VOODOO ECONOMICS: “We’re In A Demographic & Fiscal Dead-End” – David Stockman On The Coming Financial Panic & The 2020 Election

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…

COVER-UP: Here’s the Proof the Federal Government Is Overtly Lying to the Public About Wall Street’s Derivatives – By Pam Martens & Russ Martens

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”…

REALPOLITIK: ‘It’s American Hegemony That’s Being Backed Into A Corner’ – By Alasdair Macleod

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…

WITH CRIMINAL INTENT: Catherine Austin Fitts – The Missing TRILLIONS

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…

VOODOO ECONOMICS: ‘Ponzi’, The Economic Future Of A Negative Interest Rate World – By Colin Lloyd

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…

FEAR FACTOR: Is China Hoarding Food, Gold, & Other Commodities In Anticipation Of A Global Collapse? – By Michael Snyder

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…

VOODOO ECONOMICS: What Globalism Did Was To Transfer The US Economy To China – By Paul Craig Roberts

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…

VOODOO ECONOMICS: ‘Corporate Welfare Queens’, Quantitative Easing as Outrageous Corruption – By Valentin Katasonov (Flashback)

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…

AMERIKA: The Road to Hell Is Paved with Virtue-Signaling – By Charles Hugh Smith

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…

COVER-UP: Did the Fed Begin Secret Bailouts in 2007 Before Anyone Knew of the Pending Crisis? – By Martin Armstrong

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…

THEATER OF THE ABSURD: There’s a Growing Number of College Graduates Owing Nearly Half a Million Dollars

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…

DAS KAPITAL: ‘Web of Debt’, Exploring The Myths About Money – By Ellen Hodgson Brown (Archive)

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…

HIGH CRIMES: The Jeffrey Epstein Rabbit Hole Just Got Deeper – By Pam Martens & Russ Martens

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…

CASINO CAPITALISM: ‘The Financial Twilight Zone’, Save, Invest, Speculate, Trade, Or Gamble? – By Doug Casey

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…

VOODOO ECONOMICS: Big Pharma Admits Measles Outbreak and Subsequent Media Hysteria Made Them Massive Profits

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…

VOODOO ECONOMICS: Global Endgame Looms As Soaring Debt Smashes Into Shrinking Populations

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…

MIND GAMES: It’s Not Just the News That’s Fake–Everything’s Fake – By Charles Hugh Smith

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…

VOODOO ECONOMICS: ‘The Greatest Trick Ever Pulled’, Gold & Silver Price Manipulation – By Ronan Manly

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…

VOODOO ECONOMICS: A Bank With 49 Trillion Dollars In Exposure To Derivatives Is Melting Down Right In Front Of Our Eyes – By Michael Snyder

Source – theeconomiccollapseblog.com – “…Until these mega banks are broken up, until the Fed is replaced by a competent and serious regulator of bank holding companies, and until derivatives are restricted to those that trade on a transparent exchange, the next epic financial crash is just one counterparty blowup away…The fundamental structural problems that were…

DEEP GREEN: ‘The Landfill Economy’, The Planetary Insanity of Eternal Economic Growth – By Charles Hugh Smith

Source – oftwominds.com – “…Earthrise informs us that the only sustainable path is DeGrowth: squandering far fewer resources on consumerist waste, a path that will spell the end of the current Landfill Economy of profit-driven eternal growth, and the entire financialization structure built on the Landfill Model that enriches the few at the expense of…

BIG PHARMA: Drug Companies Embarked on ‘Reckless Pursuit of Profit’ as Thousands Died From Opioid Epidemic

Source – commondreams.org –  ‘…The number of pills distributed annually rose 51 percent over seven years, with more than 12 billion dispensed in 2012. During this time, about 100,000 Americans died of prescription opioid overdoses” Unsealed Database Reveals How Drug Companies Embarked on ‘Reckless Pursuit of Profit’ as Thousands Died From Opioid Epidemic – By…

VOODOO ECONOMICS: As Wall Street Celebrates Soaring Stocks, Companies Are Literally Shutting Down All Over America – By Michael Snyder

Source – theeconomiccollapseblog.com – “…The all-time record for store closings in a single year was set in 2017 when 8,139 stores shut down. According to a brand new report that was just released, we are on pace to absolutely shatter that old record. In fact, Coresight says that the number of store closings in the…

CONTROLLED DEMOLITION: ‘Smoke & Mirrors’, The Permanent Recession

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…

VOODOO ECONOMICS: “Demise of Empire’, Weaponizing the Dollar – By Patrick Lawrence

Source – zerohedge.com – “…The Trump administration’s incessant sanctions wars are curbing the dollar’s global hegemony and speeding the demise of U.S. empire.” Weaponizing the Dollar – By Patrick Lawrence The signs are mounting steadily now. As the Trump administration weaponizes the dollar in defense of American hegemony, it is prompting many other nations to…