5/02/2024

America's fictional economy growing strongly at 1%, helped by money printing

 The USA economy is still solid as a rock according to Biden, with job creation reaching for the moon. Such a view is not shared by Trump, who labelled the job market a 'cesspool'. Wonder how the voters will look at it.

As Profession Richard Wolff puts it, USA's economic growth is all about printing toilet papers, that goes into the stock market to create a bigger and bigger balloon. That is growth in the context of the USA. When BRICS gets it house in order with its currency, settlement system and control of its in house 'grain and energy exchange', that will end the toilet paper printing and put the printing machines out of business.

China is still said to be collapsing with a 5.2% growth in the first quarter of 2024. Huawei was thought to be tottering or even collapsing from the sanctions earlier but still reported a staggering 564% profit growth year on year. USA chipmakers on the other hand are sinking deeper into losses and are of course not collapsing anytime soon. Biden will throw more subsidies into the black hole to keep them alive. What is the truth, or the alternate truth? Do the sanctions work so far against Huawei? Wonder how other sanctions will work against China that is said to be coming up.

I just wonder what TSMC, Samsung and other USA chipmakers are thinking now about their investments in Arizona and prospect moving forward. Their future looks bleak, considering that Huawei is growing stronger by the day and now even making its own lithography machines and selling them cheap. Oh, those are junks they will say, but never forget the junks that China used to turn out and now dominating the market in EVs, solar panels, wind turbines, batteries, and even shipbuilding, the traditional niche of Japan and South Korea in the recent past.

And were not Chinamen also relegated to merely suitable to be cooks and laundrymen? Why is the West now fearful of those Chinamen eating their lunch? Keep denying, go to sleep and everything will turn out fine when they wake up.

Anonymous

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

'You can fool all the people some of the time, some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time' - Abraham Lincoln

If the USA's economy is that good, why are supermarkets closing outlets like no tomorrow, companies downsizing with headcounts diminishing, banks facing failures and F&B outlets calling it a day. Where are these people going to find other jobs? Without jobs, people just resort to robbing supermarkets freely, without being arrested. My God, this is turning into the new USA economy.

Without jobs and earnings to spend, how are supermarkets and F&B outlets that are left going to survive with dwindling customers? It is a wheel of misfortune overcoming the USA on all fronts. And yet they are only concerned and worried about China collapsing! China is not going to collapse tomorrow or ever. Its 5.2% growth in the first quarter of 2024 is even beyond the ability of the USA to achieve.

The most unbelievable part of the fairy tale is the talk of how rosy the USA job creation was only yesterday, and today it comes crashing down like a house of cards. This is not job creation honestly. It is all an illusion, a sleight of hand! All those talks about the ups and downs are like the weather forecast, just to continue to keep the USA economy on steroids or in ICU, until the November elections.

Anonymous said...

The protest at UCLA now reaching a climax is a 'beautiful sight to behold'. It was so entertaining with Law Enforcement Officers firing rubber bullets at students.

I believe the Hong Kong police never did that when riots broke out in the territory. And yet they accused the Hong Kong police of violence and violating human rights. Hypocrites!