More Big Name Retailers Going Down

This Kondratieff Secular Wave promises to totally and completely remake America 's Retail Landscape.

The question now is, "Which Retailers will survive?

Following from:

https://www.retaildive.com/news/neiman-marcus-talbots-and-lands-end-among-those-added-to-new-fitch-watch/507886/\


"...Those retailers on the secondary list were: Neiman Marcus (with a total outstanding loan balance of $2.8 billion), Academy Sports ($1.69 billion), J. Crew ($1.37 billion), Fullbeauty Brands ($1.17 billion), Savers Inc. ($679 million), Talbots ($585 million), Land’s End ($498.3 million), Bluestem Brands ($471.4 million), Spencer Spirit Holdings ($454 million), Cole Haan ($309 million) and Indra Holdings ($245 mil)..."

Death of Retail -- it is the Kondratieff Wave Stupid!!!

Hey Folks,

Per our many warnings over the years, it is now becoming obvious to very nearly everybody that the Retail Landscape has forever changed in America.

http://www.businessinsider.com/list-stores-closing-2017-9

View the visible carnage in Retail America at this article on Business Insider:

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-american-retail-apocalypse-in-photos-2017-3

"...These haunting photos of the retail apocalypse reveal a new normal in America

Clothing strewn on the ground at a Manhattan JCPenney — a common sign at struggling retailers across the industry.Joe Avella
The retail apocalypse has descended on America.
More than 6,400 stores are expected to close across the country this year.
Department stores like Macy's, Sears, and JCPenney, and retailers including BCBG, Abercrombie & Fitch, and Bebe have decided to close dozens of stores.
Walking through a mall in 2017 is like walking through a graveyard.
Here's photographic evidence that a retail apocalypse is hitting the US hard.... "

The question now is what does it all mean?

And all the reputed experts are giving a myriad of reasons all of which are probably correct in a Meta or Micro analysis.

But by ignoring Secular Wave Cycles of consumption -  as driven by consumer confidence and enthusiasm - they are all totally missing the point in any competently structured Economic Analysis.

Namely, it is the Kondratieff Wave Stupid!!!   

Apocalyptic America

The End of America 

As seen from the eyes of the next generation of Americans, our country's decline is nothing but a cartoon-scape of fun and devilment gone bizarrely insane.

For anyone who has ever doubted that this country's decline is memorial and accelerating, read this trash from the East Coast NYT's * that chronicles the younger trash from the West Coast making a joke of our National Demise.

http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/10/museum-of-ice-cream-maryellis-bunn.html

* See my Post from 11/21/16 that exposes this filthy Yellow Rag's complicity in the Vietnam Fiasco, by falsely creating the scenario to embark on an ILLEGAL War that then claimed the lives of over 57,000 young Americans, and grievously wounded over 350,000 young Americans, and killed over 5,000,000 Vietnamese, and wounded over 10,000,000 more - even up until today, when unsuspecting children and farmers encounter unexploded ordinance from that ILLEGAL War 

Kondratieff Tsunami Rolling along

Following few links are for those who don’t see evidence of Kondratieff in America of the 2017 era

Just remember, I predicted back in 2009-11 that all during the Kondratieff Contraction there will be pockets of prosperity across the country primarily associated with Escape Venues.

What is an Escape Venue?

Prime locations in Destination Cities, on the water, or in Resort locations, i.e. New York, San Francisco, Aspen, Newport Beach, Miami, San Diego, Outer Banks, Galveston Island, Sarasota, etc., etc.

But the rest of the country is still witnessing and feeling the broad effect of the Kondratieff Tsunami that hit in 2007-08; and even Escape Venues will finally  experience the full wrath of the coming storm associated with the coming collapse of the Dollar, which will precipitate the collapse of the Markets (DJI, NASD, etc.) and everything else!!

Cheers,

“Going, gone: America’s fastest-shrinking cities;”  USA Today;  April 8, 2016

 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2016/04/08/24-7-wallst-america-shrinking-cities-population-migration/82740600/

A surreal photo review of Failed Architectural American – Shopping Malls

https://www.failedarchitecture.com/fa-bookmarks/completely-surreal-photos-of-americas-abandoned-malls/

 

“The middle class is dying. The proof is in America’s cities: Salon.com;  May 14, 2016

http://www.salon.com/2016/05/14/the_middle_class_is_dying_partner/

Homeless on the rise in NYC

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/homeless-nyc-increase-40-percent-de-blasio-432688953.html

This defines the shrinkage of the Middle Class: those who can afford housing is in decades-long decline:  those who spend more that 30% on housing are in that category:

http://www.jchs.harvard.edu/research/state_nations_housing

“Dying shopping malls are wreaking havoc on suburban America;”  Business Insider; March 5, 2017

“… Like Rolling Acres, shopping malls across the country are dying, and, in some cases, leaving jobless communities and rotting buildings that are hotbeds for crime in their wake.
Dozens of malls have closed in the last 10 years, and many more are at risk of shutting down as retailers like Macy's, JCPenney, and Sears — also known as anchor stores — shutter hundreds of stores to staunch the bleeding from falling sales.
The commercial-real-estate firm CoStar estimates that nearly a quarter of malls in the US, or roughly 310 of the nation's 1,300 shopping malls, are at high risk of losing an anchor store. …”

‘…The shopping that used to be done in the mall is now at Family Dollar, Dollar General, Dollar Tree, TJ Maxx, and Walmart," Davidowitz said. …”

http://www.businessinsider.com/dying-shopping-malls-are-wreaking-havoc-on-suburban-america-2017-2

“The Rise and Fall of the Shopping Mall;”  March 12, 2017

https://daily.jstor.org/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-shopping-mall/

Kondratieff Tsunami Continues Apace

Many have asked, "why have you made so few posts over the last several years?"



Well, when you're right, you're right:  you need not keep blathering, as so many do.

Namely, when all my macro-economic forecasts, since March 2009, are still in play and progressing inevitably toward the prophesied (see all my pages on www.polestarcomm.com) complete economic devolution of the USA economy, sometime in 2022-2025, I need neither amend nor comment - very often.

In the first years, up until 2013, I did post many times, because until the phony stock market rally and all the other BS was fully in play no one could believe that the PTB could engineer a HUGE and phony stock market rally despite collapsing DEMAND FOR ALL THINGS OVER ALL THE EARTH; that is, except for the trinkets and baubles of the rich who are getting ever richer, while the poor are getting ever poorer.

In other words, since then, there has been no need to say very much; i.e.

#1 the USA economy has continued in a death-spiral contraction,
#2 The formerly prosperous middle class is now in an obvious and severe contraction,
#3 Real inflation, not phony Commerce Dept. data, continues to rage unabated,
#4 Precious Metals, especially gold, has been artificially crushed by the PTB, and will go much, much lower.

But, so many tens of millions have now been totally duped by the Trumpster, that I feel it is time for an update:  I hope to have one up in a couple of weeks.

Until then:

#1 USA economy still in contraction,
#2 middle class still being wiped out,
#3 Real inflation still going much, much higher,
#4 Gold still going much, much lower - probably under $725 an ounce,
#5 Dow Jones still going much, much higher;
except I now see DJI going over 36,000 not the old number of 26,000.

So keep watching because there are many ways to enrich yourselves and to survive in this treacherous economy.
Cheers,
Richard

Some Real Victims (in prior generations) of Fake News

In my last post I referenced the Fake News that was spewed out to prior generations by all our Main Stream Media, but most especially by the New York Times, after the fabricated events of the 2nd of August 1964.

So what about  the absolute Bullshit Fake News of the Gulf of Tonkin Incident?

This Gulf of Tonkin Incident has since been absolutely proven to have been false and to have been, therefore, Fake News; i.e. it was totally manufactured and propagated by our US Government in a Devil's Pact with the MSM; and was nothing less than totally Fake News to mislead a blindly stupid public.

And we, of that era, paid a huge price!!

Here follows the photographic evidence of their criminality; and herein represented in fifty year old photos are just a very few of the the millions and millions of real victims that were very directly affected by the LIES of the totally and completely FAKE NEWS of that fabricated event of 2nd of August of 1964, that was freely and joyfully propagated by the filthy Main Steam Media of years gone by:

http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/19/world/gallery/iconic-vietnam-war-photos/
 https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/vietnam-photos

So, now the Main Stream Media (NYT, et. al.) claims to be the only source of real news?

The Real Growth in the USA Is In Tent Cities

Are you really interested in what is really happening in this economy that was set in motion by the Kondratieff Tsunami of 2008/09??

If so?

I think that I gave you guys this website back in 2012:  that is, if you want to find the truth then you have to peruse websites like this guy's.

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/tent-cities-full-of-homeless-people-are-booming-in-cities-all-over-america-as-poverty-spikes

Tent Cities Full Of Homeless People Are Booming In Cities All Over America As Poverty Spikes

By Michael Snyder, on September 11th, 2016

Just like during the last economic crisis, homeless encampments are popping up all over the nation as poverty grows at a very alarming rate.  According to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, more than half a million people are homeless in America right now, but that figure is increasing by the day.  And it isn’t just adults that we are talking about.  It has been reported that that the number of homeless children in this country has risen by 60 percent since the last recession, and Poverty USA says that a total of 1.6 million children slept either in a homeless shelter or in some other form of emergency housing at some point last year.  Yes, the stock market may have been experiencing a temporary boom for the last couple of years, but for those on the low end of the economic scale things have just continued to deteriorate.

Tonight, countless numbers of homeless people will try to make it through another chilly night in large tent cities that have been established in the heart of major cities such as Seattle, Washington, D.C. and St. Louis.  Homelessness has gotten so bad in California that the L.A. City Council has formally asked Governor Jerry Brown to officially declare a state of emergency.   And in Portland the city has extended their “homeless emergency” for yet another year, and city officials are really struggling with how to deal with the booming tent cities that have sprung up…

There have always been homeless people in Portland, but last summer Michelle Cardinal noticed a change outside her office doors.

Almost overnight, it seemed, tents popped up in the park that runs like a green carpet past the offices of her national advertising business. She saw assaults, drug deals and prostitution. Every morning, she said, she cleaned human feces off the doorstep and picked up used needles.

“It started in June and by July it was full-blown. The park was mobbed,” she said. “We’ve got a problem here and the question is how we’re going to deal with it.”

But of course it isn’t just Portland that is experiencing this.  The following list of major tent cities that have become so well-known and established that they have been given names comes from Wikipedia…

• Camp Hope, Las Cruces, New Mexico ^[1]
• Camp Quixote, Olympia, Washington State^[2]
• Camp Take Notice, Ann Arbor, Michigan^[3]
• Dignity Village, Portland, Oregon
• Opportunity Village, Eugene, Oregon
• Maricopa County Sheriff’s Tent City, Phoenix, Arizona
• New Jack City and Little Tijuana, Fresno, California^[2]
• Nickelsville, located in Seattle^[2][4]
• Right 2 Dream Too, Portland, Oregon^[5]
• River Haven,^[6] Ventura County, California^[7][8]
• Safe Ground, Sacramento, California^[2]
• The Jungle, San Jose, California^[2]
• Temporary Homeless Service Area (THSA), Ontario, California^[2]
• Tent City (100+ residents) of Lakewood, New Jersey^[9][10]
• Tent City, Avenue A and 13th Street, Lubbock, Texas^[11]
• Tent City, New Jersey forest^[12]
• Tent City, Bernalillo County, New Mexico^[13]
• Tent City, banks of the American River, Sacramento, California^{[14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22]}
• Tent City 3, Seattle
• Tent City, Chicago, Illinois [1]
• Tent City 4, eastern King County outside of Seattle
• The Point, where the Gunnison River and Colorado River meet^[23]
• The Village of Hope and Community of Hope, Fresno, California^[2]
• Transition Park, Camden, New Jersey
• Tent City, Fayette County, Tennessee, [2]
• Camp Unity Eastside, Woodinville, WA [3]
• China Hat Road, Bend, Oregon

Most of the time, those that establish tent cities do not want to be discovered because local authorities have a nasty habit of shutting them down and forcing homeless people out of the area.  For example, check out what just happened in Elkhart, Indiana…

A group of homeless people in Elkhart has been asked to leave the place they call home. For the last time, residents of ‘Tent City’ packed up camp.
City officials gave residents just over a month to vacate the wooded area; Wednesday being the last day to do so.
The property has been on Mayor Tim Neese’s radar since he took office in January, calling it both a safety and health hazard to its residents and nearby pedestrian traffic.
“This has been their home but you can’t live on public property,” said Mayor Tim Neese, Elkhart.

If they can’t live on “public property”, where are they supposed to go?
They certainly can’t live on somebody’s “private property”.
This is the problem – people don’t want to deal with the human feces, the needles, the crime and the other problems that homeless people often bring with them.  So the instinct is often to kick them out and send them away.
Unfortunately, that doesn’t fix the problem.  It just passes it on to someone else.
As this new economic downturn continues to accelerate, our homelessness boom is going to spiral out of control.  Pretty soon, there will be tent cities in virtually every community in America.
In fact, there are people that are living comfortable middle class lifestyles right at this moment that will end up in tents.  We saw this during the last economic crisis, and it will be even worse as this next one unfolds.
Just like last time around, the signs that the middle class is really struggling can be subtle at first, but when you learn to take note of them you will notice that they are all around you.  The following comes from an excellent article in the New York Post…

Do you see grocery stores closing? Do you see other retailers, like clothing stores and department stores, going out of business?
Are there shuttered storefronts along your Main Street shopping district, where you bought a tool from the hardware store or dropped off your dry cleaning or bought fruits and vegetables?
Are you making as much money annually as you did 10 years ago?
Do you see homes in neighborhoods becoming run down as the residents either were foreclosed upon, or the owner lost his or her job so he or she can’t afford to cut the grass or paint the house?
Did that same house where the Joneses once lived now become a rental property, where new people come to live every few months?
Do you know one or two people who are looking for work? Maybe professionals, who you thought were safe in their jobs?

Don’t look down on those that are living in tents, because the truth is that many “middle class Americans” will ultimately end up joining them.
The correct response to those that are hurting is love and compassion.  We all need help at some point in our lives, and I know that I am certainly grateful to those that have given me a helping hand at various points along my journey.
Sadly, hearts are growing cold all over the nation, and the weather is only going to get colder over the months ahead.  Let us pray for health and safety for the hundreds of thousands of Americans that will be sleeping in tents and on the streets this winter.


Do you think this is one of those websites that carries the newly coined Fake News?

Regarding Fake NEWS!!!!??

Do any of you possibly remember the Fake News carried by the New York Times in August 2, 1964 regarding:

two little imaginary gun boats of North Vietnam that attacked destroyers of the US NAVY?

Well?

I sure do!!

And I can very well F_ckin remember that like yesterday, because that FAKE NEWS story by the filthy NYTs led very directly to the deaths of over 57,000 young Americans, the wounding of over 350,000 young Americans, the murder (Death by War) of over 5 1/2 million young Vietnamese on both sides; all of whom were better than any of the pinko, sodomite, lesbians that are demonstrating in the streets of America today!!