For years now we've had to listen to the mainstream talking heads telling us about “green shoots” and “jobless recoveries,” half-heartedly warning about the “risk” of a “double-dip recession” while noting with relief that the stock markets are doing well. Readers of this publication know better. Behind the sunshine and smiles, we are entering an unprecedented phase of economic history as the largest bubble in the history of the world—the ticking derivatives time bomb—inches closer to a day of reckoning. Sometimes all it takes to put these things in perspective is to look behind the rhetoric at some of the numbers, so this week I present to you 6 statistics that should leave any thinking person concerned about the future...and more motivated than ever to prepare for the collapse of the current financial system.

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