Another Black Monday In The Markets – Will Deutsche Bank Be This Cycle’s Lehman Bros?

It was another wild, Black Monday in the markets today worldwide.  The last major Black Monday occurred just over a month ago on August 24th and nearly every stock market was at or below those levels today.

We released our Shemitah Exposed video on July 14th and warned about a financial crisis planned for September as well as warning that it will just be the beginning of what could be a catastrophic fall season.

At the time the Dow was trading above 18,000.  As of today, after being down 313 points it is within 2 points of being in the 15,000s.

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We wish we didn't have to be the carrier of bad tidings, but Shemitah, its end-day and subsequent Shemitah Trends are proving most destructive, just as we guessed.

The rubbishing of the Shengen Area in the European Union continues apace.  We noted in mid-September that the planned “refugee crisis” had effectively ended the Eurozone… and even as we speak barriers continue to go up across the continent, effectively ending the promise of EU “free travel and free trade.”

This is a huge setback, something the mainstream media has NOT reported in any detail. The EU was positioned as a huge experiment in “free trade” but all that time, all that money, all that effort is now dissipating. Soon there will be nothing left of the EU but the harsh dictates and profligacy of the central government in Brussels.

Germany announced border barriers on the Shemitah end-day itself, but we were still wondering where the financial crisis would come from.  There were and are literally hundreds of potential disasters to choose from, but there was simply no way to know which one would set-off this seven-year cycle's crisis.

In 2008, the financial crisis was set-off by the collapse of Lehman Brothers.  Could this year's crisis be caused by a collapse of Deutsche Bank?

It's a reasonable guess. Especially when you consider that the recent plunge in the markets was caused by the US government threatening to fine Volkswagen $18 billion (Volkswagen's market capitalization right now is only $50 billion) for not adhering to one of its millions of regulations.

As free-marketeers, we applaud any company or person that attempts to circumvent  regulatory impediments, however Volkswagen's exposure regarding its circumvention (if that is what it was) has caused the company to virtually implode.  Volkswagen traded near $250 only four months ago. Today it closed at an incredible $107. The company has lost more than half of its market value.

How is Volkswagen related to Deutsche Bank?  Here's where I am going to make some guesses. Germany has been cultivating Russia in recent years.  This gives both the US and NATO the opportunity to make known their unhappiness about Germany's position regarding Russia.  It would seem that this attack on Volkswagen was partly for this reason… not to mention that Volkswagen just recently announced a large new investment in Russia.

And Deutsche Bank?  The day after the end day of the Shemitah, on September 14th, Deutsche Bank announced that it was laying off 23,000 employees, about 25% of its workforce.  And just a few hours ago the London Telegraph speculated that 10,000-20,000 more cuts will be soon announced.  That would mean nearly half the company's employees would be cut all in the last few weeks.  Does that sound like a healthy company to you?

Deutsche Bank has not recovered at all from the last financial crisis in 2008 and its stock currently sits at near its low in January 2009.

In 2008 Lehman was picked to be the fall guy and General Motors went bankrupt and became Government Motors. Could this Shemitah result in the bankruptcy of Volkswagen and Deutsche Bank? Are these the chosen sacrificial lambs? Are these two companies to be the triggers for additional economic damage?

The positioning makes sense. The powers-that-be have been hiking the tensions between the West and Russia and China for a number of years now. And Germany has always been treated with suspicion by the Anglosphere elite. Penalizing the German relationship with Russia is a logical move from this standpoint. It inflicts misery on the Germans and raises international tensions, both outcomes that are necessary to continued centralization of world finance and politics.

CONCLUSION

We've been well prepared for this crisis and have been publicly warning the world since July of a crisis to come this fall.  In late August the market collapsed 1,100 points and on Shemitah end-day, the European Union virtually collapsed as well as a trade entity. Germany was simply the most notable participant in the roll-back of free travel, but it's infected virtually all of Europe now.

Think these moves are merely coincidence? I don't. The destabilization of the Middle East is the proximate cause for Europe's insular reactions and thus we see again how one  move by the West leads to additional authoritarian outcomes elsewhere.

We aren't even out of September yet and markets have lost thousands of points and the EU's free-trade structure has all but collapsed.

We've been telling subscribers (subscribe here) to short the markets, short banks and even purchase put options like the one that rose 4,500% in just a three day period in August.  (Today, alone, one of our options rose 50%.)

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Things appear to be very quickly going off the rails now and so I urge you to not hesitate to protect yourself (subscribe here for more detailed information on the hows and whys).  If Deutsche Bank goes down this fall it will make 2008 look like “the good old days” and this financial crisis to come will be written about in history books for generations.