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Peak Prosperity

This Financial Crisis Will Be 10x Worse Than 2008

Peak Prosperity

Chris Martenson

Government, Investing, Business

4.7591 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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0:00.0

stocks are tanking, bonds are tanking, commodities are tanking, the dollar is spiking, what is going on.

0:06.4

Markets are imploding.

0:07.3

We have a liquidity crisis that is on its way, potentially to becoming a solvency crisis.

0:12.5

Not potentially, I'm pretty sure that's going to happen.

0:14.5

This is going to be worse than 2008 by a long shot, and that is due to massive policy errors over and over again by the Federal Reserve and of course a complicit silent press and congress and senate who failed to ask the appropriate question so hey here we are but it's a global thing there's really nowhere to hide so let's dive right in take a look at this. Liquidity. This is an important concept.

0:37.7

So this is what I do. I help to educate people about how things work.

0:41.6

So best as I can, I'm going to explain to you what we mean by this.

0:44.3

You've probably heard the term liquidity.

0:46.9

All right.

0:48.1

Liquidity is something that's out there floating around.

0:52.0

I'll define it in just a second.

0:53.2

But what happens is you move from

0:55.4

liquidity can be turned into an insolvency crisis. An insolvency is different from bankruptcy.

1:02.8

So liquidity crisis proceeds, insolvency crisis proceeds bankruptcy. So that's a three-stage process.

1:10.4

Good to know where you are because it tells you a lot about what's about to happen next.

1:14.9

2008, we had a liquidity crisis that turned into a solvency crisis that ultimately became the bankruptcy of Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers,

1:22.3

and that, of course, precipitated the whole great financial crisis. Now, what does that really mean?

1:28.8

So bankruptcy is a legal proceeding.

1:30.6

That's what happens after the creditors and the lawyers and the judges and the court systems all pile in.

1:36.5

Insolvency means that you no longer have the capability of servicing your debts, right?

1:43.0

But you could be insolvent at home. You could lack the ability to

1:46.1

pay off your credit card debt, but you're not bankrupt yet because, you know, the sheriff hasn't

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