Tipping point signs and precursors

[Dran]

Friends, I created this thread to gather info on what the signs and precursors could appear in the news, in economy, or any other wing of our culture that could point out to mounting probability that something big could happen.

What would the most appropriate markers be that we should focus on? What trails could be seen in real and every day life?
Messages in movies and web bots or dreams or premonitions are important and interesting but this thread tries to scan traceable stuff i.e.
Strange movements in economy, strange trips like Obama's, ATMs not working, etc.

[fifi]

Global Fed bashing casts shadow over G-20
"NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Growing criticism of U.S. Federal Reserve policy is fueling global tensions as leaders of the world's largest economies prepare to meet in South Korea Wednesday.

Last week the Fed announced it would pump another $600 billion into the U.S. economy through the purchase of long-term Treasuries, a move known as quantitative easing, or "QE2," since it is the second round of such purchases.

The move sparked fears that it could reignite inflation pressures, cause a new global asset bubble or spark a so-called "currency war" in which nations devalue their own currencies to keep their own exports competitive.

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Source: http://money.cnn.com/2010/11/08/news/international/quantitative_easing_global_criticism_g20/index.htm?cnn=yes&hpt=Sbin

Germany attacks US economic policy
"Germany has put itself on a collision course with the US over the global economy, after its finance minister launched an extraordinary attack on policies being pursued in Washington.

Wolfgang Schäuble accused the US of undermining its policymaking credibility, increasing global economic uncertainty and of hypocrisy over exchange rates. The US economic growth model was in a "deep crisis," he also warned over the weekend.

His comments set the stage for acrimonious talks at the G20 summit in Seoul starting on Thursday. Germany has been irritated at US proposals that it should make more effort to reduce its current account surplus. But Berlin policymakers were also alarmed by last week's US Federal Reserve decision to pump an extra $600bn into financial markets in an attempt to revive US economic prospects through "quantitative easing".

On Friday, Mr Schäuble described US policy as "clueless". In a Der Spiegel magazine interview, to be published on Monday, he expanded his criticism further, saying decisions taken by the Fed "increase the insecurity in the world economy".

" They make a reasonable balance between industrial and developing countries more difficult and they undermine the credibility of the US in finance policymaking."

Mr Schäuble added: "It is not consistent when the Americans accuse the Chinese of exchange rate manipulation and then steer the dollar exchange rate artificially lower with the help of their [central bank's] printing press."
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Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/BUSINESS/11/07/germany.us.economic.policy.ft/index.html?hpt=Sbin

[Swami]

Gold is skyrocketing, the dollar is goner.....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jP4jdm69U8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nNSb9Ebznc

[Operator]

Clif said that the signs would look like visible tension on peoples faces who were in the news ....


Gibbs Threatens to Pull Obama Out of Meeting Over Press Dispute (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/11/08/gibbs-threatens-pull-obama-meeting-press-dispute/)

[truthseekerdan]

Also more truth (conspiracies) reported on MSM.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CR5139AXnE

[Dran]

Gold sets record high amid economic fears -
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101108/ap_on_bi_ge/us_commodities_review

Gold getting very high is one of the signs Cliff talked about in Veritas interview. He said it would be seen on Monday.

[Sarahmay]

Yes, gold up to $1400 today. Many ATMs were not functioning as well...Chase, BOA, etc. I managed to pull cash out of a Wells Fargo ATM. My bank branch shut their doors overnight last week, with no notice. Food prices definitely on the rise, although shelves are still full. Good times.

[lightblue]

The issue of exchange rates is expected to be one of the toughest discussion points at the G20 summit in South Korea later this week.

Michael Hudson, a renowned economist and Wall Street financial analyst and advisor, says the meeting in Seoul will not bring an end to global currency wars.

“The U.S. is going to China and saying ‘we want you to commit economic suicide just like Japan did. We want you to follow the same way: we want you to re-value your currency, we want you to squeeze your companies, we want you to go bankrupt so we can make our profit at your expense,” says Hudson.

“We want you the Chinese to allow our banks to gamble on your currency and make a huge gain on foreign exchange speculation so that our banks can get out of the problem that we have got them into. Will you please help us by going bankrupt for our benefit? Well, you can imagine what the Chinese are saying – they are laughing,” Hudson adds.

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cont. “There is no way in the world that America can ever pay the foreign government debt that it owes,” the economist believes. The BRIC countries agreed at the summit in the Russian city of Ekaterinburg, in 2009, to gradually reduce dollar turnover to avoid collecting more of America’s debt that will never be paid.

“The affective quantitative easing by the Fed is to turn the dollar into a pariah currency that everybody is trying to avoid because nobody wants them, you cannot use them to invest in the U.S. because of the nationalism here, other countries do not want dollars – what is the point in accepting more dollars?” questions Hudson.

He believes that the time of the dollar as the reserve currency is over and the question now is how it will end – in a polite slow gradual manner or otherwise.


see the rest of this report:

http://rt.com/politics/us-financial-war-currency/


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[Dran]

Did the Euro Just “Tank”?
http://stevebeckow.com/2010/11/09/did-the-euro-just-tank/