craig12 said:that would lead me to ask then, the Gerald celantes, mike maloneys, peter schiffs, of this world are they just beefing up pm,s with these scare tactics, unfortunately ive got on this you tube train and I don't know who to believe now,
they all tell you 1st quarter 2013, then 2nd quarter , then more likely 2014, then maybe possibly then , these people like max keiser, alex jones , whos side are they on ?
they seem to be stating some scary stuff but they keep producing more stuff every week
theres a you tube guy I think its x22 report, my god if you listen to it youll be more confused than ever
in short im not sure if the raft of commentators, gurus, metal experts, are in it for themselves or they know something we dont
I have similar thoughts, and I also know that 'Chicken Little' is a real character. Some people want a war, a collapse, anything to end their miserable humdrum lives and so they spend their lives wishing and hoping for decisions to be taken out of their hands.
I see the 'doom and gloomers' pandering to that segment and wonder the same thing - are they just boosting their PM businesses.
For an antidote I read Nadeem Walayat.
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/UserInfo-Nadeem_Walayat.html
UK based but a lot of sound investing advice and a good perspective on what the future may hold. His words on Gerald Celente are particularly apposite.
Apparently the straw that broke the camels back was the bad U.S. GDP data for Q1 of just 0.1%, currency devaluation and Fed QE. Though off course the GDP numbers for Q1 were bad, this was more or less EXPECTED, apparently all it takes is a few days of sunshine for everyone to have forgotten snowmageddon for much of Q1.
This is what I expect to happen for Q2 - A STRONG U.S. economic rebound that recoups much of the weakness of Q1, in fact I would not be surprised if U.S. April to June GDP comes in as high as above 1% (including any upwards revision to Q1), never mind collapse!
Now back to Gerald on his expectations for Q2 economic collapse, great to finally have a date on it!
Though googling I can see that according to Celente the U.S. was supposed to have already collapsed about a dozen times by now for instance in this video of 25th Oct 2013 the U.S. was supposed to have collapsed in Q1 2014 when it GREW by 0.1%!
"I believe it is going to happen in the first quarter of 2014". To save you listening to the whole 23 minutes fast forward to around 16.30.
If everything is still ok by 1st July, I guess the next video will say economic collapse by end of Q3, then Q4, and on and on it goes....