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You’re about to lose everything because of the system’s big lie. While you’re holding your
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breath for another 2008 style financial collapse, it’s already happening. In the dark. Out of sight.
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The government will tell you inflation is “just 3%.” That everything is stable. That the economy
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is holding strong. But if you’re in the bottom half, you already feel the gap between what they
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say and what’s real. Because your reality isn’t 3%. It’s closer to 9%, and it’s getting worse.
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It’s all thanks to a shadow banking system holding $2 trillion hostage with accounting
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techniques that’d have you doing hard time in federal prison. When the crash hits,
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it won’t look like 2008. It’ll be quieter. Faster. And by the time
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you realize what’s happening, it’ll be too late to protect yourself.
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This is the real reason the economy hasn’t collapsed yet.
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Part One - The Great Disconnect
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You and the investment class are living in two different universes. The S&P 500 looks pretty
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healthy right now, reaching record levels. But you? You’ve got as much chance to get
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on the property ladder as you do climbing up a magic beanstalk. According to Fortune,
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US mortgage rates are at around 7% and you need to be earning at least
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6 figures if you want even a median priced home. That price, by the way,
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is around $422,000. Got that lying around in savings? Statistically, you absolutely don’t.
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The Fed says that the average savings for Americans under 35 is around $20,50. But
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because the ultra-rich heavily skew that math, far more than half of young Americans
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actually have even less than that. It feels like a slap in the face when most
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people are carefully budgeting just to stay afloat, trying to balance rent,
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groceries, and fuel that seems to get more expensive every time you fill up.
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America’s median home price-to-income ratio has risen from 3.5 in 1985 to 5.0 in 2025. In 1985,
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your average worker buying a house is kind of like investing in a luxury car. In 2026,
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it’s more like your average worker buying a private jet.
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Inflation is out of control, no matter what the government tells you. The biggest lie of all is
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that it’s a burden that the whole population is shouldering equally. According to Allianz,
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prices have increased by +29% since January 2019, with a persistent +3
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percentage point inflation gap (pps) between low- and high-income households. Even more
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disturbing? One in three low-income households spends about 95% of income on basic needs.
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Given that so much of inflation is based around basic necessities like food and fuel,
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the families spending the most on those are inevitably the ones most
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impacted by price hikes. For people with elite income far higher than the median,
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16% of their spending is on discretionary goods and services. That’s accountant-speak for things
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you don’t absolutely need to buy. Compare that to only 12% of lower-income households. These
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prices are the most stable under inflation, so high income consumers suffer less while
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median and low income families get the full force of every economic disaster.
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To enjoy what used to be “middle class life”, you need an elite salary now. All
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the math points to anyone in the lower middle class and below slowly sinking deeper toward
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insolvency. So why does the government - and the big banks - act like everything is fine?
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Someone is telling a lie… and they’re getting rich off it.
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Part Two - The Nine Percent Secret
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While the government is often a lot more eager to turn your attention to the DOW or the S&P 500,
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the real stat we need to focus on here is the Consumer Price Index, or CPI.
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That’s where the dark secret is hiding.
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In 2023, the reported consumer price index for all urban consumers was 4.1%, but the Ludwig Institute
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for Shared Economic Prosperity noticed an inconsistency that could make all the difference.
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The Ludwig Institute calculates their own metric that cuts through the shadows
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gathered around the government CPI reading. It’s called the TLC,
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or True Living Cost Index. Remember when we told you that higher income households spend
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a lot more on non-essential outcomes? The TLC calculates the brutal stress inflation puts
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on the lower 50% of earners by excluding all the discretionary purchases that bulk out the
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yearly costs of higher income earners. Instead, we have housing, food, transportation, healthcare,
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childcare, technology and miscellaneous items like clothing and personal care.
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When a large share of the 80,000 plus items tracked in the CPI are stripped away in favor
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of the basics, the picture for lower middle and working-class households looks very different.
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Compared to the 4.1% CPI in 2023, the True Living Cost index came in at 9.4%, reflecting the reality
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of essential expenses like housing, food, and transport. This was the highest annual increase
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since 2001, less than a decade before the 2008 crash and right before the onset of the Iraq war.
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Ludwig said, “Middle- and working-class Americans are facing a growing economic crisis,
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struggling to make ends meet despite recent economic growth. The rising
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cost of living… stagnant wages and a shortage of living-wage employment,
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is creating a perfect storm that threatens social and economic stability...”
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But that’s a gamble that the government and the banking industry is more than happy to take.
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It’s your chips on the table, not theirs.
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This means that the middle class is bleeding spending power like it just nicked a major
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artery. As of 2025, people in the middle spending bracket make up only 28% of the
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total US consumer spending market. That same group had 37% in 1992. By contrast,
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the purchasing power of folks in the top 10% of earners, making over $250,000 a year, have filled
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the power vacuum. They were 35% of consumer spending back in 1992, and now they’re at 48%.
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Let that sink in.
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10% of people in the country are in control of nearly half of all consumer spending in the US.
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That’s more than just an advantage, it’s complete domination. And the working class
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are getting it even worse than the dwindling lower middle class. They
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make up only 9% of consumer spending power, less than a tenth of the total.
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According to Mark Zandi, the chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, lower income households
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have seen “...their share of the economic pie decline…” and that’s going to continue.
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The system is picking your pocket right now, trading on your future.
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But maybe they’ve already sown the seeds of their own demise. Surely,
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if purchasing power outside the top 10% collapses, the housing market follows?
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Historically, that’s one of the first cracks that drags the whole economy down.
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But it hasn’t. And that reveals another trick the
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system is using to make things look stable when they aren’t.
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Part Three - The Golden Handcuff Effect
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One of the biggest lies you’ve probably been told about the housing market is high interest
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rates will crash home prices. Interest rates go up during periods of inflation.
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High interest rates have been known to reduce house buying prices in the long run.
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Confused?
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Good. The financial industry wants you to be.
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Higher interest rates lead to houses being more expensive, which reduces demand. Reduced
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demand leads, theoretically, to surplus supply, which in turn brings prices down.
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It’s sound economics, unless… the supply is tied up.
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The mortgage rate is one of the most powerful economic drivers in the US.
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A difference of even 1 or 2 percentage points meaning thousands in extra monthly costs for
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homeowners. The pandemic saw historically low mortgage rates that allowed a lot of
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people to enter the housing market, and, in the process, dig in their heels for
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the next rate hike. 52.5% had an interest rate below 4% as of the second quarter of
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2025. New loans leapt up past 6% back in 2022, and have remained relatively firm ever since.
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But for those with low interest rates, there’s an incentive not to sell,
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given they’re in such a cushy position. This is known as “Golden Handcuffs”, a positive
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situation - for the individual homeowners, at least - that destroys any incentive to sell. The
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people outside the property market are denied a way in. The Federal Housing Finance Agency
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estimated that the "lock-in effect" has prevented 1.72 million home sales between 2022 and 2024.
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This is a nightmare that we don’t seem to be waking up from anytime soon.
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So despite the lower demand, the price is kept artificially high because the
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supply of houses is now historically low, at least 14% below pre-pandemic levels. And as
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a result of these price hikes, we’re even seeing listed houses staying on
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the market for longer. 62 days in late 2025, a week more than 2024.
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Cotality Chief Economist Dr. Selma Hepp says, “The lack of supply often creates a tight market,
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increasing the ratio of buyers to sellers. Markets with the largest
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scarcity of homes for sale continue to see the strongest price growth despite
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affordability challenges. For first-time buyers or those who must move… [it] creates
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a severe affordability challenge, locking them out of homeownership.”
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Whether they’re locked in or locked out of the housing market,
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there’s no denying that the general public is, by and large,
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locked. But that’s just one piece of the puzzle in a larger and way more terrifying picture.
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The risk of economic collapse didn’t just disappear after the 2008 crisis,
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it mutated into something even worse.
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Part Four - The Shadow Bank Time Bomb
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The past, present, and future of the economic nightmare rolling towards us is deeply tied
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up in the so-called Shadow Banking sector. The kind of volatility that triggered the
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Global Financial Crisis used to play out in the open before the Dodd–Frank Wall Street
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Reform and Consumer Protection Act. It was meant to curb “too big to fail,”
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end taxpayer-funded bailouts, and protect consumers from abusive financial practices.
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Of course, it didn’t end any of those things.
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It just moved them into the dark.
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Shadow banking prefers to call itself “non‑bank financial intermediation”.
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The Financial Stability Board broadly describes it as, quote, “credit intermediation involving
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entities and activities outside the regular banking system.” And in those dark spaces
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outside of traditional banking, you’d be amazed at the regulatory loopholes you can
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take advantage of. This is deeply tied to the rise of private credit. Where companies once went to
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banks for loans under strict rules and oversight, private credit shifts that lending into private,
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off balance sheet style arrangements between non-bank entities, largely out of public view.
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But here’s the crazy part: The banks are still involved, they’re just not directly giving the
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private loans. Instead, they provide financial backing to the private lenders. It made sense,
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pragmatically. The Dodd-Frank regulations forced traditional banks to hold more capital to reduce
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loan risk, and do more extensive checks on borrowers. It slowed the whole process down
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and created additional costs to lending. These aren’t problems for private credit,
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and it shows. The industry has now risen to heights of $2.1 trillion,
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and is forecast by BlackRock to hit $4.5 trillion by 2030.
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The major risk here is that, without regulation and transparency, this whole
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market will rot from the inside out. The rest of us will be dragged down with it as it goes.
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Raghavendra Rau, a professor of finance at the University of Cambridge, has said,
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“Nobody knows what the true value of assets these guys are holding. They’re
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opaque… we have no idea what’s going on in there...hopefully there are no bad loans.”
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But what if there are?
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The root of the bad loans causing the rot inside the booming private credit industry
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is the method they use to value their loans: Mark to model. This method uses
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financial models to value investments rather than actual current market prices. That means
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rather than being an exact science, there’s often a terrifying amount of guesswork… in
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an industry that is deeply tied into the overall economy. It seems almost
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like they have no idea if the entities they’re lending to will default on their loans or not.
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And there are still layers of this we haven’t yet peeled, ones somehow even worse than what
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we’ve seen before. These shadow banks are making dead companies seem alive on paper,
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by inventing and capitalizing on a new form of insidious debt.
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Part Five - The Zombie Economy
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Beyond Meat, Inc. AMC Entertainment. Sunrun. Five9 Inc. What do these businesses have in
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common? They’re all Zombies. When you look at the facts and stats,
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you start to realize that we might be facing an entire zombie apocalypse and not even know it.
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A Zombie Company is a business that barely makes enough to pay interest on debt. To stay afloat,
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it has to take on new borrowing just to service old payments. Their borrowing
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costs are insane and every day they creep just a little closer to insolvency. Seems
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like a pretty terrible condition for a company to be in. According to Deutsche Bank estimates,
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as of 2020, as much as 18% of publicly traded US companies are zombie companies.
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It’d be tempting to say, “Just shoot the zombie in the head and get over it”,
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but these zombie companies accounted for 2.2 million
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jobs back in 2020. As time goes on and the number increases as a result of inflation,
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the result will be even more jobs tied into these untenable, undead businesses.
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Most of these companies need to resort to PIK, or Payment in Kind,
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repayment plans to try in vain to keep up with their mounting debts. Essentially,
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instead of paying interest in cash, those payments are rolled into the outstanding debt balance
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owed to creditors. This increases the size of the debt mountain they’re under and often
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guarantees a slow but sure demise. With so much of the economy in this position, it feels like
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we’re witnessing a “controlled demolition”. A major pillar of the economy is slowly crumbling
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but the private credit industry is trying to keep the disaster behind a curtain of silence.
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But don’t fall for the shell game here. It’s meant to pull the wool over your
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eyes and make you forget the danger that’s creeping up behind you. While
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the corporations are playing “pretend and extend”, an entire generation is
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defaulting in silence, loading up the gunpowder for an economic explosion.
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Part Six - The Invisible Default
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Is it a bug? Is it a feature? Whether it was planned or not, the system only has one
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inevitable ending: Creating a K-shaped economy that plunges us deeper into the world of the
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haves and have-nots than ever before. Once the collapse is complete and the lines are drawn,
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all that’ll be left are the Asset Owners and the Service Workers.
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But what does any of that actually mean?
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The K-shaped economy is a concept for a society that’s so lopsided,
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that the richest Americans are responsible for half the economy. On one side, the stock
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market is booming and discretionary goods are selling like never before. On the other side,
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people are choosing between filling their gas tanks or their stomachs on
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a day to day basis. One slope going up, the other going down, like the structure of the
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letter K. And in our case, this divide is absolutely split along generational lines.
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Baby Boomers hold $83.3 trillion in assets, over half of the total US household wealth. They’re
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the richest generation in history, averaging $1 million per person. Then there’s Millennials
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and Gen Z together, the biggest population block there is when combined. But between them, they’ve
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got $17.1 trillion, only 10.5% of the total US wealth. And these generations also deal with
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more hidden debt traps than any of the previous ones, like the increasing popularity of “Buy Now,
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Pay Later” schemes. It’s a whole new stream of debt that federal data won’t even show.
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The system is brutal.
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It’s unfair.
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It’s designed to hollow out the middle and leave hard-working people penniless.
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Short of upending the entire thing and starting from a blank slate,
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your best chance of surviving the rising tide of financial horror
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is to move your money to the only places that the tide can’t reach.
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So what are they?
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Part Seven - The Survival Playbook
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In the short term, if you want to get ahead of the collapse,
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you need to shift your portfolio to strong, inflation-proof assets that are out of the hands
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of government tampering. One classic investment for hedging inflation is gold. Problem is,
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gold isn’t completely inflation-proof. When banks increase rates due to inflation,
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gold won’t pay a yield on that interest. So, it isn’t the absolute most profitable asset to hold.
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You could also broadly invest in commodities like grain, precious metals, electricity, oil, beef,
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orange juice, and natural gas exchange-traded funds. But this isn’t without risk, either,
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given that commodities can be an insanely volatile market even outside the context
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of inflation. Demand and supply factors, which dictate the value of commodities, are extremely
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sensitive to worldwide geopolitical events. And we seem to be having a lot more wars these days.
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If you want to play your investment strategy extra safe, there’s always
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the 60/40 stock/bond portfolio. However, these can underperform
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drastically over the long term compared to all-equity portfolios. If, by contrast,
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you want to buy into the awful real estate market, you could invest in REITs:
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Real Estate Investment Trusts. This is a real estate pool that pays out dividends, but it
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can still leave you exposed to property taxes and to shifts in demand for other high-yield assets.
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As with anything in the investment game,
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there’s never such a thing as “No risk”. Just “less risk than the alternative.”
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In the dog eat dog world of the hollowed-out economy,
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growth is no longer the priority. It’s all about resilience. Riding and surviving the
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wave while keeping your assets out of the hands of governments and shadow
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banking institutions. If you’re lucky, you can get yourself and your finances
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out of the service world and into the world of asset ownership before the shockwave hits.
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But that window is closing fast.
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For all you know, the wave might have already hit you,
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and you don’t even know you’re bleeding until you’ve got no more blood left.
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