| | "Carl Jung, remarked that "people cannot stand too much reality." . How true, but we've now reached a new threshold in America, people can't stand ANY reality.
-Wal Mart today said sales at established U.S. stores rose an estimated 0.5%, far off the 2-to-4% gain the company originally forecast for October. Brazil Americans are obviously broke, and it has to do with soaring costs, as much or more, than their busting housing equity (or negative equities).
-Central banks are now realizing they must take global levels of liquidity seriously, the ECB’s former chief economist, Otmar Issing, said Friday.
‘I am concerned about excessive liquidity in the world.’ This concern is shared by the current members of the ECB’s Governing Council, who have taken the lead in alerting other central banks to the risks at hand, ‘There is now increasing support of the view that excessive liquidity world-wide is fueling asset prices and is something which has to be taken seriously by central banks…This is a real concern."
-Nadeem Walayak on UK inflation and hyper money supply growth. London is a hot bed for leveraged Ponzi unit financing.
Another major inflationary influence is that the UK money supply is running at 14.5% !! That represents a 16 year high, this alone is alarming and should prompt the BoE to raise interest rates as well as other measures to reduce the money supply growth which unless addressed will cause even higher future inflation.
-October 27 – Bloomberg (Anoop Agrawal): “Money supply growth in India quickened in the two weeks ended Oct. 13 from the previous two- week period… The M3 measure of money supply increased 19 percent in the two weeks through Oct. 13 from a year earlier, faster than 18.5 percent in the previous two weeks…”
-Lard asses carrying 24 more pounds of weight around since 1960, add 2.6 million gallons a day to gasoline consumption. Total gasoline consumption is nearly 400 million a day now. Gasoline demand this week year over year is up 5.9%, and year over year, four week average is up 4.4%. A bit cooler weather in the East of late, and nobody is going to suffer from it for sure, get those houses toasty, big 7.5% yoy (four week average)surge in distillate demand. Unsustainable economy fans, better pray for a mild winter, because behavior ain't changin'. James Kunstler nails it in, The Long Emergency .


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