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LEADING KEYNESIAN ECONOMIST USES THE ‘D’ WORD
These numbers are real I track them every month and the “D” word is coming and soon.
CDC warns of Ebola ‘catastrophe’ in Sierra Leone
With everything else going on don’t forget Ebola its still out there and growing.
This Unprecedented Monetary Experiment Will End Very Badly
As both a trained economist and engineer I can see that This is 100% true. the difference between most engineering is time frames engineering issue work in very short time frames like a car is good for between 100,000 and 150,000 miles before repairs start become an issue. In economics these things can take several generations to work out so the politicians can fool you for a relatively long time before it all falls apart.
Putin breaks ground on Russia-China gas pipeline, world’s biggest
Putin doesn’t seem to be worried about the sanctions Obama so what else can you do?
Putin Calls For “Immediate Talks” Over Eastern Ukraine “Statehood”
OK Obama Putin has “Called” you so what are you going to do now? But Obama might not know how to play poker so we will see gold seems to be his game so maybe he thinks is his turn to hit the ball now?
Ebola claims lives of prominent doctors
It just keeps getting bigger and bigger!
WHO Worker Ebola Infections Mount: Sierra Leone Lab Shut, Senegal Doctor Flown To Hamburg
Re-Post from ZERO HEDGE
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/27/2014 08:54 -0400
There is reason to be concerned “about whether the proposed resources would be adequate,” warns a Harvard professor as the World Health Organization ‘battle strategy’ draft calls for more than $430 million to bring the worst Ebola outbreak on record under control. This morning we hear of yet another health worker infected – and being flown home to Hamburg for treatment from Sengal and the WHO has shut a lab in Sierra Leone after health workers became infected. A glimpse at the following 3 charts should have the entire world throwing money at at them…
As Bloomberg reports,
More than $430 million will be needed to bring the worst Ebola outbreak on record under control, according to a draft document laying out the World Health Organization’s battle strategy.The plan sets a goal of reversing the trend in new cases within two months, and stopping all transmission in six to nine months. It requires funding by governments, development banks, the private sector and in-kind contributions, according to the document obtained by Bloomberg News.
There is reason to be concerned “about whether the proposed resources would be adequate,” said Barry Bloom, a public health professor at Harvard University who also questioned whether the funds would be made available fast enough, and whether the organization’s latest plan “would ensure the expertise from WHO that is needed.”
The WHO plans to publish the plan by the end of this week at the earliest and details may change, said Fadela Chaib, a spokeswoman for the Geneva-based agency. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon this month appointed health crisis expert David Nabarro to coordinate the UN response.
Previous outbreaks pale in significance…
and it is getting worse very fast…
Charts: Bloomberg, WHO, and Ecologically Oriented
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And it gets worse – WHO shuts Sierra Leone Lab…
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday it had shut a laboratory in Sierra Leone after a health worker there was infected with Ebola, a move that may hamper efforts to boost the global response to the worst ever outbreak of the diseaseThe WHO said it had withdrawn staff from the laboratory testing for Ebola at Kailahun — one of only two in Sierra Leone — after a Senegalese epidemiologist was infected with Ebola.
“It’s a temporary measure to take care of the welfare of our remaining workers,” WHO spokesperson Christy Feig said, without specifying how long the measure would last. “After our assessment, they will return.”
And another WHO health worker is sick (and being flown home to Hamburg)
An employee of the World Health Organization (WHO) who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone will be flown to the German city of Hamburg for treatment, a spokesman for the city said.Rico Schmidt, spokesman for the Hamburg Health Senate, said the patient would arrive later on Wednesday and be treated at Hamburg university clinic’s tropical medicine institute. The WHO in Geneva said the patient was a Senegalese epidemiologist.
One of the deadliest diseases known to man, Ebola is transmitted by contact with body fluids and the current outbreak has killed at least 120 healthcare workers.
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We leave it to the WHO to conclude:
It’s not “a question of incompetence or complacency,” according to Morrison, who said the WHO should be able to raise the money needed. “It’s the fact we’re catching up with the unknown, and it’s way ahead of us.”
A second and different Ebola outbreak hits Congo, the fifth infected African country
Re-Post from The Washington Post
That makes five. The first was Guinea. Then, three days later on March 27, the World Health Organization reported that there were “suspected” cases of Ebola in Liberia and Sierra Leone. Months passed before the disease, which has now killed 1,427 people across West Africa, reached Nigeria in early August.
“I declare an Ebola epidemic in the region of Djera, in the territory of Boende in the province of Equateur,” Reuters quotes Congo health minister Kabange Numbi saying on Sunday. But, he said, it appeared to be a different strain from the West African variety, which has hopped borders, forced quarantines from rural villages to overpopulated slums, and terrified a continent. “The epidemic has nothing to do with the one in West Africa,” the minister added.
The World Health Organization couldn’t confirm Sunday whether the two outbreaks were different strains and expected more answers on Monday. “Need to wait for confirmatory tests,” WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl said on Twitter. “But yes there could be two different strains here, meaning two different events/outbreaks.”
A second Ebola front will further complicate international efforts to combat what has become an out-of-control outbreak in West Africa. On Sunday, it was unclear how many had died of Ebola in the northwestern province of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
In the last several weeks, a mysterious disease had reportedly riddled 592 victims with symptoms similar to Ebola, killing 70 of them. The WHO originally said the outbreak wasn’t related to Ebola. “This is not Ebola,” one WHO representative initially told Reuters late last week. But that assessment, following the analysis of eight samples, now appears shaky. Two of those samples tested by Congolese health workers had tested positive for the virus. Officials now contend 13 people had died of Ebola, including five health workers.
WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl told the Associated Press the initial information had been the result of “miscommunication from the field.” He added on Twitter: “I was given premature information from the field.”
Either way, Congolese Health Minister Kabange Numbi expressed confidence. “The experience acquired during the six previous epidemics of Ebola will contribute to the containing of this illness,” he said.
The World Health Organization agreed. “The Democratic Republic of the Congo has confirmed an outbreak of Ebola in the remote village of Boende,” the organization tweeted on Sunday. “…The country has extensive experience with Ebola outbreaks and immediately deployed a response team with WHO and other partners to the area. The country is organizing additional tests.”
Indeed, if any country has experience with Ebola, it’s Congo. It’s where it was first discovered in 1976 by a Belgian doctor named Peter Piot — in the same regional forests of the current Ebola outbreak. There, nearby the serpentine Ebola River, were signs that read, “Please stop, anybody who crosses here may die.”
Undeterred, Piot, now 65, says he charged into the village with the audacity of a young man. “When you are 27, you have all this confidence,” he recalled in an interview with the BBC. “We systematically went from village to village and if someone was ill, they would be put into quarantine. We would also quarantine anyone in direct contact with those infected and we would ensure everyone knew how to correctly bury those who had died from the virus.”
Now, nearly 40 years and many outbreaks later, the same problems are today bedeviling Ebola-ravaged communities. When someone dies of Ebola, their body is in fact more infections than it had been in life, as explained by The Washington Post’s Abby Ohlheiser. The WHO recommends following a procedures — body bags, bleach, protective clothes — before burying the dead underneath six feet of dirt.
That didn’t happen in Sierra Leone. And the outbreak there is believed to have begun at a single funeral of a woman who had claimed “to have powers to heal Ebola,” according to Agence France-Presse. She had tried her luck at saving some sick in nearby Guinea. But “she got infected and died,” one top medical official told the news agency. “During her funeral, women around the other towns got infected.” Afterward, the funeral’s observers spread throughout the Kissi tribal chiefdoms, “starting a chain reaction of infections, deaths funerals and more infections,” AFP reported.
And whether the current outbreak is a different strain or not — that’s exactly what experts don’t want to happen in the Congo.
Visualizing the Vanishing Money Velocity Vortex
Re-Posted from ZERHEDGE Submitted by Bruno de Landevoisin on 08/23/2014 11:52 -0400
by Bruno de Landevoisin @ StealthFlation
Having recklesly impaired the original clean source of healthy naturally effervescent American spring water abundantly spouting up from the bedrock below, the misguided monetary authorities have dangerously attempted to artificially inseminate the clouds above, in the hopes of drenching the parched U.S. soil with torrential rain, so as to generate their much heralded and forever promised green shoots. Regrettably for us all, when these artificially seeded clouds eventually do burst, they will produce nothing but the toxic inflationary rains of StealthFlation.
Under the imposition of StealthFlation, the Velocity of Money lies dormant while increasing Inflationary risks build below the surface.
The inflationary risks are deliberately concealed and remain latent due to the synthetic suppression of determinant free capital marlet forces. However, the grossly excessive supply of money has definitively been created, and it will debase the currency via inflation, it’s just a matter of time.
When an economy is healthy, there is much buying and selling and money tends to move around quite swiftly. Unfortunately, the U.S. economy is manifesting the precise opposite of that these days. In fact, the velocity of M1 & M2 has fallen to near all-time record lows. This is a very serious sign that the underlying economy has entered a period of extreme stagnation.
In its infinite wisdom, the Federal Reserve has been attempting to counter this economic standstill by absolutely flooding the financial system with new money. As it always does, this has created monumental financial and fixed asset bubbles, however, it has not addressed what is fundamentally and structurally wrong with our economy. On a very basic level, the amount of real economic activity that we are witnessing is not anywhere near where it should be, and the anemic flow of money through our economy is proof certain of the ongoing dilemma.
Clearly the transmission mechanism between the relentless synthetic origination of fresh money by the monetary miracle men and the velocity at which that new money is circulating in the real underlying economy on the ground is completely disconnected, FUBAR. Why is this? Well, it’s really not that difficult to comprehend.
First of all, much of the supposed economic activity generated today is not being driven from the the bottom up by the healthy deployment of excess savings naturally created from genuine self-sustaining productive economic activity at the fundamental level, but rather in an unnatural fashion, force fed from the top down via the easy street ZIRP/QE induced debt financing incessantly being encouraged by our misguided megalomaniac monetary authorities.
Perhaps even more malignant, the largest capital market of them all, namely the U.S. bond market has been put down by the Fed’s activist zero bound anesthesiologist. Thus, the utterly comatose American treasury market is no longer facilitating the natural growth of traditional savings income streams generated via secure interest bearing accounts and prudential savings products throughout the financial system’s depository structure. In short, the healthy income flows constructively generated from legitimate savings produced from genuine economic activity, namely people going to work every day, has been effectively terminated by these wizards of wanton monetary policy at the wayward central bank.
Let’s face it, if the major pension funds can’t generate 5-6% per year holding conservative debt instruments in order to meet their massive obligations, they are up a creek without a paddle. They require substantive returns in order to remain solvent. The Fed understands this all too well, they are most concerned on that score, and so should you be.
Having thoroughly shut down the sound, well established and effectives channels of capital formation, which have consistently engendered bona fide and constructive growth over the years through the virtuous avenues of productive savings, the foolish authorities have left themselves utterly hamstrung with only one risky road to travel down. Indeed, now that they have totally cracked the transmission on our fiscally busted and broken down American bus, they have become 100% reliant on the equity market to drive their top fuel funds into the U.S. economy via the wealth effect. Pedal to the metal at 2,000 SPX mph. Make no mistake my friends, we are on a crash course from hell, and we will hit the wall.
