The Meltdown Has Become Obvious

Denial Is No Longer an Option Were you forwarded this email? [Sign-up to The Daily Reckoning here.]( [Unsubscribe]( [Daily Reckoning] The Meltdown Has Become Obvious - “Historians of the future, if there are any intelligent ones among them, will surely be aghast at our astounding stupidity”… - Inflation is getting scary… - “Something has to give and will give at some point”… Recommended Link [Why Your IRA Could Crash on June 13]( On July 13, 2022, the U.S. Government will make an announcement that could radically alter your retirement. Charlie Munger calls it the "biggest danger we have apart from nuclear war." Certain stocks and cryptocurrencies could drop by 80%. The world’s biggest investors have already begun to prepare for this event. Billionaires George Soros, Seth Klarman and David Tepper have sold 103 stocks in anticipation. [Learn How To Protect Yourself Here]( West Hartford, Connecticut June 11, 2022 Editor’s note: The match for today’s inflationary fires was struck over two years ago, but few noticed at the time. Today, Jeffrey Tucker claims the meltdown has arrived — and can no longer be denied. [Jeffrey Tucker]Dear Reader, Americans’ capacity for denial is truly a thing to behold. For at least 27 months, it should have been obvious that we were headed for a grave crisis. Not only that: The crisis was already here in March 2020. For weird reasons, some people, many people, imagined that you could just shut down an economy and turn it back on without consequence. And yet here we are. Historians of the future, if there are any intelligent ones among them, will surely be aghast at our astounding stupidity. Congress enacted decades of spending in just two years and figured it would be fine. The printing presses at the Fed ran at full tilt. No one cared to do anything about the trade snarls or supply chain breakages. And here we are. Our elites had two years to fix this unfolding disaster. They did nothing. Nothing! Now we face terrible, grim, grueling, exploitative inflation, at the same time we are plunging into recession again and people sit around wondering what the heck happened. I will tell you what happened: The ruling class destroyed the world we knew. It happened right before our eyes. And here we are. Every Man for Himself! The stock market reeled Thursday on the news that the European Central Bank will attempt to do something about the inflation wrecking markets. So of course the financial markets panicked like an addict who can’t find his next hit of heroin. Then yesterday the market reeled again when the May inflation numbers revealed the greatest year-over-year price increases in 41 years. That of course means the Fed will be raising rates aggressively, which Wall Street doesn’t like. Also the bad news is everywhere. Even in the midst of very tight labor markets and very low unemployment (mostly mythical), companies have started to lay off workers. Why? To prepare for the recession that everyone knows is in the works. And get this: Highflying tech giants are curbing their enthusiasm too. Facebook apparently got tricked into paying bigtime news outlets to let FB users have free access to articles — no doubt to those that reinforced government propaganda, since Mark Zuckerberg volunteered his entire company to be messengers for the regime back in 2020. FB got robbed and is now rethinking. No more freebies! This might as well be the theme of American life. No more charity. No more kindness. No more doing something for nothing. In inflationary times, everyone becomes more grasping. Morality takes a back seat and generosity is no more. It’s every man for himself, if we can still use that word these days. Recommended Link [Rickards: “Dollar doomsday plot” revealed]( [Read more here...]( Jim Rickards made some spectacular financial predictions in the past… In 2016, Jim predicted Brexit would pass. He was right. That same year, Jim predicted that Donald Trump would win the U.S. Presidential election. Jim was right again! And in 2019, Jim didn’t just correctly predict a pandemic — he also predicted exactly how the government would respond! Now Jim is forecasting a “dollar doomsday plot” you won’t believe. [Click Here To Learn More]( Courting Disaster There was something of a psychological break that hit yesterday morning on the news of the aforementioned CPI. It was not better than last month. It was not the same as last month. It was worse: 8.6%. Again, year over year, that’s the worst it has been in over 40 years (the point bears repeating). Honestly, everyone sort of knew this already in their heart of hearts but there is something about the official announcement that codified it. But let’s say we stack the data at two years rather than one year. What does it look like? It comes in at 13.6%. We have never seen anything like that. And it is truly starting to hurt as never before. Gas is above $5 and rents are more than $2,000 a month on average. The raises at work have stopped coming too. On the contrary, employers are expecting more productivity for ever less money in real terms. Prices have a very long way to go to wash out the paper sloshing around the world economy. Here is the wave of printing compared with current price trends. No way is this getting better before it gets much worse. [IMG 1] Put it all together, especially with declining financials, and this is why it feels like the walls are closing in. It’s because they are. And there truly is no way out for anyone at this point. What drives me absolutely bonkers is that anyone would be shocked by any of this. It was all in the cards, an outcome guaranteed by ghastly policy over two presidential administrations, all enacted by a government that knows nothing about economics and cares nothing for basic commercial and human rights. You dispense with these things and you court disaster. And this is how you get the worst consumer confidence rating ever recorded, which is what yesterday’s CPI report revealed. The Pace of Change What makes today different from the 1970s is the pace at which this has all unfolded. Even a year ago, administration officials were claiming that everything would be just fine. Many people believed them, despite every bit of data pointing to exactly the opposite. Truly it feels like our lords and masters believe that their fantasies are more reality than reality itself. They say it and it somehow becomes true. Can you imagine that only last month, the Biden administration concocted the idea of establishing a “Disinformation Governance Board”? Crazy stuff. It was designed to script the truth to all social media and mainstream media outlets, censoring all dissent. Recommended Link [Famous Trader: “I Can’t Keep This Quiet…”]( [Read more here...]( A few years ago… After meeting with presidents… After getting featured in Forbes, Fox, Wired and even Playboy… This man stepped out of the limelight. Now he’s back with what could be the most shocking prediction of his career. It could have a $16.8 trillion impact on the world economy. It could also give you a chance to get very rich... [Click Here To See How]( The plan blew up only because it was too overtly Orwellian for public consumption. What matters here is the intent, which is nothing short of totalitarian. Politics Is All Fun and Games Until Someone Gets Hurt Politics is good fun for many people, a real sport and a good distraction from real life. But politics becomes a very serious business once personal finance makes the good life ever less viable. Right now everyone is searching for someone to blame and most people have hit on the old dude in the White House, who they somehow believe should do something about all these problems despite a lifelong career of knowing nothing and doing nothing about anything. He made his career as a talker and now he can barely do that anymore. What an astounding thing to see unfold before our eyes, and so quickly! The “malaise” of 1979 was a long time coming but the meltdown of 2022 has hit many people like a hurricane that somehow evaded detection from the radar. The long period of denial seems suddenly over. The masses are fuming in anger. The crime everywhere these days is not incidental or accidental. It is a mark of civilizational decline. Something has to give and will give at some point. The ruling class in this country and their friends around the world have caused tremendous wreckage. There will be hell to pay. And yet what do our rulers have to say to us? They tell us to rely more on wind and sun — Janet Yellen’s exact words to the Senate two days ago. I used to think she was a smart cookie but I guess power turns even good minds to mush. Mush is exactly what they have created out of a once prosperous and hopeful nation. Regards, Jeffrey Tucker for The Daily Reckoning --------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you for reading The Daily Reckoning! We greatly value your questions and comments. Please send all feedback to [feedback@dailyreckoning.com.](mailto:dr@dailyreckoning.com) [Jeffrey Tucker]( is an independent editorial consultant who served as Editorial Director for the American Institute for Economic Research. He is the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and eight books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He speaks widely on topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. 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