“A government which will turn its tanks upon its people, for any reason, is a government with a taste of blood and a thirst for power and must either be smartly rebuked, or blindly obeyed in deadly fear.”—John Salter
Battlefield America: The War on the American People:'A government which will turn its tanks upon its people, for any reason, is a government with a taste of blood and a thirst for power and must either be smartly rebuked, or blindly obeyed in deadly fear.
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District Attorney Says Encrypted Phones May Make You a Terrorist Because They 'Cannot Be Accessed by Law Enforcement'
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Arkansas sheriff's department with DHS deny family's civil rights and kidnap their 7 children over legal dietary supplements
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10 U.S. states now considering mandatory vaccination
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US, Ukraine Start Military Training, Defying Russian Fury Troops from the United States and Ukraine kicked off joint training exercises Monday intended to help bolster Ukraine’s defenses against incursions from Russian-backed separatists in the east. Speaking under driving rain at a military base in the western region of Lviv, Ukrainian PresidentPetro Poroshenko said the country’s armed forces needed to be rebuilt from scratch
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Up to 5.3M chickens face cull after H5N2 found at Iowa farm Up to 5.3 million hens at an Iowa farm must be destroyed after the highly infectious and deadly bird flu virus was confirmed, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Monday. The farm in northwest Iowa’s Osceola County has nearly 10 per cent of the state’s egg-laying hens. Iowa is home to roughly 59 million hens
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Sinkhole scare: Mysterious giant crater emerges in Siberian village A fresh giant crater has appeared in Siberia’s Novokuznetsk region. Measuring 20 meters in diameter and up to 30 meters in depth, the hole is unnerving the local population, who fear the next one might swallow their homes. The mysterious sinkhole was first spotted by Rinat Sharifullin, a local man whose house is a mere
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A video purportedly made by Islamic State and posted on social media sites on Sunday appeared to show militants shooting and beheading about 30 Ethiopian Christians in Libya. Reuters was unable to verify the authenticity of the video, but the killings resemble past violence carried out by Islamic State, an ultra-hardline group that has expanded
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Economic Policy Collapse Nears
The people who have been given control of our economic leadership, politicians or their appointees, have been making some really awful decisions. You can almost feel the wheels coming off the engine now.
The latest dagger was thrown by the Atlanta Federal Reserve earlier this month when it managed to finagle a .1% uptick in the first quarter statistics. As weak as that report was it was a huge improvement over the initial result from data used which showed a flat-lined patient the day before. But the first deluge of daggers came when the Fed began dropping interest rates in order to thwart the progress of the recession.
Think of it this way. The economy has cycles, the clothes washer has cycles. The clothes washer objective is to produce clean clothes at the end of the various cycles. Those cycles include wash, rinse, rinse again, and spin dry.
The economy works the same way. When you have an economy overloaded by regulation, stifled by worn-out company executives who cling to past successes and are unable to make changes either way, you need all the cycles to work in order to have fresh economic progress every day. You can't short-circuit anything or you wind up with the same dirty mess that you started with. Our leadership didn't let the economic cycle do its cleaning job.
But America was not alone in this lack of progress on the economic front. The countries who were acknowledged as world leaders for more than a century are in the same mess, and it stems from a socialistic mindset that government is there to mitigate all of society's ills.
All these countries have one thing in common, they elect as leaders people who promise more, more, MORE! Without strong private sectors, without individual initiatives that can be allowed to tinker--and either succeed or fail on their own merits--governments soon become hamstrung by their impossible promises.
Take a hard, unbiased look around the globe at various national or regional economies. How many are flourishing? Without massive loans from central bank printing presses, how many would still be standing?
Even in China there is an illusion of strength that is no longer sustainable. The Chinese built cities which were never occupied, now they are sustaining the economy by tearing those cities down and counting it as economic progress. It is make-work--much like Hitler did with Germany after the Weimar Republic printed itself into oblivion in order to pay off World War I debt.
The result in China is they are claiming a 2015 first quarter economic increase of 7%. While compared to the rest of the world that is impressive, the fact the figures cannot be verified independently is worrisome. The acknowledged reality that China can no longer feed itself is deadly. But the mere fact the Chinese government gave its worst report in six years on economic growth has to be a Code Red alarm. Its culture's nature is that it must maintain face. The Chinese leadership knows the rest of the world is slowing so it can lower its figures as well, and sooth itself that it stands alone in 'progress.'
To get to the bedrock of the American economy problem, it is startling when opponents agree. Marc Faber, publisher of Gloom, Boom and Doom, and former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker, who wrote many of the Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Act's most controversial provisions, both see economic disaster coming.
Faber points the finger directly at central bankers and its bad thinking. "There is a big bubble in debt, in financial assets. But the biggest bubble is the belief central bankers know what to do. They have no clue. The very actions [of the Federal Reserve], the monetary policies as conducted, have created a lot of unaffordability in the system."
Volcker disagrees. While admitting some of his provisions enacted by Dodd-Frank have not had the desired effect, he insists it is because those provisions have not been "fully applied."
He claims, "The regulatory structure that failed us in anticipating and responding to the emergency is still largely in place. Progress has been made, here and internationally in shoring up banking regulations but, basically, the institutional structure for financial regulation has resisted efforts for meaningful reform."
Financial regulations began in the Great Depression era. They were implemented to short-circuit economic crises. They didn't work then (it was the onset of WWII, not the regulations, that ended the Depression) and they won't work now. Free capitalism, where the few envision and produce something the populace wants and can afford, is the only way to end this 80-year battle against economic recession.
And that is not a cure-all either. Throughout history, economic cycles have been the norm. Nothing, absolutely nothing, can stop those cycles and still leave you with clean clothes or a clean, strong economy at the end.
It comes down to the fact regulation is like putting new paint on a failing wall. The wall looks better but nothing has been done to make the wall stand longer.
Governments coveted the power some private companies had built without troubling to build anything themselves. They stifled the companies with regulations and got recession. So they implemented legislation to stop recessions and have a looming disaster.
The leadership of both parts never understood they can't prevent economic cycles from happening if they are to finish with a healthy economy that has really progressed from where it started to recede before. The result today is the emperor (Wall Street) is clothed. The problem is the rags are filthy (devalued fiat).
"I have sworn on the altar of God eternal hostility to every form of tyranny over the mind of man."--Thomas
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ISIS Camp a Few Miles from Texas, Mexican Authorities Confirm
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The TREASON of Idaho Senate bill S 1067
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:Student loan debt has surpassed $1.3 trillion and the American taxpayer is now on the hook. At least 30% of the outstanding debt is already in default or deferral.
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190 US Cities Secretly Selected To Help Destroy America From Within - Is Your City On 'The List'?
ISIS Camp a Few Miles from Texas, Mexican Authorities Confirm
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The TREASON of Idaho Senate bill S 1067
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:Student loan debt has surpassed $1.3 trillion and the American taxpayer is now on the hook. At least 30% of the outstanding debt is already in default or deferral.
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190 US Cities Secretly Selected To Help Destroy America From Within - Is Your City On 'The List'?
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Exclusive Footage Inside 'Closed Walmart' In California, Cops Guard Dock and Entrances
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PayPal wants to implant passwords in your stomach and your brain’Natural body identification'
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VIDEO: Navy SEAL Throws Quran on the Ground, Drops Treason Bombshell Against Barack Obama
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Detroit-area church cancels conceal carry classes after outcry...
'We're not in Mayberry anymore, Toto'...
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Sheriff Joe faces contempt hearing in Phoenix...
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GREEK BANKS HIT ALL-TIME LOW...
EUROPE TURNS UP PRESSURE AS CASH RUNS OUT...
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TREASON! Horowitz Blasts Obama 'Importing Our Enemies,' His 'Heart Is With The Enemy'
https://soundcloud.com/rightwingwatch/horowitz-traitor-obama-letting-terrorists-bring-nukes-over-southern-border
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The War On Cash: JPMorgan Chase To Prohibit The Storage Of Cash In Safety Deposit Boxes
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Banks To Soon Outlaw Cash
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Automakers Want To Outlaw Home Mechanic - http://www.infowars.com/automakers-want-to-outlaw-gearheads-from-working-on-their-own-cars/
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CENSUS: RECORD 51 MILLION IMMIGRANTS IN 8 YEARS
82% OF POPULATION GROWTH
---German towns plead for money to cope with migrant surge...
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Anti-gay Michigan business targeted by vandals...
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Franklin Graham: Is the World No Longer Shocked by Christians Having Their Heads Cut Off?
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GREECE AND DAVID WILKERSON :And we're going into six months of the worst hell America has ever seen---there's going to be chaos---not even the National Guard's going to be able to quiet it down ,we're going to have to call out the whole U.S. Army. - David Wilkerson, excerpt 1994 sermon
It's about to happen---very soon, one nation, and I'm speaking prophetically--if I've ever heard anything from God in my life, I heard it. Very soon a European or North African or Eastern nation is going to default on its international loan and when that happens, within two weeks, Mexico is going to default. Mexico owes $100 billion ---80% of it to American banks---and here's what is going to happen: about two weeks after the first country goes bankrupt, (we're going to survive that, because most of that (money of the first country) is owed to European banks---German, Swiss and French banks) but a second country is going to go down, probably Argentina or Brazil, and we'll kind of live that down and say: "Well, maybe it's not going to hurt," but two weeks after the first country goes down, Mexico's going to default on $100 billion.
And when the banks open the next day at 9 in the morning, $15 billion an hour is going to be withdrawn from our American banks -they're going to be running our banks---the Arabs---all the Latin American countries, they're going to be running our banks--and before the day is over, the USA is going to have to declare a "bank holiday."
And we're going into six months of the worst hell America has ever seen---there's going to be chaos---not even the National Guard's going to be able to quiet it down---we're going to have to call out the whole U.S. Army.
Prophetic word recorded at Unleavened Bread Ministries.
David Wilkerson's Economic Vision
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VA Sends Veterans’ Medical Info To FBI To Get Their Guns Taken Away
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US Steel Warns Of Layoffs In Arkansas And Texas As Trans-Pacific Partnership Looms
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Anonymous – Homeless people in the United States deported to camps
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Avian flu crisis grows for poultry producers throughout USA
April 2015 – HEALTH
/Trans-Pacific Fast Track Authority Is a Blank Check for Obama
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Humanoid robots like Star Trek‘s data have long been the stuff of science-fiction, but if Hanson Robotics’s latest foray into a person-like artificial being is any indication, that day may be…well, still pretty far off. ‘Han,’ as the robot is dubbed, features 40 motors that allow its face to demonstrate a range of emotions and
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image: http://www.wnd.com/files/2014/01/james_dobson.jpg
James Dobson hosted a panel of Christian leaders on his “Family Talk” radio show Wednesday and warned that Christians are about to face a new status in America as a “hated minority” if the U.S. Supreme Court decides, as many expect, to mandate same-sex “marriage.”
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/04/christians-facing-new-status-as-hated-minority/#pLFxWMLW0ShQKPVg.99
James Dobson hosted a panel of Christian leaders on his “Family Talk” radio show Wednesday and warned that Christians are about to face a new status in America as a “hated minority” if the U.S. Supreme Court decides, as many expect, to mandate same-sex “marriage.”
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/04/christians-facing-new-status-as-hated-minority/#pLFxWMLW0ShQKPVg.99
VIDEO: MARINES CONDUCT RIOT CONTROL DRILL Troops repel angry protesters with pepper spray & rifles
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Giant New Magma Reservoir Found Beneath Yellowstone Supervolcano...
Very much alive...
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Russia masses more forces near Ukraine border...
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Largest Bank In America Joins War On Cash/
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Greek Bank Will Write Off Up To €20,000 In Debt For "Poverty-Stricken" Borrowers
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52: Calbuco Volcano erupts in Chile – volcano erupts with no warning after 42 years of silence
April 2015 – CHILE
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Puerto Rico’s top finance officials said the government of the U.S. territory will likely shutdown in three months because of a looming liquidity crisis and warned of a devastating impact on the island’s economy. In a letter to leading lawmakers, including Governor Alejandro Padilla, the officials said a financing deal that could potentially salvage the
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Teachers at Mitchell Primary School in Maine read a book to the children called I Am Jazz. It’s the story about a young child with a boy’s body, but a girl’s brain. The transgender storytime was part of a lesson on tolerance and acceptance. Parents say they were not informed until after the fact, and
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Bastrop County, Texas Residents Oppose Jade Helm Statesman - Officials with JADE HELM 15, as the training is called, will lay out details of their months-long training to commissioners at their Monday, April 27 Commissioner Court meeting. Officials say the training, which will be held in Bastrop County from July 15 to Sept. 15, will develop techniques and tactics needed by the military to defend U.S. interests around the globe.
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9 Members of Idaho Legislature Block International Child Support Treaty
AllGov - An international agreement to make it easier to enforce child support orders throughout the world is in danger of not being ratified in the U.S. because of nine conservative lawmakers in Idaho. Republican Sen. Sheryl Nuxoll led the opposition to the measure, testifying that it would subject Idaho to Sharia law. Nuxoll previously has boycotted a Hindu prayer in the Idaho senate, saying that Hindus worship false gods, and compared a proposed state health insurance exchange to the Holocaust.
AllGov - An international agreement to make it easier to enforce child support orders throughout the world is in danger of not being ratified in the U.S. because of nine conservative lawmakers in Idaho. Republican Sen. Sheryl Nuxoll led the opposition to the measure, testifying that it would subject Idaho to Sharia law. Nuxoll previously has boycotted a Hindu prayer in the Idaho senate, saying that Hindus worship false gods, and compared a proposed state health insurance exchange to the Holocaust.
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McDonald’s to Close 700 Stores
Kit Daniels - The struggling fast food giant recently announced it was closing 350 poorly performing stores this year, but on Wednesday McDonald’s admitted it had closed a previously unannounced 350 stores in the U.S., Japan and China. “Earlier on Wednesday, McDonald’s reported an 11% decrease in revenue and a 30% drop in profit for the first three months of year, a continuation of its troubles in the last two years as it has struggled to compete with new U.S. competitors, a tough economy in Europe and a food safety scare in Asia,” Fortune reported.
Kit Daniels - The struggling fast food giant recently announced it was closing 350 poorly performing stores this year, but on Wednesday McDonald’s admitted it had closed a previously unannounced 350 stores in the U.S., Japan and China. “Earlier on Wednesday, McDonald’s reported an 11% decrease in revenue and a 30% drop in profit for the first three months of year, a continuation of its troubles in the last two years as it has struggled to compete with new U.S. competitors, a tough economy in Europe and a food safety scare in Asia,” Fortune reported.
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Dyess Air Force Missiles Cause Concern Near Lubbock A new statement from Dyess Air Force base confirmed that the “missiles” EverythingLubbock.com showed on Tuesday are part of a training installation called the “Post/Fluvanna Site.” Tuesday, officials told our reporter that the fenced off location near Highway 1269 was a training facility. The new statement on Wednesday revealed more specifics about what they call
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Minnesota Declares Bird Flu Emergency, Offers Drug to Workers Minnesota’s declared a state of emergency because of bird flu, which has struck more than 40 poultry farms in the state. The state’s also offering the anti-flu drug Tamiflu to workers who have handled the dead and dying birds, just to make sure they don’t catch it, too. H5N2 bird flu has spread to a
---Stores Anticipating Price Hike Following Bird Flu Outbreak
---Stores Anticipating Price Hike Following Bird Flu Outbreak
With so many farms and turkeys affected by avian influenza, some grocery chains are wondering how shoppers will react. Over the past few years, Machenthun’s in Waconia has added more and more turkey options. Turkey has essentially become one of the more popular buys in the store. “Your beef and pork still sell the best,
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Stingray Tracking Devices: Who's Got Them, Where Are They Using It?
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Stingray Tracking Devices: Who's Got Them, Where Are They Using It?
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30 Shipping Containers On Walmart Lot In Kansas Raises Concern Amidst Closings
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Heads Up! DHS, Walmart, FEMA and Local Cops Using Huge Facial Recognition 'Spy Network'
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Jade Helm 15 to Make Appearance Before Bastrop County Commissioners
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4/23/2015 -- SECOND Yellowstone Magma chamber found -- MUCH BIGGER (11,500 cubic miles)
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Nepal quake: Hundreds dead, history crumbled, Everest shaken...
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LIST: World's strongest earthquakes since 1900...
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Savage drought will drive Lake Mead to record low on Sunday
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Note: We are still moving to a place that is 900 miles from where we were living at.
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Paypal Assert Copyright Ownership Of All Intellectual Property
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Ominous Clouds Darken Path
Storm clouds continue to build over the economy, but astute observers must wonder how long the massaged numbers will hold up. Under scrutiny even the most benign numbers show economic weakness.
Today we'll look at the unemployment, housing market and first quarter earnings reports to see where America is headed after three months in 2015.
First time jobless benefit claims rose for a third straight week Thursday yet the news had a qualifying rider attached to it: "The underlying trend continued to point to solid improvement in the labor market."
Is this because so many people have gotten discouraged and left the workforce or is it because of some actual shift in the winds of fortune? The report doesn't specify but happily reports claims of 295,000 are good news because that makes seven straight weeks the report has been under 300,000. (When I did a comparative unemployment study as part of a statistics class study in 1970 the unemployment number was considered poor when it reached 120,000. Now the fact it is not 250% more than that is cause for celebration.)
But what is of concern is the jobs report blithely ignores the workforce dropouts and instead claims the lower moving average rate between March and April indicates "accelerated job growth." If so, in what sector(s) did jobs actually increase? Not construction or manufacturing--two cornerstones of long-term economic health.
Construction was devastated on the report new home sales plunged 11.4% to a mere 481,000 sales annually. The Commerce Department report cheerfully highlights February home prices hit the highest level in seven years. With wages essentially flat, the drop in new home sales could be because the price is now out of the reach of most working people. Still Commerce remains upbeat about the housing outlook because "moves by the government to ease credit conditions for first-time buyers." Can you say "housing bubble" so soon after 2007?
With new home sales languishing below half a million more than seven years after the bubble popped the first time, how can that be positive news? There is no solid, sustained increases in new home sales. Once again the GDP-increasing industry that went away in the recession has not returned to even half of its pre-recession level yet is counted as a positive.
Finally look at the earnings report from Wall Street.
The report starts out very positive: "Most U.S. companies (71%) so far this earnings season have managed to beat Wall Street profit forecasts despite weak sales."
But what were those "expectations?" How did they compare to pre-Recession forecasts? Those two questions are key.
W-e-l-l, those expectations aren't anywhere close to what they were in the first quarter of 2007. Indeed, in many cases the 2015 expectations as forecast by analysts were less than 10% of what those same companies were expected to do in the first quarter of '07.
But the sorry numbers don't stop there. Most of the 71% that reportedly "beat expectations" did so through accounting tricks involving share buybacks and cost-cutting measures (usually lower payrolls numbers) rather than relying on healthy sales growth. So again any interpretation of the data has to factor in those parameters or they are not giving you a fair analysis.
To their credit, most analysts did note the discrepancy somewhere in their reports but you could really see the discouragement in the new forecast numbers for the second and third quarters. Analysts are collectively trimming both profit and sales expectations for the second quarter right now.
Dan Suzuki, senior U.S. equity strategist for BOA-Merrill Lynch, said, "The fact some companies beat the bottom line is not going to change the story. You are going to see some pretty ugly numbers over the next couple of quarters."
How bad is it? First quarter earnings are expected to collectively be down 1.5% from 2014. Sales are expected to be 3.3% down year-over-year. Forty-four percent of the early reports for 1st quarter revenues show only 11 in 25 companies topped the lowered expectation level for revenues. Of those who topped revenues, less than half hit their expected sales targets. Even more troubling this trend affected almost every sector.
The Street is quick to point a finger at the strong dollar and the weak energy prices for the failed expectations. But if gasoline prices are down, sales in other sectors--like restaurant or entertainment areas--should have seen a rise. They didn't. Also, a year ago analysts blamed extreme weather for first quarter sag, this time extreme weather was definitely less of a factor.
The first quarter reports are showing a slowing economic engine. An engine that is definitely in idle mode. Is it preparing to once again go into reverse? Worse, is it preparing to turn off completely meaning the train sits, unable to move in any direction?
Storm clouds are distinctly forming. Whether or not the storm becomes economically destructive is not as important as it once was because we no longer have a solid foundation to withstand any kind of a blast so the tent we are stuck in will suffer damage.
Washington euphemistically called these developments "headwinds." Any more such headwinds and the engine will get blown clean off the track.
"I have sworn on the altar of God eternal hostility to every form of tyranny over the mind of man."--Thomas Jefferson
04/23/15 - You Didn't Build That
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