ECONOMIC UPDATE: All Things Are Connected
2020 was the year that changed ever. Power hungry politicians -- backed by a cast of arrogant bureaucrats called health experts -- locked down the world to fight the COVID War.
In identifying, analyzing and forecasting trends, it is essential to understand that all things are connected.
As Chief Seattle said in 1855, “All things are connected, like the blood which unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.”
Understanding that “all things are connected” our unique Globalnomic® trend forecasting methodology connects a broad range of socioeconomic, geopolitical, environmental, scientific, cultural, current events forming future trends.
Thus, for “Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself,” since recorded history the “leaders” have launched non-stop wars that keep raging that have slaughtered countless millions, destroyed entire nations …and along with “big industry” they have poisoned the planet. The food, the water, the air contaminated with chemicals and industrial manufactured contaminants that are destroying the minds and bodies of all living things.
The arrogant, maniacal, narcissistic, pathological lying sociopaths in charge—politicians, banksters, geeks, bureaucrats, the “Bigs”, etc., in a country near you—have destroyed life on Earth… economically, socially, spiritually and environmentally. And if this dangerous megatrend is not reversed, Life on Earth will descend into Hell on Earth.
Besides blasting Japan with nuclear bombs, how about all those thousands of nuclear “tests” that our “leaders” exploded that have poisoned the atmosphere?
And now, for all the world to see and hear—but most are too deaf, dumb and blind to watch, look and listen—the United States and the United Kingdom have sent depleted uranium weaponry to Ukraine to keep bloodying and poisoning the killing fields. But don’t worry, the wind does not blow past the Ukraine borders so all the poisons from the war will stay within their borders.
Making a bad situation worse, week after week there is not only more “talk” of a nuclear catastrophe on the near horizon—be it a Ukrainian nuclear plant controlled by Russians blown up by Ukraine or a nuclear exchange launched by Russia—there are idiotic articles from the mainstream propaganda networks that the brain-dead public call “news outlets”—telling people how to eat and live well following a nuclear Armageddon.
What does this have to do with our weekly ECONOMIC UPDATE?
Everything!
As we had forecast on 22 February 2020, and the cover of The Trends Journal magazine illustrates, World War III has begun:
We went from the COVID War to Ukraine War, to World War III… which began when Russia invaded Ukraine. Again, as avid supporters of Occupy Peace, we are totally opposed to Russia’s invasion. As a trends magazine of which there are no peers, over the decades we published the trend lines—produced in large part by Washington—that led Moscow to launch the war.
Again, what does this have to do with the economy?
Hey all you Brits and European plantation workers of Slavelandia, don’t you just love the sanctions your political clowns playing President and Prime Minister imposed on Russia that have spiked inflation?
And with inflation skyrocketing and the Bank of England raising interest rates that will cost millions of you to lose your jobs and homes, aren’t you glad that your government keeps sending more money and weapons to fight the Ukraine War?
COVID WAR
Of course, with “all things connected,” take a peek at another element of the crime syndicate as to who helped make life on Earth less lovely and more expensive to live: The Bankster Bandits.
Keeping the connections, let’s go back to the COVID War launched by China on its 2020 Lunar New Year, “The Year of The Rat.”
2020 was the year the world changed. Power hungry politicians—back by a cast of arrogant bureaucrats called health experts who know shit about natural healing and are nothing more than whores to the “system”—locked down the world to fight the COVID War.
And as with all the wars of the past, the mindless/and or gutless masses of morons who are self-consumed and only give a shit about themselves, listen to what their leaders tell them and follow their orders.
“I’ll tell you what businesses can stay open and which ones will close. I am your Prime Minister.”
“Go home, don’t come into the office, work from home. We are the Geeks”
“No, you can’t see your dying mother, father, sister, brother, friend or loved one. I am your Fauci-addict and I tell you to put on your mask, stand six feet apart, sanitize your hands after you touch something… and don’t have sex!”
“No Jab, No Job. How dare you not take the Operation Warp Speed gene therapy inoculation—the first ever injected into the human body? I am your Governor, I am your Mayor, I am your Boss…you do what I tell you.”
“When you get on an airplane, wear your mask. But you can take it off when you eat and drink because COVID won’t bother you when you’re shoving food and drinks down your throat… the same is true when you go to a restaurant. When you walk in, you must wear your mask. When you sit down to eat and drink you can take it off… because COVID does not go to table heights. And make sure your tables are six feet apart. And you can’t sit at the bar or you will go to jail. I am your Health Expert.”
The deranged list of draconian COVID War lockdowns and mandates goes on and on. Kids not allowed to go to school, people arrested for giving haircuts, no vax passport, no international travel, no proof of vax, no entry…the list goes on as does the damage it has done.
What does this have to do with the ECONOMIC UPDATE… a lot of everything.
To fight the COVID War governments pumped in countless trillions of dollars to boost the economies they destroyed with their lockdowns and their Bankster buddies lowered interest rates to keep juicing up both the economy and equity markets that should have crashed.
This was the foundation upon which the latest round of inflation was built upon: CHEAP MONEY, and not higher wages as the Wall Street Gang and Bankster Bandits keep selling to the public.
And now with the cheap money game over, the economic damage of the COVID War keeps rippling across the globe, particularly in China… the nation that launched the War and instituted zero-COVID policy which killed the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of millions.
TREND FORECAST: The world is heading into Dragflation: Declining economic growth and rising inflation. Yes, a number of commodities and product prices will decline from their highs but prices will still be much higher than before the COVID War. The bottom line, the middle class will continue to shrink and it will cost people a lot more to buy a lot less.
The facts speak for themselves. In this weekend’s Wall Street Journal, they noted that back in 1985 a single income family would be considered living middle-class and could afford to send a kid to college by working for 39.7 weeks a year. Today, the plantation workers of Slavelandia would have to work for 62 weeks for the same middle-class life.
The bottom line is inflation.
Feeling the economic pain, across continents and across the economic spectrum, business confidence keeps falling as recessionary fears escalate. Indeed, the higher central banks raise interest rates, the deeper economies will fall.
While there will be a slight economic up-tick in the Northern Hemisphere as people vacation, we forecast that both equities and economies will dive deeper by October… when economic reality sets back in and businesses and people are out of their summer state of mind.