{"id":36908,"date":"2018-08-22T06:23:36","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T11:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36908"},"modified":"2018-08-22T06:23:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T11:23:36","slug":"if-you-read-between-the-lines-global-economic-leaders-are-telling-us-exactly-what-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36908","title":{"rendered":"If You Read Between The Lines, Global Economic Leaders Are Telling Us Exactly What Is Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/archives\/if-you-read-between-the-lines-global-economic-leaders-are-telling-us-exactly-what-is-coming\">If You Read Between The Lines, Global Economic Leaders Are Telling Us Exactly What Is Coming<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/archives\/if-you-read-between-the-lines-global-economic-leaders-are-telling-us-exactly-what-is-coming\/storm-is-coming-public-domain#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14130\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-14130\" src=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Storm-Is-Coming-Public-Domain-540x360.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Storm-Is-Coming-Public-Domain-540x360.jpg 540w, http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Storm-Is-Coming-Public-Domain-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Storm-Is-Coming-Public-Domain-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Storm-Is-Coming-Public-Domain.jpg 1280w\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a>Sometimes, a strongly-worded denial is the most damning evidence of all that something is seriously wrong.\u00a0 And when things start to really get crazy, \u201cthe spin\u201d is often the exact opposite of the truth.\u00a0 In recent days we have seen a lot of troubling headlines and a lot of chaos <a title=\"in the global financial marketplace\" href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/archives\/5-signs-that-global-financial-markets-are-entering-a-bear-market-and-11-ways-that-you-can-get-prepared-for-the-chaos-that-is-coming\">in the global financial marketplace<\/a>, but authorities continue to assure us that everything is going to be just fine.\u00a0 Of course we witnessed precisely the same thing just prior to the great financial crisis of 2008.\u00a0 Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke insisted that a recession was not coming, and we proceeded to plunge into the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.\u00a0 Is our society experiencing a similar state of denial about what is ahead of us here in 2018?<\/p>\n<p>Let me give you a few examples of some recent things that global economic leaders have said, and what they really meant\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2013<a title=\"Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-08-20\/we-are-not-going-bankrupt-musk-vows-tesla-suppliers-panic-over-stopped-payments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk<\/a>: \u201c<strong>We are definitely not going bankrupt<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Translation: \u201cWe are definitely going bankrupt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tesla is a company that is supposedly worth 51 billion dollars, but the reality is that they are going to zero.\u00a0 They have been bleeding massive amounts of cash for years, and now a day of reckoning has finally arrived.\u00a0 A severe liquidity crunch has forced the company to delay payments or to ask for enormous discounts from suppliers, and many of those suppliers are now concerned <a title=\"that Tesla is on the verge of collapse\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-08-20\/we-are-not-going-bankrupt-musk-vows-tesla-suppliers-panic-over-stopped-payments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">that Tesla is on the verge of collapse<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Specifically, a recent survey sent privately by a well-regarded automotive supplier association to top executives,\u00a0and seen by the WS , <strong>found that 18 of 22 respondents believe that Tesla is now a financial risk to their companies.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If You Read Between The Lines, Global Economic Leaders Are Telling Us Exactly What Is Coming Sometimes, a strongly-worded denial is the most damning evidence of all that something is seriously wrong.\u00a0 And when things start to really get crazy, \u201cthe spin\u201d is often the exact opposite of the truth.\u00a0 In recent days we have 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