Reblogged from hallindsey.com
By Hal Lindsey
By Hal Lindsey
On last week’s Hal Lindsey Report, I talked about some of the
underlying problems facing the Chinese economy and how that affects
other nations. After taping that program, I watched financial markets
all over the world go on one of the wildest rides in history. The
immediate cause of all that turmoil was China.
Uncertainty has become the word of the hour. On Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial average went down almost 1,100 points, then rose back up to within 115 points of where it all started, before falling back down to a loss of 588 points by the end of the day. They called it “Manic Monday.”
It was followed by what some were calling “Turnaround Tuesday.” And it did turn around — several times. The Dow rose 440 points early on. By noon it was at 333. With a half hour left to go, it remained in positive territory — 120 points to the good. But in the final 30 minutes, it lost all the gains and ended at negative 204 points. On the day, the Dow traveled up and down a total of more than 1,600 points. Now that’s a ride!It was only about a month ago that the Administration was telling us not to worry about China. Secretary of the Treasury, Jack Lew, told a gathering at the Brookings Institute that Chinese markets would have little affect in the United States. “I will say that China’s markets still are pretty much separated from world markets. They’re, obviously, moving towards being more integrated, but right now they’re not. . . . So you’re not going to, I don’t think, see the direct linkage there.”
U.S. exports to China are third behind only Canada and Mexico. Imports from China exceed that of all other nations. It’s concerning that the man who is, in effect, the Chief Financial Officer of the United States of America, can’t see the linkage between the American and Chinese economies.All over the world, nations have been printing cash and keeping interest rates low. They’ve been doing the kind of things nations do when they’re desperately trying to avert a collapse. Such measures are usually only temporary, but they’ve been going on now for several years in a row.
In the U.S., investors worry that, after 6 ½ years at near zero, the Fed will finally increase interest rates. Dennis Lockhart, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta calls raising the interest rates, “the normalization of monetary policy.” And he’s right, it has not been normal to keep the rates so low for so long.It’s unsettling that governments all over the world seem to already be pulling out all the stops trying to keep the world economy afloat. That’s one reason Stephen King from HSBC Bank, said, “The world economy is sailing across the ocean without any lifeboats to use in case of emergency.”
Before they were called recessions or even depressions, financial crises were known as “panics.” There was the “Panic of 1819,” the “Panic of 1837,” the “Panic of 1857,” the “Panic of 1873,” the “Panic of 1893,” and the “Panic of 1907" among others. While they were sometimes called “depressions,” people named them with the word “Panic.”When dealing with large crowds, panic is an ever present possibility, and exceedingly dangerous.
In 1856, Charles Haddon
Spurgeon, sometimes known as the “Prince of Preachers,” held a mass
meeting at the Surrey Gardens Music Hall. Someone yelled “Fire!” in that
venue holding 10,000 people. In those days, aisles and doors were
exceedingly narrow. In the panic that followed, seven died and dozens
were hospitalized with serious injuries.An economic panic works in much the same way. Economic fears are
visceral with us because we fear a disruption in the flow of money.
We
know that money buys our food and clothes. It buys shelter and
transportation. We use money to purchase the basic necessities of life
for ourselves and our loved ones. Economic panic is extremely powerful.
Along with fear of war, economic panic will one day enable the
Antichrist’s rise to power.Because money buys the necessities of life, it’s easy to understand
why people begin to see money as their provider. They begin to treat
money as an idol to be served. But we should never confuse the Provider
with the thing provided.
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