Ron Paul is still speaking out about the most important issues of the day. And what he recently told CNBC is extremely ominous.
The following comes from a CNBC article entitled “Ron Paul: US is barreling towards a stock market drop of 50% or more, and there’s no way to prevent it”… According to the former Republican Congressman from Texas, the recent jump in Treasury bond yields suggest the U.S. is barreling towards a potential recession and market meltdown at a faster and faster pace. And, he sees no way to prevent it.
"We're getting awfully close. I'd be surprised if you don't have everybody agreeing with what I'm saying next year some time,"
"It can be pretty well validated by looking at monetary history that when you inflate the currency, distort interest rates and live beyond your means and spend too much, there has to be an adjustment," he said.
"We have the biggest bubble in the history of mankind."
"I know it's going to happen," Paul said. "It will come, and the bubble is bigger than ever before."
Of course lots of such predictions are flying around these days.
In fact, at this point even the IMF is warning of a “second Great Depression”.
So when it actually takes place it won’t be much of a surprise. However, I do believe that many will be surprised by the ferocity of the coming crash. According to Ron Paul, stock prices could end up falling by up to 50 percent…
Paul is a vocal Libertarian known for an ardent grassroots fanbase that propelled him to multiple presidential runs, as well as his grim warnings about the economy. Yet he has been warning investors for years that an epic drop of 50 percent or more will eventually hit the stock market. He predicted the February correction, but not in size and scope.
Actually, stock prices need to fall by at least 50 percent in order for stock valuations to get close to their long-term averages.
In the end, if stocks only fall by 50 percent we will be extremely fortunate. Stock valuations always, always, always return to their long-term averages eventually, and usually they fall below those averages during a period of adjustment.
And the mood on Wall Street has definitely changed. The euphoria that we once witnessed is now gone, and instead it has been replaced by a gnawing sense that a really big downturn is coming. In his most recent piece, John Hussman compared it to the fading out of a pop song…
In recent days, the combination of extreme valuations and unfavorable market internals has been joined by acute dispersion in daily trading data that often occurs within a few days of pre-collapse peaks in the market. My opinion is that the music has already quietly faded out like the end of a pop song, in a wholly uneventful way, and that even a surprise push to further highs would be marginal.
And he concluded his most recent piece with this very chilling statement…
For now, and until market conditions shift, there’s an open trap door under the equity market, and it’s a very long way down.
The end of last week was very bad for the markets, and so Monday and Tuesday will be key.
If stock prices continue to fall, this could be the beginning of a race for the exits.
But if stock prices rebound a bit, it means that we could have some more time.
And keep an eye on junk bonds. They crashed really hard just before the financial crisis of 2008, and they are starting to slip here in October 2018.
A full-blown junk bond panic would definitely be a very clear sign that a major market crash is imminent.
As I write this, all of the markets in Asia are down. Chinese stocks have fallen almost 3 percent, and that is very troubling news.
But whether a massive crisis erupts right now or not, the truth is that there is no way that we are going to avoid the consequences of our actions.
At this moment we are in the terminal phase of the biggest debt bubble in human history. In fact, total indebtedness in the United States has increased by more than 2 trillion dollars over the past 12 months…
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