{"id":636,"date":"2008-09-21T05:08:12","date_gmt":"2008-09-21T13:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/?p=636"},"modified":"2008-09-21T05:08:52","modified_gmt":"2008-09-21T13:08:52","slug":"us-government-could-default","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/prophecy\/us-government-could-default\/","title":{"rendered":"US Government Could Default?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/us-dollars.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"126\" height=\"122\" \/><br \/>\n<em>The Strength of Dollars Have Long Been Part of the  \u201cPride of the Power\u201d of the USA<\/em> <em>(which will be broken per Leviticus  26:19)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/cogwriter.htm\">COGwriter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Notice the following not very surprising article:<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;\">Financial crisis: Default by the US government is no  longer unthinkable<\/span><\/h2>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"storyby\">By Liam Halligan<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><strong>Telegraph<\/strong>, London &#8211; Sept 21,  2008<\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"story\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">So, here we are &#8211; the start of a new  world order. After the tumultuous events of the last fortnight, the global  economic landscape will never look the same again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"story\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">Power has tangibly shifted &#8211; away from  the United States and the Western world generally, and towards the fast-growing  giants of the East. That&#8217;s been happening for some years now. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"story\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">But September 2008 marks the moment when  the scale of our excesses, the extent of our debts and the moral bankruptcy of  our financial regulatory system finally began to be truly exposed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"story\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">I say began to be exposed. Back in March,  Standard and Poor&#8217;s, the US ratings agency, estimated some $285bn (\u00a3156bn) of  mortgage-backed securities would eventually be written-off by the global banking  sector. On Friday, almost unnoticed amid the panic, that forecast was upped to  $378bn.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"story\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">In reality, total credit losses will be  much higher &#8211; at least $750bn in my view. But the extent of the 33 per cent  one-off increase in S&amp;P&#8217;s estimate speaks volumes. It reflects just how  little anyone truly knows about either the ultimate size of the sub-prime losses  or who ultimately holds the related securities. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"story\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">But with one in ten US mortgages now  &#8220;delinquent&#8221; or &#8220;in foreclosure&#8221;, and house prices still falling, such &#8220;toxic  waste&#8221; is burning holes in balance sheets wherever it sits. That&#8217;s why this  crisis is far from over.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"story\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">It&#8217;s difficult to overstate the enormity  of what happened last week&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"story\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">The trouble is, though, as the bill for these bail-outs  keeps rising, so does the possibility that the political consensus will crack  and there&#8217;ll be an almighty, and debilitating, dust-up&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"story\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"story\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">In other words, the market is now pricing-in the genuine possibility that the US  will struggle to pay-back some of its long-term T-bills.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"story\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">That possibility is still deemed to be  quite low. But the ultimate financial question &#8211; until recently, unthinkable &#8211;  is now being asked. Yes siree, <strong>the mighty US government could default<\/strong>. That&#8217;s  how much the world has changed. <\/span><a title=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/money\/main.jhtml?xml=\/money\/2008\/09\/21\/ccliam121.xml\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/money\/main.jhtml?xml=\/money\/2008\/09\/21\/ccliam121.xml\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: #800080; font-size: x-small;\">http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/money\/main.jhtml?xml=\/money\/2008\/09\/21\/ccliam121.xml<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It should not be a surprise to long-time readers of the COGwriter page, because I have been warning about the US debt for many years.<\/p>\n<p>The short-term solutions that have been implemented are at best SHORT-TERM and they MUST ultimately lead to hyper-inflation UNLESS the USA will repent of its sins and pay down its debt. (However, if the USA only monetizes its debt&#8211;prints up money, which will be highly devalued&#8211;to pay its debts off, creditors will NOT be happy and this could be a factor in them rising up.)<\/p>\n<p>The biblical truth is that, short of true repentance, eventually the creditors of the USA will rise up and then the USA will be taken over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style4\">Thousands of years ago, notice what God had Habakkuk record:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"style4\">For the vision is yet for an appointed time&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8216;Woe to him who increases<br \/>\nWhat is not his&#8211;how long?<br \/>\nAnd to him who loads himself with many pledges&#8217;?<br \/>\nWill not your creditors rise up suddenly?<br \/>\nWill they not awaken who oppress you?<br \/>\nAnd you will become their booty (Habakkuk 2:3,6,7).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"style4\">Notice that Habakkuk wrote that at the <em>appointed time<\/em> (which is mentioned several times in Daniel 11, hence this appears to be for the same time) a those who are deep in debt (loaded with &#8220;many pledges&#8221;) will become the &#8220;booty&#8221; (slaves) of creditors. The USA is the most indebted nation of all time and its English-speaking allies are all also deeply in debt.<\/p>\n<p>Neither presidential John McCain nor Barack Obama seem to understand this debt problem at all.\u00a0 And while it is likely that this will rising up of creditors CANNOT happen in the next four years, it is a real possibility for whoever wins the 2012 USA presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>We live in perilous times.<\/p>\n<p><em>Several articles of possibly related interest may include:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/end-mayan-calendar-2012.htm\">End of Mayan Calendar 2012\u2013Might 2012 Mean Something?<\/a> There is a Mayan calendar prediction for change in 2012. 2012 changes were also centuries ago predicted by the Hopi Native Americans and others (who were not even on the same continent). Do these Mayan\/Hindu\/Hopi prophecies have any value? Why might Satan have inspired this date? Does the Dresden codex show destruction of the earth by flood? Can the great tribulation start before 2012?<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/britishisrael.htm\">Anglo &#8211; America in Prophecy &amp; the  Lost Tribes of Israel<\/a> Are the Americans, Canadians, British, Scottish, Welsh, Australians, Anglo-Southern Africans, and New Zealanders descendants of Joseph? Where are the lost ten-tribes of Israel? Who are the lost tribes of Israel? Will God punish the U.S.A., Canada, United Kingdom, and other Anglo nations? Why might God allow them to be punished first?<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/kingofthenorth.htm\">Who is the King of the North?<\/a> Is there one? Do biblical and Roman Catholic prophecies point to the same leader? Should he be followed? Who will be the King of the North discussed in Daniel 11? Is a nuclear attack prophesied to happen to the English-speaking peoples of<span class=\"style27\"> the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand<\/span>? When do the 1335 days, 1290 days, and 1260 days (the time, times, and half a time) of Daniel 12 begin? When does the Bible show that economic collapse will affect the United States?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Strength of Dollars Have Long Been Part of the \u201cPride of the Power\u201d of the USA (which will be broken per Leviticus 26:19) COGwriter Notice the following not very surprising article: Financial crisis: Default by the US government is no longer unthinkable By Liam Halligan Telegraph, London &#8211; Sept 21, 2008 So, here we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prophecy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}