Source – nakedcapitalism.com – “…The rate of deforestation in the Ecuadorian Amazon is reaching approximately 0.7% annually, while in Brazil it is only around 0.2%. So, the idea that only Bolsonaro is destroying the Amazon is obviously a hasty and simplistic one. Clearly, the problem with the depredation of the Amazon and, in general, of…
Source – econimica.blogspot.com – “…When population growth among the consumer nations has turned to population decline, the consumers of 75% of total global energy (and likewise global exports) are turning to ZIRP, NIRP, and unrepayable debt loads to maintain an unreal, synthetically achieved rate of growth…the weaker the basis of economic activity, the greater the…
Source – zerohedge.com – “…I would recommend recognizing that the “everything bubble” is the most extreme, exaggerated, severe financial bubble in world history. It will inevitably collapse, and there will be massive losses, even greater than occurred in 2008 and 2001 – David Stockman” “We’re In A Demographic & Fiscal Dead-End” – Stockman On The…
Source – thenation.com – “… He argued that the junta wasn’t pursuing two separate, easily compartmentalized projects—one a visionary experiment in economic transformation, the other a grisly system of torture and terror. There was, in fact, only one project, in which terror was the central tool of the free-market transformation. “Repression for the majorities and…
Source – mises.org – “…Take the extraordinary success of Evangeline Adams, a turn-of-the-20th-century astrologer whose clients included the president of Prudential Insurance, two presidents of the New York Stock Exchange, the steel magnate Charles M Schwab, and the banker J P Morgan. To understand why titans of finance would consult Adams about the market, it…
Source – riggedgame.blog – “…The newly released Table 12 from the quarterly OCC report shows that as of March 31, 2019, the vast majority (57.6 percent) of derivatives in the United States were not centrally cleared. The most dangerous type of derivative, credit derivatives, had the worst showing with only 27.7 percent being centrally cleared”…
Source – goldmoney.com – “…China is likely to have a fundamentally sounder currency than America in a deepening recession. Given the relative foreign ownerships of their two currencies, there are more dollars likely to be sold than yuan. In a banking crisis, China has a more authoritarian grip on commercial banks through state ownership. The…
Source – theeventchronicle.com – “…Catherine goes into great detail about the over 21 Trillion in Missing Money from the Department of Defense (DOD) and the US Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The money has been disappearing over the course of two decades through a mysterious process called ‘Undocumented Adjustments.” The forces behind the money drain…
Source – aier.org – “…This is Ponzi finance; it has turned time preference on its head, driving us to borrow from tomorrow to consume today…Excessively low interest rates support assets, favor the rich over the poor, favor the rentier over the business investor, encourage leverage and stock buybacks over capital expenditure and equity-capital formation. Income…
Source – endoftheamericandream.com – “…The trade war between the United States and China is rapidly escalating, war in the Middle East could erupt at any time, the global economy has been steadily slowing down, crops are failing all over the planet, and everywhere we look we seem to see rising political instability” Is China Hoarding…
Source – paulcraigroberts.org – “…China owes its faster than expected rise as a world power to the transfer of American jobs, capital, technology, and business know-how to China simply in order that US shareholders could receive capital gains and US executives could receive bonus pay for producing them by lowering labor costs” What Globalism Did…
Source – zerohedge.com – “… Trader: Getting Rich Off The Greater Fools Has Worked Wonderfully…Until Today Jeff Gundlach, CEO of DoubleLine Capital, told Reuters last night that The Fed has lost control of interest rates: “What else do you need to call it an inversion?” Gundlach said in a telephone interview. “Everyone is parsing all of…
Source – 4thmedia.org – “…These days, few economy experts in the US mention that reckless money printing used to be regarded as an abuse if not downright criminal offense. Excessive inflow of money into the economy provokes inflation, erodes the macroeconomic balance, discourages productive activity, and has an economically polarizing impact on the society” Corporate…
Source – oftwominds.com – ‘…The road to Hell is paved with virtue-signaling: rather than actually solve the knotty problems that are dragging us toward the abyss, we substitute self-righteousness for problem-solving. That is virtue-signaling in a nutshell” The Road to Hell Is Paved with Virtue-Signaling – By Charles Hugh Smith The idea that everything will…
Source – thesaker.is – “…Think about all these issues through the prism of how the U.S. is trying to maintain it’s global hegemony. The Russia derangement is cooling down, and the China derangement has taken over the airwaves with the full U.S. Administration and the media in lockstep. Can we now say Russia won? A…
Source – armstrongeconomics.com – “…The truly disturbing aspect is that central banks like the Fed and the ECB are now conceding their tool kit is basically exhausted. (Admittedly, the Fed has more monetary maneuvering room than almost every other “rich world” central bank, excluding the Bank of Canada.) This was the central theme of the…
Source – armstrongeconomics.com – “.. The GAO report came out on the Quantitative Easing by the Federal Reserve, it uncovered a secret $16 trillion feeding tube from the Fed structured as revolving, low-cost loans to any bank (foreign or domestic) teetering on the edge. Amazingly, the audit showed the Fed started the loans in December…
Source – activistpost.com – “…Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world…Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid – Albert Einstein” There’s a Growing Number of College Graduates Owing…
Source – webofdebt.com – “Not only is virtually the entire money supply created privately by banks, but a mere handful of very big banks is responsible for a massive investment scheme known as “derivatives,” which now tallies in at hundreds of trillions of dollars” ‘Web of Debt’, Exploring The Myths About Money – By Ellen…
Source – riggedgame.blog – “…The involvement of JPMorgan Chase is particularly interesting in a company where Bear Stearns is a 40 percent owner and Jeffrey Epstein is Chairman….JPMorgan’s involvement is further interesting because the Federal Reserve Bank of New York provided a $28.8 billion loan to take that amount of toxic assets off of Bear…
Source – cluborlov.blogspot.com – “…The US Justice Department has an Antitrust Division, which is aptly named if its mission is to destroy Americans’ trust in their government’s ability to regulate business. It also has a website which currently says: “Due to the lapse in appropriations, Department of Justice websites will not be regularly updated.” Perhaps…
Source – southfront.org – ‘…The financial sector, in particular, is being treated as a de-facto US strategic asset. On the one hand, economic warfare being waged by the US Department of Treasury through its ever-expanding list of sanctioned entities is taking bread out of US banks’ mouths. This happens not only through the loss of…
Source – internationalman.com – “…For some time, I’ve been saying that the economy is in the “eye of the storm” and that when it emerged, the weather would be far rougher than in 2008. The trillions of currency units created since 2007, combined with artificially suppressed interest rates, have papered over the situation. But only…
Source – naturalblaze.com – ‘…According to CNBC, sales of children’s vaccines, which includes the New Jersey-based company’s MMR vaccine, for measles, mumps and rubella, jumped 58% year over year to $675 million, Merck announced in its second-quarter earnings report Tuesday. Merck, which is the sole U.S. supplier of measles vaccines, said the strong growth was…
Source – econimica.blogspot.com – ‘…To simplify what is taking place…the high and upper middle income nations 0-15yr/old populations together….represent 90% of the global income, savings, and access to credit. They consume 90% of the global energy and purchase 90% of the global exports…it takes 15 more poor nations inhabitants to replace the loss of every…
Source – riggedgame.blog – “…It all started when the stock exchanges decided they no longer wanted to function like public utilities operating in the public interest to create a fair and efficient market place for stock trading in America and would instead become whore houses for high frequency traders at the Wall Street mega banks…
Source – charleshughsmith.blogspot.com – “…Melville understood that we want to be conned: we want to believe the elixir will make our aches and pains go away, that the new face in politics will clear out the rot of corruption, that rising prices for everything means we’re getting richer and so on. Orson Welles’ weird and…
Source – journal-neo.org – “…The toxic assets business is dominated by three players Lazard, Rothschild and Houlihan Lokey. It seems obvious to me that Rothschild is probably running the whole show through offshore shell companies and etc….To say the whole sorted mess stinks to high heavens is an understatement. Bad blood has been created, millions…
Source – bullionstar.com – “…There is also ample evidence about central bank manipulation documented in various places including on the GATA website. The motivations for such central bank interventions include protecting the existing financial system, engineering low real long term interest rates, and preventing gold acting as a barometer of inflation” Gold & Silver Price…
Source – theneweconomy.com – “…From 1990 to the early 2000s, Uganda was making steady progress, but its economic backslide and rising levels of corruption began in 2007, coinciding with oil discoveries. Following in the footsteps of Nigeria, Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda is the latest nation to suffer the effects of the…
