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Financial Asteroid looming (1 Viewer)

We need to collect about 2 percent more SS tax per person to get past the boomers. We need to raise the retirement age one year every 10 years to keep pace with rising life expectancy. Do those two things and SS will be just fine.
Social Security is a lousy program that never should have been enacted to begin with. If we were starting over from scratch, we could do a lot better. Nobody is ever going to confuse me as a supporter of the status quo on this one. That said, NCC is right. Beck is wildly overstating things. Social Security can be "fixed" (ie made less horrible than it might be otherwise) by raising taxes a bit, lowering payments a bit, or tinkering with the retirement age. All of these options necessarily reduce the return on social security payments, which are already negative for broad classes of taxpayers, but it's not exactly the same thing as an asteroid wiping out human life as we know it.
Only problem with your guys thinking is trusting the government. If the money is raised they will do the same thing once again and use the money for everything except SS. When will learn that we can not continue to believe in the behemoth government that we now have and that tossing more and more of OUR hard earned money to just watch it be wasted, is not the answer to any problem?
 
We need to collect about 2 percent more SS tax per person to get past the boomers. We need to raise the retirement age one year every 10 years to keep pace with rising life expectancy. Do those two things and SS will be just fine.
Social Security is a lousy program that never should have been enacted to begin with. If we were starting over from scratch, we could do a lot better. Nobody is ever going to confuse me as a supporter of the status quo on this one. That said, NCC is right. Beck is wildly overstating things. Social Security can be "fixed" (ie made less horrible than it might be otherwise) by raising taxes a bit, lowering payments a bit, or tinkering with the retirement age. All of these options necessarily reduce the return on social security payments, which are already negative for broad classes of taxpayers, but it's not exactly the same thing as an asteroid wiping out human life as we know it.
Only problem with your guys thinking is trusting the government. If the money is raised they will do the same thing once again and use the money for everything except SS. When will learn that we can not continue to believe in the behemoth government that we now have and that tossing more and more of OUR hard earned money to just watch it be wasted, is not the answer to any problem?
With the way things are going, we'll probably never learn until it's far too late to do anything about the current system without having another American Revolution.
 
Take immediate steps to protect your wealth . . . NOW!

That’s exactly what many well-respected economists, billionaires, and noted authors are telling you to do — experts such as Marc Faber, Peter Schiff, Donald Trump, and Robert Wiedemer. According to them, we are on the verge of another recession, and this one will be far worse than what we experienced during the last financial crisis.

Marc Faber, the noted Swiss economist and investor, has voiced his concerns for the U.S. economy numerous times during recent media appearances, stating, “I think somewhere down the line we will have a massive wealth destruction. I would say that well-to-do people may lose up to 50 percent of their total wealth.”

When he was asked what sort of odds he put on a global recession happening, the economist famous for his ominous predictions quickly answered . . . “100 percent.”

Faber points out that this bleak outlook stems directly from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s policy decisions, and the continuous printing of new money, referred to as “quantitative easing” in the media.

Faber’s pessimism is matched by well-respected economist and investor Peter Schiff, the CEO of Euro Pacific Capital. Schiff remarks that the stock market collapse we experienced in 2008 “wasn’t the real crash. The real crash is coming.”

Schiff didn’t stop there. Most alarming is his belief that daily life will get dramatically worse for U.S. citizens.

“If we keep doing this policy of stimulus and growing government, it’s just going to get worse for the average American. Our standard of living is going to fall . . . People who are expecting Social Security can’t get all that money. People expecting government pensions can’t get all their money . . . We simply can’t afford to pay them.”

Equally critical of the current government and our nation’s economy is real estate mogul and entrepreneur Donald Trump, who is warning that the United States could soon become a large-scale Spain or Greece, teetering on the edge of financial ruin.

Trump doesn’t hesitate to point out America’s unhealthy dependence on China. “When you’re not rich, you have to go out and borrow money. We’re borrowing from the Chinese and others.”

It is this massive debt that worries Trump the most.

“We are going up to $16 trillion [in debt] very soon, and it’s going to be a lot higher than that before he gets finished,” Trump says, referring to President Barack Obama. “When you have [debt] in the $21-$22 trillion [range], you are talking about a [credit] downgrade no matter how you cut it.”

In a recent appearance, Trump went to so far as to say the dollar is “going to hell.”

Where Trump, Faber, and Schiff see rising debt, a falling dollar, and a plunging stock market, investment adviser and author Robert Wiedemer sees much more widespread economic destruction.

In a recent interview to talk about his New York Times best-seller Aftershock, Wiedemer says, “The data is clear, 50 percent unemployment, a 90 percent stock market drop, and 100 percent annual inflation… starting in 2013.”

Editor’s Note:

Before you dismiss Wiedemer’s claims as impossible or unrealistic, consider this: In 2006, Wiedemer and a team of economists accurately predicted the collapse of the U.S. housing market, equity markets, and consumer spending that almost sank the United States. They published their research in the book America’s Bubble Economy.

When the interview host questioned Wiedemer’s latest data, the author unapologetically displayed shocking charts backing up his allegations, and then ended his argument with, “You see, the medicine will become the poison.”

The interview has become a wake-up call for those unprepared (or unwilling) to acknowledge an ugly truth: The country’s financial “rescue” devised in Washington has failed miserably.

The blame lies squarely on those whose job it was to avoid the exact situation we find ourselves in, including Bernanke and former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, tasked with preventing financial meltdowns and keeping the nation’s economy strong through monetary and credit policies.

Shocking Footage:

At one point, Wiedemer even calls out Bernanke, saying that his “money from heaven will be the path to hell.”

But it’s not just the grim predictions that are causing the sensation in Wiedemer’s video interview. Rather, it’s his comprehensive blueprint for economic survival that’s really commanding global attention.

The interview offers realistic, step-by-step solutions that the average hard-working American can easily follow.

The video was initially screened for a relatively small, private audience. But the overwhelming amount of feedback from viewers who felt the interview should be widely publicized came with consequences, as various online networks repeatedly shut it down and affiliates refused to house the content.

Bernanke and Greenspan certainly would not support Wiedemer publicly, and it soon became apparent mainstream media would not either.

“People were sitting up and taking notice, and they begged us to make the interview public so they could easily share it,” said Newsmax Financial Publisher Aaron DeHoog. “But unfortunately, it kept getting pulled.”

“Our real concern,” DeHoog added, “is the effect even if only half of Wiedemer’s predictions come true.

“That’s a scary thought for sure. But we want the average American to be prepared, and that is why we will continue to push this video to as many outlets as we can. We want the word to spread.”
 
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Faber has been crying wolf for longer than I can remember. Dismissed.

Trump would be saying everything is a 'tremendous success' if a republican was in the white house, since its a D, everything is going to hell. Dismissed.

Schiff has been wrong on just about every call he has made lately. Dismissed.

Who's this Wiedemer guy? Not familiar with him but being lumped in with these 3 clowns is not a rousing endorsement.

 
Faber has been crying wolf for longer than I can remember. Dismissed.

Trump would be saying everything is a 'tremendous success' if a republican was in the white house, since its a D, everything is going to hell. Dismissed.

Schiff has been wrong on just about every call he has made lately. Dismissed.

Who's this Wiedemer guy? Not familiar with him but being lumped in with these 3 clowns is not a rousing endorsement.
Faber gives current investment advice and views when he goes on CNBC and Bloomberg and he is very often right. To brush him as someone who "Cries wolf" is disingenuous or ignorant.

Schiff is wearing egg for the first time in a long time currently as he was saying to double down on gold from 1700all the way down to 1250. That said nobody was taking the positions he was on the way from 250-1900 and he was one of the very few to go on TV in 2007-2008 and say the bull run is over and banks were dangerous.

Anyway - schiff tends to be a bit of a one trick pony and I get some of your criticism, but I find Farber to be brilliant.

 
Faber has been crying wolf for longer than I can remember. Dismissed.

Trump would be saying everything is a 'tremendous success' if a republican was in the white house, since its a D, everything is going to hell. Dismissed.

Schiff has been wrong on just about every call he has made lately. Dismissed.

Who's this Wiedemer guy? Not familiar with him but being lumped in with these 3 clowns is not a rousing endorsement.
Faber gives current investment advice and views when he goes on CNBC and Bloomberg and he is very often right. To brush him as someone who "Cries wolf" is disingenuous or ignorant.

Schiff is wearing egg for the first time in a long time currently as he was saying to double down on gold from 1700all the way down to 1250. That said nobody was taking the positions he was on the way from 250-1900 and he was one of the very few to go on TV in 2007-2008 and say the bull run is over and banks were dangerous.

Anyway - schiff tends to be a bit of a one trick pony and I get some of your criticism, but I find Faber to be brilliant.
This guy takes dumb and stubborn to a whole new level. New article on how long he ahs been wrong.

I find this hilarious. I will soon be proven right. The video is gold. This guy flat out missed most of the greatest bull runs ever. Got out at S&P 1420 or so missing a 40% run. Even if he gets the call right (of a 20% correction) everyone who ignored his BS will still be up 20% more than he is. I will predict that if he gets it right he will blabber about his greatness even when the CNBC hosts point out that everyone that ignored him is still up 20% more than he is.

 

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