Freedom New Zealand

Sign #1 Banks loaning more money. Finance companies going under and monetary control centralized into banking only, governments trying anything from Kiwisaver to new taxes (carbon etc) to make people have less but actually spend *cough, borrow more money from the banks, so debt increases. The servicing of debt in which the people are the BORROWER and the bank is CREDITOR to issue the money. See the video 'Money As Debt' here

Sign #2 Gold & Oil prices increase - which is good for some reasons, they continue to rise even today. Changing the value of paper money issued by the private controlled foreign corporations otherwise known as Reserve Banks, i.e BoE, BoJ.

At this stage some things need explaining for those not full awaken to whats is going on...

In these times governments and central banks have in the past worked together against the people to prohibit persons from; possessing gold, trading gold, storing gold, use for commerce and gains. This in effect locked down the control of money, thus wealth into the elite rich few, hence a pyramid extending out as it goes down was created, this enslaves the majority. In turn, the public are led to believe they are free in a so-called 'democracy', when in fact more and more laws and statues were and are continued to be created to limit such freedoms whether related to commerce and finance or not.
In this point drugs and oil whether legal or not are passed through a echelon ranging from intelligence agencies, a nations army down to the street corner (not always in this order directly). For those who do not believe this, I simply ask for you to look at U.S Federal Reserve issued currency, there's a pyramid symbol on it, with a detached zenith at its peak, with an Egyptian eye or to some the sign of Big Brother.
Also to note the CIA (Cocaine Imports of America) and the OSS, the Contra's & the Vietnam war plus many others being involved, this is not a conspiracy theory, there is proof!

I quote what they always plan, 'Anything that can be regulated and registered by control of the international bankers whether it be puppets fronting as government or otherwise will be regulated, registered and put into a form of law with or without consent from the people.

Now an article I found from the mainstream below....

The US Federal Reserve has announced an emergency cut in interest rates and taken more than US$30 billion ($37 billion) of Bear Stearns' assets; the US dollar has flopped to an all-time low against the euro, and hit a 12-year low against the yen; the Bank of England saw fit to lend a further 5 billion ($12.5 billion) to the banks; the Mumbai stock market was down 6 per cent, Hong Kong fell 5 per cent and Frankfurt 4 per cent.

Even President George W. Bush admitted: "We are in challenging times."

Is this the moment? The moment, that is, when the world economy slides into slump? The collapse of Bear Stearns is a signal of much worse to come.

Perhaps the most significant barometer of the economic health of the world today isn't the FTSE-100, the Dow or the Nikkei, dreadful though they were at times, nor even the free-falling dollar or the soaring value, yet again, of gold.

Rather it is the suddenness with which the situation is being compared with the 1930s, the most miserable decade in a century of economic history.

That may be an apocalyptic view, a typical product of the mood swings of markets suffering from bipolar syndrome; but the world economy is sick.

It is suffering from illnesses that are beginning to feed on each other, creating a vortex of downward spirals. Grim forces have gripped the world economy, a combination not seen since the Great Depression.