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So over the weekend I read a blog article about the shemitah which I never heard of until now and now I can't stop thinking about it. 

Here is a quick summary:

The video shows very compelling evidence that there will be an epic disaster of some sort this September 2015.  (Financial meltdown?)  It definitely makes you think.  The video is about 27 min long which is long but i was entertained the whole time.  Its entertaining at worst, scary at best.

Watch the video and let me know what you think.  Its pretty wild and makes you think nice and hard if anything is going to happen.

Here is the video. I'm not saying I am believing in this but it caught my attention for sure.

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Re: Financial Doom is coming in September. Anyone believe this?
« Reply #1 on: July 27, 2015, 10:37:01 AM »
Fingers crossed stocks go to shit. Although I think it is a whacky conspiracy theory with thinly veiled attempts to be rooted in biblical truth.

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Re: Financial Doom is coming in September. Anyone believe this?
« Reply #2 on: July 27, 2015, 11:10:43 AM »
I won't spend time on the video. What are the pieces of "evidence" cited that September is the financial doom time?

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Re: Financial Doom is coming in September. Anyone believe this?
« Reply #3 on: July 27, 2015, 11:15:19 AM »
Fingers crossed stocks go to shit.
As anybody who is still accumulating should be.  Kind of pissed at myself for not learning better money habits as I entered my post-college life in 2006 - missed nearly all of the fire-sale prices during the big crash due to my own habits at the time.  So I, for one, will be thrilled if we get another big drop in the next few years.

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« Reply #4 on: July 27, 2015, 11:20:36 AM »
The really cool thing about this type of prediction:  If you do it often enough, you will one day get one right.  Everyone will think you're a genius.

I've heard a story that James Randi wakes up every morning and writes on a piece of paper "I predict that I will tragically die on this day <insert today's date here>" and slips it into his wallet.  He knows some day he'll be right and it will be an awesome prank to play on everyone that reads about it.

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Re: Financial Doom is coming in September. Anyone believe this?
« Reply #5 on: July 27, 2015, 11:26:24 AM »
Ha, yeah well if the stock market does go to sh!t then I can tell you there will be a lot of money made after.  Crisis, meltdowns and other financial debacles can be bad times for most, but for the savvy investors, it is their time to shine!
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Re: Financial Doom is coming in September. Anyone believe this?
« Reply #6 on: July 27, 2015, 12:12:48 PM »
I won't spend time on the video. What are the pieces of "evidence" cited that September is the financial doom time?

Ill watch the video again for you MMM and jot down all the "evidence".  Could take me awhile but the video is super cool so if you ever do have time, you should watch it.  The images/footage they show helps.    It would probably make for a good post too actually.  Very controversial.

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Re: Financial Doom is coming in September. Anyone believe this?
« Reply #7 on: July 27, 2015, 02:09:10 PM »

Here are the cliff notes.  This is a lot and that is why I told you it might take awhile but trust me, if you dont want to watch the video.  READ ALL OF THIS!



He notes a pattern of judgments at seven-year intervals stemmed from the shemetah which basically stands for "washing away of things"

He went back on historical records on other shemitah years since 1900, here is what he found:

1917 - the year US entered into WW1 - austrian, russian and german empires collapsed (a washing away if you will)

1931 - another shemitah year  - market dropped over 50%

1938 - another market crash over 50%, another war started and ended 7 years later on the other shemitah year  (a washing away)

1973 shemetah - bretton woods worldwide monetary system collapsed

1980 shemitah - the end of the massive inflationary 1970s (a washing away)

1987 shemitah - black monday occured, biggest 1 day percentage drop in the dow.  london market also closed due to a hurricaine (washing away) 

1994 - bond market - the great bond massacre.  bond holders have $1 trillion in losses

2001 shemitah - 9/11 and biggest market crash ever recorded

2008 - biggest market crash ever recorded again

coincidentally, wall street also has what they call the "end of a seven year cycle" which is this year.

The end of the next shemetah cycle is sept 13, 2015


Here are things scheduled to happen around that time frame this year which could be concern:

On sept 22 2015, new york city is having the 70th session of the UN General assemly where all the world leaders will congregate including the pope. They are calling this the "jubilee session" 

In the shemetah, every 7th seven year or every 49 years is also called the jubilee which means the year god gives back land taken away from their ancestors.  That is this year.   Coincidence?

In the last jubilee year in 1967, Israel won the 7 day war when they recaptured thier land beating egypt, the west bank and defeated syria.

In the jubilee year before that in 1918, the british empire took back jerusalem from the turkish ottoman empire.

The next coming jubilee starts on sept 14th 2015.

Also happening around this time in september, the UN is planning the new plan to manage the entire globe called the sustainable development summit.

Other recent economic, financial and military signs all pointing to disaster below:

Countries are moving away from the dollar faster then ever.  China has new bank transfer system to compete with the SWIFT system so that they can get away from the dollar, supposed to be finished september 2015

Russia has been purchasing gold in record levels and trade agreements from other countries are now being done outside the US dollar

Jade Helm occuring now which ends on Sept 15th 2015. Jade Helm is a massive unprecedented rollout of the US Military within its own borders.  The military is doing preperation for a possible massive civil unrest.

Also this year, the federal reserve in new york moved to chicago stating they want to avoid a "natural disaster".  What natural disasters happen in NYC that dont happen in Chicago.

The next federal reserve meeting is set for sept 16 and 17 where it could be when they do the rate hike.  Weird timing?

Home land security has bought record levels of AR-15 ammo this year (62 million rounds).  Why?

Norad announced this year they are moving back to the cheyenne mountains noting because it is EMP hardened possibly preparing for a massive attack?

Christine Legadre - managing director of the IMF had a weird speech last year where she stated " i want to test your numerology skills on the magic number 7, most of you know that is quite a number"  apparently its implied no one knew what she was talking about.  Weird or what?  She knows something!

french prime primster stated last year that 500 days from now we will hit a climactic abyss. which is supposed to fall on sept 23rd from the day of his speech.  no one ever questioned him about the 500 days.

Everything seems to be gravitating towards this september and the US appears to be ground zero for this upcoming crisis.

We have already seen the first rumbles with the shanghai market collapse and the greece debacle.  chinese nasdaq also has fallen 30% in the recent months.  These will all trigger a massive US financial break down.

The guy predicting this has already dumped all his US assets and funds and moved them to internatinoal investments and accounts to prepare.

He thinks we should stock up on food, water, gold and ammo.


Same guy also noted for telling everyone to buy bitcoin in 2011 when it was $3 per share, no one believed him and it rapidly went on to $400 per share, eventually it rose to $1219.


If you fast forward to 6 min and 26 seconds and watch from there, that is where it gets really good.


The video makes it sound much better obviously then the cliff notes but you get the idea.  Just really weird!!

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Re: Financial Doom is coming in September. Anyone believe this?
« Reply #8 on: July 27, 2015, 02:13:04 PM »
Here's the short of it, someone will always be making dooooooooooom predictions. Most of the time they're wrong. Sometimes they're right. You can't tell the difference. So don't act on it.

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Re: Financial Doom is coming in September. Anyone believe this?
« Reply #9 on: July 27, 2015, 02:39:57 PM »
What about all those every-7-years where nothing happened? What about all the years in between where bad stuff happened? What about misattributing all these events to September? The dotcom bubble started to burst in 1999 and continued through 2001. And 1987's crash was in October I think--but then the market came back within the next year to where it was before the crash. What about the Vietnam War? That started in 1955--off the schedule.

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Re: Financial Doom is coming in September. Anyone believe this?
« Reply #10 on: July 27, 2015, 02:59:20 PM »

Here are the cliff notes.  This is a lot and that is why I told you it might take awhile but trust me, if you dont want to watch the video.  READ ALL OF THIS!



He notes a pattern of judgments at seven-year intervals stemmed from the shemetah which basically stands for "washing away of things"

He went back on historical records on other shemitah years since 1900, here is what he found:

1917 - the year US entered into WW1 - austrian, russian and german empires collapsed (a washing away if you will)

1931 - another shemitah year  - market dropped over 50%

1938 - another market crash over 50%, another war started and ended 7 years later on the other shemitah year  (a washing away)

1973 shemetah - bretton woods worldwide monetary system collapsed

1980 shemitah - the end of the massive inflationary 1970s (a washing away)

1987 shemitah - black monday occured, biggest 1 day percentage drop in the dow.  london market also closed due to a hurricaine (washing away) 

1994 - bond market - the great bond massacre.  bond holders have $1 trillion in losses

2001 shemitah - 9/11 and biggest market crash ever recorded

2008 - biggest market crash ever recorded again

coincidentally, wall street also has what they call the "end of a seven year cycle" which is this year.

The end of the next shemetah cycle is sept 13, 2015


Here are things scheduled to happen around that time frame this year which could be concern:

On sept 22 2015, new york city is having the 70th session of the UN General assemly where all the world leaders will congregate including the pope. They are calling this the "jubilee session" 

In the shemetah, every 7th seven year or every 49 years is also called the jubilee which means the year god gives back land taken away from their ancestors.  That is this year.   Coincidence?

In the last jubilee year in 1967, Israel won the 7 day war when they recaptured thier land beating egypt, the west bank and defeated syria.

In the jubilee year before that in 1918, the british empire took back jerusalem from the turkish ottoman empire.

The next coming jubilee starts on sept 14th 2015.

Also happening around this time in september, the UN is planning the new plan to manage the entire globe called the sustainable development summit.

Other recent economic, financial and military signs all pointing to disaster below:

Countries are moving away from the dollar faster then ever.  China has new bank transfer system to compete with the SWIFT system so that they can get away from the dollar, supposed to be finished september 2015

Russia has been purchasing gold in record levels and trade agreements from other countries are now being done outside the US dollar

Jade Helm occuring now which ends on Sept 15th 2015. Jade Helm is a massive unprecedented rollout of the US Military within its own borders.  The military is doing preperation for a possible massive civil unrest.

Also this year, the federal reserve in new york moved to chicago stating they want to avoid a "natural disaster".  What natural disasters happen in NYC that dont happen in Chicago.

The next federal reserve meeting is set for sept 16 and 17 where it could be when they do the rate hike.  Weird timing?

Home land security has bought record levels of AR-15 ammo this year (62 million rounds).  Why?

Norad announced this year they are moving back to the cheyenne mountains noting because it is EMP hardened possibly preparing for a massive attack?

Christine Legadre - managing director of the IMF had a weird speech last year where she stated " i want to test your numerology skills on the magic number 7, most of you know that is quite a number"  apparently its implied no one knew what she was talking about.  Weird or what?  She knows something!

french prime primster stated last year that 500 days from now we will hit a climactic abyss. which is supposed to fall on sept 23rd from the day of his speech.  no one ever questioned him about the 500 days.

Everything seems to be gravitating towards this september and the US appears to be ground zero for this upcoming crisis.

We have already seen the first rumbles with the shanghai market collapse and the greece debacle.  chinese nasdaq also has fallen 30% in the recent months.  These will all trigger a massive US financial break down.

The guy predicting this has already dumped all his US assets and funds and moved them to internatinoal investments and accounts to prepare.

He thinks we should stock up on food, water, gold and ammo.


Same guy also noted for telling everyone to buy bitcoin in 2011 when it was $3 per share, no one believed him and it rapidly went on to $400 per share, eventually it rose to $1219.


If you fast forward to 6 min and 26 seconds and watch from there, that is where it gets really good.


The video makes it sound much better obviously then the cliff notes but you get the idea.  Just really weird!!
Every 7 years? 10 minus 7 is 3. Half Life 3 confirmed.

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Re: Financial Doom is coming in September. Anyone believe this?
« Reply #11 on: July 27, 2015, 03:02:31 PM »
forummm,
haha yeah there are a bunch of holes in the conspiracy theory for sure. It does not nearly account for all the bad things that have happened in other years and like you said all those other years where it was also shemitah years.  it's just really more entertainment but I find it interesting and I love conspiracy theories.  Kind of like I love UFO and ghost documentaries.  Kind of a weird thing im into.  My girlfriend thinks im crazy!

The good news out of all this is that we are less then 2 months away from the dates specified in the video and can put this all to rest.

But just what if....    ;)

serpentstooth, i didnt realize the financial district was prone to flooding like that but that does make sense that it could.  Thanks for shedding the light on that one.

matchewed, yeah i wasnt sure where to post this as it is off topic but finance related in a way.  If the forum moderators want to move this somewhere else, by all means, feel free.

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Re: Financial Doom is coming in September. Anyone believe this?
« Reply #12 on: July 27, 2015, 03:08:02 PM »
Every single year for at least the last few centuries someone has stood on the proverbial soap box and predicted 'doom ahead!'

what's interesting is the actual likelihood that something catastrophic will happen nationally in any given year OR even during any given month.  Pick any year in the last decade+ and go through google-archive and you'll encounter news stories that - at the time - seemed like really important, rare and catastrophic events. Currency defaults, 10-20% market drops, major corporations going insolvent, upheavals, revolts, coups, ponzi-schemes, natural disasters, etc. are all rare events locally, but collectively and across the world they happen with amazing frequency.  There's a roughly 40% chance that somewhere in the US will be hit by a hurricane in September of any year.   

Predicting something bad will happen in (insert random month/year) is a house bet - especially when you can decide the parameters after the fact.

what's interesting is that very few of these are more than blips on a graph a decade later.

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Re: Financial Doom is coming in September. Anyone believe this?
« Reply #13 on: July 27, 2015, 04:46:29 PM »
Kind of like I love UFO and ghost documentaries.  Kind of a weird thing im into.  My girlfriend thinks im crazy!

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Re: Financial Doom is coming in September. Anyone believe this?
« Reply #14 on: July 27, 2015, 05:05:44 PM »
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Re: Financial Doom is coming in September. Anyone believe this?
« Reply #15 on: July 27, 2015, 05:08:20 PM »
By crikey, what a one sided list of things!

1917 - the year US entered into WW1 - austrian, russian and german empires collapsed (a washing away if you will) - most countries entered the war in 1914

1931 - another shemitah year  - market dropped over 50% - what about 1929?

1938 - another market crash over 50%, another war started and ended 7 years later on the other shemitah year  (a washing away) - so 1939 (WW2) WASN'T such a year?

----- I notice we are missing a few here, but the atomic bomb might be considered something rather major ----

1973 shemetah - bretton woods worldwide monetary system collapsed - and that made a huge dint on who?

1980 shemitah - the end of the massive inflationary 1970s (a washing away) - well, for the US - other countries didn't match inflationary periods

1987 shemitah - black monday occured, biggest 1 day percentage drop in the dow.  london market also closed due to a hurricaine (washing away) 

1994 - bond market - the great bond massacre.  bond holders have $1 trillion in losses

2001 shemitah - 9/11 and biggest market crash ever recorded

2008 - biggest market crash ever recorded again

Most of these were fairly trivial events as far as the world was concerned - compared to the Tsunami in Indonesia, the breakup of the soviet union... Of course, some of them affected a lot of people and we have to have a couple of genuine things to make a theory.

In the shemetah, every 7th seven year or every 49 years is also called the jubilee which means the year god gives back land taken away from their ancestors.  That is this year. 

In the last jubilee year in 1967, Israel won the 7 day war when they recaptured their land beating egypt, the west bank and defeated syria. Depends whose ancestoral land you deem it to be - the Arabs' (who had lived there for about 1500 years, and more) or the Israelis' (who have lived there for a couple of generations)

In the jubilee year before that in 1918, the British empire took back Jerusalem from the Turkish ottoman empire  - Was this EVER british ANCESTRAL land - I'm not sure that the Brits have any ancestors who lived in Jerusalem?


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Re: Financial Doom is coming in September. Anyone believe this?
« Reply #16 on: July 27, 2015, 06:09:36 PM »
deborah!  Way to break that down!  I dont know my history well enough to know if anything on the video is even true or not but I really like your stance on this and they are great contradictory points.

Well done!


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Re: Financial Doom is coming in September. Anyone believe this?
« Reply #17 on: July 27, 2015, 08:04:19 PM »
Something bad happens every year. Therefore something bad happens every 7th year ;)

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« Reply #18 on: July 27, 2015, 08:52:58 PM »
We don't need the link to see that the stock market will crash, the stock market will crash at some point and then go back...and then go back down...and up...Just look at the history of the stock market sicne 1900, it has been just that. It is useless to predict when it will happen, so far this year, we are seing the market much less stable than it has been over the past few years and with China going nuts at this moment, the crash may deepen even more. But who cares, all it means to me is shares on sale :)

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Re: Financial Doom is coming in September. Anyone believe this?
« Reply #19 on: July 28, 2015, 11:39:48 AM »
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SEVEN MINUTE ABS!!!!

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« Reply #20 on: July 28, 2015, 01:52:08 PM »
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« Reply #21 on: July 28, 2015, 02:19:42 PM »
Don't all the cells in our body renew every 7 years?

It must be something in the air - everyone I know seems to be waiting to exhale for the markets to crash this fall.

China makes me nervous with all their holdings in the US.
Homeland Security makes me nervous just by way of their existence and their power consolidation.
The preppers make me nervous with their doomsday scenarios and the extreme preppers scare me even more.

I know way too many people who never completely recovered from 2008/9 and I remember my grandma telling me that one day $30.000 in the bank was worth $300 in a new currency the next morning.

It doesn't take a genius to know we are indeed living in uncertain times and it would be smart to have a stash and an escape hatch in more ways than one. That is how it has been since the dawn of time - there is always a threat to life and limb, your finances, your crops ...

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« Reply #22 on: July 28, 2015, 02:40:27 PM »
Don't all the cells in our body renew every 7 years?
In a word, no.  Neurons never renew themselves.  skins cells regenerate about every 30 day.  Sperm is only good for a few days, bone marrow for months.

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It must be something in the air - everyone I know seems to be waiting to exhale for the markets to crash this fall.
Insert obligate quote on greed/fear and/or statistics on how frequently markets actually fall 10% (~13 monhts) or 20% (~ 4 years).

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China makes me nervous with all their holdings in the US.
This fear I've never understood.  First, the amount of US debt owed to china has actually been falling for several years, and it's about 7% of all US debt.  About 65% is domestically held.  Even still, when foreign investors purchase US treasury bonds, that's very often a good thing.

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Homeland Security makes me nervous just by way of their existence and their power consolidation.
I'll tentatively agree with you here.  What also scares me about DHS is that, as big and all-encompassing as they are, there are still still giant gaping holes in our security... so we've given up a lot of freedoms for a very imperfect security blanket.

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The preppers make me nervous with their doomsday scenarios and the extreme preppers scare me even more.
Stop listening to the prepper podcasts then.  There are some very sane and easily achievable home-preparedness checklists you can follow - do that and forget about what's outside your sphere of influence.

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I know way too many people who never completely recovered from 2008/9.
Then they did exactly what you want to avoid - they panicked and sold. The last 6 years have been one of the best periods of all time to be invested in the market.  Learn from the mistakes of others.

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and I remember my grandma telling me that one day $30.000 in the bank was worth $300 in a new currency the next morning.
what new currency?  Huh?  I don't understand.

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It doesn't take a genius to know we are indeed living in uncertain times and it would be smart to have a stash and an escape hatch in more ways than one. That is how it has been since the dawn of time - there is always a threat to life and limb, your finances, your crops ...
Yes, there has always been a threat to life and limb.  But for all the scary things out there, life expectancy is at an all time high, median income is near an all time high, the cost of food is near an all time low, our ability to travel large distances has never been greater...  on a century-by-century basis, it's hard to beat this one (at least so far).

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Re: Financial Doom is coming in September. Anyone believe this?
« Reply #23 on: July 28, 2015, 05:43:02 PM »
Don't all the cells in our body renew every 7 years?
In a word, no.  Neurons never renew themselves.  skins cells regenerate about every 30 day.  Sperm is only good for a few days, bone marrow for months.

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It must be something in the air - everyone I know seems to be waiting to exhale for the markets to crash this fall.
Insert obligate quote on greed/fear and/or statistics on how frequently markets actually fall 10% (~13 monhts) or 20% (~ 4 years).

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China makes me nervous with all their holdings in the US.
This fear I've never understood.  First, the amount of US debt owed to china has actually been falling for several years, and it's about 7% of all US debt.  About 65% is domestically held.  Even still, when foreign investors purchase US treasury bonds, that's very often a good thing.

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Homeland Security makes me nervous just by way of their existence and their power consolidation.
I'll tentatively agree with you here.  What also scares me about DHS is that, as big and all-encompassing as they are, there are still still giant gaping holes in our security... so we've given up a lot of freedoms for a very imperfect security blanket.

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The preppers make me nervous with their doomsday scenarios and the extreme preppers scare me even more.
Stop listening to the prepper podcasts then.  There are some very sane and easily achievable home-preparedness checklists you can follow - do that and forget about what's outside your sphere of influence.

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I know way too many people who never completely recovered from 2008/9.
Then they did exactly what you want to avoid - they panicked and sold. The last 6 years have been one of the best periods of all time to be invested in the market.  Learn from the mistakes of others.

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and I remember my grandma telling me that one day $30.000 in the bank was worth $300 in a new currency the next morning.
what new currency?  Huh?  I don't understand.

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It doesn't take a genius to know we are indeed living in uncertain times and it would be smart to have a stash and an escape hatch in more ways than one. That is how it has been since the dawn of time - there is always a threat to life and limb, your finances, your crops ...
Yes, there has always been a threat to life and limb.  But for all the scary things out there, life expectancy is at an all time high, median income is near an all time high, the cost of food is near an all time low, our ability to travel large distances has never been greater...  on a century-by-century basis, it's hard to beat this one (at least so far).

Fuckin' optimism gun. Yeah!

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Re: Financial Doom is coming in September. Anyone believe this?
« Reply #24 on: July 28, 2015, 10:57:05 PM »
Jeff Berwick, the prophesizer, didn't do so well with Galt's Gulch Chile. Guess he couldn't predict the outcome of a bunch of libertarians setting up a colony without rule of law.


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« Reply #25 on: July 31, 2015, 04:57:14 AM »
Honestly, I hope it does tank. Im just getting started. It would be like catching a break for once.
Hell, the housing market can tank too for all I care. Just in time for me to put a down on a multifamily

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« Reply #26 on: August 03, 2015, 11:22:52 AM »
I'll bet anyone here $1,000 that there is no financial world-ending event in September.

Any takers?

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Re: Financial Doom is coming in September. Anyone believe this?
« Reply #27 on: August 03, 2015, 12:03:27 PM »
I'll bet anyone here $1,000 that there is no financial world-ending event in September.

Any takers?
are you in cahoots with Norcalmike?

So... if there is a financial world-ending event... then $1,000USD will be pretty meaningless....  hmm.... it doesn't seem like a bet you can win...

somebody please dig this thread back up on Oct. 1st.

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Re: Financial Doom is coming in September. Anyone believe this?
« Reply #28 on: August 03, 2015, 12:08:43 PM »
I'll bet anyone here $1,000 that there is no financial world-ending event in September.

Any takers?
are you in cahoots with Norcalmike?

So... if there is a financial world-ending event... then $1,000USD will be pretty meaningless....  hmm.... it doesn't seem like a bet you can win...

somebody please dig this thread back up on Oct. 1st.


Hahaha nice one nereo

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Re: Financial Doom is coming in September. Anyone believe this?
« Reply #29 on: August 03, 2015, 12:20:51 PM »
I'll bet anyone here $1,000 that there is no financial world-ending event in September.

Any takers?
are you in cahoots with Norcalmike?

So... if there is a financial world-ending event... then $1,000USD will be pretty meaningless....  hmm.... it doesn't seem like a bet you can win...

somebody please dig this thread back up on Oct. 1st.


Hahaha nice one nereo

I was going to bet $10K, but I figured someone might actually bite at $1K.  It would be the easiest money I ever made.

Maybe I should make this offer over at ZeroHedge....

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Re: Financial Doom is coming in September. Anyone believe this?
« Reply #30 on: August 03, 2015, 12:39:40 PM »
In a word, no.  Neurons never renew themselves.  skins cells regenerate about every 30 day.  Sperm is only good for a few days, bone marrow for months.
We do grow new neurons throughout our life though.

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Re: Financial Doom is coming in September. Anyone believe this?
« Reply #31 on: August 04, 2015, 11:20:01 AM »
So over the weekend I read a blog article about the shemitah which I never heard of until now and now I can't stop thinking about it. 

...very compelling evidence that there will be an epic disaster of some sort this September 2015. 
http://wp.me/P6ekBj-lk

How can this be?  I thought the apocalypse came in 2012 because of Mayan prophecy.

Be wary of hanging out with crazy people on the internet - it can rub off on you.

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Re: Financial Doom is coming in September. Anyone believe this?
« Reply #32 on: August 04, 2015, 11:31:20 AM »

How can this be?  I thought the apocalypse came in 2012 because of Mayan prophecy.

Yup - we're all dead.  We just don't know it.

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Re: Financial Doom is coming in September. Anyone believe this?
« Reply #33 on: August 04, 2015, 11:56:41 AM »
Every 7 years? 10 minus 7 is 3. Half Life 3 confirmed.

Hahaha!!!
Seriously though... this $hit only happens in the USA? what about Doom facing the other 95% of humanity???

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Re: Financial Doom is coming in September. Anyone believe this?
« Reply #34 on: August 04, 2015, 01:17:29 PM »
Jeff Berwick, the prophesizer, didn't do so well with Galt's Gulch Chile. Guess he couldn't predict the outcome of a bunch of libertarians setting up a colony without rule of law.

Thanks for mentioning this!  I hadn't heard of Galt's Gulch, but a bit of googling and I came up with this entertaining article:

http://www.vice.com/read/atlas-mugged-922-v21n10


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Re: Financial Doom is coming in September. Anyone believe this?
« Reply #35 on: August 04, 2015, 03:52:46 PM »
    I don't really believe it but I feel a lot of individuals, companies and governments have too much debt and someday soon we will get a nasty recession. I hope I am wrong and I have seen things in 1987 and 2008 that initially looked distressing but turned out to be short lived. Even 1994 when my company went bankrupt turned out alright since I eventually got a better-paying although not as fun job.

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Re: Financial Doom is coming in September. Anyone believe this?
« Reply #36 on: August 04, 2015, 04:09:48 PM »
    I don't really believe it but I feel a lot of individuals, companies and governments have too much debt and someday soon we will get a nasty recession. I hope I am wrong and I have seen things in 1987 and 2008 that initially looked distressing but turned out to be short lived. Even 1994 when my company went bankrupt turned out alright since I eventually got a better-paying although not as fun job.
so... you're prediction is that 'someday soon we will get a nasty recession'?  That's much, much less specific than "something very economically bad will happen in September".  We haven't had a recession since '08. 

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Re: Financial Doom is coming in September. Anyone believe this?
« Reply #37 on: August 04, 2015, 04:18:20 PM »

How can this be?  I thought the apocalypse came in 2012 because of Mayan prophecy.

Yup - we're all dead.  We just don't know it.

Well, to be honest, there was probably one crazy Mayan guy talking about the end of their world about 500 years ago.  I'm sure no one listened to him at the time either.

Maybe they should have listened?  I guess it wouldn't have made much difference anyways.

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Re: Financial Doom is coming in September. Anyone believe this?
« Reply #38 on: August 05, 2015, 07:29:21 AM »
Whew! I am so glad I got a month's notice about this. Now I can withdraw all my money and buy gold and peanut butter.  I'll bury the gold in the backyard and save it for when the economy recovers, so I can be ahead of the game.

The peanut butter I will use to secure position as feudal lord over my less prepared neighbors.  Although one of them has an allergy, so I better get a bit of almond butter too.


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The Mayans are still around. Just like the Romans, their empire just collapsed. It's not like all the people spontaneously died.

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Re: Financial Doom is coming in September. Anyone believe this?
« Reply #39 on: August 05, 2015, 10:09:47 AM »
Whew! I am so glad I got a month's notice about this. Now I can withdraw all my money and buy gold and peanut butter.  I'll bury the gold in the backyard and save it for when the economy recovers, so I can be ahead of the game.

The peanut butter I will use to secure position as feudal lord over my less prepared neighbors.  Although one of them has an allergy, so I better get a bit of almond butter too.


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Well, to be honest, there was probably one crazy Mayan guy talking about the end of their world about 500 years ago.
The Mayans are still around. Just like the Romans, their empire just collapsed. It's not like all the people spontaneously died.

And bullets, dammit!  The masses are going to revolt and try to steal your peanut butter, you fool!

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Re: Financial Doom is coming in September. Anyone believe this?
« Reply #40 on: August 05, 2015, 10:13:42 AM »

And bullets, dammit!  The masses are going to revolt and try to steal your peanut butter, you fool!

I don't do guns, so I will use my hefty peanut butter supplies to secure continual favor with my friends who are gun hoarders.  Since they don't read this forum, they haven't had a month to prepare. They'll need food, but I doubt they'll want to kill me :)   We can have a mutually beneficial relationship keeping the rest of the riff-raff out.

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Re: Financial Doom is coming in September. Anyone believe this?
« Reply #41 on: August 05, 2015, 05:26:39 PM »

And bullets, dammit!  The masses are going to revolt and try to steal your peanut butter, you fool!

I don't do guns, so I will use my hefty peanut butter supplies to secure continual favor with my friends who are gun hoarders.  Since they don't read this forum, they haven't had a month to prepare. They'll need food, but I doubt they'll want to kill me :)   We can have a mutually beneficial relationship keeping the rest of the riff-raff out.

Well you can't be a crazy end-of-the-world hoarder/ruler without some sort of crazy weaponry.  If you don't like guns, maybe go with something supervillianish... like you'd see in a Batman movie.

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Re: Financial Doom is coming in September. Anyone believe this?
« Reply #42 on: August 07, 2015, 06:01:10 PM »
haha love some of these posts!  You all are funny!  For fun and games I will be reviving this thread after september so we can make fun of me for posting this!! :) 


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« Reply #43 on: August 07, 2015, 08:05:59 PM »
haha love some of these posts!  You all are funny!  For fun and games I will be reviving this thread after september so we can make fun of me for posting this!! :)

You will *IF* there is enough money to run the power grid and the servers by that time.  That's a big damn IF.

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Re: Financial Doom is coming in September. Anyone believe this?
« Reply #44 on: August 07, 2015, 08:14:57 PM »
Yea, we might not internet by then because we will be so broke to afford one.

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« Reply #45 on: August 18, 2015, 08:04:34 AM »

And bullets, dammit!  The masses are going to revolt and try to steal your peanut butter, you fool!

I don't do guns, so I will use my hefty peanut butter supplies to secure continual favor with my friends who are gun hoarders.  Since they don't read this forum, they haven't had a month to prepare. They'll need food, but I doubt they'll want to kill me :)   We can have a mutually beneficial relationship keeping the rest of the riff-raff out.

You need to arm yourself with many buckets of water and a slingshot. If the neighbors get too close just irritate them until they leave...

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« Reply #46 on: August 18, 2015, 09:28:06 AM »
6 more weeks!!  GULP!!


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Re: Financial Doom is coming in September. Anyone believe this?
« Reply #47 on: August 21, 2015, 01:40:12 PM »
Looks like the doom is getting an early start in the second half of August! ;-)

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« Reply #48 on: August 21, 2015, 01:52:07 PM »
Looks like the doom is getting an early start in the second half of August! ;-)

But my precious metals fund is finally up again. (But like 80% of where it was at an all time high...)
I hate that stupid fund, but I'm not selling until it reaches a certain value. I will ride it all the way to zero if I have to.

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Re: Financial Doom is coming in September. Anyone believe this?
« Reply #49 on: August 21, 2015, 02:22:21 PM »
Looks like the doom is getting an early start in the second half of August! ;-)

If anyone is wondering why:  Today:  The Dow plummeted 531 points, concluding its worst week since 2011.

Ha, maybe that is it afterall?!  But its not september!!