Source – schiffgold.com Peter Schiff: All Roads Lead To Hard Landing And Higher Inflation The markets still seem to believe the Federal Reserve can ratchet price inflation back down to 2% while bringing the economy to a relatively soft landing. In his podcast, Peter Schiff throws cold water on this hopeful narrative. He goes through…
Source – wallstreetonparade.com Silvergate, a Federally Insured Bank, Just Blew Up from Ties to Crypto By Pam Martens and Russ Martens (Also Read: Silvergate Capital To Wind Down Ops, Liquidate Bank @ https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/silvergate-capital-wind-down-ops-liquidate-bank) (Above Image Added By SM) (Also Read: The Same Day Sam Bankman-Fried Is Hit with a New Count of Bank Fraud, Three Regulators…
Source – internationalman.com The Top 3 Reasons the US Has Entered the Inflation Death Spiral by Nick Giambruno Rapidly rising food, housing, medical, and tuition prices are squeezing Americans, and many do not understand the real cause of their falling living standards. That confusion opens the door for opportunistic politicians who promise supposed freebies to ease…
Source – dailyreckoning.com The Accelerating Countdown To Armageddon Authored by James Rickards Get ready for screaming headlines beginning in about two months. Why? Because the U.S. will be coming up on a double deadline of debt and deficit inflection points. The budget deficit issue will be hotly debated from March to next September and may…
Source – ellenbrown.com What Will Happen When Banks Go Bust? Bank Runs, Bail-Ins and Systemic Risk By Ellen Brown Financial podcasts have been featuring ominous headlines lately along the lines of “Your Bank Can Legally Seize Your Money” and “Banks Can STEAL Your Money?! Here’s How!” The reference is to “bail-ins:” the provision under the…
Source – economicprism.com Fear and Greed with a Roll of the Dice By MN Gordon Bear markets take time. They also provide countless occasions to lose money. With each bounce comes an opportunity for investors to buy higher so they can later sell lower. Major U.S. stock market indexes hit what is likely an interim bottom…
Source – rumormillnews.com The Amazing Life of Rayelan Allan The Amazing Life of Rayelan Allan It was 2AM. Rayelan pulled out of the radio station parking lot and eased her car onto Highway 280. Her mind was not on driving. She had just publicly charged the President of the United States with treason. She was…
Source – usawatchdog.com Neocons Know The “Monetary System Is Collapsing” – Martin Armstrong Warns “War Checks All The Boxes” (Above Image Added By SM) Legendary financial and geopolitical cycle analyst Martin Armstrong said at the end of last year the U.S. is being set up for a “nightmare fall.” Train derailments and political problems are spinning out…
Source – goldmoney.com Gold’s return as money – Alasdair Macleod The consequences of Russia and her Asian allies embracing gold backing for their currencies are poorly understood in western capital markets. This move could lead to the destruction of the global fiat currency system. According to evidence which is widely ignored in western capital markets, a move…
Source – unz.com Understanding Money and the Dollar System By Michael Hudson Radhika Hello and welcome to this third Geopolitical Economy Hour. I’m Radhika Desai. Michael And I’m Michael Hudson. Radhika As many of you know, in this collaboration with Ben Norton’s Geopolitical Economy Report, Michael and I will present every fortnight a discussion of…
Source – oftwominds.com The New Normal: Death Spirals and Speculative Frenzies By Charles Hugh Smith There is an element of inevitability in play, but it isn’t about central bank bailouts, it’s about Death Spirals and the collapse of unsustainable systems. The vapid discussions about “soft” or “hard” landings for the economy are akin to asking…
Source – usawatchdog.com “Welcome To The Endgame” – Rubino Warns “Everyone’s About To Realize There’s No Fix For This” By Greg Hunter Analyst and financial writer John Rubino says we are in a “debt and death spiral” that will force dramatic changes on the world. Rubino explains, “The debt spiral part of this means things…
Source – gizadeathstar.com THE BULLION REVOLT: WYOMING AND OKLAHOMA Joseph P. Farrell If you’re a regular reader of this website, you already know that one of the stories we’ve been tracking over the past few years is the growing movement among the several states to push back against the vipers’ nest in Swampington DC which…
Source – propublica.org What to Know About TurboTax Before You File Your Taxes This Year by Sophia Kovatch ProPublica Under the Free File agreement, Americans who make less than $73,000 per year should be able to file their taxes for free with one of the tax preparation companies that partners with the IRS. But this…
Source – thecradle.co The Big Stiff: Russia-Iran dump the dollar and bust US sanctions By Pepe Escobar The agreement between the Central Banks of Russia and Iran formally signed on 29 January connecting their interbank transfer systems is a game-changer in more ways than one. Technically, from now on 52 Iranian banks already using SEPAM,…
Source – sovereignman.com The Eight-State Suicide Pact is advancing quickly… by Simon Black By the early 300s AD, ancient Rome’s population was in significant decline. Modern historians haven’t nailed down a precise number for Rome’s population— and estimates vary— but the clear consensus is that population peaked in the first or second century AD, and…
Source – oftwominds.com Seven Points On Investing In Treacherous Waters By Charles Hugh Smith What’s truly valuable has no price and cannot be bought. If all investments are being cast into Treacherous Waters, our investment strategy must adapt accordingly. Once we set aside denial and magical thinking as strategies and accept that we’re in treacherous…
Source – internationalman.com David Stockman on the Fed’s Giant Economic Science Experiment by David Stockman The Fed holds interest rates to be its primary control valve, with lower ones providing a stimulus to the GDP and higher ones a brake. Self-evidently, therefore, interest rates below the inflation level are a stimulus because they amount to…
Source – mises.org The End Of Monetary Hedonism – By Jeff Deist Does cheap money and credit make us richer? Does more money and credit create more stuff, or better stuff? Do they make us happier and more productive? Or do these twin forces actually distort the economy, misallocate resources, and degrade us as people?…
Source – eurasiareview.com Why The End Of The Petrodollar Spells Trouble For The US Regime Why End Of Petrodollar Spells Trouble For US Regime – OpEd February 1, 2023 MISES 1 Comment By MISES By Ryan McMaken* On January 17, the Saudi minister of finance, Mohammed Al-Jadaan, announced that the Saudi state is open to…
Source – oftwominds.com What Goes Up Also Comes Down: The Heavy Hand of Bubble Symmetry Should bubble symmetry play out in the S&P 500, we can anticipate a steep 45% drop to pre-bubble levels, followed by another leg down as the speculative frenzy is slowly extinguished. Bubble symmetry is, well, interesting. The dot-com stock market…
Source – moderndiplomacy.eu The Prolongation of BRICS: Impact on International World Order and Global Economy By Tamanna Islam BRIC, coined by an economist Jim O’Neil in 2001 as an acronym for the four countries like Brazil, Russia, India and China. South Africa joined in 2010 and this organization turned into BRICS. The prime goal of…
Source – alt-market.us A Dollar Collapse Is Now In Motion, Saudi Arabia Signals The End Of ‘Petro’ Status Authored by Brandon Smith, The decline of a currency’s world reserve status is often a long process rife with denials. There are numerous economic “experts” out there that have been dismissing any and all warnings of dollar…
Source – journal-neo.org Bretton Woods Entities Have No Way Out Of The Woods By Henry Kamens I wonder just what per cent of the population even knows about Bretton Woods and its implications for the global system. What goes around comes around, and the US and its economic allies, under the guise of the IMF…
Source – home.solari.com I Want to Stop CBDCs – What Can I Do? By Catherine Austin Fitts and Carolyn Betts CBDCs are in the works, but transparency and mass action can throw a huge monkey wrench into their implementation. The Solari Report offers a few concrete steps people can take, with the most important being…
Source – thecradle.co Gold-Backed Currencies To Replace US Dollar In Global South Authored by Pepe Escobar The adoption of commodity-backed currencies by the Global South could upend the US dollar’s dominance and level the playing field in international trade… Let’s start with three interconnected multipolar-driven facts. First: One of the key take-aways from the World…
Source – quoththeraven.substack.com Saudi Arabia Just Killed The Petrodollar The last 24 hours have marked another major waypoint along the path to my long-held contention that Russia, China and Saudi Arabia are going to make a massive, collective push to try and dethrone the U.S. dollar as global reserve currency. Anybody who has read my 23…
Source – economicprism.com Will You Beat Uncle Sam’s Relentless Pursuit Of Your Wealth? Authored by MN Gordon The United States is lurching towards an epic financial catastrophe. This isn’t a novel insight. The great tragedy has been in the works for decades. Anyone with a mild inkling of curiosity knows what’s going on. According to…
Source – internationalman.com SM:…The jury is still out on the Bitcoin phenomena, either way it holds great promise as an end-around to the Central Banking Cartel… 3 Things Most People don’t Know About Gold, Bitcoin, and Money by Nick Giambruno Bitcoin has been likened to the platypus… which sounds like an odd comparison. The platypus…
Source – internationalman.com Look Like in a True Free-Market Economy By David Stockman There is nothing more substantive than Bernanke’s original finger-in-the-air proposition that the Fed needed a 200 basis point cushion in the inflation rate in order to steer the economy clear of the dreaded 0.0% inflation line, the other side of which allegedly…
Source – opendemocracy.net BlackRock Says We’re All Doomed. It’s Being Optimistic The world’s largest asset manager has forecast systemic economic chaos. The reality is even worse. By James Meadway The working assumption, for governments and central banks across the world, is that at some point soon everything will get back to ‘normal’ – our economies…
Source – cointelegraph.com SM:….S.C.D.S (Sudden Crypto Death Syndrome) – usually the result of a bullet between the eyes….. Crypto Billionaires’ Subsequent Deaths Spark Wild Theories Among The Community Authored by Prashant Jha Many blamed the deaths on billionaires’ past, while others suspected some form of foul play and even execution… The death of four crypto…
Source – americanthinker.com SM:…The Good Ship ‘America’ has already hit the iceberg & is slowly taking on water…all the while the champagne is still flowing in first class & the band plays on…. Is There an Economic Bomb Cyclone Ahead? By Christopher Chantrill First of all, nobody knows what will happen next with the economy.…
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