Humanity's Question: To be, Or not to be?

WHETHER IT IS NOBLER IN THE MIND?

(Special Report)

First Financial Insights

THAT IS THE QUESTION...

Today we are republishing a  commentary that was posted back in January 2013. The post is even more relevant today, as the critical issues we face as a species are escalating almost it seems beyond control. Reports are also being made by various LEGITIMATE groups including NASA, UN bodies and the White House and Pentagon. These reports are posted through-out our affiliated blogs and may be searched by keyword . Moreover, let's not forget too, that Stephen Hawkings sits on a committee that is actually planning "end of world events", while The Bank of England  is calling for a wholesale change in the dogmas of classical economics - as the stresses of infinite growth are self-evident in so many countries around the world. 

As a further result, the possibility that the EU, Japan, China and other third world nations could financially collapse is a very real danger that could be sparked by an abrupt climb in global interest rates. Many events at any moment could spark this rapid rise, that would cause the greatest and most unprecedented collapse in asset values around the world where credit and banking bubbles in real estate and market investments, exist almost everywhere - another dark age looms large on the horizon.

Economics is not the only cancer that has terminal implications. Overpopulation and unbridled industrial destruction of the biosphere are crossing over to the exponential phase. Should the average global temperature rise just a mere 2 degrees C., some experts say we risk triggering a methane bomb that yields the same consequences of the Permian Extinction's climate conditions  - over 95%  of life on the planet was wiped out in short order.

Words of Science 

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China ALERT: Super Rich "KASH-lNG" Out

The Richest Man in Asia is Selling Everything in China

By Simon Black

Here’s a guy you want to bet on– Li Ka-Shing.

Li is reportedly the richest person in Asia with a net worth well in excess of $30 billion, much of which he made being a shrewd property investor.

Li Ka-Shing was investing in mainland China back in the early 90s, way back before it became the trendy thing to do. Now, Li wants out of China. All of it.

Since August of last year, he’s dumped billions of dollars worth of his Chinese holdings. The latest is the $928 million sale of the Pacific Place shopping center in Beijing– this deal was inked just days ago. 

Once the deal concludes, Li will no longer have any major property investments in mainland China.

This isn’t a person who became wealthy by being flippant and scared. So what does he see that nobody

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Ukraine Sets Laws To Prevent Crash?

The Russians Are Coming

Law enacted in Ukraine aiming to prevent financial collapse

The law was upheld by the Ukrainian parliament alongside anti-crisis amendments to the state budget for 2014 on March 27, and is part of a package of laws which the International Monetary Fund and other international organizations are ready to support.

EU Economist

The law sets VAT and profit taxes at 20% and 18%, respectively, reversing plans to lower them; introduces a progressive tax scale of 15%, 20% and 25% on passive annual incomes exceeding UAH 20,000 starting on July 1, raises excises on and payments for the use of natural resources, and restores the 0.5% tax on currency exchange operations.It also reduces some payouts, including the benefit due to mothers after childbirth, and also introduces personnel cuts at law enforcement services and prosecutor's offices.

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Here' s absolute proof  that economists are madmen - they are so disconnected from reality that they think they can outlaw or prevent economic collapses. What next? Perhaps they can renegotiate the  laws of thermodynamics .I would not put it past these guys to come up with such a policy.

Anyway we come across a lot of articles, reports, and writings around the world but this has to be the most ridiculous idea we have seen in along time. No wonder this country is in trouble.- they can't even figure out how to do a real economic/business plan with the resources they have.

They are sure to on our "watchlist " for a long .long. time.



Investors' Insights
April 4, 2014 

The Death of Money - Gold Bugs Buzzing

Reality Confronts Money

James Rickards: International Monetary System Headed for Collapse

  By Dan Weil

The prognosis for the global financial system isn't bright, says James Rickards, senior managing director of Tangent Capital Partners and author of the upcoming book, "The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System."

Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide

"The international monetary system has actually collapsed three times in the past 100 years: 1914, 1939, and 1971. So these things do happen," he told Kitco News."I’m just trying to prepare the reader for first of all, the fact that it’s coming, and secondly as an investor what you can do now to protect yourself."



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Who else says so?

Comments 

You may be wondering why we are showing the cover from Limits to Growth. One, because there actually are physical limits to growth. Two, as you approach those limits of physical exhaustion, then currency debasement occurs. In the end, do you think currency has any value if the originating resource inputs are depleted? 

Three. Simple - right!  But, only madmen and economists think otherwise, as the Bank of England finally declared and reported this past week. Somebody is starting to figure it out.

Who's sorry now?

Investors Insights
March 25, 2014