by Michael

Lots of people on the market have been ready for the following main financial disaster to reach.  In case you are certainly one of them, you don’t have to attend any longer, as a result of it’s already right here.  All the numbers are telling us that we haven’t confronted a downturn of this magnitude since 2008.  For instance, the Convention Board’s index of main financial indicators has now fallen for 10 months in a row.  In accordance to Zero Hedge, that is the primary time that has occurred because the collapse of Lehman Brothers.  And identical to we witnessed in 2008, the housing market is crashing.  In reality, the median value of a house within the San Francisco Bay Space has already fallen by a whopping 35 p.c…

The median value within the nine-county Bay Space plunged by one other 8% in January from December, by 17% year-over-year, and by 35%, or by $540,000, in 10 months from the loopy peak in March 2022, from $1.54 million to $1.00 million, in line with the California Affiliation of Realtors.

Dwelling costs within the Bay Space are plummeting even quicker than they did throughout the first housing crash.

However don’t fear.

Joe Biden says that all the pieces is simply effective.

After all the fact of the matter is that all the pieces is just not effective.  As dangerous as issues are for residential actual property, the reality is that issues are even worse for business actual property.

Earlier right this moment, I got here throughout an article that defined that one of many greatest landlords in Los Angeles simply defaulted on 755 million {dollars} in loans…

Brookfield Corp., father or mother of the most important workplace landlord in downtown Los Angeles, is defaulting on loans tied to 2 buildings moderately than refinancing the debt as demand for area weakens within the middle of the second-largest US metropolis.

The 2 properties in default, a part of a portfolio known as Brookfield DTLA Fund Workplace Belief Investor, are the Gasoline Firm Tower, with $465 million in loans, and the 777 Tower, with about $290 million in debt, in line with a submitting. The fund supervisor had warned in November that it could face foreclosures on properties.

Sadly, that is simply the tip of the iceberg.

We stand getting ready to probably the most epic business actual property crash in all the historical past of america, and it’s completely going to devastate the monetary neighborhood.

In the meantime, the tsunami of layoffs that we now have been witnessing simply continues to accentuate.  As an illustration, KPMG simply introduced that it will likely be shedding about 700 staff…

A number of monetary corporations have slashed jobs in latest months together with main Wall Avenue banks, asset managers and fintechs amid a turbulent macroeconomic surroundings that has pressured customers and soured demand in a number of mainstay enterprise models.

The cuts at KPMG will have an effect on near 700 individuals, the FT report added.

And Docusign is already on their second spherical of layoffs…

E-signature software program firm DocuSign on Thursday introduced plans to chop round 10% of its workforce.

DocuSign had 7,461 workers in January 2022 earlier than it introduced an earlier spherical of layoffs final September that impacted 9% of its workforce. The corporate stated the most recent cuts will influence about 700 workers.

Even Apple is letting individuals go.  It’s being reported that “lots of of contractors” have been all of the sudden given the axe final week…

NYPost stated Apple fired lots of of contractors final week. These staff are employed by exterior firms however work alongside Apple workers on tasks. It seems Apple is decreasing headcount because the macroeconomic surroundings stays difficult.

If even an especially rich firm like Apple has determined that now could be the time for mass layoffs, what does that say in regards to the financial outlook for the remainder of 2023?

In 2022, we witnessed a wave of layoffs within the tech trade that was in contrast to something we now have seen because the Nice Recession.

And to date this yr, we’re approach, approach forward of final yr’s tempo…

The information comes after 1,045 tech firms final yr fired 161,000 workers in 2022. To this point this yr, 380 firms have fired 108,000 staff, in line with the roles monitoring web site Layoffs.fyi.

Does anybody on the market nonetheless wish to attempt to argue that the financial system is in “fine condition”?

Look, if the financial system actually is in “fine condition”, then why is Walmart closing down extra shops?…

Walmart has confirmed it’s shutting down seven shops over profitability issues after a “thorough assessment course of.”

Walmart confirmed the closure of 5 areas throughout three states to Nexstar final week. Amongst these was a retailer in Albuquerque, New Mexico, that was described as “underperforming” in a press release to Nexstar’s KRQE.

Different impacted areas included a retailer in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and three within the Chicago space. Nexstar’s WGN stories two of the shops in Chicago didn’t meet monetary expectations.

Walmart can see what’s coming.

So can Apple.

So can lots of of different main companies which were “downsizing” in latest weeks.

Everyone seems to be battening down the hatches as a result of we’re getting into a extremely dangerous storm.

After all not everyone seems to be hurting.

In case you are within the prime 10 p.c of all earnings earners, you should still be doing fairly effectively.

For now.

However at this level the hole between the ultra-wealthy and the remainder of us is bigger than ever, and a lot of the inhabitants is simply looking for a approach to survive from month to month.

As soon as upon a time, the U.S. had the most important and most affluent center class within the historical past of the world, however now our panorama is plagued by greenback shops as a result of such shops are a few of the solely locations the place our huge throngs of poor individuals can afford to buy…

A small city in japanese Kentucky has an uncommon declare to fame: with a inhabitants of simply 1,424, it has six greenback shops, most of them constructed prior to now few years.

Olive Hill, a quiet hamlet located on Tygarts Creek within the Appalachian foothills, has two Household Greenback areas and 4 Greenback Basic shops in and instantly surrounding the city.

All however certainly one of them are positioned alongside Tom T. Corridor Boulevard, the city’s principal drag, named after Olive Hill’s most well-known native, the nation singer and songwriter nicknamed ‘The Storyteller’.

I’ve been warning {that a} nightmarish financial meltdown was coming for a very long time.

Now it’s right here.

And it will get rather a lot worse.

The excellent news, if you wish to name it that, is that we’re nonetheless solely within the very early chapters of this disaster.

So I might encourage you to do what you could do, as a result of issues are solely going to get rougher from right here.