Strong Dollar Is A Black Swan [Video]

ackermanTrader/analyst Rick Ackerman says forget about the demise of the U.S. dollar anytime soon, Ackerman contends, “I have been totally bullish on the dollar for years, and it looks like clear sailing to me.  The dollar is certainly responding to what I would call economic fundamentals, even though bonds have been on this odd holding pattern for a while based on a wishy-washy Fed.  I see nothing but a strong dollar because if you look at the global derivative market, it implies a dollar long and a dollar short position. . . . The side that has to pay back in dollars is effectively short it.  So, we have this monstrous derivatives market, and some experts put it at a quadrillion and a half dollars, and it represents a huge short position on the dollar, and the squeeze is starting to happen now.”

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So, will there be a point when the dollar will be knocked down in value?  Ackerman says, “The Fed can monkey around with the little stuff, but when you talk about a quadrillion dollar market ($1,000 trillion), it’s much bigger than all of the central banks put together.  It’s a real humpty dumpty situation, and all the king’s men couldn’t begin to address strength in the dollar.  It’s just going to happen.” Continue reading

Twilight Zone Economics

debtGary Christenson – Assume you have annual income of $60,000 and credit card debt of $10,000.  No problem.

Assume you have the same income but credit card debt of $360,000.  Big problem!

The US government has annual income of approximately $3 Trillion and official debt in excess of $18 Trillion.  This does not count other liabilities such as Fannie and Freddie, and massive unfunded liabilities.  But assuming “only” $18 Trillion in debt (optimistic) the US has the same ratio as a family with $60K income and $360K in credit card debt.

But this is not recognized as a problem because the Treasury sells bonds and the Fed “prints” the currency to buy the bonds.  Debt increases and the US government spends.  Life is good for politicians and bankers.

When does massive debt become a problem?

The US government “rolls over” the debt, pays the interest, and borrows more.  This works as long as global confidence in the dollar remains solid.

But as the world increasingly shuns the dollar, chooses to transact business in other currencies, and uses the dollar less, those dollars held in foreign reserves probably will flood home and create a tidal wave of domestic inflation. Continue reading

Oracle Report ~ Thursday, April 23, 2015

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Taken after an earth day tree ceremony when a rainbow appeared – Photo by Annie

Crescent Moon in Cancer: challenge, adventure

Goddess of Wisdom: Chinnamasta (Goddess Who Expands The Mind)

God of Will: Ian (God of The East, God of The Quest)

Skill: find a key

True Alignment: clearing inner clutter, connecting things, clear and honest communication, sharing ideas, making or understanding something more sophisticated, expressions of devotion, high value for personal freedom and personal expression, bringing warmth to situations

Catalysts for Change: regression, cluttering things up emotionally and physically, naivete, losing sight of a goal, feelings of unworthiness/lack of support/appreciation, temptation to go off track, racism

Sabian Symbol for the Lunar Month: “the music of the spheres” Continue reading

Why Neither Prison Nor Paradise Is Home

Rebecca Hardcastle Wright, PhD – I used to be stuck on Spirituality–Carolyn Myss, Masters of the Far East, Yogis, Kabala, and Buddhism–and I learned many lessons.

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Yet now, the once inviting waters of spirituality are increasingly muddied by scientific studies and spiritual practices that generate more questions than answers.

And in my field of Exoconsciousness, even the spiritual halcyon days of John Mack are muddied.

Gone are the days when John declared from a rarified Harvard podium that spirituality provided answers to those experiencing confusing extraterrestrial contact.

John offered hope of spiritual integration through extraterrestrial contact. He guided many to perceive their contact as a meaningful part of their lives and their identity.

We are 10 years past John’s work, yet Ufology is still deep in dualities. One of our prominent dualities perceives Earth life as a Prison or a Paradise. (Perfect World Paradox)

Can we step out of this duality?

Earth as Prison: Let’s draw the Go to Jail card first.

The ET-UFO community labeled Earth life as a prison for many years and under many guises: Archons, Anunnaki, Devil, Lucifer, Grays, Reptilians, Illuminati, Black hats, and today’s transhumanism agendas—GRIN: genome, robotics, information, nanotechnology. (See Joseph Farrell) Continue reading

What’s Up With The California Drought? Unusual Pictures From RT, And High Octane From Me

CaliforniaJoseph P Farrell – Normally I don’t do stories about the weather at all on this website, except when it’s so bizarrely strange that it’s unavoidable or, as in the case of my 2012 weather report, when the memes running around the alternative community were so hysterically…er… hysterical that they could only have been dealt with by a bit of hysteria of my own (See New Site Feature: Weekly Gizadeathstar Weather). But for anyone living in California and the severe persisting draught there, things aren’t so funny.

Indeed, last year when I spoke at the San Mateo Secret Space Program Conference, two friends of mine and I had the opportunity to drive from southern California to the Silicon Valley area, by way of California’s rich agricultural belt in the San Jaquin Valley.

What we saw stunned all of us, particularly my one friend who is a native Californian, and me. In my case, I have to explain with a bit of personal anecdotal information. When I was a boy, my mother had family in Pomona, one of those meaningless lines on the map in the urban sprawl that is the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area. Of course, I can understand the mentality: Pomonans are from Pomona, and Pasadenans are from Pasadena. It would be like confusing Soho for Kensington, if one were a Londoner, or Queens with (perish the thought) the Bronx if one were a New Yorker. But for a Midwesterner like me, cities, towns, villages, etc, are always to be separated from other cities, towns, villages, by intervening rural areas – farms, ranches, woods, forests, hills, and so on. This makes things much easier to keep straight in one’s head. Sooner or later, Californians, Londoners, and New Yorkers recognize the Genius of Midwestern Organization. (I won’t even begin to attempt to describe my being lost on the London tube. I’d still be there, had it not been for a kindly British lady who held my hand, and helped me negotiate my way to where I needed to go.) Continue reading