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Debt Bubble surpasses 300% of Global GDP

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– Debt Bubble surpasses 300% of Global GDP:

Both developed and developing nations collaborated to achieve a new record of debt, but developed nations are the biggest offenders with 142 billion euros while developing nations added almost 51 billion euros.

The debt of households, companies, banks, and governments worldwide added up to a total of 193 billion euros at the end of 2017.

The figure represents a new record after increasing by 13.7 billion euros in the first nine months of last year, according to data compiled by the International Finance Institute (IIF).

The increase in global debt in absolute figures, in relation to world GDP reached 318% of global GDP, three percentage points below the historical maximum of 321% registered a year before.

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Ukraine spirals into chaos Poroshenko is a billionaire while Ukraine’s per capita GDP drops 75% & there is no coal

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Coming to a country near you (very) soon…

Continue to prepare for (total) collapse.

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Loonie Tumbles After Canadian Economy Unexpectedly Crashes Back Into Contraction – Aussie Dollar Tanks After China Admits Growth Will Miss 6.5% Target

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– Loonie Tumbles After Canadian Economy Unexpectedly Crashes Back Into Contraction:

After 4 straight months of MoM growth in GDP, the Canadian economy plunged 0.3% in October  (considerably worse than the 0.0% expectations) despite a resurgenece in crude prices. The Loonie is tumbling, back at 5-week lows, as manufacturing shrank a shocking 2.0% YoY – most since 2013.

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– Aussie Dollar Tanks After China Admits Growth Will Miss 6.5% Target

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Services PMI Tumbles To 6-Month Lows: “GDP Growth Is Failing To Accelerate In Q3”

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– Services PMI Tumbles To 6-Month Lows: “GDP Growth Is Failing To Accelerate In Q3”:

Following Manufacturing PMI’s drop from a two-month bounce, Services PMI also tumbled. Against expectations of a rise from 51.4 to 51.8, Services dropped to 50.9 – lowest since Feb 2016. With the lowest jobs data in 20 months, new orders at their weakest since May, as Markit warns, “GDP growth is failing to accelerate in the third quarter from the weak 1.2% pace seen in the second quarter.”

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German GDP Growth Slows Dramatically In Second Quarter

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– German GDP Growth Slows Dramatically In Second Quarter:

(AFP) – Germany’s economy, Europe’s largest, grew by 0.4 percent in the second quarter, federal statistics office Destatis said in data released on Wednesday.

Gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 0.4 percent between April and June, adjusted for seasonal, calendar and price effects — slower than the unexpectedly strong 0.7 percent expansion in the first quarter.

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Only In China: Companies Become Banks To ‘Solve’ Financial Difficulties

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– Only In China: Companies Become Banks To ‘Solve’ Financial Difficulties:

China is desperate to solve several problems it has due to its debt to GDP ratio being north of 300 percent. It may have found a pretty unconventional one by letting companies become banks…

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The U.S. Economy Officially Joins The Global Economic Slowdown – 1st Quarter GDP Comes In At 0.5%

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– The U.S. Economy Officially Joins The Global Economic Slowdown – 1st Quarter GDP Comes In At 0.5%:

Even the government is admitting that the U.S. economy is slowing down.  On Thursday, we learned that U.S. GDP grew at just a 0.5 percent annual rate during the first quarter of 2016.  This was lower than analysts were anticipating, and it marks the third time in a row that the GDP number has declined compared to the previous quarter.  In other words, GDP growth has been declining for close to a year now, and this lines up perfectly with what I have been saying about how the second half of last year was a turning point that plunged us into the early chapters of a brand new economic crisis.  And as you will see below, the official GDP number is highly manipulated, and the way that it is calculated has been changed numerous times over the years.  So the bad number that is being reported by the government is actually the best case scenario.

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To Save The Economy, We Have To Break Its One Sacred Rule

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H/T reader squodgy:

“I’ve been advocating the principles of “THE GROWTH ILLUSION” by the late Richard Douthwaite for a few years now,
GDP GROWTH benefits nobody but the Banksters.

They use it to push businesses to expand. The businesses can only expand using loans/overdrafts/bonds. Who benefits from this????Doh!”

Full article here:

– To Save The Economy, We Have To Break Its One Sacred Rule:

We must stop worshiping the false god of GDP growth.

Scholars are still trying to figure out why the society on Easter Island collapsed, ending the people famed for their construction of towering stone heads. One interesting theory holds that it had to do with the heads themselves. Somehow, the islanders decided that the giant heads represented power and success, so different groups competed to build as many heads as possible. But because there was only one quarry, to move the stones around the island required felling trees to use as rollers. To feed their lust for heads, they felled the trees so eagerly that, over just a few generations, what was once a tropical forest was reduced to barren scrubland.

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Atlanta Fed Just Slashed Q4 GDP Forecast To Barely Positive 0.7%, Down 1.2% In Ten Days

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– Atlanta Fed Just Slashed Q4 GDP Forecast To Barely Positive 0.7%, Down 1.2% In Ten Days:

Moments ago, in its latest Q4 GDP revision, the Atlanta Fed just pulled the rug from under the economy (and the market now that bad news for the economy is bad news for stocks), and slashed its latest quarterly forecast by another 50%, from 1.3% to a barely positive 0.7%.  In other words, according to the Atlanta Fed, Janet Yellen launched a rate hike cycle in a quarter when GDP will be just 0.7%, and which when averaged across the prior 3 quarters, would mean that the US will have grown at just 1.8% in 2015, a 25% drop from the 2.4% GDP growth in 2014.

Mario Draghi Admits Global QE Has Failed: “The Slowdown Is Probably Not Temporary”

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“The conditions in the economies of the rest of the world have undoubtedly proved weaker compared with a few months ago, in particular in the emerging economies. Global growth forecasts have been revised downwards. This slowdown is probably not temporary.”

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– Mario Draghi Admits Global QE Has Failed: “The Slowdown Is Probably Not Temporary”:

Undoubtedly, the most amusing this about the prospect of more easing from the ECB (as telegraphed by Mario Draghi last week) and the BoJ (where Haruhiko Kuroda just jeopardized his status as monetary madman par excellence by failing to expand stimulus) is that both Europe and Japan both recently slid back into deflation despite trillions in central bank asset purchases. 

In other words, the market expects both Draghi and Kuroda to double- and triple- down on policies that clearly aren’t working when it comes to altering inflation expectations and/or boosting aggregate demand. Indeed, both Goldman and BofAML said as much last week. For those who missed it, here’s Goldman’s take

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Chinese GDP Propaganda Full Frontal: Plunge In Key Data Points Pitched As Bullish

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– Chinese GDP Propaganda Full Frontal: Plunge In Key Data Points Pitched As Bullish:

“The discrepancy between economic growth and the two key indicators’ growth in the first six months did not fit with previous patterns, but industrial restructuring is a new factor, and should be taken into account when analyzing the new situation.”

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Canada Enters Recession

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– Not “Unequivocally Good” – Canada Enters Recession (ZeroHedge, Sept 1, 2015):

It appears low oil prices are not awesome for everyone. For the second quarter in a row, Canadian GDP dropped (-0.5%) pushing America’s northern neighbor back into recession. What is ironic is that this was better than the 1% drop that was expected and so CAD is strengthening.

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and the kneejerk is a strengthening of CAD against the USD as the drop was less than expected…

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China Stunner: Real GDP Is Now A Negative -1.1%, Evercore ISI Calculates

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– China Stunner: Real GDP Is Now A Negative -1.1%, Evercore ISI Calculates (ZeroHedge, Aug 26, 2015):

With Chinese data now an official farce even among Wall Street economists, tenured academics, and all others whose job obligation it is to accept and never question the lies they are fed, the biggest question over the past year has been just what is China’s real, and rapidly slowing, GDP – which alongside the Fed, is the primary catalyst of the global risk shakeout experienced in recent weeks.

One thing that everyone knows and can agree on, is that it is not the official 7% number, or whatever goalseeked fabrication the communist party tries to push to a world that has realized China can’t even manipulate its stock market higher, let alone its economy.

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GDP Shocker: Atlanta Fed Sees Q3 Growth At A Laughable 1%

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Imagine my absence of shock.

– GDP Shocker: Atlanta Fed Sees Q3 Growth At A Laughable 1% (ZeroHedge, Aug 6, 2015):

The Atlanta Fed’s Q1 and Q2 GDP forecasts were virtually spot on with what the BEA ultimately reported. Which is why if its accuracy persists, not only the Fed, but Wall Street strategists suddenly have a very big headache on their hands. Moments ago, the Atlanta Fed just released its much anticipated first estimate for Q3 GDP. It was a doozy, at just 1.0%, or more than 2% below the consensus sellside estimate.

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‘Welcome To The Contraction’: Q1 GDP Drops By 0.7%, Corporate Profits Crash

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From the article:

What is disturbing is that as noted before, inventories contributed the biggest component of Q1 GDP growth, adding $106 billion in nominal “growth.” Without that contribution, annualized GDP would have been worse than -3%!

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In short: welcome to the recession, which however will soon be double seasonally adjusted into another flourishing, of only stiatistically, “recovery.”

– “Welcome To The Contraction”: Q1 GDP Drops By 0.7%, Corporate Profits Crash (ZeroHedge, May 29, 2015):

And you thought the preliminary 0.2% Q1 GDP print from last month was bad. Moments ago, just as we warned, the BEA released its latest, first, revision of Q1 GDP (pre second-seasonal adjustments of course), and we just got confirmation that for the third time in the past four years, the US economy suffered a quarterly contraction, with the Q1 GDP revised drastically from a 0.2% growth to a drop of -0.7%: the worst print since snow struck, so very unexpectedly, last winter.

US Q1 GDP

Incidentally, there has not been a US “expansion” with three negative quarters in it in the past 60 years.

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GDP Report Confirms Global Trade Is Crashing, And Why That Is Good News For Some

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– GDP Report Confirms Global Trade Is Crashing, And Why That Is Good News For Some (ZeroHedge, May 29, 2015):

We did not actually need confirmation that global trade is slowing to a crawl (and has in fact reversed): after all, we have been showing just that for the past year, most recently earlier this week but it is important to note that in today’s negative GDP print, it was net trade (exports less imports) that subtracted -1.9% from the final GDP print, driven by a -1.03% annualized drop in exports. This was the biggest hit to US trade since thegreat financial crisis.

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The Debt To GDP Ratio For The Entire World: 286 Percent

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The Debt To GDP Ratio For The Entire World 286 Percent

– The Debt To GDP Ratio For The Entire World: 286 Percent (EconomicCollapse, May 17, 2015):

Did you know that there is more than $28,000 of debt for every man, woman and child on the entire planet?  And since close to 3 billion of those people survive on less than 2 dollars a day, your share of that debt is going to be much larger than that.  If we took everything that the global economy produced this year and everything that the global economy produced next year and used it to pay all of this debt, it still would not be enough.  According to a recent report put out by the McKinsey Global Institute entitled “Debt and (not much) deleveraging“, the total amount of debt on our planet has grown from 142 trillion dollars at the end of 2007 to 199 trillion dollars today.  This is the largest mountain of debt in the history of the world, and those numbers mean that we are in substantially worse condition than we were just prior to the last financial crisis.

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US Trade Deficit Soars To Worst Since Financial Crisis; Will Push Q1 GDP Negative

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– US Trade Deficit Soars To Worst Since Financial Crisis; Will Push Q1 GDP Negative (ZeroHedge, May 5, 2015):

After shrinking notably in Feb, March’s US Trade deficit exploded. Against expectations of a $41.7bn deficit, the US generated a $51.4bn deficit – the worst since Oct 2008 and the biggest miss on record. Exports rose just $1.6bn while imports soared $17.1bn with the goods deficit with China soaring from $27.3bn to $37.8bn in March. Ironically, just as the “harsh winter” was found to lead to a GDP boost due to a surge in utility spending, so the West Coast port strike which was blamed for the GDP drop, was actually benefiting the US economy as it lead to a plunge in imports. In March, however, the pipeline was cleared, and US imports from China soared by over $10 billion to $38 billion.  End result: prepare for upcoming Q1 GDP downgrades into negative territory.

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16 Signs That The Economy Has Stalled Out And The Next Economic Downturn Is Here

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– 16 Signs That The Economy Has Stalled Out And The Next Economic Downturn Is Here (Economic Collapse, April 29, 2015):

If U.S. economic growth falls any lower, we are officially going to be in recession territory.  On Wednesday, we learned that U.S. GDP grew at a 0.2 percent annual rate in the first quarter of 2015.  That was much lower than all of the “experts” were projecting.  And of course there are all sorts of questions whether the GDP numbers the government feeds us are legitimate anyway.  According to John Williams of shadowstats.com, if honest numbers were used they would show that U.S. GDP growth has been continuously negative since 2005.  But even if we consider the number that the government has given us to be the “real” number, it still shows that the U.S. economy has stalled out.  It is almost as if we have hit a “turning point”, and there are many out there (including myself) that believe that the next major economic downturn is dead ahead.  As you will see in this article, a whole bunch of things are happening right now that we would expect to see if a recession was beginning. 

The following are 16 signs that the economy has stalled out and the next economic downturn is here:

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