U.S. Housing Collapse Now Exceeds ’09 Lows
After two years of U.S. “economic growth” and two years of U.S. “jobs growth”, the U.S. housing market has now plummeted lower than at the “bottom” of the original crash. How can this be?
Regular readers can easily answer that question. There has been no U.S. economic growth or jobs-growth. The supposed “gains” in GDP (quarter-after-quarter) are nothing more than the automatic statistical consequence of lying-about-inflation. Quite simply, every percentage point that the U.S. government understates inflation automatically exaggerates economic growth by an identical amount.
For those not conversant with these statistics, all GDP reports must be “deflated” by the full rate of inflation, otherwise rising prices will be mistaken for increased growth. This is why lying-about-inflation is so popular, especially with Western governments – it’s a lie which always produces a two-for-one pay-off.
On the employment front, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has methodically twisted all sources of primary data, turning any and every employment report on the U.S. economy into 100% fiction. The empirical evidence paints a clear picture.
House prices continue to plummet and inventories of empty, unsold homes continue to grow – despite housing starts sitting at record-low levels month after month. Another disastrous holiday shopping-season clearly demonstrated the lack of purchasing-power which comes from a lack of jobs. The line-ups for food-stamps in the U.S. get longer and longer every month, and no thinking adult who looks at the chart below could possibly believe the myths of a “U.S. economic recovery” or U.S. jobs-gains...
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