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The American Continental Congress met at Philadelphia on June 7, 1776 and heard Richard Henry Lee's resolution urging a declaration of independence from English rule. Five days later, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert R. Livingston were appointed to a committee to draft a declaration.
Committee members urged Jefferson to draft a document for the committee's review; and 16 days later, the committee's draft was read before Congress.

On July 1, 1776, Congress began debating and revising the document that it would adopt on July 4, 1776.
As the debate began, Adams said: "Before God, I believe the hour has come. My judgement approves this measure, and my whole heart is in it. All that I have, and all that I am, and all that I hope in this life, I am now ready here to stake upon it. And I leave off as I began, that live or die, survive or perish, I am for the Declaration. It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment. Independence now, and Independence for ever!"
Like the other Founders, Adams understood what he was doing would be considered treason by the British Empire. But he was willing to risk his life and all he owned for the cause of freedom, as were the others who participated in the discussion and drafting of the document and the war for independence.

It has been 244 years since the 56 brave men signed their names to the Declaration of Independence, proclaiming that the 13 original American Colonies were no longer willing to live under tyrannical British rule. By signing their names to the very spirit of patriotism, the men risked being hanged in the event of defeat.
But they were not alone. Thousands of the signers' fellow countrymen had already denounced loyalty to Britain and taken up arms against the British in the name of American Independence. Seven bloody years after the signing of the Declaration and eight bloody years after the initial shots at Lexington and Concord, a new, free, republican nation was born.

Those who risked their lives by signing their names to a document that declared in no uncertain terms that they meant to create a better place where freedom reigned supreme would undoubtedly have trouble recognizing their nation today. Given the state of political discourse and the tendency for bureaucracy to destroy freedom in order to increase centralized power, the federal government has effectively come to represent everything for which those men claimed disdain in the Declaration.

Only by reading the document can one understand just how the United States is coming full circle back to tyranny.
Take the time this Independence Day to read the Declaration of Independence in its entirety. For a thorough historical background and to better understand the Declaration's signers, read They Signed for Us which was written by Merle Sinclair and Annabel Douglas McArthur and first published in 1957.
Only by learning how tyranny was defeated the first time can Americans stop the tyranny that is overwhelming the Land of the Free.

Yours for the truth,

Bob Livingston
Editor, The Bob Livingston Letter™

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What is the Christian's responsibility and relationship to government? Should the Christian participate in government by voting or holding elective office? Should he criticize government and government officials; or is that contrary to God's law.

Many Christian men and women are confused about this. I know some Christians who believe they shouldn't participate in government at all — not by questioning its motives, protesting its wrongs, working for it, holding elective office or even voting — citing Romans 13. Some of our more conservative brethren would tell us that there is little we can or should do or say in response to an abusive government because it is "established by God."

Beyond praying that our "leaders" look to God when making laws and that they not make laws that would hinder our worship, those Christians hardly discuss politics at all, preferring instead to be content with being "in subjection."
To them, questioning the authority and actions of "leaders" is tantamount to engaging in a spirit of rebellion; not just against government men but against God. But is it? If we write or speak about corrupt government institutions, politicians or bureaucrats, are we acting contrary to God's word in Romans 13?

Clearly, the Apostle Paul tells us there that we must be in subjection to the governing authorities. The passage reads:

Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God. Therefore, whoever resists authority has opposed the ordinance of God; and they who have opposed will receive condemnation upon themselves. For rulers are not a cause of fear for good behavior, but for evil. Do you want to have no fear of authority? Do what is good and you will have praise from the same; for it is a minister of God to you for good. But if you do what is evil, be afraid; for it does not bear the sword for nothing; for it is a minister of God, an avenger who brings wrath on the one who practices evil. Therefore, it is necessary to be in subjection, not only because of wrath, but also for conscience' sake. For because of this you also pay taxes, for rulers are servants of God, devoting themselves to this very thing. Render to all what is due them: tax to whom tax is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor. Romans 13:1-7 (NASB)

Paul understood that government wasn't necessarily good. He had himself participated in persecution of Christians on behalf of Jewish authorities and with a wink and nod from Roman government.

He lived under the Roman empire which persecuted Christians as a matter of course. Doing so, he was also later subjected himself to the Jewish Pharisaical and Sadducaical systems — which again were persecuting Christians while Roman authorities turned a blind eye — that sought to have him imprisoned and executed. During his life he was imprisoned, stoned, beaten and left for dead for defying government authority.

In Acts 22 we read that after Paul was seized in Jerusalem because he "preaches to all men everywhere against our people and the Law and this place; and besides he has even brought Greeks into the temple and has defiled this holy place (Acts 21:28 NASB)," he was taken away by Roman guards at the direction of the Jews and stretched out with thongs so as to be scourged. The text reads:

But when they stretched him out with thongs, Paul said to the centurion who was standing by, "Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman and uncondemned?" When the centurion heard this, he went to the commander and told him, saying, "What are you about to do? For this man is a Roman." The commander came and said to him, "Tell me, are you a Roman?" And he said, "Yes." The commander answered, "I acquired this citizenship with a large sum of money." And Paul said, "But I was actually born a citizen." Therefore, those who were about to examine him immediately let go of him; and the commander also was afraid when he found out that he was a Roman, and because he had put him in chains. Acts 22:25-29 (NASB)

What Paul did here was to invoke his rights as a citizen. He did so again in Acts 25:11 when he appealed to Caesar over his imprisonment, defying the Jewish ruling authorities, who he believed he had not wronged. So, Paul provides us with a perfect example of how we should model our relationship to government. Clearly our example in Scripture is we can use the legal rights available to us under the laws.

To be a Christian, we are to be like Christ. In Matthew 23, Christ told His disciples that the scribes and Pharisees had seated themselves in Moses' chair (had taken for themselves Moses' authority) and they (the disciples) were to do what the rulers told them to do, but not do as the scribes and Pharisees did, because they were hypocrites. The scribes and Pharisees claimed to follow the law and held the people to the law but did not follow it themselves.

That sounds very much like the political class of today who are walking the halls of power in the District of Criminals and in most state capitols.

Jesus called out the scribes and Pharisees as hypocrites in the eight "woes" he uttered as recorded in verses 13 through 29, pointing out their wrongdoing.

The 1st Amendment protects (to some extent) our freedom to engage in speech and to petition government for redress of grievances. When we point out in speech or writing the corrupt nature of politicians and government institutions, and how they have exceeded the authority granted them under the Constitution, we are doing no more than Christ did when he called out the scribes and Pharisees, and no more than Paul did when he invoked his rights as a Roman citizen under Roman law.

As Chuck Baldwin explains, America's is a citizen-oriented representative government, not a monarchy or dictatorship. We have a Constitution that was created as chains to bind government's authority. Every politician in America swears an oath to abide by it. The powers they have they get from the Constitution.

So, understanding the Constitution in that light, here's is how we should read Romans 13:

Every person is to be in subjection to the [U.S. Constitution]. For there is no [Constitution] except from God, and [it is] established by God. Therefore, whoever resists [the Constitution] has opposed the ordinance of God; and they who have opposed [the Constitution] will receive condemnation upon themselves. For [the Constitution is] not a cause of fear for good behavior, but for evil. Do you want to have no fear of [the Constitution]? Do what is good and you will have praise from the same; for [the Constitution] is a minister of God to you for good. But if you do what is evil, be afraid; for [the Constitution] does not bear the sword for nothing; for it is a minister of God, an avenger who brings wrath on the one who practices evil. Therefore [the Constitution] is necessary to be in subjection, not only because of wrath, but also for conscience' sake. For because of this you also pay taxes, for [the Constitution is a servant] of God, devoting [itself] to this very thing. Render to all what is due them: tax to whom tax is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor. Romans 13:1-7

So, the Christian can be politically active and not be in violation of God's law. Telling our friends and neighbors that our institutions and politicians are corrupt is not a violation of God's law. Guaranteeing our ability to inform others of the government's transgressions so they can petition their representatives intelligently is precisely one of the 1st Amendment's purposes. Engaging in political discourse or pointing out corruption is neither a violation of man's law nor God's. And we are to obey the law whether the "leaders" do so or not, as Christ told his disciples.

As Peter said in Luke 5:29, "We must obey God rather than men..."

But we should also remember Paul's admonition in Titus 3:2-5.

"...to malign no one, to be peaceable, gentle, showing every consideration for all men. For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another. But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared, He saved us..."

Yours for the truth,

Bob Livingston
Editor, The Bob Livingston Letter™

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Since the beginning of this year, I have been warning that trade tariffs initiated by Donald Trump would develop into a full-blown trade war with China, and perhaps other nations, and that the timing of this trade war is rather suspicious. Suspicious how? Almost every instance of further escalation was made by Trump around the exact time that the Federal Reserve was also making a large cut to its balance sheet or raising interest rates. Instead of focusing on the fact that extreme volatility has returned to markets because central banks are pulling the plug on life support, the mainstream media is holding up the trade war as the ultimate culprit behind the accelerating crash.

In other words, Trump's trade war is acting as a perfect distraction from the crisis which the banking establishment has now deliberately triggered.
The initial response to my suggestion by a minority of liberty movement activists and skeptics was outright denial. Some people argued that the trade war would be over before it even began and that China would immediately capitulate in fear of losing the U.S. consumer market. Others argued that the trade war "had been started by the Chinese years ago" and Trump was simply "fighting back."

Clearly, the trade war is not fading away as many wrongly assumed. As I predicted, it is only continuing to grow. And the notion that a trade war is necessary at this time in defense of the U.S. economy ignores certain realities. For example, the trade deficit itself was never "theft" by the Chinese, but a trade between the Chinese and the U.S. government and U.S. corporations. In exchange for the Chinese and other trade partners using the dollar as the world reserve currency (and petro-currency), U.S. elites have arranged a deficit advantage for China. One could also add China's cheap labor and low cost manufactured goods as part of that trade as well.
While the American working class got the short end of the stick in this deal, the government and the corporate cabal certainly benefited.

Now, if Trump had pressured corporations to bring manufacturing back to the U.S. in order to reap the rewards of his tax cuts, tariffs after the fact might make a little more sense. With production back on U.S. soil we would have more economic stability to weather future crisis events. Instead, Trump gave corporations a tax cut for nothing. And instead of using that extra capital to innovate or add value to the real economy, companies used the money to continue artificially propping up their own stock prices through stock buybacks.

It should be obvious to most people at this point that Trump has no intention of "winning" the trade war. As I noted just after the G-20 conference and the dinner negotiations with China:
"Of course, the outcome is being touted by both sides as a "win," but it is clear that the goal was to head fake the public rather than actually resolve trade disputes. Will the 90-day delay be seen as "good for markets?" Possibly. Though, the housing market, auto market, and credit markets will continue to crash as they have been for the past few months. I expect this development might buy stocks another week of rest, but little else. As the next Fed meeting approaches this month and it becomes clear that they intend to continue hiking rates into 2019, the false optimism will fade. I also expect that negotiations with China will fall apart yet again well before the 90-day delay is over..."

This is exactly what has happened, though the G-20 honeymoon ended even faster than I imagined.
The arrest of Chinese CFO of Huawei Technologies, Meng Wanzhou, has immediately destroyed any possibility of diplomatic negotiations going forward. The 90 day "truce" set apparently by verbal agreement during G-20 is likely over mere days after it started. National Security adviser and CFR ghoul John Bolton admitted in an interview with NPR that he was aware that Canada was preparing to arrest Meng at the request of the U.S. while he was eating grilled sirloin with the Chinese. The claim that Trump was not aware of the situation, to me, sounds absurd.

The detainment of Meng comes with a host of significant potential consequences. First, as noted the trade truce is likely dead on arrival. Second, the possibility of further escalation of tariffs is much higher (U.S. farmers should not expect a reprieve anytime soon). Third, there is a chance that China will retaliate by snatching up U.S. corporate representatives. This is a development I realize the average liberty activist could not care less about, but the average American will see such actions as a slight by the Chinese against the U.S. as a whole. Thus, the false East/West paradigm is further entrenched in the American mindset.

If this trend continues, the trade war will eventually expand into a war on the U.S. dollar itself, and when it does, the U.S. will suffer the worst fiscal crisis in its history. Without the world reserve status of the dollar as well as continued foreign investment in U.S. debt, what's left of our economy will disintegrate, and I believe this is part of the plan.

Meng's arrest is a deliberately engineered "linchpin." I have written extensively in past articles on DARPA's "linchpin theory," which is a kind of propaganda exercise more than a theory. According to DARPA, overly complex systems invite growing instability, and like a chain of dominoes, the smallest part of that system could be knocked over by a minor event causing a chain reaction that ends in total collapse.
Of course, this is a misrepresentation of reality. Complex systems do not invite instability, they create redundancy, making the system stronger and more resistant to disasters. Instability is actually caused by oversimplification of a system; that is to say, centralization is the true cause of large-scale crisis. As we have seen time and time again with globalism, the more economically interdependent and centralized the world becomes, the more vulnerable each nation is to the calamities of other nations.
DARPA loves centralization and is certainly not going to point a finger at it as the cause of global distress. And so they have created a scapegoat of decentralization through linchpin theory.
Linchpin theory also asserts another lie — the lie that most disasters are a product of "random chance." The problem is that the only way that linchpin theory works is if disasters are created through conspiracy, not coincidence.

A system must be purposely weakened over time to the point that any crisis will translate into a collapse of the entire edifice. Central banks have done this quite expertly through the use of debt-based bubbles, followed by fiscal tightening into economic weakness. When you build up an economy like a great Jenga tower and begin pulling the most vital pieces in a calculated manner, eventually it's going to come crashing down.

So which piece represents the supposed "linchpin" in our system today? Well, any piece might do the trick, but the arrest of a Chinese corporate executive (which the Chinese will consider hostage taking) at the very onset of a fragile trade truce is an excellent catalyst and also an excellent distraction.
In my article 'The Everything Bubble: When Will It Finally Crash?' published in September, I predicted that:
"The Fed’s neutral rate efforts suggest a turning point in late 2018 to early 2019. Balance sheet cuts are expected to increase at this time, which would also expedite a crash in existing market assets. The only question is how long can corporations sustain stock buybacks until their own debt burdens crush their efforts? With such companies highly leveraged, interest rates will determine the length of their resolve. I believe two more hikes will be their limit.
If the Fed continues on its current path the next stock crash would begin around December 2018 into the first quarter of 2019."

The timing of the arrest of Meng coincided perfectly with the Fed's expanded balance sheet cuts. The fed has now shifted from $30 billion per month to $50 billion per month in dumped assets. The Fed is also set to raise interest rates to meet the neutral rate of inflation this month. This is something that has not happened in decades. And corporate stock buybacks are dying in the last quarter of 2018, as the cost of borrowing to prop up equities is now too high. In response, stock markets are beginning to plunge, and this time there will be no significant bounce back because without Fed stimulus or buybacks, there is nothing left to keep things afloat.

To reiterate, the trade war is hitting a nexus, a point of extreme escalation just as the central bankers are about to kill the U.S. economy by tightening into economic weakness. The Meng snafu will be used by the mainstream media to draw the public's attention away from central bank activities and toward the trade war. Everything Trump is doing is helping the banks to hide their culpability for the crash.
Why do the banking elites want a crash in the U.S.? There are numerous reasons and gains to be had. For an in-depth explanation, I recommend my article 'The Economic End Game Explained.' To summarize, globalists are setting the stage for what they often refer to as the "global economic reset." This reset is essentially a major crisis event which will be exploited by globalists to centralize the system even further, into a one world currency and one world economy, governed by the banking elites through institutions like the IMF and the BIS.

The U.S. economy and the U.S. dollar must be diminished in order for this to happen. And with conservatives supposedly "in control" of the U.S. government and the U.S. economy at the time of the crash, guess who is slated to get the blame? I'll give you a hint: Not the central bankers...
In the meantime, the globalists hope that the majority of the world will buy into the fallacy of linchpin theory. They hope everyone will blame decentralization and "complexity" instead of centralization and over-simplicity in the system. And it is certainly possible that the hijacking of a Chinese corporate official will be held up as the domino that started the collapse.

To truth and knowledge,

Brandon Smith

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"The immune system." Boy, how often do we hear this term? Contrary to what is commonly believed, our immune system becomes stronger the more we are exposed to sickness. American Indians died like flies when they were first exposed to common European diseases. They had no resistance or immunity.
If we are healthy, it matters not how many sick people we go around. If it did, all doctors would be dead in the first "flu season." If there were any such thing as a truly contagious disease, everyone on earth would have been dead centuries ago. Theoretically, a so-called contagious disease should kill everyone, but we know that this does not happen. People get sick and die with the flu and pneumonia not because they "caught the germ" but because they "develop" sickness due to the buildup or accumulation of toxins over time. Lack of movement, lack of deep breathing, and lack of sunshine aggravates this. "Flu shots" help toxemia as much as witchcraft does. Protection of life can never come from injecting death.

Yet every year as the sneezy-wheezy-sniffle season approaches, the media suffuses the airwaves with advice to "get a flu shot" and synthetic drugs that purport to relieve the "common cold." Yet viruses won't be able to invade your system if it's supercharged by the right diet and plenty of exercise. If you do get a cold, stay far away from those over-the-counter cold remedies. None of them can cure a cold, and they can have side effects that just add to your misery. Go natural — better for your body and no side effects.
A general principle to follow when ailing with a cold or flu is drink up. Fluids help thin mucus and break up congestion. They also fight dehydration that causes headaches and fatigue. Sip a hot beverage like non-caffeinated tea, lemon water or warm broth. Not only is it comforting to your spirits, it soothes a sore throat, loosens congestion and fights fatigue.
However, not all fluids are good for you when you're sick with a cold or flu. Here are some drinks to avoid:

• Alcohol — Causes dehydration and worsens symptoms like headache and nausea... also lowers resistance to infection.
• Coffee or other caffeinated drinks — Coffee, sodas, and caffeinated tea contribute to dehydration.
• Ginger ale — Natural ginger has some benefits, but the sugary carbonated version doesn't help... put some ginger in a mug of hot tea instead.
• Sports/energy drinks — Stay away from the sugar-filled ones, and avoid caffeinated ones. If you can find one with taurine and vitamin B-12, then you're in the clear.

While you may not have much appetite when sick, your body needs fuel for strength to fight off the ailment and recover. Foods that go easy on the stomach and are easy to swallow provide needed nourishment and can help relieve some of the discomfort. Here are some comfort foods that help:

• Chicken soup — Grandma was right. Evidence shows that chicken soup actually does work wonders on a cold. It speeds loosening mucus, helps prevent dehydration, and provides protein to restore and strengthen your immune system. Store-bought chicken broth is not as effective as homemade chicken soup.
• Honey — Add it to your tea to suppress coughing and soothe a sore throat.
• Ginger — Helps fight inflammation, curb nausea and relieve stomach aches.
• Garlic — Loosens congestion.
• Oatmeal — Easy on the tummy and strengthens your body's immune system.
• Bananas — Go down easy even with an upset stomach.
• Applesauce — Easy-to-swallow treat rich with flavonoids and anti-inflammatory agents, especially if the skin is left in.
• Oranges — Full of vitamin C and flavonoids (rich in antioxidants)
• Sweet potatoes — Microwaved or roasted, sweet potatoes are a great source of beta carotene, which the body converts into vitamin A to strengthen your immune system.

Food is indeed going to be your best medicine. Patent "medicines" from the drugstore are one of the greatest deceptions of our time. They are products of advertising — very sophisticated and expensive advertising. What do patent medicines do for their buyers? They are palliatives that suppress symptoms. They do nothing to "cure" or in any way enhance the immune system. Nor do they make any claims as such, but the public misses this vital point.

Foods and plants can enhance your immune power, and there are some foods that are better than others for putting muscle in your immunity and help shield you from colds and flu. Try these herbs and foods to boost immunity:

• Cat's claw: It grows in Asia and the Peruvian rain forests. It contains alkaloids with anti-cancer activity, and it helps keep your DNA young, but more importantly, the alkaloids also stimulate the immune system.
• Fish — Rich in omega-3 fatty acids that help reduce harmful inflammation in the body.
• Oysters — Contain more zinc per serving than any other food. Zinc has a proven record of fighting the common cold. Zinc in a pill can cause side effects like headaches and nausea. Get zinc naturally from oysters.
• Garlic — Packs the biggest antioxidant punch when eaten raw, but works well when used to flavor foods.
• Anise seeds — Anti-bacterial properties of these licorice-flavored seeds ease coughing, help clear congestion from the upper respiratory tract.
• Citrus fruits — Packed with vitamin C to ward off colds.
• Yogurt — Contain good bacteria your body needs for digestive health and to prevent stomach ailments and upper respiratory inflammation.
• Golden Oil — The oil of the black cumin seed has more benefits to the immune system and total body health than you may have realized. Throughout history, Golden Oil has been an immunity life saver — and an effective remedy for many health problems.
• Red peppers — Antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and high in vitamin C. One red pepper has twice as much vitamin C as an orange.
• Mushrooms — Contain immune-boosting antioxidants, along with potassium, B vitamins and fiber. And mushrooms are the only vegetable with vitamin D.
• Carrots and sweet potatoes — Rich in beta carotene, a source of vitamin A to build strong immunity.
• Dark chocolate — Not the sugary-sweet candy kind, but 70 percent or higher cocoa content. Pure cocoa contains more disease-fighting polyphenols per ounce than most berries, and it's loaded with zinc.

Further, raising pH — increasing alkalinity — in the body tissues increases the immune system's ability to kill pathogens (this was concluded by a study conducted at The Royal Free Hospital and School of Medicine in London). Viruses that cause flu and colds thrive in an acidic environment. To fight a respiratory infection and dampen symptoms such as a runny nose and sore throat, take an alkalizing drink. I write about this in the upcoming January issue of my Bob Livingston Letter. The benefits to immunity by keeping your body in an alkaline state are many, and you can subscribe at the bottom of this page and read more about it here.

Yours for the truth,

Bob Livingston
Editor, The Bob Livingston Letter^™

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There are 30 million trade jobs in the U.S. that do not require a college degree and pay an average of $55,000 a year. Most of them sit unfilled because very few folks in America know how to make anything anymore. But instead of telling people that not everyone needs to go to college and that everyone is making things worse for those who do want to by pushing tuition higher because of demand, collectivists and statists will use examples like this to say college should be "free." One has nothing to do with the other. Simply don't go to college. Don't get a high-interest loan. Go grab a $55k a year job. You can be 20 and making money and work for 30 years and put money in the bank and retire... like people used to. But people can't because they're starting out in debt slavery. As intended; What a scam..

I myself went through four years of college, worked on a master's degree and attended law school. What a pity! It took valuable time and money for me to pay for the brainwash. It took years to get over it. I had to completely erase this education foolishness before I could begin to have even half sense.  My inquiring attitude and much, much reading helped me escape the programmed maze that entrapped me. The many conflicts and confusion were emotionally and financially costly. The brainwash is so complete that only special people like you — the readers of my Alerts — ever get through the net. I mean this sincerely!

I suspect that except for my special understanding of government motivation, I might have been killed in the Korean War. Later on I had a few chances to be foolishly exposed to surgery that could have done me in. Neither my wife nor I have ever yielded to any doctor recommendations for surgery and many drugs. We just politely refused or trashed prescriptions for drugs. Yes, my focus is on esoteric history, government, natural health and financial markets. My findings have stood my family and me quite well. I only wish that I could tap every one of you to join my success and my wonderful life derived from consistent and obsessive inquiry. Well, anyway, you benefit from my letters if you are getting the meaning and spirit of them.
It is my firm belief that you will join my perspective to the extent that you do your own reading and inquiry. If you're too busy, you are too busy. You are not lazy or you wouldn't be reading this letter. The nation's young people are not lazy and are not dumb, notwithstanding that a person's IQ or education level has absolutely nothing to do with their perception of reality. Higher education is higher brainwashing.
Sometimes it seems that the more education, the bigger the fool. Yet young people are coerced by society into thinking "college" is where you go to learn and be trained so you can get a "job." They are nigh-upon forced to attend whether they are interested in education or not, and are indoctrinated to worship collectivism and conform to statism and propagandized with false history and egalitarianism. Federal and State child labor laws should be repealed so that kids who would rather work than attend school can work enough hours to earn a living and help support their poor parent(s).

Steve Jobs is someone who eschewed conventional wisdom at nearly every turn and created one of the largest companies in the world. He said, "What's wrong with education cannot be fixed with technology. No amount of technology will make a dent. It's a political problem. The problems are sociopolitical. The problems are unions. You plot the growth of the NEA [National Education Association] and the dropping of SAT scores, and they're inversely proportional. The problems are unions in the schools. The problem is bureaucracy." (Wired Magazine, Feb. 1, 1996)

We are the most conditioned, programmed beings the world has ever known. Not only are our thoughts and attitudes continually being shaped and molded, our very awareness of the design by our creator has been erased. Few question anything. Remember, corporatist, globalist elites and their partners in government want you to think that all rights, all economic activity and all power flows from government to you. That you must go to college, learn the ways of the state, and be sent forth from the Ivory Towers as a good little globalist. The opposite is true. We are the producers. Government steals the fruits of it from us first by creating fiat money, which must go through the government where those in power receive it and use it before it is debased through inflation, and stolen from us again via taxation. It is difficult to become a producer and saver in these times. Ultra-low interest rates have now been achieved and accepted by the public after a long, slow and gradual process. They punish young people by enticing them through "college loans," and low interest likewise punishes paper money savers by forcing them into speculative debt and "equity" markets where market makers can further enrich themselves.

To invest properly in productivity takes savings. Low interest rates punish savers and thus producers. Will we start making things again, or will the banksters continue to push people into debt while fighting President Trump every step of the way in order to create further decades of low interest rates and anemic growth?
True insight is difficult to come by. This is why it's very important for you to keep reading publications like The Aden Forecast, pay attention to investor psychology through Elliott Wave patterns, and continue to subscribe to The Bob Livingston Letter™ where I try to provide readers with a philosophy of investing according to my understanding of the world we live in. It is difficult, if not impossible, to know the mind of so many readers. I don't know their tolerance for capital losses, how patient they are, or what their cash flow situation is. I only relate to them what I am doing and it is up to them to decide for themselves what strategy and asset class is most suitable. For example recently we wrote about asset protection in the "natural vs artificial" economy, the best high-yielding stocks that pay you to own them, and government financial sleight of hand with accounting and interest rates.

The prospect of their shenanigans reinforces our position that you should invest in hard assets that will appreciate in value. By hard assets I mean things you can touch, things you can hold in your hand, things you can actually see in front of you. It may be precious metals, precious gems, jewelry, land and real estate. Art, collectibles, antiques, rare stamps and books won't have tremendous value in case of a total collapse, but these things have value today to those who have a lot of money and need places to park it.

Yours for the truth,

Bob Livingston
Editor, The Bob Livingston Letter™

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Population control lies at the heart and soul of the New World Order. It is not a goal. It is a blueprint of action. Why does population control have such an urgent priority? The answer is quite simple. The U.S. government corporation is a business enterprise run by an "establishment." It is a unique corporation in that it has the power vested in the national bank (the Federal Reserve) to create "money" (credit). Although the creation of money is a monopoly power of the government, it has to be strictly regulated if the "monetary" system is to work, as well as to survive. It is in the regulation process that population control becomes necessary. As long as the authorities can balance production with consumption, there is a continuous flow of wealth to the government.

It is when consumption (and this is the key word) becomes greater than production that real resources (wealth) begin to reverse back to the nonproductive consumers. This drain (loss of profits) is threatened by a top-heavy and growing retired and aging population as well as all the other nonproducing consumers. It cannot and will not be allowed. Nonproductive consumers are defined as all retired people, all terminally ill, all unborn children — which through "prenatal diagnostic techniques" can be shown to have fatal metabolic disorders — and all who have been in accidents leaving them nonproductive consuming dependents. These nonproducers must be eliminated by whatever means necessary or the system will collapse.
 
For their part, democracies kill covertly and benevolently. They carry out mass murder in many ways. For example, democracy creates war under the pretense of patriotism. Millions of people die and never rebel. It's repeated over and over. Yet the people never catch on. It's amazing.

For the purpose of this discussion, we look at how the medical establishment in American democracy kills millions of people.
Founding father Dr. Benjamin Rush argued before the American Continental Congress:

Unless we put Medical Freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship... to restrict the art of healing to one class of men, and deny equal privilege to others, will be to constitute the Bastille of Medical Science. All such laws are un-American and despotic, and have no place in a Republic... The Constitution of this Republic should make special privilege for Medical Freedom as well as Religious Freedom.

Unfortunately, the right to medical freedom was not added to the Bill of Rights in the Constitution; and now we have the government, medical and pharmaceutical groups working together to limit our health choices. In short, we have a monstrous medical monopoly enforced by the increasingly compromised and corrupt Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which routinely censors truthful health claims.
Additionally, the U.S. Government promotes and protects the organized crime of the FDA by protecting their pals at Big Pharma with the new pre-emption policy that bans private lawsuits against drug companies in State courts once a drug and its label have been approved by the FDA. This looks like a protection racket for their financiers at big Pharma. This is simply outrageous!
For a greater understanding of medical organized crime, read the book The Medical Mafia by Ghislaine Lanctôt.

It seems that the protected criminality goes on and on. But the reality is that even criminal organizations always self-destruct. Their satanic greed consumes them. The medical mafia is now in a state of collapse. It is so evil that it cannot sustain life support. We see Obamacare as the great finality. The medical mafia commits many overt crimes with the complicity and blind obedience of doctors. A big example is mass vaccination and immunizations. These billions of poison toxins certainly are big factors in population control. The evils of vaccinations and immunizations have delayed manifestations, except for some immediate deaths and disabilities. The point is that the years between vaccinations and immunizations blurs cause and effect so that the public never sees the deadly harm of these medical mafia inoculations. It is a crime evolving imperceptibly and subclinically.

"Heart disease" is the big, big crime of the medical mafia that not one in 10 million people suspects. If there has ever been worldwide murder incorporated, this is it. There is such a labyrinth of lies spun around the mystique of heart disease that it has been bound up for ages in "the No. 1 cause of death." The phenomenon of heart disease is concealed under sub-rosa and subclinical. This means that modern medical science cannot detach cause and effect of heart disease. The medical mafia has built a huge financial empire out of and on fictions like cholesterol and open-heart surgery. The only success they have achieved is in the favor of a multibillion-dollar medical monopoly. The cause of heart disease goes back to the milling industry and their milling of refined, bleached white flour that was devoid of nutrition.

Why was this a terrible turn for Americans' health? Because leptin and ghrelin, the hunger hormones, tell you whether you're full or empty. The signal that you're full is sent when leptin notifies your brain that you have eaten something containing nutrients (usually transported by fat). When you eat foods based on bleached flour, the brain never gets the full signal, you keep eating, and those carbs turn into blood sugar which in turn causes heart disease. The medical advice that eggs for breakfast and steak and vegetables for dinner will kill you because of cholesterol was and is hokum. The government-directed switch to cereal for breakfast and massive portions of pasta and breads for lunch and dinner — to benefit Big Agra, which is the government's mandate — has caused our current disease state.

Harvey Wiley, the first U.S. head of the FDA, outlawed the 
bleaching of flour. He knew that bleached flour was devoid of nutrition. This was challenged all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that flour could not be bleached or adulterated in any way. But this was never enforced. Wiley fought Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson and President Theodore Roosevelt over food policy and regulation. Wiley believed that adulterated foods posed a greater harm to Americans than adulterated or misbranded drugs. When Wiley finally quit the FDA out of frustration in 1912, he was replaced by Dr. Elmer Nelson, who claimed: "It is wholly unscientific to state that a well-fed body is more able to resist disease than a poorly fed body. My overall opinion is that there hasn't been enough experimentation to prove that dietary deficiencies make one susceptible to disease." The proliferation of FDA-approved processed and genetically modified foods indicates this philosophy lives on at the FDA. That's why the United States is suffering from full-belly starvation and an obesity epidemic and an epidemic of disease. It is the covert method of population control.

Yours for the truth,

Bob Livingston
Editor, The Bob Livingston Letter™

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When the federal government, or as we call it, the state, can create money and pay it to you for goods and your labor, you are a slave. You may be a happy slave, but you are indeed a slave to the money creators.
Yet that is exactly the system being promoted by prominent Democrats and supported by both Democrat and Republican voters alike.
Last spring the leftist rag The Nation commissioned a poll  to determine whether Democrats should run on a platform to guarantee jobs for everyone. They asked pollsters to frame the question in a "way that would be most likely to gain opposition from voters." The question was framed as follows:
"Democrats in congress are proposing a bill which would guarantee a job to every American adult, with the government providing jobs for people who can’t find employment in the private sector. This would be paid for by a 5 percent income tax increase on those making over $200,000 per year. Would you be for or against this policy?"
Pollsters found the results stunning. "Even with explicit partisan framing and the inclusion of revenue in the wording, this is one of the most popular issues we’ve ever polled," said David Shor, a senior data scientist at Civis Analytics.
They learned that 52 percent of those polled supported a job guarantee plan. Only 29 percent opposed it. The rest were undecided.
To no one’s surprise, those who had voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 were for it by a margin of 69 percent versus 16 percent opposed. Of those who voted for Donald Trump, 32 percent supported it. A majority of blacks (62 percent) and Latinos (55 percent) also support a federal job plan.
It’s a mystery as to why the pollsters found the poll results "stunning." Given the framing of the question and massive collectivist propaganda of the last 50-plus years, such a result should have been a given. Neither Democrats nor Republicans can ever say "no" to communism. They are taught from early on that government is the be all and end all. In school they are steeped in state worship and most kids today receive two meals (or more) provided by the state.
They are taught to hate the rich and envy their wealth. They’ve been pampered and presented with a pseudo-history that glosses over the millions of deaths and massive human misery caused by collectivist totalitarian systems.
Senators Kirsten Gillibrand, Cory Booker and Bernie Sanders; and new Democrat darling and House candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York have all proposed a federal jobs guarantee and high minimum wage.
"Guaranteed jobs programs, creating floors for wages and benefits, and expanding the right to collectively bargain are exactly the type of roles that government must take to shift power back to workers and our communities," Gillibrand told The Nation. "Corporate interests have controlled the agenda in Washington for decades so we can’t tinker at the margins and expect to rebuild the middle class and stamp out inequality. We need to get back to an economy that rewards workers, not just shareholder value and CEO pay."
The American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) recently completed a study of a guaranteed jobs program as envisioned by collectivist politicians. The study focused on two prominent jobs guarantee programs designed by leftist think tanks and currently under consideration as a policy platform by Democrat presidential contenders mulling a run in 2020: one by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP report) and the other by the Levy Economics Institute (Levy report).
The jobs plans would cover 10 million to 17 million workers. The plans differ in wage guarantees — the CBPP plan suggests different wages based on skills, performance, geographic region and tenure while the Levy plan sets a $15 wage for all enrollees — but they are similar in the following respects:

• Mandating the acceptance of any adult American, on demand, for an indefinite length of time.
• Paying an average wage around $15 per hour, for both part- and full-time options.
• Providing health insurance and other benefits.
• Projecting enrollment of more than 10 million workers.
• Relying most of the time on states and especially local governments to create and assign work to individual participants.
• Broadly highlighting infrastructure, education, health, the environment, and culture as areas of work for enrollees.
• Assigning work to participants via government-run offices using a database or "job bank."
• Attempting to avoid crowding out work already being done in the private, public and nonprofit sectors.

Under the CBPP report, the average cost for each worker would be $56,000 per year in wages, benefits and capital expenditures. Under the Levy report, the cost of each worker would be $36,192 in wages, benefits and capital expenditures. The annual cost, according to AIER, would be $543.2 billion for the CBPP report plan and $611.7 billion to $840.6 billion (depending upon the number of workers covered) under the Levy report plan.
Both plans would funnel millions of dollars into large federal and state bureaucracies to manage the program. They would also distort the labor market and wages. Additionally, they would disincentivize workers from acquiring advanced job skills that would result in real, value-enhancing job creation in the private labor market, locking workers into low-end dead-end jobs.
Nor do they address what is going to motivate workers to perform menial tasks beyond a rudimentary level if there is no incentive for them to do so.  History has shown that in communist/socialist systems in which people were assigned jobs, those tasks eventually were done poorly and inefficiently if they were done at all.
The U.S. already leads the world in our lazy and don’t care work ethic. Very few people really work anymore. Nor do many want to take responsibility for their welfare, choosing instead to rely on the state for sustenance and succor. Voters and politicians embrace Social Security, Medicare and its expansions, Medicaid, No Child Left Behind, a greater regulatory state and most parts of Obamacare. There is no stomach among even the most "conservative" Americans for cutting social and corporate welfare programs.
The Nation’s proposal of a tax increase aside, neither plan makes mention of how an additional budget item that equals or exceed the Pentagon’s 2018 budget will be paid for.
The answer, of course is through money creation. Collectivist systems are not possible without fiat money. And on top of that comes heavy progressive taxation. The system cannot survive unless the volume of money is regulated through taxation.
Collectivism and fiat money both thrive on the darkest sins of man’s heart: greed and guilt manipulation. Fiat money appeals to the greed of men by asserting that it is possible to be wealthy without hard work and creativity — that one can create wealth merely by accumulating paper that has been arbitrarily numbered and assigned a fictitious value. Hence its allure to the pampered and deceived public. And this is the allure of guaranteed jobs programs.
Collectivist systems, whether they are called democracy, socialism, communism or fascism, are philosophies of envy. When one sees something another has and decides he wants it,  rather than earn it on his own merits he wants the power of government to take it and either give it to him or redistribute it to the masses. Often the collectivist doesn’t want that something for himself as much as he doesn’t want someone else to have it.
Collectivism is also a philosophy of racism, weakness, ineptitude and collectivism in that it assumes one gained what he has by way of special privilege not afforded everyone if they are of a different race or creed or social standing; and that one cannot obtain a thing or advance economically without the assistance of government or the collective.
It is a disguised system of stealing the wealth and production of the producers of wealth with spurious laws under the legitimacy of the vote. Stealing or taking from producers and transferring it to nonproducers is very sophisticated and concealed class warfare.
Collectivist systems, as they grow and mature, require strong, authoritarian police state backing to enforce the myriad laws needed to make them work and steal the wealth and property from individuals for distribution to the state. They are anathema to human liberty and a concealed form of slavery.

Yours for the truth,

Bob Livingston
Editor, The Bob Livingston Letter™

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The United States was founded on the republican principles of federalism (states' rights) and representative government. Today's government is "constitutional" in name only.
National politicians and the federal judiciary have no fealty to the Constitution. They give it lip service. Some — Republicans, at least — claim to support it and run on it, but then when elected immediately vote to cede congress' lawmaking authority to the imperial president and the myriad alphabet soup agencies of government. Now we have the IRS, the FCC, the EPA, HHS, the Department of Energy, the Department of Homeland Security, the FDA, the USDA, etc., writing and enforcing laws under the guise of "regulatory authority." The result is a contemptible abuse of the people by agents of the federal government, rising taxes and fees, closed businesses, stifled innovation, and depressed economic growth.

But few are those in government who consider the Constitution at all. That's because politics and government attract psychopaths, liars and thieves. It attracts people who are parasitic in nature, greedy and without conscience. In short, these are people who have the born mentality to live off of other people. They are selfish and attracted to money and power. Therefore, they are easily swayed and even bought by the corporatists and banksters; and their every act is to increase their and their agency's power and sphere of influence.


The masses of people have been propagandized by the state-controlled media and the public (non)education system into believing that government is designed and tasked with looking out for the best interests of the people. But nothing could be further from the truth. They have little knowledge of the Constitution and little concept of limited government, and they believe government can and should be all things to all people… particularly if a check to them from the federal Treasury is involved.
The so-called regulatory agencies of government are typically staffed at the top by crony capitalists and lobbyists for the industries they supposedly regulate. As such, they write rules and regulations that benefit preferred large multinational corporations and government at the expense of the people.
As Benito Mussolini stated, "Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power" and "The definition of fascism is the marriage of corporation and state." That exactly explains what our former constitutional republic has become. It is benevolent totalitarianism, tyranny under the guise of democracy. But the truth is democracy = socialism = fascism = communism. They are one in the same.
Mussolini also said of his fascism, "We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty," and that is likewise the goal of the American fascist politician and federal bureaucrat. Liberty necessarily perishes under collectivism, egalitarianism and government altruism.
Republican voters are well-versed in having the party's elite slap them around. Like a battered spouse who continues to return home, Republican voters believe tomorrow will be different. "He loves me, after all," they tell themselves.
Republican voters vote — or at least think they vote — for small government, fiscal responsibility and safety at home but get massive spending bills more government bureaucracy and more wars abroad.
True conservatives reject statism, embrace small government and abhor confiscatory taxes. Conservatives believe in a strong military for the Nation's defense (not military adventurism). Conservatives advocate liberty and personal responsibility. The Republican Party is now ruled by CINOs (conservatives in name only). I have been telling you this for a long time.

We must come to terms with the fact that voting for more Republicans to send to Washington will not change the status quo. Who remembers how big and how fast government grew under the "compassionate conservative" George W. Bush when he had a Republican Congress? In seven years under Bush, federal spending jumped from $1.86 trillion in 2001 to $2.98 trillion in 2008, a jump of 60 percent or a growth rate of 7 percent. Bush and Republicans gave us No Child Left Behind, the USA Patriot Act, the Department of Homeland Security, perpetual war and bailouts. Those measures are certainly not conservative by any stretch of the imagination.

The current crop of Republicans are giving us massive spending bills that would make Barack Obama blush. His 8-year spending barrage pales in comparison to what the Republicans have unleashed on the American people. It is a bad day for America's economic house when Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (Communist-New York) cheers that America's "era of austerity" has "come to an end," as he did last March. The Republican spending barrage has continued into the fall.

So what is the good Republican voter to do — especially with the midterm elections looming?
Though it is certainly no guarantee for success, Republican voters should concentrate on finding candidates for state and local elections who will uphold the Constitution they swear to uphold and who are willing to take a bold stand for state's rights and against federal tyranny. It's at the state level that nullification of unconstitutional federal laws is to take place, as outlined by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson in the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions in 1789.

If you feel you must take on national issues, push for term limits and the repeal of the 16th and 17th Amendments which would end the unconstitutional income tax system and necessarily end the Federal Reserve, and restore selection of senators to the states where the Founders intended. A return to sound money and republicanism is what will save the nation.

Gradualism — the glacial move away from federalism led by national politicians who used and continue to use the Federal Treasury to buy votes and reward crony corporations and intrude into state issues, and used by an activist federal judiciary — has turned republicanism on its head and into a fascist system of tyranny and oppression. To peacefully restore constitutional governance will be a gradual and difficult process, and its probability of success remains in doubt.
But it starts with you. No national politicians will do this for you.

Yours for the truth,

Bob Livingston
Editor, The Bob Livingston Letter™

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Economic collapse is not an event — it is a process. I've been saying this since the 2008 crash, and I suppose I will keep saying until it burns into people's minds because I don't think that it is a widely understood concept. When alternative analysts talk about financial collapse, we are not talking about something that suddenly happens out of the blue, we are talking about an ongoing decline that occurs in stages. This decline is happening today in the U.S. and around the world, and it has been accelerating since the chaos of 2008. When we bring up the reality of collapse, we are referring to something that is happening now, not something waiting on the distant horizon.
The reason why some analysts can see it and others cannot is most likely due to the delusions surrounding market bubbles. These fiscal fantasy worlds are artificially created by central bank intervention and represent and attempt to mislead the populace on the true health of the system — for a limited time. Analysts with foresight see beyond the false data of the bubble to the core economic reality; other people see only the bubble and nothing else.
When it comes to stock markets, bond markets, forex markets and the general casino economy, much of the public has a terrible inability to look beyond the next month let alone the next year. If the markets look good now, the assumption is that they will always be good. If the central banks have intervened for the past 10 years, the assumption is they will intervene for the next 10 years.
There is no accounting for why the bubble exists in the first place. That is to say, most people including most economists do not consider that these bubbles serve a particular purpose for the banking elites and that this purpose has an expiration date. All bubbles collapse, and the reasons why they collapse are observable and predictable.
Still, the delusion persists that all this talk of "collapse" is simply "doom and gloom," an event that might happen many years or decades from now, but it's certainly not a threat taking place right in front of our faces. I attribute this fallacy to several popular misconceptions and propaganda arguments, and here they are in no particular order...

Fallacy #1: Central banks will continue to prop up markets indefinitely

The newest generation of market traders and economists were still in high school and college when the 2008 crash hit equities. For the entirety of their careers, they have seen nothing but an artificial economy supported by ongoing stimulus from central banks. They know nothing else and know little of history and thus they cannot fathom the possibility that central banks will one day pull the plug on their fiat life support.
The problem is that 10 years of stimulus is nothing more than a mild pause in the process of fiscal collapse of a civilization. In fact, the economic decline of nations could be represented as a series of imploding bubbles; each one lasting perhaps a decade, leading to more power and control for central banks and less prosperity for everyone else.

Anyone examining the history of recessions and depressions in the U.S. since the inception of the Federal Reserve in 1913 can easily see a steady pattern of artificially inflated asset values followed by pervasive downturns that siphon wealth from the middle class. This wealth never returns in full. Each new downturn cripples the financial independence of the citizenry a little more, while international banks absorb more and more hard assets.
What mainstream economists don't seem to grasp is that central banks and international banks are always positioned to benefit from the crash of the bubbles they create. It is the reason why they inflated the bubbles from the very beginning. Central banks are not afraid to allow markets to plummet, they want markets to plummet. The banks simply want to be sure they are set up for optimum benefit when they do crash.

Fallacy #2: Central banks will never stop stimulus measures

I'm not sure why this fantasy persists despite all evidence to the contrary, but it does. Even today, I still receive letters from people arguing that the Fed will "never" end stimulus, never raise interest rates and never cut their balance sheet. Yet, this is exactly what is happening.
I heard the same arguments years ago in 2013 when I predicted that the Fed would in fact taper QE. I heard them in 2015 when I predicted that the Fed would raise interest rates. And I have heard them for the past year after I predicted the Fed would continue cutting assets from their balance sheet.
There are some people that might claim that there is no way for us to know if the Fed is actually cutting off stimulus to the economy because we have no way to audit their activities. While it is true that we do not have access to their legitimate records, only those they release to the public, we can see the affects that their policies produce. Meaning, it is obvious that the Fed is in fact cutting support to the markets given the behavior of those markets the past year.
Emerging market stocks are crashing as the Fed announces continuing balance sheet cuts. Treasury yields are spiking at historic rates and interest costs are rising on everything from car loans to mortgage loans as the Fed increases interest rates. Foreign investment in U.S. Treasurys (or lack of investment) has become a major point of concern because QE support for T-bonds is gone. Massive corporate debt loads not seen since 2007/2008 are becoming more expensive as interest rates expand.
This month Fed Chairman Jerome Powell ended all speculation on the matter when he indicated that the Fed would not only continue raising rates up to the neutral rate (where interest meets inflation), but that they could continue raising rates well beyond that. The blind faith based market is truly over.
All evidence suggests that fiscal tightening is indeed happening. Some people refuse to see it because their biases prevent them from doing so. Perhaps they are heavily invested in U.S. stocks and don't want to believe that the party is over. Perhaps they are incapable of admitting when they are wrong. It is hard to say. They argued for years that the Fed would never take the punch bowl away and they have been proven incorrect, but until they suffer direct consequences to their pocketbooks, they will not accept reality.

Fallacy #3: The Fed will return to stimulus Japanese-style

This is a very common claim designed to build false hope in markets. Bull rally hucksters and their followers has become so used to the easy life of "BTFD!" (Buy The F#$&ing Dip!) that they will apply any rationalization no matter how absurd in order to keep the fantasy going.
The claim is that because Japan's stimulus measures have been "successful" in keeping their markets afloat for at least two decades, this is the most likely strategy for the Fed and other central banks as well. What these people have not considered, though, is the speed at which Japan's central bank bought up assets versus the speed that the Fed bought up assets.
The Bank of Japan's balance sheet reached around $4.7 trillion (U.S.) at its peak, and as mentioned, this took decades of accumulation. The Fed's balance sheet hit $4.5 trillion in the span of only eight-10 years.
There is a point at which asset purchases and stimulus simply do not have the same effect on markets as they did when those purchases began. Debt starts to weigh heavily on further market gains over time. There is a reason why the Fed is choosing to implode the bubble now — time is running out and they want a controlled demolition rather that a crash with a mind of its own.
The printing press is not magical; the basic rules of economics and mathematics still apply.
I've also heard the argument that because US GDP is so much larger than Japan's, comparing their central bank balance sheets is "not practical." Meaning, the U.S. has a larger GDP, therefore the Fed should be able to increase its balance sheet much further than Japan has. This claim obviously relies on the notion that "GDP" as it is calculated today is an accurate measure of how much debt burden a nation can carry.
If you consider Japan's manufacturing capability alone, the U.S. with all it's outsourcing pales in comparison in terms of economic resiliency. If you also consider that every time the government spends tax dollars these programs are often added to GDP as a form of "production" (this includes Obamacare), then the idea of GDP becomes a joke. The point being, it does not matter how healthy a nation's GDP appears to be, their central bank can only create so much debt before it begins to drag down the core economy. The Fed has reached that limit.

Fallacy #4: The Fed Can Hyperinflate Markets Perpetually

This is the last-ditch delusion used by stock market addicts and disinformation peddlers to assert that the current bubble can and will be propped up for many years to come, even after the rest of the economy is in dire regression. It is based partially on historic examples of fiscal collapses that led to inflation. Sometimes this inflation flows directly into stock markets while the rest of the system sinks, due to investors looking for a safe haven and also due to central banks manipulating asset prices. This occurred in Weimar Germany during the hyperinflationary route of the 1920s, however, people who make this argument do not know the actual history of that collapse.
Germany did indeed see a considerable stock market rally just at the peak of the hyperinflationary crisis, but this period only lasted from 1924 to 1927. In 1927, the Federal Reserve, France and the German central bank intervened to deliberately crash the bubble. While central bankers today still assert the lie that the cause of this downturn was the gold standard, the truth is that it was central bank tightening of monetary policy into an already unstable economic environment that caused the crash.
An interesting article on this issue for those that would like a better historical reference is 'With a Bang, Not a Whimper: Pricking Germany's "Stock Market Bubble" in 1927 and the Slide into Depression' by Hans-Joachim Voth.
Does any of this sound familiar? It should. This is exactly what the Fed is doing today.
In the U.S. for the past decade we have already witnessed our period of inflation in stock prices. Now, the central bank is collapsing the bubble, just as they did in Weimar Germany, just as they did here in the U.S. during the Great Depression as Ben Bernanke admitted in 2002, just as they have done in every market bubble for the past century.
There is no eternal market bubble. There never will be. If not for the reason that economic fundamentals make it impossible, then for the reason that crashing these bubbles benefits globalists and banking elitists.
The goal? I believe the goal is to consolidate total power over production and labor using the deliberate institution of a poverty-based civilization. Beyond that, the goal is to make the populace perpetually desperate to the point that they are socially malleable. In order for the bankers to establish what they call their "New World Order," they need chaos to tenderize the masses, but they also have to be seen as saviors that deserve to be in a position of authority over the global economy. The need to create disasters so they can then ride in on their white horse and save us from those disasters.
Why would central banks continue to perpetuate market bubbles when the destruction of those bubbles gives them opportunities for greater power?

To truth and knowledge,

Brandon Smith