Guest Post by Bill Bonner
We’re trying to avoid distractions. What is really going on, we wonder? What is really important, we ask?
Donald J. Trump came to Washington, D.C., promising to “drain the swamp.”
Instead, the swamp is draining him.
The media entangles him in fake news kudzu. Establishment bugs nip away at him like mosquitoes at a bayou picnic. Special interests and Deep State operatives slither around him threateningly… while Deep State heavies try to drown him in accusations.
Business as Usual
We thought “The Donald” would quickly make peace with the swamp.
He has no fixed convictions… no ideology or principles to get in the way.
We figured he’d go along with the insiders… and become the biggest swamp critter of all.
And when he stuffed his cabinet with generals and Goldman guys, we thought he was on his way.
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But the way it looks now, “The Donald” just can’t “fit in.” Many of the Deep State foxes consider him unreliable. Or embarrassing. They want to get rid of him… or weaken him so he is more or less irrelevant.
The Comey testimony didn’t help anyone as near as we could figure. “The Donald’s” fans came away believing their man was set up by a disloyal “leaker.” And the Establishment insiders are determined to keep beating up on him until he falls down.
They might succeed. Or they might not. It hardly matters.
In the meantime, President Trump is taking so many punches, he’s beginning to wobble. Only five months into his administration and he’s looking lame. He couldn’t make any major changes – even if he wanted to.
And Pence?
He’s ready to fall in line with the insiders at any time.
So it’s business as usual. No swamp draining… no serious budget cuts… no tears in the Deep State land… no end to the make-believe wars… no Trump reflation trade… no big infrastructure projects… no “jobs, jobs, jobs”… and no change in course. For now.
The feds control – directly or indirectly – half of GDP. And the insiders control the feds. The last thing either wants is real change.
But that doesn’t mean they can stop it.
Change You Can Believe In
Markets don’t stop just because the insiders want them to stop; markets react to the public spectacle… but they follow deeper currents, too.
Debts don’t shrink just because you can’t pay them. And the future doesn’t wait just because you’re not ready for it. Change happens whether you want it or not.
Sometime soon – most likely before the end of the year (though, recently, no one has lost money by betting against our timing hunches) – the weight of debt, lies, delusions, and claptrap is going to cause the floor to cave in.
When that happens, all of a sudden, people are going to lose interest in the spectacle in Washington.
Gone will be any interest in whether Russia meddled in a U.S. election (which never really mattered anyway). Gone will be any interest in whether Comey lied… or Trump lied… or what The New York Times said… or whether “The Donald” acts “presidential.”
Instead, all eyes will turn to the spectacle in New York. Crashing prices are bound to get their attention.
The Dow will be cut in half. The big banks, considered too big to fail, will be failing. People who have bought ETFs to be “in the market” will want to be “out of the market.” Volatility, so recently like the EKG of a dead man, will begin to rise from the table like Frankenstein.
And then, the call will go up to the president and the chairman of the Fed.
“Do something! Save us! To the rescue!”
And to the rescue they will come.
But how?
With short-term interest rates already near zero… with the Fed already holding more than over $4 trillion of government bonds on its balance sheet… with the budget deficit already set to rise by $10 trillion over the next 10 years…
…what can they do?
That will be the next big story…
…not the Trumped-up battle over Russian election meddling…
…not the nuances of Donald Trump’s “I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go” comment…
…not proposed tax cuts…
…not the withdrawal from the Paris climate accord…
No, none of it will matter very much when real change shows up.
Stay tuned…
Regards,
Bill
Understand this and you understand what’s happening.
The Left claimed ownership of America and all the people within it and they have absolutely no intention of letting go of it, they’re more than willing to kill to keep it and are even advocating it from virtually every level they occupy.
Now get over it.
Understand this! The left is comprised of a bunch of self serving idiots and black lives matter fools. There will be a revolution but the left will be left out, beaten down or shot by the millions of people who still believe in truth and the golden rules.
The SJW’s, BLM morons and run of the mill antifa leftists are not the real enemy that needs attention. They are enemies to be sure…visible enemies…but there’s an entirely different class of leftist enemies out there. They like to conceal themselves and work from the shadows but it is precisely this enemy with the power to call in the military and other power when the visible enemy gets slaughtered. This dark, shadowy enemy is the one that deserves attention and our opposition.
I predict the true enemy will never be confronted because people will exhaust themselves fighting the largely impotent, visible enemy while the real enemy imposes penalties and martial law in the name of law and order to protect themselves. It’s going to take specific, concerted and sustained effort to put the real enemy on the run.
Pogo possum met the real enemy. Us & we are s\he•nemy. So it’s permanent. The cannon fodder builds the cannon foundry. Climbs inside its creation. Fires it off. If only they would just join the circus, instead. But the circus arts just imitate life, don’t they?
The claims were jumped long before “the left” became boogeyman du jour. That’s whats to be gotten over, if possible.
Well, what can we say? We agree with y’all, Bill. If anyone asks us, “Ed, why are you calling yourself ‘we’ over there?”, we’ll reply, “We don’t know, but Bill Bonner does it and he makes a lotta money”.
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“They might succeed. Or they might not. It hardly matters.”
It is never too late to do the right thing.
Hide.
Bonner is right about Trump. However, right now he is all we’ve got. Uh oh we are in deep shit! We have met the enemy and he is us.
TPTB are working on crashing the Economy after about Aug2017 in numerous different ways. Also, The Grand Solar Minimum Global Cooling will begin to be felt this winter. Before I go nuts defending Conservatives, Christians and Rural Patriots, I’m gonna wait to see if God is going to help with a big earthquake or volcano on 21Aug2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVSdNynsNZ8
Careful what you wish for. The Yellowstone Caldera blows every couple of hundred thousand years and is like the biggest nuclear bomb of all time.
And the Yellowstone caldera is late by geological time frames . A true natural SHTF event !
god only watches; does not participate.
Oh, God participates.
Just not the way we men think he should.
President Trump had to be completely overwhelmed once he was truly on the inside of the daily workings of the swamp . He instantly became surrounded by parasites that will do everything normal honest working people would never consider !
My mother in law God Rest Her Soul , should be managing the federal budget . She put three children thru catholic school , took them to Disney World in Florida twice and bought a little camper that sits on a lot near the beach to this day . And did it all on a GM assembly line workers salary . The fact that in today’s America her frugal financial management would barely put food on the table and keep a roof over her families head . Not to mention the GM assembly salary if he were still employed would barely allow the family to afford the car he helps build . This while people with EBT cards and section 8 rental vouchers are driving new vehicles and corporate billionaires are really just the worst parasitic welfare queens one can imagine . The Shit Must Hit The Fan ! The question is when to Duck ?
I suspect that the Fed has shown their cards this last Wednesday, and judging by the money flows after that Fed meeting, a lot of 1% saw their hand. Ask yourself: Why is the fed going to be actively selling their purchased bonds back in to the market? Usually, the fed would simply quit buying more, and let the existing ones roll off, thus slowly building supply in the market as to let it be absorbed. The answer is, they can’t wait. At this point the fed is boxed in mathematically. They either get out of the debt quickly, or things start to blow up – quickly. They would rather have a controlled (or they think it will be) demolition rather than something completely out of their control.
The problem is that, just like when a crowd starts to see smoke, first a few people will slowly head for the exits, but as more and more people start to see the smoke, and the queue building at the door, there comes a moment when everyone make the decision to head for the exits, and that is when the “big one” hits.
The exits are starting to queue folks, and right now it is a trickle, but the fed and Yellen basically showed their cards, and have said that they are now changing course to avoid the forces of mathematics forcing the issue.
“Why is the fed going to be actively selling their purchased bonds back in to the market?”
What market? Who will be buying? Mathematics will out, yes. Boxes, yes. Pyramids, especially yes. Too bad fed chairs, among others, won’t then be cell-boxes alongside Madoff.