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German Real Estate Market Continues Downward Trend: Implications and Forecasts

Demographics will kill this market very soon

Bifurcation Of The Global Economy Gets Steam  . .. ..

Think of the Euro as the biggest loser as it's not backed by anything. This will be the game changer

U.S. Real Incomes Decline in April After March Increase

Vladimir Putin's visit to China shows how quickly the BRICS bloc is now reacting to the West's declared war of sanctions and tariffs. The bifurcation of the global economy into two large blocs, one of which will be an energy-dominant player, will be the punchline of the coming years, if not decades.

This cold war of economies will also develop into a currency war. The BRICs bloc will gradually move away from dollar dominance as a settlement layer and reserve currency of international payment flows and establish a financial system, as yet unsettled, that gives them stability and independence from the dollar space. With the right energy policy, the USA can become self-sufficient in this area and stabilize its currency by returning to the private formation of capital. 

The question is: what will the Europeans do as an energy-poor continent? There is great panic in Brussels and in the ECB Tower in Frankfurt! Their are doubling down in the area of net zero climate policy shows that they are still desperately trying to impose their own fiat money system on the world, a money that is backed by nothing but the climate moralism of the Davos clique. The Europeans will have to brace themselves if they do not quickly change their course of international cooperation by importing energy with inflation money. And that will cost them their prosperity! 



Real incomes in the United States dropped by 0.4% in April compared to the previous month. This decline follows a 0.3% rise in March, highlighting the volatility in the income trends. The U.S. Department of Labor reported that the average weekly earnings, adjusted for seasonality and inflation, fell to $380.56 in April from $382.09 in March. 

The German real estate market is facing ongoing challenges, both in the short and long term. Factors such as rising interest rates, economic fragility, and consumer adversity contribute to the current crisis. Additionally, a looming demographic downturn further exacerbates the situation, suggesting a prolonged period of decline in real estate prices across Central Europe.

The latest data from the Association of German Pfandbrief Banks (VDP) reveals a persistent downward trajectory in real estate prices. The VDP's real estate price index dropped to 174.7 points in the first quarter, marking a 5.3 percent decrease compared to the previous year and a 0.3 percent decline from the preceding quarter. Since its peak in the second quarter of 2022, prices have plummeted by 10.3 percent, according to the association's findings.

Residential property prices experienced a 4.3 percent decline in the first quarter of this year compared to the same period last year. Meanwhile, commercial property prices saw an even steeper decline, with a 9.6 percent drop year-on-year.

This persistent downturn not only impacts property owners but also exerts pressure on banks and lenders, as declining asset values affect their balance sheets. Looking ahead, analysts predict continued challenges for the German real estate market.



Good news for the Americans: the Biden administration may be using the same rhetoric on energy policy as the completely out-of-control Europeans! But if we put action before words, we have to realize that the USA has massively upgraded its conventional energy sources and continues to produce them. This gives them a geostrategic advantage in this difficult transformation phase, in which the world is falling apart into two large economic blocs. 

If we look to Europe at this point, we have to realize that here in Brussels, among the capitals of the eurozone, they have completely lost their way and are backing the wrong horse. In view of its energy poverty, Europe should be investing massively in nuclear technology and capacity. But there is no sign of this. 

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USA achieves energy self-sufficiency

De-dollarization: China picks up the pace

The US decision to confiscate Russian assets appears to be accelerating the move away from the dollar-based monetary system by major antagonists such as China. Data shows that the China is dumping US government bonds like never before! And the sad attempt by US Secretary of State Blinken to talk China out of cooperating with Russia must also be interpreted as a farce against the backdrop of the ostentatious move away from the dollar. The bifurcation of the world into two large trading blocs is gathering pace and the pressure on the dollar is growing.

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World reserve currency: dollar erosion progresses slowly

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The Japanese economy contracted by 0.5% in the first quarter of 2024, outpacing economists' expectations of a 0.4% decline, according to recent government data. On an annualized basis, the contraction reached 2%, marking the third consecutive quarter of weak economic performance. The economy had previously declined in the third quarter and stagnated in the fourth quarter of the previous year.

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Japan's Economy Faces Continued Challenges as GDP Shrinks in Q1 2024

Over the past few years we have all been able to observe the rapid growth of the BRICs countries as a new financial-, currency and economic bloc. The biggest problem facing these countries, however, is to implement a transaction system that eliminates the considerable mistrust among member states. There is a clear desire to move away from the dollar, not least since the Americans armed the dollar via the Swift system and positioned it against its geopolitical opponents.

 However, the figures show that moving away from the dollar and US dollar-based collaterals such as short-dated US government bonds is a gradual and difficult process, as the global financial system largely functions on US dollar-based assets. Who wants to have a large amount of programmed Chinese Yuan on their balance sheet? A partial return to a gold standard is on the cards, but would be an evolutionary step backwards given the problems of concentration and manipulation of the gold market and asset expropriation. It has already failed several times and would do so again. And so we can observe the erosion process of the dollar as the world reserve currency in all serenity, there seem to be no serious interruptions on the way to the bipolar global economy.

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The world of debt

those were the so-called maastricht rules. they have been systematically undermined and circumvented by the socialists for some time now

The debt ranking of the world's countries is truly impressive. The national debt is accelerating, and this does not even include the excessive payment obligations that politicians have entered into over the course of time in their social and pension systems. This is a multiple of the debt that awaits future generations and is by no means financed. The question is, which ponds and economic waste dumps will absorb the forthcoming issue of new government debt? One thing seems certain: the central bankers have a lot of work ahead of them to inflate away the mountains of debt and deprive the private sector of its purchasing power. 

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European Companies Using Far More Debt Than American Peers

Here in Europe, of course, there is also a different financing culture, which is based on the foundation of regional banks and lending, as seen in Germany. but years of zero interest rate policy have really made credit seem damn cheap in contrast to equity financing.

Here we see the consequence of the ECB's years-long zero interest rate policy: private companies in the Eurozone are operating with much more debt than their competitors in the USA. This makes them much more vulnerable!

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Household debt in the USA reaches record level

Congratulations, we've made it! Private household debt in the United States has reached a record high. Despite, or perhaps despiteCongratulations, we made it! Household debt in the United States has reached a record high. Despite, or perhaps because of, the rapid rise in interest rates, people are plunging deeper and deeper into debt to get through the month. We can see this very clearly in the rising credit card debt. 

This is good news for all those who have switched their currency to hard assets these days and can now watch in peace and quiet as the fiat credit circus enters the next round and opens the gates again for new liquidity. The election-related proposal by both governments to give homebuilders a gift of $10,000 paid out of $400 a month to finance a mortgage alone shows where the journey is headed.coupled with the exploding national debt of Western economies, this is a toxic cocktail that we can no longer banish from the system out of pure economic growth. 

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China finds Keynesian 'solution' to the real estate disaster

Eurozone Economy Shows Moderate Growth in Q1 Despite Challenges

No. Clearly down. Gov holds about 50% of the GDP, running deficits between 2.5 and 4.5%