The Next Crash: Prelude

Surreal. This is one of the adjectives which comes to mind in viewing economic circumstances, in general, and the U.S. economy in particular.

In the fall of 2014; a previous commentary broadcast a warning titled The Next Crash in 2016. It was not so much a “prediction” as mere observation and extrapolation. We had just finished witnessing (and enduring) two, previous, eight year bubble-and-crash cycles, orchestrated by the Big Bank crime syndicate known as “the One Bank”.

The reason for the length and timing of these cycles, as noted by another commentator, was to coincide with the U.S. election cycle. As one half of the Two-Party Dictatorship nears the end of its eight-year reign of power, it becomes the scapegoat for the crash, allowing the other puppet-party to portray themselves as the White Knights who then rescue the U.S. economy. The fact that these “White Knights” were the scapegoats for the previous crash is long forgotten by the zombie-electorate.

A more recent commentary pointed to proof that the owners/controllers of these Big Banks were the perpetrators of the Crash of ’08. For four, solid months at the end of 2008; the Top 0.1% pounded U.S. markets with “excessive selling.” Specifically, at a time when all classes of investors were selling, this one category (of major shareholders) was dumping stocks onto these plunging markets at an anomalous rate.

Based on the previous, eight-year patterns (and the reason for those patterns), the ideal window for the Next Crash is right about now. Thus some readers may already be asking themselves “where is it?”

Precisely. U.S. equity markets already “rolled over” at the end of last year. After peaking at an all-time record, “margin” debt in U.S. equity markets plunged sharply. In normal markets, this is one of the most-certain indicators of a crash.

However, as regular readers know, our so-called markets are anything but normal (or legitimate). What we call “markets” are now nothing more than systemic price-rigging operations, under the complete control of the One Bank. The means of this manipulation are the computer trading algorithms which now dominate trading in virtually all markets.

The evidence of such manipulation is clear. More than 75% of all U.S. equities have been shown to be manipulated by these computerized algorithms. Of even more significance, there is clear evidence that this systemic manipulation is “correlated”, i.e. it is all perpetrated by a single Invisible Hand.

The One Bank possesses the clear means, motive, and opportunity to perpetrate the Next Crash. Its proprietors have already been shown to have perpetrated the Last Crash. The (apparent) best time for this manufactured crash is now.

This brings us to the surreal element of this scripted theater: the headlines which greet us on now a near-daily basis. Almost four weeks ago; we received this warning from the infamous market-riggers of Goldman Sachs:

Six Reasons Why Goldman Sachs Is Suddenly Warning About A “Large Drop” In The Market

The reason for the insertion of the word “suddenly” into that title is that as recently as February, GS banksters were still in full, market-pumping mode.

Goldman Sachs Says Defy ‘Mr. Market’ as Recession Risk Still Low

Lest any readers think this is mere, capricious flip-flopping, Goldman Sachs reiterated its warning yesterday: