Friday, April 4, 2014

$1 Billion Loan Guarantee From A Nation In Financial Freefall

By Anne Trimble


Probably, at an earlier time in our nation's past, it may have made sense for Secretary of State John Kerry to formulate a $1 billion loan guarantee for Ukraine. Yet, besides collaborating with the International Monetary Fund and many international groups to organize the loan, the Obama administration is also considering adding direct support to Ukraine.

Ironically, the USA itself can quickly end up coming to be a larger version of Spain or Greece. Today, these two countries that are in the depths of a financial crisis. We are no longer a rich nation; instead we are a nation on the edge of monetary ruin. With a $16 trillion dollar debt, we have to borrow money from China and various other countries to keep our chins up.

US credit will certainly experience a downgrade if the public debt balloons to $21 trillion, and it looks as if Kerry is speeding us on our way with his wishes to conserve the Ukraine. What if the United States placed its money to put people back to work? In the United States, the rising unemployment rate is probably twice the official rate of 8.2 percent.

As far back as 2006, top economists like Wiedemer were talking about the looming collapse of the U.S. housing market, a decline in the equity markets, and a fall in consumer spending because of rising private debt. Today, much of what was predicted back then is showing up through some alarming trends-high unemployment, a plunging stock market, and a spiking annual inflation rate.

Let's face it--Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and also former Chairman Alan Greenspan, left with the task of damage control, have done the reverse. And while the crisis they crafted by recklessly printing money proceeds unrelentingly, Kerry has actually explored the Ukraine, guaranteed aid, and cautioned Putin's military to stand down.

Now, if that's not ridiculous enough, here's one more twist to the story. While the Obama administration is hunkering down with Congress to supply a $1 billion financing guarantee to protect that country from minimized energy subsidies, Russia will probably counter that initiative by raising gas rates. Now get this-because the Russians are the majority holders of Ukrainian financial obligations, the money from the U.S. will wind up in Russian banks.

It resembles the Titanic's captain and crew deciding to play poker while the ship is heading straight for an iceberg. For some time now, we have been talking about obtaining God's money--Gold and Silver--due to the fact that it will certainly not be long now before the paper in your billfold will be useless.




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