Bud Conrad: U.S. Collapse Predicted !

• This economic crisis is planned long ago by the Illuminist. It is the intentional financial raping of the sheeple in a ‘slow boiling of the frog’ fashion. The sheeple are too dumb to figure this out. More debts have been piled upon existing debts and even more debts are being created. The end result is always a catastrophic collapse. If the 1929 Great Depression is any guide, the world will head towards world war!
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  Bud Conrad: U.S. Collapse Predicted
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  Casey Research Chief Economist Bud Conrad believes the United States is acting as a late-stage empire, acting aggressively on the world stage, lowering its moral standards and debasing its currency. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report at the Casey Research/Sprott Inc. “When Money Dies”  Summit, he explains the options for how the inevitable collapse will occur.
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  The Gold Report: At the Casey Research/Sprott Inc. Summit, you gave a presentation called, “A Crisis of Confidence.” After all the government stimulus from the U.S. and the rest of the world aimed at injecting liquidity and keeping interest rates low, why didn’t any of it work? Why is the economy still hurting?
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  Bud Conrad: First, printing money doesn’t create wealth. Putting bits in a computer doesn’t create wealth. When politicians hand out money, they are the ones who get powerful and the banks get wealthy. The middle class with savings gets hurt. What creates wealth is people working and creating things.
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  Internationally, the Chinese are papering over their slowing growth rate by providing liquidity, but paper money systems will collapse. That is the reality. The global financial system is supremely unstable. When people wake up to the fact that this is a “king ain’t got no clothes” economy, we will see a run to the exits.
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  TGR: It seems like we are saying that the currency is going to fail because of debt to gross domestic product (GDP), not because governments can print money. If governments were disciplined, then would printing money be a problem?
  BC: When the U.S., and therefore every other country, went off the last vestige of the gold standard, we were placed in a fairyland. That is even more important than the debt. It is linked. Debt is the result of the ability to print money. If there were redeemability, the U.S would have stopped issuing debt when it ran out of money. Without fiat currency, the country wouldn’t have reached the current level of debt.
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  No government is disciplined. My question is: “Why are people letting them get away with it? Why aren’t people out protesting in the streets?” Thousands of bankers should be in jail right now. There is an attitude of resignation in young people today that dismays me. Maybe they know they can’t fight city hall.
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  TGR: If we are all resigned that whatever is going to happen will happen, how can people protect themselves?
  BC: A lot of people probably believe that everything will be okay. When we have a financial collapse and people stop getting their payments and they see bankers and government contractors getting rich, maybe people will take matters into their own hands. It could be dangerous to be in the streets because people who are hungry will rob you.
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  TGR: If the bubble has already broken in the U.S. stock and real estate market and is getting ready to burst in China, are there any upside opportunities?
  BC: In a paper money/fiat currency collapse, the things to hold are real assets—gold and oil will look like you are making money. Gold doesn’t change. It is just gold. When the price goes up, the metal isn’t any different. Only the dollar is going down.
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  There is also a moral component to the question. A lot of people are getting out of the country. This is where I was born and where my family lives and I am an American so I probably won’t go anywhere, but a lot of people are considering moving out of the U.S. to protect themselves and their assets.
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  TGR: What is your biggest fear for your children?
  BC: That the government has turned it into a totalitarian state where the people don’t have personal freedoms to assemble, think and live their lives without surveillance, over-taxation and subservience to the state. I worry that my children and grandchildren could be impoverished by conflict, by a society that dissipates it resources in wars that only destroy wealth, rather than creating anything.
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  I also worry about how they will fuel their economic growth. Fossil fuels created the abundance of our generation like humanity has never experienced before. We have used half of the dinosaur remains out there. If we use it all up, then we will have to reduce the number of people on the planet. Now we need to start thinking about what is next. I don’t know how my grandchildren will live in an abundant society when energy becomes so expensive and scarce that we have big wars over it. It’s already happening. Energy explains the conflicts in the Middle East more than religion ever could.
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