscal Cliff Is Dollar Crisis! Buy Gold! Buy Silver! Own Real Things!!!

 

Obama Admin Looks To Control Americans’ $19.4 Trillion In Retirement Accounts

Remember that old phrase, “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help”?

Well, it looks like we are hearing it again, at least on the issue of keeping Americans’ retirement funds safe.

The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is weighing whether it should take on a [...]

Critical Warning No. 7: Banks crash economy again. Nothing will change till we act like Reagan and prosecute bankers!!!

By Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch

Drive-time radio. Ominous voice: “Critical Warning No. 6” again, “Something bigger than the credit crisis of 2008 is headed our way. For most people, it will hit them like a brick wall. It will touch Americans harder and deeper than anything else we’ve seen since the Great Depression.”

But wait. The New York Times tells a different story: “Americans seem to be falling in [...]

Market Update: “Logic Has Been Replaced by Fear, By Panic”

Mac Slavo
January 21st, 2013
SHTFplan.com

 

Diversification during times of uncertainty and instability means different things to different people. For most of us looking to keep our eggs in different baskets, hard asset are a primary investment vehicle. As more dollars are printed by our central bank and more debt is borrowed to cover our government’s expenditures, there’s one thing we can be sure off: prices for essential resources are going up.

As our [...]

R.I.P. Retirement: 28% of Americans are Raiding Their 401k Plans

libertyblitzkrieg.com
January 15, 2013

This trend has been in place since the financial crisis, but the fact that it is accelerating is extremely disconcerting.  First off, this is not the kind of behavior that should be witnessed in an “economic recovery.”  Second, we need to remember the huge percentage of Americans on food stamps and/or disability.  As I have discussed previously, many of them also have jobs.  So essentially, a wage anda check [...]

Understanding the Banking Cartel

While at the Casey Summit, Future Money Trends had the pleasure of meeting and interviewing legend in the freedom movement G. Edward Griffin who is the author of the book “The Creature from Jekyll Island”

 

From The Last Sane Person At The Fed: “More Easing Will Not Lead To Growth, Would Lead To Inflation”

There are two key sentences which explain why there is now only sane voice left among the FOMC’s voting [...]

JIM SINCLAIR: GOV’T TO RAID RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS TO FUND SHORTFALL OF TREASURY PURCHASES

The legendary Jim Sinclair sent an email alert to subscribers this afternoon warning that the US government will soon liquidate private 401k and IRA retirement accounts and force private retirement assets into treasury paper as no major buyers of treasury paper remain outside of the Federal Reserve.

Sinclair correctly notes that the practice has already occurred recently in several Western nations, and that investors can expect the same to occur in the US as [...]

Fed court rules banks can legally steal retirement accounts

“If you don’t understand what ‘get the hell out’ means, there’s not much I can do for you,” Ann Barnhardt passionately told blogger Warren Pollock, as she warned viewers of systemic failure in the U.S. financial system, as well as the certainty that American savers will be robbed of their retirement, brokerage and savings accounts in the process.

Barnhardt, the former commodities broker, cites the latest and hushed court ruling in the 2007 [...]

Five Reasons Why The Government Is Destroying The Dollar

By Daniel R. Amerman, CFA

Overview

The United States government has five interrelated motivations for destroying the value of the dollar:

1. Creating money out of thin air on a massive basis is all that stands between the current state of hidden depression, and overt depression with unemployment levels in excess of those seen in the US Great Depression of the 1930s.

2. It is the most effective way to meet not just current [...]

Report – Cronyism, Political Donations Likely Behind Obama, Holder Failure To Charge Any Bankers After 2008 Financial Meltdown

A new report from the conservative Government Accountability Institute (GAI) finds that President Barack Obama’s and Attorney General Eric Holder’s failure to criminally charge any top Wall Street bankers is likely a result of cronyism inside the Department of Justice and political donations made to Obama’s campaign.

Despite Obama’s and Holder’s “heated rhetoric” against Wall Street (in 2009, Obama blamed the 2008 financial collapse on “reckless speculation of bankers” while Holder [...]

Report: Cronyism behind Holder’s failure to charge ANY bankers after financial crisis

A new report from the conservative Government Accountability Institute (GAI) finds that President Barack Obama’s and Attorney General Eric Holder’s failure to criminally charge any top Wall Street bankers is likely a result of cronyism inside the Department of Justice and political donations made to Obama’s campaign.

Despite Obama’s and Holder’s “heated rhetoric” against Wall Street (in 2009, Obama blamed the 2008 financial collapse on “reckless speculation of bankers” while Holder [...]

Seventy-five percent of Americans nearing retirement age in 2010 had less than $30,000 in their retirement accounts.

A 90% cogent article in The New York Times discusses the utter absence of any contact with reality in most Americans’ retirement plans. The numbers do not come close to adding up. The article is here.

Here are the basics. This will help you think through your situation.

Let me begin with the obvious: I am 70 years old. You are reading an article written by a man who is eight years beyond early retirement, as determined [...]

Jim Sinclair – The System Here And There Is Totally Broken

by Jim Sinclair

 

My Dear Extended Family,

How anyone can put any money in a securities/commodities clearinghouse is beyond me. You risk your financial life to win trading then end up with practically nothing whatsoever.

The system is totally broken. Governments are busted. The securities insurance programs are wildly over extended by the fact that their capitalization cannot guarantee what they are supposed to be guaranteeing

QE invents money out of thin air, and because [...]

The Global Financial System Can and Will Collapse Thanks to Europe… Are You Prepared?

by Phoenix Capital Research

 

A lot has been said about the European Crisis. I’m going to explain it all in simple terms.

 

In simple terms, today we are facing a Crisis that is far, far worse than 2008. Before it ends, it is quite possible that we will see the entire Western Financial System collapse and a new system put into place.

 

This will mean:

 

Many major banks disappearing, as well as numerous potentially lengthy [...]

WE ARE ALL HURT BY A FAILING REAL ESTATE MARKET – LET’S FIX IT!

By Farid A. Khavari

 

The most important step towards jumpstarting and stimulating our economy is unquestionably to stabilize the housing market. Of course the housing market will benefit from my economic plan and create tens of thousands of new private sector jobs, which will allow people to afford their homes. This will happen when the homeowners also get the opportunity to install decentralized solar energy systems, which will lower their energy [...]

Elizabeth Warren urges supporters to press Congress to pass a new Glass-Steagall law that would separate “high-risk investment banks” from more traditional banking. “It would allow Wall Street to take risks, but not by dipping into the life savings and retirement accounts of regular people,”

JPMorgan’s $2 billion bungled trade has severely damaged the reputation of its CEO Jamie Dimon and vaporized nearly $20 billion in shareholder value. But will it lead to the kind of enhanced Wall Street regulation many experts have called for since the financial crisis? Pro-reform forces are already seizing the debacle as proof that even stronger reforms are needed. On Tuesday, top regulators crafting the Volcker Rule, which is supposed to prevent Wall Street banks from [...]

Sheila Bair’s Modest Proposal To Fix Everything: Hyperinflation

This one is actually quite funny, although we feel that the MMTers, the Neo-Keynesians, the Econ 101 textbook fanatics, and the government apparatchiks out there will fail to appreciate the humor…

From the Washington Post:

Fix income inequality with $10 million loans for everyone!

By Sheila Bair, Published: April 13

Are you concerned about growing income inequality in America? Are you resentful of all that wealth concentrated in the 1 percent? I’ve got the perfect [...]

Why Women Are Having A Tough Time Saving For Retirement

by Libby Kane

There are a lot of ways that men and women differ, but we bet there’s one you might not guess right off the bat.

Retirement.

Yes, retirement. According to a January 2012 study by Ameriprise Financial, more men than women have determined how much money they’ll need to retire, have set aside money in their investments for retirement and feel confident that they’ll reach their goals.

In fact, a 2010 study found that 92% of [...]

US Mint Sales Show Buyers Want Silver

By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis

The US Mint released its silver sales figures, relaying to investors what was already known—investors want silver, and silver only.?The Mint ran into problems during September, taking more orders for coins than it had available in uncirculated condition. As of October 21, the problem in supplying the market with uncirculated coins has been smoothed out, and the market remains hungry for silver coins of all types, except those closest to [...]

It’s Another Assault On Retirement Accounts

by Simon Black of Sovereign Man

It’s Another Assault On Retirement Accounts

When I was a kid, it was a big deal when the postman came around. He was an important man carrying important documents from far away lands that we could only dream about… and each time he pulled up there was a brief glimmer of anxiety, wondering what unexpected surprise he might be [...]

Widest Wealth Gap Between Whites, Minorities On Record

Washington D.C.

The wealth gaps between whites and minorities have grown to their widest levels in a quarter-century.

The recession and uneven recovery have erased decades of minority gains, leaving whites on average with 20 times the net worth of blacks and 18 times that of Hispanics, according to an analysis of new Census data.

The analysis shows the racial and ethnic impact of the [...]

Future Taxes On Retirement Accounts

I just read this article on Financial Sense from Daniel Amerman. In a nutshell, he argues that future taxes will have to be increased in order to get revenues to pay for our current (and future) debts. He says that the poor have no money and the rich have connections. He sees the middle and upper middle class receiving an unpleasant surprise. Why? They have [...]