Their definitely acting broke or soon to be. The idea that their doing this as a ruse to try and throw off the pedophile lawyers doesn't make sense to me. The lawyers can go after property as well as cash and if they really were trying to protect themselves from this then they could give the kingdom halls back to the local congregations. They sold the properties in New York in a major down market, that's very telling. Then they went after the local halls money. But then like a bunch of idiots they went on a spending spree buying and building more properties, its like one side is doing one thing and another is trying to do something different. Finally it looks as thought the realist side won and now is pulling in the belt and tightening up the budget.
It does look as though they really have given up on any more expansion or growth plans. If your a company trying to make money this makes sense. Third world countries is where most of their growth has come from and that's a bad investment. Mean while the internet is killing off their profits in the first world countries. So some bean counter finally got through to them and said "get all the money while you can because its not going to get any better in the future".