2014 Is Turning Out To Be Eerily Similar To 2007
– we remember precisely what followed.
It was the worst economic crisis since the days of the Great Depression –
– we remember precisely what followed.
It was the worst economic crisis since the days of the Great Depression –
Many bankers have been killed. They should be those who tried to uncover apparent rigging in the stock market and in particular, manipulation of gold price. Such cover-ups will not last forever. General investors are ignorant just like the public who are deceived by the mass media. They do nothing but invest money on the faith of stock price valuation by their favorite critics and economic newspapers. The moment they know the truth, what will happen? It would be a frightening thought. I have told you for a long time that the next economic collapse would be so serious that could cause the downfall of nations. Such thing is a common-sense view. Strangely enough, however, “nobody is talking about this in despite of such imminent crisis.”
Masatoshi
Takeshita
April
24, 2014
Excerpt from a Japanese article: Trend of Japan, World and Space – April 24, 2014 –
2014
Is Turning Out To Be Eerily Similar To 2007
(Source)
The similarities between 2007 and
2014 continue to pile up. As you are about to see, U.S. home sales fell dramatically throughout 2007 even
as the mainstream media, our politicians and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke promised us that everything was going to be just fine and that we
definitely were not going to experience a recession. Of course we remember
precisely what followed. It was the worst economic crisis since the days of the
Great Depression.
And you know what they say – if we do not learn from
history we are doomed to repeat it. Just like seven
years ago, the stock market has soared to all-time high after all-time
high. Just like seven years ago, the authorities are telling us that there is
nothing to worry about.
Unfortunately, just like seven years ago, a housing
bubble is imploding and another great economic crisis
is rapidly approaching.
Posted below is a chart of existing home sales in the
United States during 2007. As you can see, existing home sales declined
precipitously throughout the year…
Now look at this chart which shows what has happened
to existing home sales in the United States in recent months. If you compare
the two charts, you will see that the numbers are eerily similar…
New home sales are also following a similar pattern.
In fact, we just learned that new home sales have
collapsed to an 8 month low…
Sales of new single-family homes dropped sharply last
month as severe winter weather and higher mortgage rates continued to slow the
housing recovery.
———— .
Once again, this is so similar to what we witnessed
back in 2007. The following is a chart that shows how new home sales declined
dramatically throughout that year…
And this chart shows what has happened to new homes sales during the past several months. Sadly, we have never even gotten close to returning to the level that we were at back in 2007. But even the modest “recovery” that we have experienced is now quickly unraveling…
If history does repeat, then what we are witnessing right now is a very
troubling sign for the months to come. As you
can see from this chart, new home sales usually start going down before a recession begins.
And don’t expect these housing numbers to rebound any
time soon. The demand for mortgages has dropped through the floor. ———- …
One of the key indicators I follow in respect to the
state of the housing market is mortgage originations. This data gives me an
idea about demand for homes, as rising demand for mortgages means more people
are buying homes. And as demand increases, prices should be increasing.
But the opposite is happening…
In the first quarter of 2014, mortgage originations
at Citigroup Inc. (NYSE/C) declined 71% from the same period a year ago. ———-
Total mortgage origination volume at JPMorgan Chase
& Co. (NYSE/JPM) declined by 68% in the first quarter of 2014 from the same
period a year ago.———-
It is almost as if we are watching a replay of 2007
all over again, and yet nobody is talking about this.
Everyone wants to believe that this time will be
different.
The human capacity for self-delusion is absolutely
amazing.
There are a lot of other
similarities between 2007 and today as well.
Just the other day, I noted that retail stores are closing in the United States at the
fastest pace that we have seen since the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
Back in 2007, we saw margin debt on Wall Street spike
dramatically and help fuel a remarkable run in the stock market. Just check out
the chart in this article. But that spike in margin debt also made the eventual stock market
collapse much worse than it had to be.
And just like 2007, consumer
credit is totally out of control. As I noted in one recent article, during the fourth quarter of 2013 we witnessed
the biggest increase in consumer debt in the U.S. that we have seen since 2007. Total consumer credit in the U.S. has risen by 22 percent over the past three years, and 56 percent of all Americans have “subprime credit” at this point.
Are you starting to get the picture? It is only 7
years later, and the same things that happened just prior to the last great
financial crisis are happening again. Only this time we
are in much worse shape to handle an economic meltdown. ———–
None of the problems that caused the last financial
crisis have been fixed. In fact, they have all gotten worse. The total amount
of debt in the world has grown by more than 40 percent since 2007, the too big
to fail banks have gotten 37 percent larger, and the
colossal derivatives bubble has spiraled so far out of control that the
only thing left to do is to watch the spectacular crash landing that is
inevitably coming.
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