Source – birchgold.com – “…The COVID-19 pandemic is a perfect cover event. It is a virus with a strangely long incubation period coupled with being highly transmissible and just deadly enough (3% to 5% death rate) to cause fear within the population….But the virus is not the cause of the economic collapse; it is only…
Source – zerohedge.com – “…In three months, the global equity market has lost $24 trillion in value, more than the $22 trillion in US GDP. And here is a staggering chart from BofA putting the crash of 2020 in its historic context: in the past month, the US stock market has crashed faster than both…
Source – canadianpatriot.org – “…The Ugly Truth of Today’s Crisis…New “sub-prime” bubbles have been created in the Corporate Debt sector which has risen to over $13.8 trillion (up 16% from the year earlier). A quarter of which is considered junk, and another half graded at BB by Moodies (a step above junk). This sum is…
Source – economicprism.com – “…Today’s money needs a stable base to derive its meaning and value from. Without such a reference point, we’ll just continue to spin out of orbit. Money will continue to accrue more zeros at the end of everything it measures. Yet, what good’s a $100 dollar bill if it only buys…
Source – libertyblitzkrieg.com – “…You have multitudes taking on debt defensively just to keep going and avoid falling further down the socioeconomic scale. Debt doesn’t empower such people, rather, it turns them into modern day indentured servants endlessly stuck on a hamster wheel with little to no hope of getting off. This is not an…
Source – oftwominds.com – “…America’s Deep State no longer enjoys a monolithic unity of world-view and narrative. The Deep State has fragmented into two conflicted camps: the Neo-conservatives, who espouse the globalist, interventionist foreign policy manifestation of Neoliberalism, and a smaller, more forward-looking camp that understands Neoliberalism is actively undermining our national security and our…
Source – yesmagazine.org – “…In ‘The Limousine Liberal’, historian Steve Fraser traces the rise of right-wing populism to the Nixon presidency when blue-collar Whites realized that “their social contract with New Deal liberalism was expiring.” Structural unemployment and wage stagnation were taking their toll, but the Democrats offered no solutions. Nixon offered no help to…
Source – journal-neo.org – “…Western capitalism has entered a stage where it views the population not as an asset, but as a burden. Instead of seeing each citizen as capable of creating a contribution to society, and making the country better, the population is viewed as a problematic horde that must be carefully managed and…
Source – zerohedge.com – “…This is what drives me nuts about the left. All immigration is to flood the zone with cheap labour, and the reason is because the elites don’t give a fuck about African Americans and the Hispanic working class. They don’t care about the white working class either. You’re just a commodity”…
Source – zerohedge.com – “..In the U.S., the main factor as to whether or not a worker can beat out a robot for a job seems to be his or her education. Overseas, in the EU, a lot of it is determined by how strong a workers’ employment contract is…Giugliano argues that it would be…
Source – charleshughsmith.blogspot.com – “…America is being hollowed out as local enterprises that reinvested profits back into their own communities have been wiped out by monopolies and cartels drawing upon unlimited credit lines of cheap money supplied by the Federal Reserve and other central banks, a system that guarantees the top few will collect whatever…
Source – mishtalk.com – “…The goal is to produce 23 million t-shirts at 33 cents each, about one shirt every 26 seconds….It’s rather difficult to compete against 33 cents when shipping and transportation costs are rolled in” SM: ..A little twist on ‘Make America Great Again’… Made In The USA (By Robots): China Opens ‘Sewbot’…
Source – ronpaulinstitute.org – “…Since the creation of the Federal Reserve, the US dollar has lost over 96 percent of its value. The Federal Reserve-caused decline in purchasing power is a stealth tax. This inflation tax does not affect the financial elites—who receive new money created by the Federal Reserve before the Fed’s actions have…
Source – oftwominds.com – “…The “muddle class” which muddles through on earned income, much of which goes to debt service (student loans, auto loans, mortgages, credit cards) and skyrocketing big-ticket expenses: rent, healthcare, childcare, etc. Unable to save enough to move the needle on household capital, any net worth is dependent on speculative asset bubbles…
Source – strategic-culture.org – “…What still remains absolutely off limits for the guardians of the current world-system is to really investigate hardcore neoliberalism as the root cause of wealth hyper-concentration and social inequality. It’s not enough to offer Band-Aids anymore. The streets of South America are alight. Blowback is now in full effect” Burn, Neoliberalism,…
Source – zerohedge.com – “…The 2020s will be known as the great transformation period where corporate America abandons its workforce for automation. The coming job losses, due to automation, will be on par with the automation revolution of agriculture (the transition of farm workers into the industrial sector) from 1900 to 1940” Report: AI, Robots…
Source – oftwominds.com – “…Technology, like natural selection, has no goal. Technology doesn’t have a teleological drive to employ humans, save the planet or any other goal we might choose. In the current socio-political-economic system, technology is mostly aimed at maximizing profits. The surest way to reduce costs is to replace costly humans with automated…
Source – unz.com – “…In other words, during the housing market collapse, when wealthy investment bankers were losing a lot of money (and before they got it back during the bailout), workers’ hourly compensation jumped up faster than productivity for the first time in decades – though not by nearly enough to close the gap,…
Source – zerohedge.com – “…Not just on millennials, but Americans in general. For example, we know that 14% of Americans have “negative” wealth. We also know that 62% of Americans don’t have emergency savings that could cover a $1,000 hospital visit or a $500 car repair” Here Are The Countries Where Millennials Will Have To Work Until They…
Source – charleshughsmith.blogspot.com – “…Something has changed and the change is deep in the very fabric of the Italian society. And the change has a name: it is the twilight of the age of oil. Wealth and energy are two faces of the same medal: with less net energy available, what Italians could afford 50…
Source – thegreatrecession.info – “…Rather than the longest expansion in US history, we’ve been enduring the longest recession in US history ever since the dot-com bust. The above chart shows the GDP growth rate, and the REAL GDP “growth” rate, which has actually been contraction, not growth, for the past two decades if measured by…
Source – theorganicprepper.com – ‘…Stimulus policies do not bring about a solid recovery but manufacture a phony economic growth that distorts the economy’s structure of production. Instead of a V-shaped recovery that would occur if government abstained from intervention, policymakers produce an L-shaped agony. As if a prolonged stagnation wasn’t already bad enough, the interventionists…
Source – zerohedge.com – “…The very last thing Europe needs is a monetary policy experiment or continuation of an existing policy of financial repression, which lead to an erosion of purchasing power, income inequality, and the rise of populism. It occurred 100 years ago, and people remember how it all ended up. We should do…
Source – charleshughsmith.blogspot.com – “…The keys to understanding the concealed crisis of decline are purchasing power relative to wages/earnings–how many goods and services can wages buy? For the average American household, wages have risen modestly while the purchasing power of those wages has plummeted” America’s Concealed Crisis: Fifty Years of Economic Decline, 1969 to 2019…
Source – oftwominds.com – “…If we take off our rose-colored glasses, we have a much more stratified economy and society than we might like to believe…The “middle” has eroded away, leaving the top 15% who are doing very well in the status quo and the bottom 85% who are struggling to maintain a meaningful sense…
Source – economicprism.com – “…What’s the real source of the working stiff’s grave economic discomfort?…today’s great chasm between rich and poor – is the product of central planners. Not the Soviet style central planner that dictated prices with ridiculous five year plans. But, rather, a more covert central planner that draws down the value of…
Source – mybudget360.com – “…The biggest scam of the century revolves around the massive growth in debt…Americans have been put into a sleepwalking state where they were drunk on debt induced spending while slowly and surely our manufacturing base was removed from the country…Banks and Wall Street have not cut back and have gone the…
Source – commondreams.org – “…One of the themes of the superb writing of Henry Giroux is that more and more Americans are becoming “disposable,” recognized as either commodities or criminals by the more fortunate members of society. There seems to be a method to the madness of winner-take-all capitalism. The following steps, whether due to greed or…
Source – econimica.blogspot.com – “…The reason for fast declining birthrates since 2007 in the US and among most nations globally seems to be the current ZIRP and low interest rates and Quantitative Easing programs which have the effect of inflating asset prices” Economic Doom Loop Well Underway – By Chris Hamilton From 2007 through 2018,…
Source – pcmag.com, By Evan Dashevsky – Economists of the past century have, for the most part, rejected the notion that technological advancement destroys the need for human labor. Or, if there was to be any effect on the labor force, they’ve claimed it would only be beneficial. Back in the 1930s, for example, the…
