The dollar’s days are numbered: Why Our Financial System Is Like the Titanic

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  Note: Here’s is something to think about that you just might have taken for granted or just plain overlooked. America is the seat of the global economy. America is in control of the global levels or instruments of power politically and economically through institutions like the UN, The World Bank, & The IMF.

America set up this system under the Brettonswood Agreement . Her dollar was and is the centerpiece of the financial order. This is something that I can’t stress enough of.

She is no longer a net producer of goods. She no longer a net lender of money. She is no longer with her Western institutions without rival….See; BRICS, The BRICS Bank, & The AIIB.

She must borrow from her enemies to fund her debt glut. She must borrow from her enemies to fund her account deficits. She must beg and borrow from her enemies to prevent them calling in her debt.

The world knows that she is insolvent. Everyone and anyone with any kind of sense knows very well that America is in all intent and purpose, Bankrupt!

She is the greatest debtor in the history of the world. She must borrow funds from so-called 3rd world nations to pay the interests on debt she incurred by borrowing from these same nations. If she can’t then she wages war to overthrow these governments, steal their gold and silver reserves, send the nation into complete chaos, and uproot her debt.

A classic way of the thief ridding itself of the debt it incurred. But this time is different. She can’t walk over China. She can’t walk over Russia. And they have military agreements with some of the nations that America owes money to. So she won’t be able to pull this crap over anymore. Proof being look at Syria and how they have resist everything the empire and her allies have thrown at them.

Now think of this. If the financial order is heading for the iceberg similarly to the Titanic, what lies at the heart of that? This means that so too is the American economy is heading for that same iceberg being that the system is based on her.

Another thing to consider in all of this is the US dollar. If this is the centerpiece of brettonwood and the financial order of today that is clearly about to hit the economic iceberg to take down the entire system, then this means that the dollar’s days are numbered and it is going down to the bottom of the economic ocean!

Why Our Financial System Is Like the Titanic

The “unsinkable” global financial system is rushing headlong toward its encounter with the iceberg.

Why did the Titanic sink, despite being considered unsinkable? The conventional answer is the design of its watertight compartments was flawed: the watertight bulkheads were limited in height to a few feet above the waterline.
The ship was designed such that if the first few compartments were flooded, the flooding would be contained by the watertight bulkheads.
But the iceberg ripped open a gash almost a third the ship’s length, flooding the first six compartments. As the ship’s bow sank, water poured over the bulkhead into the seventh compartment, and so on, until the ship’s bow sank deep enough to bring the ship almost vertical, at which point the hull broke roughly in half–hence the two hull sections discovered on the bottom of the Atlantic in 1985.
But further analysis has revealed this isn’t the only reason Titanic sank. It turned out the ship’s hull plates were brittle due to high sulfur content in the steel, especially at cold temperatures (the water was near freezing at the time of the wreck).
Causes and Effects of the Rapid Sinking of the Titanic
Rather than deform as the iceberg scraped against the hull, the plates and rivets fractured, opening the gash that sank the ship.
The technologies of the early 1900s enabled shipbuilders to construct enormous ships almost 900 feet in length capable of steaming at 24 knots, transporting passengers across the Atlantic in comfort, but the technologies that made such ships and transits low risk were not yet developed.
The fact that large ships and powerful engines could be built created the illusion of low risk, because the risk factors were invisible until disaster struck. After the disaster, the flaws in the design of the watertight bulkheads, the inadequacy of the lifeboat requirements (there were not enough lifeboats for the crew and passengers), and the deficiencies in the wireless/radio requirements (ships were not required to have radio operators on duty 24 hours a day) were all obvious.
But the flaws in the steel plates and rivets would remain invisible until the technologies of steel production finally caught up with the other shipbuilding technologies. And better detection and tracking of icebergs would have to wait for radar and better navigational technologies.
Our financial system is like the Titanic: technologies such as high-frequency trading (HFT) and innovations such as securitization and complex derivatives have enabled major players to construct an enormous, fast-moving financial system that creates the illusion of low risk because the risks are not visible until disaster strikes.
The Global Financial Meltdown of 2008-09 was a close call, the equivalent of the Titanic veering off and barely missing the iceberg. In response, authorities imposed a variety of new regulations that are the equivalent of changing the regulations guiding lifeboats and radio operations.
But these regulations did nothing to address the risks created by the technologies of financialization that have leapfrogged safety systems and the real economy. In effect, the idea that the financial system is unsinkable remains intact, even though the flaws in its design (the equivalent of the watertight bulkheads) and its core technologies (the equivalent of the flawed steel plates) remain invisible.
The financial system’s huge size and apparent strengths have created a false confidence that it is unsinkable, and the ineffective regulations imposed after 2008-09 have only added to the illusion that the risk of a complete collapse is low.
All that has been accomplished since 2008-09 is there are a few more lifeboats and better communication when disaster strikes. But the risks of financial disaster have actually increased since 2008-09, as participants have bypassed regulations via shadow banking, dark pools,etc., and deepened their dependence on HFT skimming via superfast trades executed by superfast computers.
The “unsinkable” global financial system is rushing headlong toward its encounter with the iceberg, while the passengers and crew remain supremely confident and unaware of the risks, risks that will only become “obvious” after the global financial system has broken in half and sunk to the bottom, destroying most of those who believed it unsinkable…..More Here

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