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by Chris Martenson

Richard Duncan, author of The Dollar Crisis and The New Depression: The Breakdown Of The Paper Money Economy, isn't mincing words about the risks he sees ahead for the world economy.

Essentially, he sees the past 50 years of economic prosperity fueled by globalization and easy credit in serious danger of being unwound, as the doomed monetary policies currently being pursued by the word's central banks result in a massive multi-decade depression that spans the globe.

Richard Duncan: The Real Risk Of A Coming Multi-Decade Global Depression
by Chris Martenson

Richard Duncan, author of The Dollar Crisis and The New Depression: The Breakdown Of The Paper Money Economy, isn't mincing words about the risks he sees ahead for the world economy.

Essentially, he sees the past 50 years of economic prosperity fueled by globalization and easy credit in serious danger of being unwound, as the doomed monetary policies currently being pursued by the word's central banks result in a massive multi-decade depression that spans the globe.

by Chris Martenson

One of the models of the future that I favor is the Ka-Poom theory put out by Erik Jansen of iTulip.com back in 1999.

Basically it states that the end of a bubble era begins with a sharp deflationary event (the ‘Ka’ part of the title), but ends in a highly inflationary blow-off, (the ‘Poom’).

It’s a one-two punch. Down then up.

First The Fall…
PREVIEW by Chris Martenson

One of the models of the future that I favor is the Ka-Poom theory put out by Erik Jansen of iTulip.com back in 1999.

Basically it states that the end of a bubble era begins with a sharp deflationary event (the ‘Ka’ part of the title), but ends in a highly inflationary blow-off, (the ‘Poom’).

It’s a one-two punch. Down then up.

by Chris Martenson

Executive Summary

  • Which countries are next in line to "go Greek"?
  • Which major countries will be hit by deflation next? Which will instead see massive inflation?
  • How individuals should start preparing
  • Why huge massive losses and wealth transfer are inevitable for many

If you have not yet read Part 1: Greece Exposes The Global Economy's Achilles Heel, available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.

At a high level, the suite of predicaments we face are as obvious as they are serious. 

Perhaps the largest predicament we face is that infinite economic growth on a finite planet is an impossibility and yet that's exactly what our monetary and banking systems require.

Not merely because the bankers and politicians want it, which they do, but because that's how the system itself is designed.  When you loan money into existence, you get an exponential increase of that money over time.  Actually you get an exponential increase in debt too, only at a faster pace which translates into larger quantities.

For as long as debts are growing at an exponential pace, everything is fine with the world, the economy hums along, politicians get re-elected and the big banks churn out profits year after year.

However, when the debt growth stops, financial panic sets in, the banking system threatens collapse, and the fiscal and monetary authorities pull out all the stops in their efforts to prevent these various ills from getting any worse.

What the political and banking folks are desperately seeking to prevent is nothing less than a Great Unraveling.

Their task is impossible.

The Great Unraveling will be a set of related economic and financial crises that end up taking inflated expectations and reducing them to match reality.  Perhaps this process will take years, or maybe it will take decades, or maybe it will take months.  Nobody knows.  But the longer that…

The Approaching Great Unraveling – Are You Prepared?
PREVIEW by Chris Martenson

Executive Summary

  • Which countries are next in line to "go Greek"?
  • Which major countries will be hit by deflation next? Which will instead see massive inflation?
  • How individuals should start preparing
  • Why huge massive losses and wealth transfer are inevitable for many

If you have not yet read Part 1: Greece Exposes The Global Economy's Achilles Heel, available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.

At a high level, the suite of predicaments we face are as obvious as they are serious. 

Perhaps the largest predicament we face is that infinite economic growth on a finite planet is an impossibility and yet that's exactly what our monetary and banking systems require.

Not merely because the bankers and politicians want it, which they do, but because that's how the system itself is designed.  When you loan money into existence, you get an exponential increase of that money over time.  Actually you get an exponential increase in debt too, only at a faster pace which translates into larger quantities.

For as long as debts are growing at an exponential pace, everything is fine with the world, the economy hums along, politicians get re-elected and the big banks churn out profits year after year.

However, when the debt growth stops, financial panic sets in, the banking system threatens collapse, and the fiscal and monetary authorities pull out all the stops in their efforts to prevent these various ills from getting any worse.

What the political and banking folks are desperately seeking to prevent is nothing less than a Great Unraveling.

Their task is impossible.

The Great Unraveling will be a set of related economic and financial crises that end up taking inflated expectations and reducing them to match reality.  Perhaps this process will take years, or maybe it will take decades, or maybe it will take months.  Nobody knows.  But the longer that…

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