December 11, 2020
Capitalism's Last Bastion
The Golden Era of US Capitalism Has Dimmed:
- WAS: Research Driven Corporations & Higher Educational Institutions
- NOW: Offshore Research (Bell Labs, Watson Lab, Menlo Park) Gone
- WAS: Entrepreneurial Risk Taking Mindset,
- NOW: Debt Burdens (Student Loans, Cost of Living)
- WAS: Creative Destruction fostered New Industries
- NOW: Costs Savings Orientation & Consolidation Driven
- WAS: Employment Opportunities,
- NOW: Jobs No Longer Support a Family Income (w/ 2 Incomes)
- WAS: Skilled & Non-Skilled Shared in Economic Vitality,
- NOW: Wage Stagnation & Reduced Labor Share of GDP
- WAS: Strong Middle Class Consumption,
- NOW: A Gutted Middle Class & Two Tier Wealth System
- RESULT: Vibrant Economy,
- RESULT: Economic Stagnation
Video is 20 Minutes with 29 supporting slides.
AMERICA'S DECLINING DEPLOYMENT OF 'PRODUCTIVE CAPITAL' -- ROAD MAP
A UNIPOLAR GLOBAL ECONOMY
INITIAL DE-INDUSTRIALIZATION OF AMERICA
Operating Cost Pressures
- PHASE I: MADE IN AMERICA
- Outsourcing,
- Rightsizing
- Offshoring
- PHASE II: ASSEMBLED IN AMERICA
- Global Supply Chains
- PHASE III: DISTRIBUTED IN AMERICA
- China
- China
CREDITISM BECAME A "CANCER" TO CAPITALISM
SHIFT FROM:
>> Savings for Productive Investment
TO
>> Credit for Consumption
1. Mal-Investment,
2. Mispricing of Risk,
3. Lack of Price Discovery,
4. Capital Spending Constricted,
Distorted Capital Markets incentivized US Corporations to reduce Investment in the US and to embrace the Labor Arbitrage advantage of Globalism.
THE COUP de GRACE
The August LONGWave video laid out the roadmap shown to the right earlier in the year. The Global elitists also saw this looming potential roadmap as a major opportunity for mobilization to take full advantage of it.
"A Crisis is Always a Political Opportunity to be Taken Full Advantage of!"
Former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel
- Pandemic:
- A Catalyst for Power Grab & Policy Implementation,
- Recession:
- Problem: Too Big To Fail, Too Many to Save
- Stagflation:
- A News Fiscal Policy Regime Era
THE GREAT RESET
The Great Reset was an expected response to the developments we have been writing about for some time:
• Thesis 2019: A New World Order - A Unipolar to Multi-Polar Shift.
• A coming economic Stability Test which we warned in the fall of 2019 (See Addendum I: Trapped: The Ensuing Market Road Map)
• What is coming: See Addendum II
"STATE CONTROLLED" CHINA
• China is in the midst of a debt bubble and the beginning of widening wealth gap.
• Apparently, China wants to tackle both before it’s too late.
"FREE MARKET" US
• the U.S. has passed the peak of its economic power, settling into the stage of money printing after the initial 2008 cracking of the debt bubble facade.
"It (the US) is in this stage when there are bad financial conditions and intensifying conflict. Classically this stage comes after periods of great excesses in spending and debt and the widening of wealth and political gaps and before there are revolutions and civil wars. United States is at a tipping point in which it could go from manageable internal tension to revolution and/or civil war."
"We doubt that the pervasive cancel cultures that permeates US society today, or the ubiquitous central planning by the Federal Reserve coupled with manipulated central markets to promote a socialist agenda and to allocated capital and talent as the government sees fit, in the process bypassing capitalism, will allow US society to every again claim to be fair or merit-based."
Ray Dalio: "The Archetypical Cycle of Internal Order and Disorder"
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