Higgy how far in your area are we into this effect?
All of the infrastructure and skills will be in place to do so, and some, but not all, of the existing managers will have the ability to make these stores profitable as standalone units, and will want to. Suppliers will still want to sell to them and may be willing to extend financing on good terms, especially if we can stay in a deflationary environment, which will be good for new startups in many ways. If costs come down, investors who are now playing tiddlywinks in the stock markt will turn their attention to these new opportunites in their own back yards and social connections will reconstitute. Existing managers will know who to retain from their existing staff and who to fire and will do it without a bunch of legal mumbo jumbo. In addition, since managers within companies like these will already know each other, a lot of information sharing can take place as to how to obtain money and implement changes and there will no longer be any interference from corporate. But the road will be bumpier at first than it was in the 1930s. Higgenbotham
My point is the drawdown effect. I am not seeing this effect developing but would assume at this point the amount of products getting "actually purchased" to the shelf are or will diminish. Also, the credit to the sheep is advancing so savings as a vehicle to recovery is negated and the debased currency flush we monitor will only enhance the next leg down from our projections we noted already in the forums. Open for ideas but we are
not moving forward so we are in detail fading down IMO. We noted the aspect the early money in real esate made there move. In Michigan another point is more areas are catching less of a bid to be tax generating units. There just are not moving as they had been last summer and will recheck my numbers as before. Anticipated was noted to this effect and me unwilling concluded the new normal is not even presenting itself here yet. Not going to splash up graghs again since we already have in the running dialog here.
Also, Mitsubishi missile division just got #cleaned# the other day.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/33dc83e4-c800 ... abdc0.html
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/arch ... hould-know
Pointless at this juncture in time to think a shift will trend upward since the main contention to date is basically complete to the eradication of the second natives as the sighners warned from the inception.
http://consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_d ... 125117.pdf
"I feel a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced."
Soon it will dawn and they will never see it coming.
“The Road to Serfdom.” His thesis was that war gets people used to national planning. So the planners continue to plan, even in peacetime. These incremental expansions of the social- welfare state aren’t benign. They foster the creation of ever- more-powerful interest groups. The economy becomes less productive. Political corruption in turn gives rise to dictators. Foreign-policy tension or economic crisis accelerates the trend. “‘Emergencies,’” Hayek wrote, “have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have eroded.” For a number of decades the main thing about Hayek seemed to be that he was wrong. Britain did head to the left, far to the left. After the war, the U.S. also institutionalized government planning in new areas. But this low estimation of Hayek fails to appreciate his central thought: the economic damage is subtle and is
evident only over time…
Hayek understood that a good decade where government expansion seems to stall -- the 1990s -- doesn’t mean government won’t expand when the next crisis comes. The recent pattern of following a war and a financial collapse with the creation of a new entitlement is a perfect example of the Hayekian dynamic in action… And we are not the only ones who know this.... The U.S. is on the road if not to serfdom then to less growth, less innovation, more rationing and more political corruption…
http://www.ceridianindex.com/ On the edge.