Do Wall Street Insiders Expect Something Really BIG To Happen Very Soon?Michael Snyder, Contributor Every time that the market has fallen in recent years, insiders have been able to get out ahead of time. David Coleman of the Vickers Weekly Insider report recently noted that Wall Street insiders have shown a remarkable ability of late to identify both market peaks and troughs. That is why it is so alarming that corporate insiders are selling nine times as many shares as they are buying right now. In addition, some extraordinarily large bets have just been made that will only pay off if the financial markets in the U.S. crash by the end of April. So what does all of this mean? Well, it could mean absolutely nothing or it could mean that there are people out there that actually have insider knowledge that a market crash is coming. Evaluate the evidence below and decide for yourself For some reason, corporate insiders have chosen this moment to unload huge amounts of stock. According to a CNN article, corporate insiders are now selling nine times more of their own shares than they are buying There are other indications that the stock market may be headed for a significant tumble in the months ahead. For example, as a Zero Hedge article recently pointed out, the last time that the financial markets in the U.S. were as euphoric as they are now was right before the financial crisis of 2008. And as I mentioned above, some people out there have recently made some absolutely jaw-dropping bets against stocks which will only pay off if there is a financial crash at some point in the next few months. According to Business Insider, the recent purchase of 100,000 put options by a mystery investor has a lot of people on Wall Street talking Reportedly, those put options expire in April. And asArt Cashin of UBS has noted, there was also another extremely large bet that was placed recently that is banking on a financial crash within the next two months So does all of this guarantee that the stock market is going to move a certain way? But when you step back and look at the bigger picture, it does appear that Wall Street insiders are preparing for something. Meanwhile, the government continues to assure us that happy days are here again for the U.S. economy and that we dont have anything to worry about. The Congressional Budget Office has just released a report that contains their outlook for the next decade. The report is entitled The Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2013 to 2023, and if you want a good laugh you should read it. Here are some of the things that the CBO believes will happen -The CBO believes that government revenues will more than double by 2023. -The CBO believes that government revenue as a percentage of GDP will rise from 15.8 percent today to 19.1 percent in 2023. -The CBO believes that the unemployment rate will continually fall over the next decade. -The CBO believes that the federal budget deficit will fall to just 2.4% of GDP in fiscal year 2015. -The CBO believes that the federal budget deficit will only be $430 billion in 2015. -The CBO believes that we will not have a single recession over the next decade. -The CBO believes that inflation will stay at about 2 percent for the next decade. -The CBO believes that U.S. GDP will grow by a total of 67 percent by 2023. Wow, all of that sounds great until you go back and take a look at how CBO projections have fared in the past. In fact,Bruce Krasting has gone back and looked at the numbers from the Congressional Budget Offices Budget and Economic Outlook 2003. I think that you will find the differences between the CBO projections and what really happened to be very humorous Estimated 10-year budget surplus = $5.6T. Estimate for 2012 Debt Held by Public = $1.2T (5% of GDP). Estimated fiscal 2012 GDP = $17.4T. So should we trust what the CBO is telling us now? Of course not. Instead, perhaps we should listen to some of the men that successfully warned us about the last financial crisis -Dr. Doom Marc Faber recently stated that he loves the high odds of a big-time market crash. -Economist Nouriel Roubini says that we should prepare for a perfect storm. -Pimcos Bill Gross says that we are heading for a credit supernova. -Nomuras Bob Janjuah believes that the financial markets will experience one more huge spike before collapsing by up to 50% The truth is that no matter how much money printing the Federal Reserve does, it is only a matter of time before the financial markets catch up with economic reality. The U.S. economy has been in decline for a very long time, and things just continue to get even worse. Here are just a few numbers -The percentage of the civilian labor force that is employed has fallen every single year since 2006. -According to John Williams of shadowstats.com, truly accurate numbers would show that U.S. GDP growth has actually been continuously negative all the way back to 2005. -U.S. families that have a head of household that is under the age of 30 have a poverty rate of 37 percent. -One recent survey found that nearly half of all Americans are living on the edge of financial ruin. For many more statistics that demonstrate that the U.S. economy has continued to decline in recent years, please see this article: 37 Statistics Which Show How Four Years Of Obama Have Wrecked The U.S. Economy. So where is all of this headed? Well, after the next major financial crisis in America things are going to get very tough. We can get a hint for how things are going to be by taking a look at what is going on over in Europe right now. The suffering that the Greeks are experiencing right now will come to this country soon enough. This article first appeared here at the Economic Collapse Blog. Michael Snyder is a writer, speaker and activist who writes and edits his own blogs The American Dream and Economic Collapse Blog. Follow him on Twitter here. 