Forget it. 45 million people in the U.S. on food stamps

– some estimates as high as 10 million refugees flooding into the European Union

– non stop wars of aggression involving NATO, Russia, Syria and several other countries

– financial crisis that began in 2008 has not been addressed and the problems that started that year have grown larger and far deeper

– banking system in the European Union, especially Italy, is under enormous stress due to faulting/fraudulent accounting

– Federal Reserve balance sheet at $4 TRILLION – U.S. debt at $20 TRILLION and counting

– United Kingdom/Britain and the Brexit movement that is taking root

– U.S. Presidential candidates, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders garnering global attention as the citizens of the U.S. seek alternatives to the current embedded criminal politicians.

– Japan instituting a Negative Interest Rate Policy (NIRP) for their sovereign bonds – Japan has basically been in a recession for over 20 years

– China is manufacturer to the world and with economies slowing down or shutting down there is no reason to manufacture products

– Venezuela has entered into currency collapse – no one will admit it or call it what it is, but the country has no currency and the people are, literally, starving to death

These are just a few of the items that are currently hampering growth for individual citizens and individual Western nations. Currently, there are just too many holes that need to be filled and the central bankers are loosing control and the people are loosing faith in the narratives they are being fed. Once faith is lost, in mass, the show will become a lot more interesting and a lot more dangerous.