#1. America Not As We Know It

A new America is being born as we speak. Not a nation of union but a nation of division. Unlike the Civil War, a battle between two divisions, America will become a nation of many divisions: the ruling rich, the struggling poor and what will be left of a vanishing middle-class—with many divisions emanating out of each of the three divisions. The question now is: is America worth fighting for or should we become expats, hoard whatever money we have and find another country?
I, for one, still feel a debt to America, for she gave me the opportunity to grow and develop without fear of reprisal from government or society; however, it should be noted as I was growing up, this was still a land of opportunity where people tried to communicate with one another and were still open to new ideas. Since I began a career in the performing arts, it was essential for me to find other creative artists. Nowadays, the arts have become so commercialized and valueless that I do the bulk of my creative work in my studio but, at least, for now I don’t need to worry about censorship or government intrusion.
Moreover, that could change in a whisker. Whenever the Greatest Depression ultimately hits, the rich will lay down stringent laws to keep us in place and the poor will either take to the streets or start a massive rebellion. In either case, I don’t think I’ll stick around, thank you.
America is no longer a nation but a land of fend for oneself—get whatever you can while you can get it. Once the entitlements run out, who will be left? Certainly not our political programmers, bankers and CEO’s who will take their money and run. Our savings, our IRA’s, our 401K’s will be confiscated “for the good of the country.” Once I see that on the horizon, my family will seek a safe haven. Until that point in time, I will try in my small way to communicate with those who still believe and work to preserve the principles that once made this a great land…

#2. The Grand Masterplan-Manipulation Scheme

Our planners (the politicians, the Fed, the bankers, the military) are constantly working out schemes to defend their strongholds, their problem being many of their schemes run antithetical to each other: the stock and bond markets, the dollar, real estate and the banking system.

First things first=Government Treasuries…Without a manipulated Treasury market, the house of cards dissolves. Interest rates soar. The Fed is forced to “liquefy” their failing ponzi scheme. Ostensibly, the Fed and Treasury think they can keep rates next to zero so that they will pay little to no interest on their debts, all of which is a farce since they have no intention of ever paying off debt. Their scheme is simply an old bumpkin- country-store trick where the farmer or logger walks into the store at payday, pays off his bill, then recharges twice as much. Eventually, the bill becomes so astronomical, it is time to leave town and relocate. Guess what? When the time comes to relocate, these Fed and Treasury bums will have been voted out of office, will have relocated and left America with riches and an insurmountable debt.

Secondly, by controlling/distorting statistics (GDP, unemployment, deficits, etc.), the Gov is able to con the media, “economists”, institutions and the general public into believing the stock market is ready to shoot into the stratosphere! Weren’t these the very same buffoons who told us for months that there was no recession, then no financial crisis and now how they are gods for averting a worldwide collapse? Wall Street—not Main Street-- is clear proof when we have prosperity again. And…if we can keep printing money and getting the consumer to keep charging, that will be clear proof to the gullible how the consumer is well again. Before, it was dumb debt that helped create the bubble; now, we have smart debt…so long as the great band of Tex Benake can keep the printing press music going. Good luck! It has never worked before.

The third government Masterplan is to cheapen the dollar in increments so that nobody is alarmed by its erosion. Were the boyz to have their druthers, the dollar would be deflated to ground zero but, for the sake of ruling the world as a reserve currency, the dollar must make the motions of being sound. Furthermore, if America plays up how sound her currency is compared to the PIGS currency via the Euro, this will be infinite amounts of “safe haven” time. What happens in the future is of no concern to our Master Planners. Like pigs (sorry to insult you, pigs), they live day by day—on the next meal.

Last but not least=hyper-inflation. Tex and his band are hoping that by creating more real-estate bubbles, those 200+ in derivatives will be bail the banks out and bubble to the stock market into infinity. This will work just as well as it did in Zimbabwe where the market did go up 2,000%+ and, oh by the way, the cost of living went up 2,000+ times that. Because of the lapse between deflation and printing press hyper-inflation, the year’s lag is making all those government bozos look like champs…chimps? (Sorry, chimps, I didn’t mean to insult you.)

#3. Gold and Silver on Roller Coasters

When the Weimar “Republic” turned on their printing presses, this was a solitary act. Not so anymore, as the world’s monetary centers are in collusion to print their way out of the next Depression. What does this mean for gold and silver? It should mean upward thrusts, however…the gold/silver markets are thin compared to the bond and currency markets. Manipulation by naked shorting could last far longer than imagined—until the world currency bubbles burst. The hold cards in this poker bluff and whether the Asian economies will go along with this scheme. As of 2010, it behooves them to import this funny money and allow commodity manipulation. Eventually—and I predict late 2010, these manipulations will create a dearth of commodities and it will boomerang—sending commodities into the stratosphere. Hold on for a wild ride!

#4. Continuation of Crime

It amuses me how, on Cops, they will catch a shoplifter walk out with a ten dollar cake, get caught on camera and later arrested and jailed, while CEO’s who have absconded with millions of dollars are protected by de-regulation. Also amusing is how states can no longer afford to house murderers, rapists and child-molesters and release them back into “Society” on good-behavior.
Similar to the Govt. economic stats, states have learned to mollycoddle the true crime rates so that people will not swarm out of their tax base. Recently, for instance, my family had five prize bikes stolen—all tied down by heavy duty cables. The police were more amazed that we rode top-of-the-line mountain bikes than Sears’s specials. This only invited temptation in their eyes. Better to steal a $10 cake on video than, as Nancy Reagan carped, “Tempt a good child to go bad.’

#5. The Farce of Debt

Incredible how politicians scream and yell about how exorbitant National Health Care is when they are doling out myriads more on protracted wars, bailing out the banks and preserving their salaries. The Treasury and Fed never intend to pay back the National Debt. It is no more than a farce, a political football, Theatre of the Absurd—than any semblance to reality.

#6. The Obama Disillusionment

Obama ran on that old traditional Democratic-Dove-Peace-Harmony platform. Whether he intended it that way or not, whether his “advisors” convinced him otherwise or whether he just wants to play “Obama-Claus” and give everyone everything they would like, it has turned out to be politics-as-usual. Instead of decreasing military expenditures as promised, he has exceeded the Bushman’s record military budget by over 10%, lined the banker’s pockets with billions of TARP monies (with Main Street getting the trickle down dregs) and has added more debt than the past century’s deficits added together. He was elected by promising. Unfortunately, promises without knowledge and expertise are more bags of bubbles. When these bubbles explode, they will act more like volcanoes. Run for the hills ahead of time!

#7. One Big Football Game

What we’ll see in 2010 is the third quarter of the football game. In the first quarter, the financial components got blitzed and were down 35-0 as the quarter ended. Through bribing the refs (SEC, rating services. Congress), the Fed and Treasury were able to allow financial institutions to assess their own valuations on “ass’ets”—rather than Mark-to-marketing. This gave the illusion that the banking system had bounced back, could again float bonds and sucker more of the public into subscribing into their Too-Big-To-Fail Follies. Thus, the markets were able to recoup about 60% of their first quarter losses and after a few falters, we now have about five minutes to go before halftime—with the score Crash 41 Prosperity 28 (as far as the markets perceive—not as far as earnings reality manifests).
At halftime, August 2010, we should have even a closer score—perhaps 44-38, then I fully expect Sept to be a repeat of 2008 (a similar time frame to the ’29 crash). The only way Prosperity can take a halftime comeback lead is for hyper-inflation to start jacking up GDP and interest rates to be manipulated at rock bottom—giving the illusion to the Govt/Fed gods have prevailed!
The third quarter ending in 2011 and a similar crash to 2008 will be ugly and the fourth quarter even uglier. Maybe since the scoring will be so high, we should make this a basketball ball—with the final being around 125-62. What letter best describes the Crash? It’s not a V or a W but more a reverse Y with left top being 1st quarter, middle second, bottom third and back to center and fourth back to bottom and beyond. Have fun playing Y football and you’ll never go wrong in these markets!

#1. A Huge Stock Market Sucker's Rally

77% correct...The Suckers Rally went exactly as predicted, the only fly in the ointment being the phony money released by the Feds went almost entirely to the banks who "reinvested" their loot into manipulating any and all markets. The hyper-inflation was strictly in monetary madness--not in prices. The end of 2010 will evince hyper-price-inflation.

#2. Cost of Living Will Barely Budge

100% accurate--with deflation offsetting the money spigots.

#3. Treasury Secy & Bernanke Will Be Revealed As Impotent

50% accurate. For the cognoscenti and our creditors who saw through their charade, it was obvious that they were foisting on the gullible even bigger bubbles. The public, media and Nobel fell for the propoganda.

#4. Be Prepared For Cuts in Infrastructure; Taxes Up not Down

101% accurate. With California, Michigan, Nevada and teetering States on the brink of bankruptcy, numerous services were abandoned. 2011 will amass an even greater demise in Infrastructure.

#5. A Return To The Good-Ole' Days

77% accurate. Although young people are starting to move back in with mom and dad and people are starting to seep out of the cities, various govt. stimuli have interrupted a potential tidal exodus. Wait till gov. money runs out!

#6. Bank Holidays

50% accurate. Although hundreds of banks are busted, the Feds contrived ways for the taxpayers to foot the bill and, thus, stave off bank runs. Zombie banks will continue to pervade the landscape for 2010--until the taxpayers wake up and realize they are the ones liable.

#7. World Turmoil

77% accurate. There is world turmoil, however, it is still in the stage of non-violence. The world is fast becoming a caldron of social, military and economic turmoil. When the credit countries (BRIC, etc) finally conclude they are never going to be repaid by the debit countries (PIGS, etc), all hell will break loose!

Le scott, founder/director, TEA - December, 2009

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