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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: BlueStateSaint on November 19, 2009, 10:07:51 AM
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In a report entitled "Worst-case debt scenario", the bank's asset team said state rescue packages over the last year have merely transferred private liabilities onto sagging sovereign shoulders, creating a fresh set of problems.
Overall debt is still far too high in almost all rich economies as a share of GDP (350pc in the US), whether public or private. It must be reduced by the hard slog of "deleveraging", for years.
"As yet, nobody can say with any certainty whether we have in fact escaped the prospect of a global economic collapse," said the 68-page report, headed by asset chief Daniel Fermon. It is an exploration of the dangers, not a forecast.
Under the French bank's "Bear Case" scenario (the gloomiest of three possible outcomes), the dollar would slide further and global equities would retest the March lows. Property prices would tumble again. Oil would fall back to $50 in 2010.
Governments have already shot their fiscal bolts. Even without fresh spending, public debt would explode within two years to 105pc of GDP in the UK, 125pc in the US and the eurozone, and 270pc in Japan. Worldwide state debt would reach $45 trillion, up two-and-a-half times in a decade.
And then things go to Hell . . . (Bolding done in the third paragraph by me, not in the original article.)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/6599281/Societe-Generale-tells-clients-how-to-prepare-for-global-collapse.html
This is interesting.
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In a real 'Global economic collapse,' the sound investments would be ammo, shovels, warm clothing, a wood stove, non-perishable food, jerry cans, goats, and rabbits.
:evillaugh:
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No chickens?
How about 40 or 50 acres that you can plant?
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No chickens?
How about 40 or 50 acres that you can plant?
Where I live, you need a D7 and Rome plow to cut a furrow, and the rest of the plan is classified.
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Where I live, you need a D7 and Rome plow to cut a furrow, and the rest of the plan is classified.
Probably has to do with line charges . . .