Month: November 2016

Could a “Greek-Style” Carry Tax on Cash Come to the US?

As we keep warning, India is not the “last stop” in the global financial elites’ war on cash.

Indeed, as ZeroHedge noted earlier today, officials are proposing a tax on cash withdrawals in Greece. They’re also proposing only permitting digital cash or cards for various transactions.

The claim behind this policy is that it would stop cash being used in the black market. This is similar to other claims that implementing a carry tax on physical cash or banning it altogether would stop money laundering or other illicit activities.

The REAL reason that ANYONE is even considering a cash ban or carry tax is because cash withdrawals represent a massive risk for insolvent financial institutions such as those in Greece.

When you deposit your capital in a bank, it is recorded as a liability on the bank’s balance sheet. Yes, your money is a liability for the bank.

Why?

Because at any point you could request your money back.

Technically, the bank should maintain certain liquidity and capital requirements to insure this would never be a problem. But if the bank has been making loans to anyone with a pulse for years as European banks did during the housing bubble, and if those same loans are technically now worthless, and if the authorities have been doing everything in their power to hide this fact, including implementing bail-ins, confiscating wealth, and even engaging in wealth taxes…

…then your decision to take your cash out of the bank might be the proverbial “straw that breaks the camel’s back.”

Enter the calls for a cash ban or carry tax on physical cash.

You see, if cash remains in electronic form, a banking system can simply shuffle it around without “losing capital.” Yes, the money technically leaves one bank and goes to another, but given that it does so in electronic form, the banks can BS their way through this via their Central Bank.

However, if someone takes their money out of a Greek bank in actual physical cash, first off the bank has to come up with the actual money and secondly that capital leaves the Greek banking system.

If the bank is already close to insolvent, this presents a huge problem.

Greece is the first country to push for a carry tax on physical cash. It won’t be the last. This policy has been floating around in Central Banking circles for years. The fact that it’s now being openly promoted only proves how desperate the elites are getting about the state of the financial system.

Watch, the moment things turn south in the US in a big way, similar proposals will start cropping up here too.

Indeed, we’ve uncovered a secret document outlining how the Fed plans to incinerate savings in the coming months.

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If you’re serious about making money from investing in the financial markets, you need to be able to read the crowd… and go against it.

Let me give you an example… Currently one of the consensus views is that the Gold rally is over and gold is dead as an investment.

Right off the bat, you know this sentiment is at an extreme. Despite its recent sell-off, Gold is still crushing stocks in terms of performance year to date.

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This is a massive “tell”: people believe Gold is doing very badly when in reality it’s nearly doubling stocks’ performance year to date.

Another “tell” is technical in nature. Investor sentiment is acting as though Gold is dead… when in reality Gold is both oversold and about to stage a bullish crossover (when the 50-wma breaks above the 200-wma).

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Put another way, Gold is due for a snapback bounce at the very least… at the exact same time that it’s about to stage a massively bullish long-term signal.

This is a textbook recipe for a “rip your face off” rally.

Again, with Gold today we’ve got:

  • Terrible sentiment.
  • An oversold security.
  • A massively bullish long-term buy signal about to trigger.

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The War on Cash is Not Over… It’s About to Intensify

The Trump Presidency has distracted from the next major move to be implemented by Financial Elite.

That move is a cash ban.

Cash, particularly physical cash (as in bills and coins) is a huge problem for insolvent banks.

Indeed, it is the ONLY problem they have yet to address.

If you’re a large bank and you’re overleveraged due to excessive assets to capital ratios (particularly assets that are at risk of losing value or default) there are three key issues you need to control.

  1. You need to be able to value your assets however you please.
  2. You need access to liquidity without lowering you asset to capital ratios.
  3. You need to be able to stop bank runs or capital flights.

The Central Banks have already fixed #1 and #2 by suspending “mark to market” accounting standards and implementing QE, respectively. And thanks to rehypothecation, banks can sell assets to Central Banks via QE and still use those same assets as collateral on their derivatives trades.

That leaves #3: capital flights.

At the end of the day, no matter how many tricks the Financial Elites employ via accounting gimmicks and QE programs, depositors can still choose to take their money out of the banks and transfer it to physical cash.

Hence the call for cash bans, particularly of large bills.

The Elites claim that they want to do away with $100 bills (or greater denominations) to stop money laundering or other illicit practices.

The reality is that banning large bills makes it much more difficult for depositors to move their money into cash. Taking out $20,000 or more in deposits when it’s broken down into $100 bills isn’t too difficult.

Taking out $20,000 in $20 bills or smaller denominations IS.

In effect, a cash ban is an attempt to stop bank runs. The process is starting with large denominations, but it will be spreading to even small bills. The process is already underway in France, India, Spain, Uruguay, even Australia have begun implementing or preparing to implement similar schemes.

This is just the start. In the coming months the Fed will be announcing similar plans for a cash ban in the US.

Indeed, we’ve uncovered a secret document outlining how the Fed plans to incinerate savings.

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While we’re on the topic of fake news… how about we assess the fake economy of the last eight years?

President Obama at one point claimed that those who questioned the strength of the recovery were “peddling fiction.”

It’s an interesting claim given the entire recovery, at least post 2010, has been built on fake economic data to perpetuate a fake narrative of growth.

A few key items…

There is no way on earth that the real unemployment rate is less than 5%. Over 45 million people are on food stamps and over 94 million people are out of the work force. Claiming unemployment is at 5% in the context of these two other data points is like claiming you’re in incredible shape provided you don’t count body fat or cardiovascular health.

FAKE.

Then there’s GDP growth…

The US has yet to achieve a single year of 3% GDP growth in the last eight years. Unfortunately even these weak growth numbers were fake. The US’s economic reality stripped of accounting gimmicks is in fact much worse.

The most obvious gimmick is that of using a low deflator measure for inflation.

Let me give you an example. According to the latest GDP numbers, the latest GDP deflator was 1.11%. This means that inflation was supposedly only 1.11% during the last quarter.

At the same time, the official inflation measure for inflation, the CPI, is 2.4%.

Put another way, inflation is supposedly at 2.4% until it comes time to calculate GDP growth at which time it magically falls to 1.11% so that GDP growth looks larger than it really is.

FAKE.

What’s truly astounding is that the “recovery” has been this weak despite the US spending a truly staggering amount of money.

During a period in which tax revenues have risen every year since 2009 with record tax revenues hitting in 2013, 2014, 2015 and soon to be 2016, the US Government has still managed to outspend this amount to the tune of $8.1 TRILLION.

Put another way, despite the US Government raking in RECORD amounts of tax revenues in the last four years, it still managed to spend to grow the debt by $2.5 trillion. And if you go back to 2009, the debt has grown $8 trillion.

And what has the US got to show for it?

Let’s be clear here. We’ve spend a staggering amount of money, increasing the US’s Debt to GDP ratio from 77% to 105%, and yet we’ve had the weakest recovery in US economic history.

What’s truly amazing is that the fake news continues to trot out fake gurus and experts to shill the fake narrative of “recovery” and then is shocked when trust in the media hit record lows.

So what happens to the fake stock market when it finally adjusts the economic realities?

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You have an unbelievable opportunity make some truly MASSIVE returns from the markets in the next 2-3 months.

Indeed, something HUGE is unfolding right now in inflationary hedges. I am not saying this for effect. This is a 1 in 10 years event if not bigger.

Copper just hit lift off.

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Doesn’t look that impressive?

Look at this:

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You are looking at THE most economically sensitive commodity in the world breaking out of a SEVEN YEAR falling wedge pattern.

This is telling us that a MAJOR multi-year trend has changed. What’s coming will be an inflationary spike in which numerous assets go through the roof

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Do Not Ignore This If You’re Looking to Make Big Money in the Next Six Months

Everyone is exciting because stocks are roaring higher this morning.

Those of us who are looking for really massive gains in the financial markets are looking elsewhere however.

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Gold has ANNIHILATING stocks this year, up 23% vs. just 2% on the S&P 500.

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Did the $100 TRILLION Bond Bubble Just Burst?

Did the $100 TRILLION Bond Bubble Just Burst?

Globally bonds are collapsing.

Germany’s 10-Year Bund has seen yields spike out of their downtrend.
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As have Japan’s 10-Year Government Bonds.

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Long-Term US Treasuries have taken out their trendline.

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As have Junk Bonds.

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Folks, the bond markets are flashing DANGER DANGER.

Globally the bond bubble is now well over $100 Trillion. And to top it off, ther’s another $555 TRILLION in derivatives trading based on bond prices!

Another Crisis is brewing… the time to prepare is now.

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