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It’s China’s turn to pop a world-class asset bubble and smash the global economy

by Eric Janszen

• China tried to pop its property bubble once before but the global economic catastrophe caused the US financial crisis aborted the effort in 2008
• This week China re-launched the crash phase of its Greenspan Credit Bubble with Chinese Characteristics
• Watch out for flying bricks

Why don’t central banks, and the governments they front for, ever learn? The only way to prevent macro-economic [...]

Ever see a 15 story hotel go up in six days?

by Spalding_Smailes

Thanks to successive years of fast economic growth and even faster government revenue growth, the official debt-to-GDP ratio was 17.7% at the end of last year, far lower than almost any other major economy.

The trouble is that excludes local government borrowing, the current surge in loans backstopped by Beijing and bad assets cleared from the banking system but still [...]

Greenspan can’t believe that Ben Bernanke needs to drop the value of the dollar in the face of the credit bubble he created on smoke and mirrors …

by Spalding_Smailes

1995

-First Credit Default Swaps (CDS) and Collaterized Debt Obligation (CDO) structures created by JPMorgan, led by Blythe Masters.
-JPMorgan leads industry transformation away from relationship banking towards credit trading.  Goal is higher returns without assuming buy and hold risk.
-Accounting and regulatory arbitrage generates significant revenues.
-Shifting of credit risk off bank balance sheets by pooling credits and remarketing portfolios, and buying default [...]

The stats that really mean something are ignored:

by Spalding_Smailes

The infamous 99 weeks has arrived…………………………………What if they extend it.
EU periphery nations defaults imminent…………………………….What if they buy bonds/eu itself.
US Social Security system insolvent………………………………….As people die off they stop drawing, this can can be kicked.
The 12 big banks are insolvent………………………………………..Not if they change accounting rules/did.
Fraudclosure meltdown has only just begun…………………………What if rich uncle steps in/he will.
NASA dissident says unknown forces coming to earth………………link ?
Social unrest is very high…………………………………………………really.
Unemployment [...]