Setting Up the "Great Deception of 2012"

According to the testimony, as reported live on the FV (Funny Vision), of Mr. Bernanke’s FS (FED Speak) of the FED, it now looks bullish in the FED’s MBW (Make Believe World) for the stock market, the US economy and the world economy and bearish for Gold and Silver and all inflation hedges, because inflation is under control and the economy is recovering.

Isn’t that just great?

NO!

If you have read our thoughts on all these things on our web site at www.polestarcomm.com, and in our inaugural Market Review and in our 1st Quarterly Update and in our Blogs of  11/18, 21, 28, 12/9 & 1/4/12 & 1/11/12 and 1/14/12 and MOST especially 2/3/12, then you will know we saw all these things way ahead of time!

And, we very well knew back then and predicted very clearly that these pontificated statements of pure Balderdash and Poppycock would be spewing out of the world’s economic pipelines in the MSM’s (MainStream Media’s) GRT (Gradualist Reporting Technique) of the PORE (Psy-Ops Reporting & Editorializing) all during 2012; and that the ‘Sheeple” would fall for all of this deceptive garbage and pure Cr_ p, in the yet coming “Great Deception of 2012;” and that the “Sheeple” would then go out and buy OVERPRICED common stocks (prompted by the economic pundits/shills on their FV's); and that the “Sheeple” would then sell their gold and their silver and NOT buy as MUCH Gold and Silver as they should, because all Precious Metals would go down severely in 2012 (read all of this, in the above noted Blogs); and then the “Sheeple” would be WIPED OUT TOTALLY when the SECOND wave of the Super Tsunami “Kondratieff” Long-Wave did crash over all the earth and that ALL the world’s stock markets will TOTALLY CRASH in 2013 to 2014 and that GOLD and Silver and ALL inflation hedges would go through the roof!

(I have seen today - January 26,18 - that many new readers of this Blog are reading this over five year old post;  and they are very likely unaware and DO NOT KNOW ,that:

These original projections of ours were extended over five times: we were forced to do so by the continual extension of the FED's ZIRP - by the Panicked Banking Authorities, which continues unto this VERY DAY!!!! 
 
Therefore, we were forced to extend the projected timing of the ultimate Mother of All Stock Market Crashes out to roughly the summer of 2022!)

EXCEPT REAL ESTATE, which will not move up again, for 20 to 30 years in 'inflation adjusted terms,' BUT which will move up in 'absolute terms' starting in very early 2013.  And that, such false and phony widely reported move, in ALL the world's MSM, will be brazenly used to fool and to trick the "Sheeple" - yet again - into thinking that everything is right with the world, WHEN it will actually be crashing ALL around their heads in the next 18 to 36 months!

Why do we see it?

Do we have a crystal ball?

No, we do NOT have a crystal ball, BUT we do VERY well understand that the Super Tsunami “Kondratieff” Long-Wave IS REAL and NOT an imaginary ‘chimera’ of some mad man and the madmen who continue to believe Nicolas Kondratieff’s original work!

You see, Nicolas Kondratieff was right and that is PRECISELY why Stalin had him shot in the back of the head!

And now ALL in the world are going to wake up in a few years and wish, so VERY fervently, that their end could be so quiet and comfortable as a ‘shot to the head!’

For just wait, and you will all see what horrific economic trials are coming in the wake of the SECOND and the THIRD Super Tsunami “Kondratieff” Long-Waves - that are yet to hit ALL the world’s economies!

Are you and your company ready?

So, here below, one of the primary ‘goofs’ and ‘Blind Ones,’ that never saw the first wave of the Super Tsunami “Kondratieff” Long Waves in the Credit-Crisis of 2007/8, is now sounding the “All-Clear!”

Do you believe him?

(For a complete list of Polestar Communications' helpfully descriptive acronyms, go the bottom of our Home page at www.polestarcomm.com.)

 

Gold Falls as Fed Offers No New Stimulus

Bloomberg; By Debarati Roy - Feb 29, 2012 12:16 PM ET

“Gold plunged,(Here is a just wonderful example of the MSM’s GRT  PORE intentionally scaring the sh_t out of the Gold Bulls and the few “Sheeple” who hold Gold and silver)  heading for the biggest decline this year, on expectations that the Federal Reserve will refrain from taking new action to bolster the economy. Silver slumped the most since December.

The dollar rebounded after Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, in congressional testimony, gave no signal that the central bank is considering additional measures to spur the economy. He said the inflation outlook is “subdued.” (Remember as you trek to store, for anything, that he said this with a straight face) The greenback gained as much as 0.5 percent against a basket of competing currencies. Before today, gold prices climbed 14 percent this year, compared with a 10 percent gain in 2011. ….

Expecting Correction

The U.S. economy expanded at a 3 percent annual rate in the fourth quarter, more than forecast (Total Balderdash, read our many Blogs on this Cr_p), as companies rebuilt inventories in anticipation of growing demand. …”

Dead Mule Trading at its BEST

OK, Folks.  This deal with the Greek Debt being switched for "similar" Greek Debt is “Dead Mule Trading” at its best!

Namely, both sets of Greek Bonds are worthless, pure and simple, but the first set obviously has call dates and terms that make the fact too obvious to hide, thus the "Switcheroo!" 

For the full story on how the Euro community has adopted the selling of Dead Mule Raffle Tickets to their Stupid Taxpayers Please reread our Blog of 

Friday, December 16, 2011

Euro Crisis to be SOLVED in 2012 by 'Mule Trading'

The US Government has known for years that the really BIG BUCKS (as in Dollars) are in 'Mule Trading!' Back in January of 19 & 64 Curtis & Leroy saw an ad in the Starkville Daily in Starkville, MS. and bought a mule for $100. The farmer agreed to deliver the mule the next day...."

Euro-Area Central Banks to Swap Greek Bonds

Bloomberg; By Jeff Black - Feb 21, 2012 12:58 PM ET

Feb. 21 (Bloomberg) -- David "Danny" Blanchflower, a professor at Dartmouth College and a Bloomberg Television contributing editor, talks about the outlook for Greece. Greece won a second bailout after European governments wrung concessions from private investors and tapped into European Central Bank profits to shield the euro area from a precedent-setting default. Blanchflower speaks with Betty Liu on Bloomberg Television's "In the Loop." (Source: Bloomberg)

Euro-area central banks will swap the Greek bonds in their investment portfolios for similar securities to avoid enforced losses during a debt restructuring, a euro-area official said.

The swap will happen today and is identical to one the European Central Bank carried out last week with the Greek bonds acquired in its asset-purchase program, the official said. The new Greek bonds will be immune to collective action clauses, or CACs, ensuring central banks don’t incur any losses when a private-sector debt write-down takes place, the official said on condition of anonymity. A spokesman for the Frankfurt-based ECB declined to comment.

… while the swap is taking place. Europe’s rescue fund may provide 35 billion euros to help Greece buy back those bonds, according to a draft law published by Greece on Feb. 12.

Euro-area governments last July agreed on a guarantee for the ECB, which cannot accept bonds with a default rating. The Greek finance ministry said today that the swap will be offered to investors this week. It may take around two weeks to complete. … ‘

"Drunks at the Tiller"

 

When we composed Polestar Communications’ position statements on this deteriorating US Economy for our Home page, “New Normal” and Econometrics web pages at www.polestarcomm.com and for our inaugural Market Review, we focused on what we perceived to be radically new and soon to be prevalent and necessary shifts in the buying habits and spending habits of American consumers.

Namely, the DCBF (Debt Crazed Buying Fanatics) would ABSOLUTELY be forced, by the ever-devolving and imploding United State’s economy, to become CFSS (Conservative, Frugally Sane Shoppers).

Well, the Public Psyche shift in these things is firmly in effect.  If you can’t see this, then read the following article.  For the MSM is just starting its coverage of this phenomena that will soon be ubiquitously systemic.

And you or your company really do need to subscribe to our Market Review and Quarterly Updates, otherwise you and your company are in for some hair-raising surprises as this economy continues its descent into the Deflationary Depression that is now gripping this country after having been hit BY ONLY THE FIRST of three waves of the Super Tsunami “Kondratieff’ Long-Waves.

The second wave of this Secular Cycle Juggernaut from economic hell is going to hit in the next 18 to 36 months, after the Ganga-High of the False Stock Market rallies, NOW just ramping up, wears off in the last stages of the “Great Deception of 2012” in early to mid 2013!

Are you and your company prepared for the inevitable?

I included the whole article because it is so humorous and the comments I kept at the end are tragically enlightening.  Namely, everybody out here actually gets it, as they do with the ABSOLUTELY phony and quite laughable CPI numbers from our US CD.

But, not the ‘Drunks at the Tiller!'

They 'see no evil' and 'hear no evil' and are very soon to repeat their most egregious mistakes of 2007-08 by missing the visual evidence of the Super Tsunami "Kondratieff" Long-Waves's SECOND WAVE that is soon to sweep them all away!

 

Kiss These 10 Once-Popular Home Features Goodbye

www.yahoo.com By Steve Kerch | MarketWatch / Friday, Feb, 17, 2012

“Times are tough in the home-building industry, meaning the 500,000 or so new single-family homes expected to be built this year are going to include more practical and value-conscious features and fewer wish-list items.

Outdoor Kitchens & Outdoor Fireplaces

Along with outdoor kitchens, outdoor fireplaces aren’t expected to be in such great demand. They are the second least-likely feature to be included in new homes in 2012, according to a survey from the National Association of Home Builders.
 
... Sunrooms are also on the wane. “Builders are focusing on features that add immediate value and make a home more practical,” said Rose Quint, assistant vice president of survey research, economics and housing for the NAHB. What’s more practical? Things like walk-in closets, linen closets and laundry rooms.



Two-Story Family Room

The family room itself may be making a comeback as a gathering center of the home, but the two-story family room is getting cut off at the knees. On a scale of 1 to 5, builders gave it only a 2.2 as a feature for new homes in 2012.

...Even with all the options in home entertainment today, the media room isn’t high on the list for home builders. You’re much more likely to find a charging station for all your devices hidden away in a kitchen-island cabinet in 2012.

Two-Story Foyer

Like the two-story family room, the two-story foyer is on the way out. Blame utility bills: Home buyers are more focused on energy-saving windows and appliances than on soaring spaces in 2012.

Master-Planned Developments

Master-planned developments like Lago Estancia in Phoenix often tout their walking and jogging trails as a community attraction. But such amenities will not be popular this year, home builders say.

Luxury Master Bathrooms

Luxury master bathrooms with multiple-head showers will be getting toned down in 2012. Something more practical — say, a double sink in the kitchen — is much more likely to be included in new homes this year.

The demise of the formal living room is predicted once again in 2012. Home buyers are much more likely to request a great room that combines the kitchen, family room and living room into one large open space at the center of the home.

Whirlpool Tubs

As with the multiple-head showers, whirlpool tubs in the master suite are also on the wane. You are more likely to see stand-alone tubs, in classic or contemporary styles, that make a design statement in the master bath, said Jill Waage, editorial director/home for Better Homes and Gardens magazine."

 

andrew  •  Jacksonville, Florida  •  2 hours 47 minutes ago

there is a difference between not being desirable and not having it in current homes because not as many people can afford it anymore

TFurm  •  2 hours 39 minutes ago

.....Instead of having to live IN A VAN....DOWN BY THE RIVER........

Concerned__Citizen  •  2 hours 32 minutes ago

Half a million NEW homes? What's wrong with all the empty ones already built with features at all price levels that are better bargains now than when they were new?

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Cataluna Lilith  •  Chatsworth, California  •  2 hours 56 minutes ago

This all sounds more like people have tighter budgets and are going for little, inexpensive luxuries in their homes, not that they don't want all these features.

Reinaldo  •  2 hours 15 minutes ago

"The richest man is not the one who has the most, but the one who needs the least."

9 Replies

mary  •  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania  •  2 hours 43 minutes ago

its not that we dont want them! WE CANT AFFORD THEM!!!!!!

Johnny  •  1 hour 35 minutes ago

•  Most popular home feature going away: Ownership.

NO one sees what KILLED them!

It is quite apparent from the following article that neither the US Home Builders nor FED Chairman Bernanke have the slightest clue as to what it was that hit them in 2006-2008, and what is YET TO HIT THEM again - for the second time!

Namely, the World and US economies and the US Home Building industry were hit in 2006 – 2008 by ONLY the first of three waves of the Super Tsunami “Kondratieff” Long Wave Deflationary Depressive Economic SUPER STORM!

I believe they just might begin to realize (when they are drowning in the second wave's onslaught, in not that many months from now) that this current downturn is NOT CYCLICAL, BUT THAT IT IS SECULAR and has just begun to sweep all the world’s economies before it!

Are you and your company ready for the coming economic chaos that will horrifically affect all of the DCBF’s buying patterns, habits and inclinations for the next three decades?

If not, you had best subscribe to our inaugural Market Review and Quarterly Updates, because it is now becoming quite obvious that no one does see what is in store for them.

But they will, after the buying bubble associated with the “Great Deception of 2012” does wear off and the second of the three waves of the Super Tsunami “Kondratieff” Long-Wave does sweep or’ their heads!

Bernanke: Housing Holds Back Fed Efforts

Bloomberg; By Joshua Zumbrun and Steve Matthews - Feb 10, 2012 2:27 PM ET

“Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said the central bank’s efforts to spur economic growth are being blunted by impediments to mortgage lending, and he called for further steps to heal the housing market.

“We have helped lower mortgage rates to the lowest point in many, many decades,” Bernanke told homebuilders today in Orlando, Florida. “Yet we are not seeing as much activity as we would like to see.”

Bernanke, who repeated that the pace of the recovery has been “frustratingly slow,” didn’t discuss the outlook for monetary policy. …The state of housing and mortgage markets may also be holding back the recovery of our financial system and the normalization of credit conditions,” Bernanke said today to the National Association of Homebuilders International Builders’ Show.

Referring to the high standards of lenders following the housing bust, Bernanke said that “some tightening was no doubt necessary.”

“That being said, the pendulum has probably swung too far in the other direction by this time,” he said. “Conditions are still too tight for the health of both the financial system, for the construction industry and for our economy. ”

…Existing home sales climbed to a 4.61 million annual pace in December, up from 3.3 million in July 2010, the worst month on record, according to the National Association of Realtors.

Bernanke said foreclosed properties in poor condition that aren’t likely to attract buyers could be dealt with by land banks, government entities that have the ability to purchase and sell real estate, clear titles, and accept donated properties.

“Properties may be rehabilitated as rental or owner- occupied housing or, in extreme cases, demolished,” Bernanke said today. …The Fed chief also said he sees “potential” in programs that convert real estate owned homes -- those that are owned by banks after foreclosure -- into rentals.

Pretty Large

“In order for this to work, you have to have pretty large numbers of homes acquired,” Bernanke said, and that a program to provide financing for such conversions could be beneficial.

Sales Improved

Confidence among U.S. homebuilders rose in January to the highest level in more than four years as sales and buyer traffic improved, according to the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo sentiment gauge.

“Chairman Bernanke understands the situation in housing,” said Barry Rutenberg, a Gainesville, Florida homebuilder who is chairman of the National Association of Home Builders and introduced Bernanke to a standing ovation. “This group is not normally, not always that warm and fuzzy.”

The Standard & Poor’s 500 Homebuilding Index has increased 23 percent this year.

“Simply put, our business feels more positive,” Donald Tomnitz, chief executive of D.R. Horton Inc., the largest U.S homebuilder by volume, said on a Jan. 27 earnings call. “We are entering fiscal year ‘12 feeling better than we have in six years and it’s been a long six years.”

Did anybody tell Mr. Tomnitz that we have 18,000,000 EMPTY or ABANDONED living units (of which the vast majority are stand-alone houses) in the United States of America right now?

Why don’t all these ‘numbnutz” like Tomnitz (that got us and them in this mess), go and work at Wendy’s and McDonalds, where they are really needed and their skill-sets can be fully exploited to the benefit of the rest of us?

Consumer Demand is STILL collapsing!

The “New Normal” is affecting almost all businesses that are geared to the American consumer.  But the MSM (MainStream Media) is very simply missing that main and very significant story line, because no one (especially economists) wants to admit the obvious:

#1 The US Housing Market is totally wrecked and will NOT recover for over twenty years, as clearly indicated by the following bad news from the premier maker of bathroom and kitchen fixtures, i.e. Masco sales are continuing to collapse, even five years after the top of the housing market implosion. 

Are the economists really so blind that they can not see that it is different this time and that this is not a cyclical business down-turn, but rather a secular collapse brought on by the Super Tsunami “Kondratieff” Long-Wave that STILL HAS TWO more waves, with which to bury ALL the world’s economies? 

Apparently, so!

They will totally prove their uselessness when they will crow and pontificate endlessly in early to mid 2013 when the housing sales price numbers will turn up, but remember (as we explained in depth in our Market Review, Quarterly Updates and on these Blogs) that upturn will be in ONLY absolute terms and NOT in ‘inflation adjusted’ terms! 

And it is raging, out of control inflation that is soon to wreck this party of those “who can not see” and those “who can not hear” and those “who do not understand!”  

#2 Aggregate Consumer Demand is dropping straight across the board, as most clearly indicated by the following disaster, at a business that does depend TOTALLY on consumer discretionary spending and was once judged to be a ‘bellweather’ and a very strong indicator of the American consumer’s (Debt Crazed Buying Fanatic) congenital urge to buy useless and worthless and overpriced ‘stuff,’ that is now going the way of so many other American icons.

#3 The wealthy rich of the Financial and banking sectors (who live primarily in New York City, LA, Chicago, Hartford, Charlotte, Atlanta and other money centers) whose buts were saved - because their businesses were saved with total bailouts and loans of over $20,000,000,000,000 - are doing extremely well and WILL do much, much better than all other Americans as this United States of America continues to sink.

Are you and your company ready for the TOTALLY false stock rallies of late 2012 and 2013, which will be very similar to the three TOTALLY false stock rallies of the late 60’s and 72, by which the American DCBF (Debt Crazed Buying Fanatic) will then be brazenly persuaded by the pundits and sycophants on MSM to believe that all is well and the economy is on the mend, when it is still sinking?

For, with these rallies later this year and early next the DCBF will go out  on their forever last huge buying surge, before they and most American companies are TOTALLY obliterated and swept away by ONLY the second wave of the Super Tsunami “Kondratieff” Long-Waves?

And when you and your company do see the systemic affect and the ultimate effect of the second wave, just wait and see what the third wave of the Super Tsunami "Kondratieff" Long-Wave will wrack on this country and the entire world!  

Avon Products Climbs on Plan to Cut Jobs

Bloomberg: By Lauren Coleman-Lochner - Feb 14, 2012 10:34 AM ET

“. . . Chief Financial Officer Kimberly Ross said today on a conference call that the company has opportunities to reduce its headcount immediately. Avon is working with McKinsey & Co. to restructure its global operations and cut costs in North America, . . . . . . . Avon said sales declined and costs increased during the quarter amid higher distribution expenses.

“Avon cannot begin to improve worsening fundamentals resulting from a disadvantaged business model, a disenfranchised representative base, and years of underinvestment,” Mark Astrachan, an analyst at Stifel Nicolaus & Co. in New York, said today in note to investors. . . “

Sector Trends: Masco Leading Housing Stocks Lower (MAS, HOV, RYL, WY)

(RTTNews) -  2/14/2012 11:21 AM ET

"Housing stocks are seeing considerable weakness during trading on Tuesday . . .

The losses by housing stocks have resulted in a 2.4 percent drop by the Philadelphia Housing Sector Index, which is pulling back off its best closing level in well over a year.

Masco (MAS) is turning in one of the housing sector's worst performances, with the building products maker down by 13 percent after ending Monday's trading at an eight-month closing high.

The pullback by Masco comes after the company reported a wider than expected fourth quarter loss on weaker than expected revenue growth. . . .”

Unemployed UNDER our Bridges & NOT counted

The following (excerpted) article does reveal many truths for those “who can see” and for those “who can hear” and for those “who can understand.”

Namely, if one counted a decent percentage of the 88,000,000 Americans (noted in paragraph two below) who are without a job, say 20% or 14,080,000, in the number of Americans that are unemployed, THE real unemployment numbers are probably over 35%.  I offer 20% as a quite realistic number, because a large number of these 88,000,000 Americans obviously don’t want a job.  

At least, 5,000,000 are on the dirty cheap "Satan's Dust" that I do bemoan and  decry in the last two paragraphs of this Blog.

We can never be certain about the actual numbers of distressed Americans, BUT all of us all over this OGCC (Once Great Christian Country) do see the evidence every day of the ‘Lost Americans.’

The ‘Lost Americans’ are under our bridges, in our parks and on the byways and the roadways and the highways. The ‘Lost Americans’ are ignored, scorned; they are lost, forlorn, unwashed, uncared for; and they have no home, no job and no hope and apparently in this OGCC nobody cares anymore.

On their behalf, I do offer, gratuitously in today’s blog, what I do emphatically emphasize in our Market Reviews and Quarterly updates:  namely, you in the Marketing and Advertising world could GREATLY leverage your company’s profile by entering the campaign to right the wrong of these forgotten Americans, many of whom are the lost generation of Veterans of Vietnam and Desert Storm who were horrifically affected physically and mentally by their experiences.

And quite unfortunately they will be joined by tens of thousands of new Veterans of our latest illegal wars that are bankrupting this OGCC – IMO.  The illegal misadventure of these new illegal wars do exceed the illegal and costly and stupid Vietnam adventure.

AND the False “Gulf Of Tonkin Incident” and the Pentagon Papers prove that to be true for Vietnam and NO ‘WMD’ in Iraq, do prove that to be true for Iraq and I am sure the facts will prove that to be true for every other illegal war that is now apparently on the books.

Incidentally, whatever you might think about the mess in Afghanistan, the Taliban had snuffed out the Opium trade. BUT, the opium trade is now a MULTI Billion Dollar business and the cheap heroine is killing our youth on our streets of ALL of our big cities.

In fact, the now extra cheap dirty stuff of the newly revivified Opium trade sourced from Afghanistan is even here on the streets of Sarasota!

Does anyone care about that!!!!

Jobless Decline Masks Drop in U.S. Labor Force

Bloomberg: By Alex Kowalski - Feb 8, 2012 9:50 AM ET

“The unemployment rate’s unexpected drop to a three-year low has overshadowed a less-positive labor- market development: fewer Americans are looking for work.

… The same report showed the share of working-age people in the labor force had declined to the lowest level in 29 years.

The so-called participation rate was cited by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke yesterday to support his assessment that the rate of unemployment obscures vulnerabilities in the job market. Bernanke, speaking to the Senate Budget Committee, confirmed the Fed’s stance that interest rates will stay low at least through late 2014, and repeated his view that the job market is a “long way” from returning to normal. …

Missing Workers

The Labor Department last week boosted the count of the U.S. working-age population by 1.51 million people based on findings from the 2010 Census. Of those, 1.25 million, or 83 percent, weren’t in the workforce, the data showed.

….The jump in the count of those not in the labor force caused the participation rate to drop to 63.7 percent last month, the lowest since May 1983. About 88 million Americans aged 16 years or older didn’t have a job and weren’t trying to find one, the new data showed.

The unemployment rate, which only counts people who say they are actively looking for work, would be higher if some of those sought employment.

Bernanke’s View

“It is very important to look not just at the unemployment rate,” Bernanke said in response to questions during yesterday’s hearing. “The 8.3 percent no doubt understates the weakness of the labor market in some broad sense.” Some people are leaving the workforce because they can’t find jobs, and others are taking part-time jobs because they can’t find full- time employment, he said. …

Older and Younger

A breakdown of the new Census numbers helps explain why the participation rate is even lower than previously estimated. About 1.29 million of the gain in the working-age population came from those 55 years and older, while another 521,000 were 16 to 24 year-olds, two groups that traditionally have lower participation rates. ….

Monetary Policy

The argument for how long the Fed should maintain stimulus hinges on whether policy makers view the drop in participation as a long-lasting shift in demographics, or a shorter-term shock that will soon be reversed. Monetary policy is aimed at cushioning the economy from temporary shifts.

A research paper published Feb. 1 by economists at the Federal Reserve

… “We’re very depressed relative to normal trend levels in terms of employment and output,” Michael Darda, chief market strategist at MKM Partners LP, said in a Feb. 6 interview on Bloomberg Television…”

Recovery or Deflationary Depression?

Last Friday President Barack Obama made a real BIG Deal about the Labor Department’s January employment report.  He had the audacity to say that the report was “good news” and that “the economy is speeding up” and the US economy is “growing stronger.”  And the MSM (MainStream Media) did not call him on his misstatements or ‘exaggerations for effect’ or delusional misunderstanding of the exceptionally grim facts that now are rampant in All of America, five of which we recount below:

Oh yeh! If we were counting the unemployed as they were counted back in 1982, then the number of unemployed is around 16%, and if we throw in the underemployed, who would like to have real fulltime jobs, then the number is closer to 24% that is eerily close to the levels reached in the Great Depression of the 30’s!  

Does that sound like a "Recovery?"

Also, the MSM does NOT report that the actual % of those marginally employed is now 15.1% versus only 6.3% in December 2007.  

Does that sound like a US economy that is “growing stronger?”

How could this be, you might ask?

Well it is because by the Labor Department's very own numbers, there are now 5,700,000 fewer jobs in America than there were in December 2007!  

Does that sound like “the economy is speeding up?”

And from that very same date until now, the percentage of working Americans has DROPPED from 62.7% to 58.5%.    

Does that sound like “good news?”

In addition to these things, the MSM failed to report to the American public that the US Labor Department in January estimated that the economy lost 2,689,000 jobs in the most recent period.

(For a list of over Fifty even more horrific facts that do prove we are in a Deflationary Depression, please subscribe to our Market Review.)

So, is this a recession or a recovery or a Deflationary Depression brought on by the First of Three Waves of the Super Tsunami “Kondratieff” Long Wave Super Cycle?

If you have read these Blogs and our web site and our Market Review, then you do know where we stand on this issue.  It very simply boils down to the ‘numbers’ and the numbers don’t lie!

ONLY Liars LIE!

Are you and your company ready and fully prepared to negotiate the 'Stormy Times" directly ahead of us?  

If not, take a look at the bottom of our Home page at www.polestarcomm.com to see a list of just a few companies that did not survive the Credit -Crisis of 2007/08!

NOW consider this:

The next wave (and SECOND wave of the full set of THREE waves) of the Super Tsunami "Kondratieff" Long-Wave onslaught will be many factors worse than the first was.

From our proprietary econometric modeling and uniquely structured analysis of the "Debt Dilemma Metrics" (DDM), we are confident that we will know roughly when it will sweep ALL before it, ie. Bernanke's recent insane comments on the extended probability of the FED's ZIRP (Zero Interest Rate Policy), to the Summer of 2014, has pushed everything out at least 6 to 16 months from our original DDM base marks.  

In addition, the economics metrics-matrix that we use to know these things we describe in a cursory fashion on our web site.

HOWEVER, if you would like to know ahead of time for what NO ONE IS NOW PREDICTING, then you must be a subscriber to our Market Review, because we are (very apparently) the ONLY one out here that is talking about these things! 

Sheering of the "Sheeple" in ALL Stock Markets

With many, many daily articles in ALL the MSM (MainStream Media), such as the one that we highlight in this Blog, the “Sheeple” are - right now - being tricked by the MSM’s PORE (Psy-OPS Reporting and Editorializing) to enter the stock market again after 4 years of being ‘scared out of their pants’ about common stocks, which was directly caused by the horrific “Sheering” they most tragically suffered in the winter of 2008 & 2009.

Just as in the 'False' stock market rallies to DOW 1000 in the late sixties and early 70's, the "Sheeple" will be sucked into a "Roaring" stock market in late 2012 and early 2013, after which they will be TOTALLY destroyed in the GREATEST STOCK MARKET CRASH since 1929.

 

These things were very CLEARLY and INELUCTABLY predicted in our Blogs of 11/18/11  (“Prediction: DOW 14,500 by May-Sept 2012”) and most significantly on 11/28/11 ("Dupes" are setting up the "Dopes").

 

We are very much now beginning to appreciate the time that we spent composing our Blogs last year, because now our work load is much lighter since we can just refer you back to those pertinent Blogs, which we now do.

 

Namely, read the two referenced Blogs above, and you will very quickly understand all that ‘we are seeing’ and all the ‘we will ALL see’ in the near future and on into 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 and ultimately into the 2020’s.

 

After much consideration over the last two weeks, we do now take the time to make one slight alteration to those earlier predictions that has been necessitated by the TOTALLY insane ZIRP (Zero Interest Rate Policy) that the FED just announced.    

 

We do now predict that DOW will reach at least 15,500 and very probably 16,000 in the Spring to Fall of 2013 - after which the economic HORROR Show of ALL economic HORROR Shows will commence.

 

You see, the FED is now reduced to momentary (as in months and NOT years) delays of the “Kondratieff,” but the FED can NO LONGER halt its onslaught and the FED’s delaying tactics will only insure a MUCH more catastrophic outcome for ALL the world!

 

S&P 500 Extends Best Start to Year Since ’89

Bloomberg; By Rita Nazareth - Feb 3, 2012 11:58 AM ET

“U.S. stocks advanced, extending the best start to a year for the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index since 1989, after a report showed that employment growth topped estimates and the jobless rate unexpectedly fell to 8.3 percent….

“Spectacular,” Ron Florance, managing director of investment strategy for Wells Fargo Private Bank, said in a telephone interview from Phoenix. His firm manages $169 billion. “It’s a very, very strong jobs number. It shows that companies have confidence that they see global demand growth through their products and services. That will support risk assets.”

Stocks and bond yields jumped as the report fueled optimism the economy is weathering the European debt crisis. The 243,000 increase in payrolls was the most since April and exceeded all forecasts in a Bloomberg News survey. The unemployment rate dropped to the lowest since February 2009. …

Better economic data should help drive solid corporate earnings, said Brad Sorensen at Charles Schwab Corp. Earnings in the S&P 500 are forecast to rise 9 percent this year …

“It will be a decent year for the stock market,” Sorensen, director of market and sector analysis at San Francisco-based Charles Schwab, said in a telephone interview. His firm has $1.68 trillion in client assets. “Investors are starting to rotate some money into stocks as they become more confident in the economic outlook. . . ”

The Truth is NOT pretty

In our Blog of 1/9/12 (Is it a Recovery, a Recession OR A Depression?), we addressed a VERY serious issue of what we would label the professional subversion of the facts so as to confuse, deceive and to delude the “Sheeple” so that they will believe that the economy of the United States of America is in a recovery phase, when it is, in fact, still mired in the initial stages of a massive Deflationary Depression ineluctably caused by JUST the FIRST of THREE waves that will eventually totally collapse/implode ALL economies of the World, as the "Kondratieff" Long-Wave Super Tsunami overwhelms ALL.  

 

By now you all know what we believe and why we believe these things.  We do offer the following article as ‘prima facie’ evidence of our position.  The following - significantly shortened - article offers tragically horrifying evidence of the true state of the economy in the United States of America, not that MBW (Make Believe World) that is constantly reported on FV (Funny Vision) and which is totally intended to create the greatest degree of RD (Reality Dissonance) amongst the "Sheeple," so that they will consistently be in the wrong investments at (very PRECISELY) the WRONG time. 

 

(To clearly understand these things, you must  review our many Blogs on these things in November, December and early January) 

 

Additionally, our inaugural Market Review does cover these things in great detail, by revealing over FIFTY little reported and truly scary facts about the true state of the economy in these United States of America that DO PROVE that this country is in a DEPRESSION.

 

The full article – with photos – can be read at, and we might add – SHOULD BE READ BY ALL:

http://realestate.yahoo.com/promo/americas-most-miserable-cities-2012.html

 

America's Most Miserable Cities, 2012

By Kurt Badenhausen, Forbes.com; February 2, 2012

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“…Miami is a playground for the rich and famous. Celebrities flock to parties at South Beach clubs and then return to their $10 million mansions in Miami Beach and Key Biscayne. It’s a leading city in culture, finance and international trade. But away from the glitz and glamor, many ordinary Miamians are struggling.

A crippling housing crisis has cost multitudes of residents their homes and jobs. The metro area has one of the highest violent crime rates in the country and workers face lengthy daily commutes. Add it all up and Miami takes the top spot in our ranking of America’s Most Miserable Cities.

In pictures: America's Most Miserable Cities

The most famous way to gauge misery is the Misery Index developed by economist Arthur Okun in the 1960s, which combines unemployment and inflation. Our take on misery is based on the things that people complain about on a regular basis.

We looked at 10 factors for the 200 largest metro areas and divisions in the U.S. Some are serious, like violent crime, unemployment rates, foreclosures, taxes (income and property), home prices and political corruption. …  Miami has local company in misery on our list: the West Palm Beach metropolitan division ranks fourth and Fort Lauderdale is seventh. Both areas have been hit hard by the housing crises.

Michigan’s troubled duo of Detroit and Flint clock in at No. 2 and No. 3 among the most miserable cities. The cities have been reeling for decades due to the decline of the U.S. auto industry and in recent years have been demolishing houses to change their city landscapes. Detroit has closed schools and laid off police, while Michigan appointed an emergency manager last year to take over Flint’s budget and operations. … Last year’s most miserable city, Stockton, ranks No. 11 this year. Stockton got a boost as housing prices have stabilized to some degree after a 45% drop between 2006 and 2008…”

….The housing crisis has devastated Miami with 47% of homeowners sitting on underwater mortgages. Foreclosures have been rampant with 364,000 properties in the Miami area entering the foreclosure process since 2008 according to RealtyTrac.”